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Billiard table lighting and game play monitor

  • US 10,226,685 B2
  • Filed: 11/27/2017
  • Issued: 03/12/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for displaying and recording shot clock times in videos of billiard game play, the apparatus comprising:

  • one or more video cameras mounted to acquire sequential image frames of a billiard table and the billiard table'"'"'s surface with billiard balls thereupon;

    a processing device in operative communication with the one or more video cameras to receive individual streams of sequential image frames acquired by the one or more cameras and configured to combine the individual streams into a single video stream;

    wherein the processing device is further configured to effect display of a shot clock in image frames of the single video stream during billiard game play when the billiard balls are in non-motion and to not display the shot clock when the billiard balls are in motion;

    wherein the processing device is further configured to generate a top surface video field of view of the billiard table without the shot clock when the billiard balls are in motion, and to generate other oblique video side and end views of the billiard table displaying the shot clock when the billiard balls are in non-motion.

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