Information-presentation structure with post-impact duration-adjustable impact-sensitive color change
First Claim
1. An information-presentation (“
- IP”
) structure comprising;
an object-impact (“
OI”
) structure having an exposed surface for being impacted by an object during an activity, the OI structure comprising a principal variable-color (“
VC”
) region which extends to the exposed surface at a principal surface zone and normally appears along the surface zone largely as a principal color during the activity, an impact-dependent (“
ID”
) portion of the VC region responding to the object impacting the surface zone at an ID object-contact (“
OC”
) area spanning where the object contacts the surface zone by temporarily appearing along an ID print area of the surface zone largely as changed color materially different from the principal color if the impact meets principal threshold impact criteria, the print area at least partly encompassing, at least mostly outwardly conforming largely to, and being largely concentric with the OC area, the ID portion subsequently returning to appearing along the print area largely as the principal color, color-change (“
CC”
) time duration of the ID portion changing from starting to appear along the print area as color materially different from the principal color to returning to appear along the print area largely as the principal color being, absent externally caused adjustment, substantially in a principal CC time duration range established prior to the impact; and
a CC controller responsive to both the impact and subsequent external instruction for controlling the ID portion so as to adjust the CC duration subsequent to the impact.
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Abstract
A variable-color region (106) of an information-presentation structure extends to an exposed surface (102) at a surface zone (112) and normally appears along it as a principal color. An impact-dependent portion (138) of the variable-color region responds to an object (104) impacting the zone at an object-contact area (116) by temporarily appearing along a print area (118) of the zone as changed color materially different from the principal color if the impact meets threshold impact criteria. The print area closely matches the object-contact area in size, shape, and location. The color-change time duration of the impact-dependent portion temporarily appearing as the changed color is in a duration range established prior to the impact. A controller (602) responds to both the impact and subsequent external instruction (608) by controlling the impact-dependent portion so as to adjust the color-change duration subsequent to the impact.
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20 Claims
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1. An information-presentation (“
- IP”
) structure comprising;an object-impact (“
OI”
) structure having an exposed surface for being impacted by an object during an activity, the OI structure comprising a principal variable-color (“
VC”
) region which extends to the exposed surface at a principal surface zone and normally appears along the surface zone largely as a principal color during the activity, an impact-dependent (“
ID”
) portion of the VC region responding to the object impacting the surface zone at an ID object-contact (“
OC”
) area spanning where the object contacts the surface zone by temporarily appearing along an ID print area of the surface zone largely as changed color materially different from the principal color if the impact meets principal threshold impact criteria, the print area at least partly encompassing, at least mostly outwardly conforming largely to, and being largely concentric with the OC area, the ID portion subsequently returning to appearing along the print area largely as the principal color, color-change (“
CC”
) time duration of the ID portion changing from starting to appear along the print area as color materially different from the principal color to returning to appear along the print area largely as the principal color being, absent externally caused adjustment, substantially in a principal CC time duration range established prior to the impact; anda CC controller responsive to both the impact and subsequent external instruction for controlling the ID portion so as to adjust the CC duration subsequent to the impact. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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