PROJECTION TYPE BILLIARD BALL HITTING INTELLIGENT AUXILIARY SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20160310829A1
• Filed: 05/29/2015
• Published: 10/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bing Qiao, Jiaoang Li
• Original Assignee: Bing Qiao, Jiaoang Li
• Inventors: QIAO, Bing, LI, Jiaoang
• Application Number:
  US15/104,985
• Publication Number:
  US 20160310829A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63D 15/00 Billiards, e.g. carom billiards or pocket billiards; Billiard tables bagatelle A63D13/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63D 15/006 Training or aiming arrangements on billiard tables
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 15/03 Combinations of cameras with lighting apparatus; Flash units
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/54 with projector
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 29/00 Combinations of cameras, projectors or photographic printing apparatus with non-photographic non-optical apparatus, e.g. clocks or weapons; Cameras having the shape of other objects combinations with flash apparatus G03B15/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10048 Infrared image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30241 Trajectory
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/20 Analysis of motion motion estimation for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/43, H04N19/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/11 for generating image signals from visible and infrared light wavelengths

Abstract

A projection type billiard ball hitting intelligent auxiliary system and method. The system comprises an image capture device (7), a projection device (6) and a computer (3). The signal output end of the image capture device (7) is connected to the input end of the computer (3). The input end of the projection device (6) is connected to the output end of the computer (3) and controlled by the computer (3). A hollow billiard illuminating lamp (4) and an infrared light supplementary lamp (5) are further provided. The method includes that a billiard environmental model is built in the computer (3). When billiard balls (9) are static, the images of the billiard balls (9) on a billiard table (8) are captured, and the coordinates of the billiard balls (9) are obtained. When a user bends over to aim a billiard rod (10) at a cue ball, the coordinates of two end points and the hitting direction of the billiard rod (10) are captured in real time, and the first ball which the rod head of the billiard rod (10) points to serves as the cue ball. According to the coordinates of the billiard balls (9), to-be-operated tracks of the cue ball and the other target balls are calculated in cooperation with the preset hitting force of the billiard rod (10) and the angles between the hitting points and the horizontal direction of the billiard rod (10). The to-be-operated tracks of the cue ball and the other balls are projected on the billiard table (8).

Claims

1. An intelligent projection assist system for hitting of the billiards, comprising:

The computer (3),image acquisition device (7) of which the signal output end is connected to the input end of the computer (3), and projection device (6) of which the input end is connected to the output end of the computer (3) and controlled by the computer (3), wherein hollow billiards light (4) and the infrared light supplement lamp (5) are also equipped;

The lens of the image acquisition device (7) where a visible light filter is added , and of which the head end is aimed at the hollow part center of the hollow billiards light (4) and no under the bottom of the hollow billiards light (4) configured for capturing the image information of the billiards table (8), the billiards (9) and the cue (10);

The infrared light supplement lamp (5) are fixed on the hollow billiards light (4), of which lighting end is as high as the bottom of the hollow billiards light (4) configured for infrared lighting on the billiards table (8) and filtering the visible light in the image acquisition device (7);

The computer (3) are used for acquiring the image information captured by the image acquisition device (7) shone in the light of the infrared light supplement lamp (5), getting the track information of the billiards to run according to the coordinate of the billiards, that of the two ends of the cue, the hitting direction, hitting strength and the hitting angel received, and projecting the track information of the billiards with images to the corresponding position of the billiards table (7) through the projection device (6);

The hollow billiards light(4) is at the top of the billiards table (8), so that the image acquisition device (7) is right in front of the center of the billiards table (8).

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the image acquisition device (7) is fixed by the hanger of the image acquisition device (2).

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the projection device (6) and the computer (3) are both installed at the bottom of the projection hanger (1) and hung to the side of the hollow billiards light (4).

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer (3) is specifically used for:

acquiring the coordinate of the billiards (9) and that of the cue (10) as well as the hitting direction according to the image information captured by the image acquisition device (7);

then figuring out the track of the cue ball and other object balls to run according to the default data on the coordinate of the billiards (9), as well as the hitting strength, hitting point, the angle between the hitting point and the horizontal direction of the cue; and

/or taking the position without a ball on the billiards table designated by the user as the end point of the track the cue ball will run, and figuring out the hitting strength, hitting point and the cue angel according to the coordinate of the cue, that of the object ball and of the cue ball as well as the end-point ordinate of the track where the cue ball will run; and

/or taking the certain billiards designated by the user on the billiards table as the next object ball to hit, and figuring out the position where the cue ball runs and hits the next object ball according to the coordinate of the cue, that of the object ball and of the cue ball as well as the ordinate of the next object ball to hit.

5. An intelligent projection assist method for hitting of the billiards, capitalized in the following steps:

establish the billiards environmental model in the computer (3) and simulate the movement track after hit of the cue ball, the track of the object ball hit directly/indirectly by the cue ball and the rebound track of the object ball;

capture the image of billiards (9) on the billiards table (3) and acquire the billiards (9) coordinate when the billiards (9) is still;

capture the real-time coordinate of the two ends of the cue (10) and hitting directions when the user bends to aim the cue ball with the cue, and regard the first ball pointed by the tip of the cue (10) as the cue ball;

figure out the track of the cue ball and other object balls to run according to the coordinate of the billiards (9), as well as the preset hitting strength, hitting point and the angel of the cue (10); and

/or take the position without a ball on the billiards table designated by the user as the end point of the track the cue ball will run, and figure out the hitting strength, hitting point, the cue angel and the running track with which the cue ball reaches the designated ending, according to the coordinate of the cue, that of the object ball and of the cue ball as well as the end-point ordinate of the track where the cue ball will run; and

/or take the certain billiards designated by the user on the billiards table as the next object ball to hit, and figure out the position where the cue ball runs and hits the next object ball and its running track according to the coordinate of the cue, that of the object ball and of the cue ball as well as the coordinate of the next object ball to hit;

project the track with which the billiards will run to the billiards table (8) with the projection device (6).

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the billiards environmental model is the parameters as follows:

the length and width of the billiards table, friction coefficient of the woolen table-board, shape data of the pocket mouth, cushion elasticity, friction coefficient among billiards, cushion shape, cushion height, tip size of the cue, friction coefficient between the tip of the cue and the billiards, diameter of the billiards, quality of the billiards, billiards elasticity on the billiards table, and project the physics relationship according to the hitting strength, hitting point and the angel set by the user.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the billiards coordinate, the coordinate of the cue and the hitting direction compare the current image and the background image with OpenCV by C Language, or acquire the current image and the previous frame.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the billiards coordinate is acquired by the means below:

the image acquisition device captures an image as the background when there'"'"'s no billiards on the billiards;

compare the image that the billiards is disposed on the billiards table or the billiards is still after it'"'"'s hit with the background image and get the coordinate of the billiards position;

The coordinate of the two ends of the cue is acquired by the means below;

the image acquisition device captures an image as the background after the billiards on the table is still, and captures a image with the cue when the user is aiming with the cue, and the image that the user is aiming with the cue is acquired after these two images are compared;

then analyze the part of the image with the rectangular shape character of the cue, so that the position coordinate of both the start and the end on one part of the cue is acquired;

The hitting direction of the cue is acquired by the means below;

figure out the angle between the horizontal direction and the cue with the formula θ

=arctan ((y2−

y1)/(x2−

x1)) according to the coordinate of the start and the end of the billiards (x1,y1),(x2, y2);

then analyze the image of the cue, where the thinner end pointed to the billiards is the tip and the other end is the butt;

determine the hitting direction of the cue in the image according to the angle between the horizontal direction and the cue and the analysis result of the tip and the butt.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the computer (3) keeps the track of the cue ball and other object balls to run constant and projects it on the billiards table (8) through the projection device (6) until the position coordinate of the billiards (9) collected by the image acquisition device (7) has some change, if there'"'"'s no change of the position of the cue (10) collected by the image acquisition device (7) in the preset time when the user bends to aim the cue ball with the cue (10).

10. The method of claim 5, also comprising:

recording and storing the coordinate of each billiards in the computer (3) while the billiards is still, and projecting the coordinate of the billiards record to the billiards table under the condition of external trigger after the position of the billiards changes.