Sport event transducer
First Claim
1. A sport-fan garment comprising:
- a logo or other indicia of a sport team that is visible when the garment is worn,a presentation element that emits a perceivable output, wherein said perceivable output includes a visible output and an audio output,a garment output controller that controls the presentation element'"'"'s emission of said perceivable output, anda receiver for receiving a signal that is encoded with a team event message for the sport team whose logo or indicia appears on the garment,wherein said garment output controller causes the presentation element to emit a perceivable output in response to said team event message.
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Abstract
A sport event transducer having an output element that can emit a perceivable output in response to an event that relates to a sport team, such as for example by emitting an audio-visual output when a particular football team scores a touchdown. The transducer can be removable attached to a sport garment such as a cap or jersey, or can be an integral part of the garment. A transmission system remotely controls such transducers in response to sport team events by broadcasting an RF signal carrying team event messages, such as for example by transmitting an FM radio-data broadcast that carries a team event message embedded in the FM signal as RDS data. The sport event transducer receives and decodes such RF broadcast signals. If the transducer receives a team event message that relates to the transducer'"'"'s affiliated team, the transducer'"'"'s output element emits an audio and/or visual output signal in response to the message.
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15 Claims
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1. A sport-fan garment comprising:
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a logo or other indicia of a sport team that is visible when the garment is worn, a presentation element that emits a perceivable output, wherein said perceivable output includes a visible output and an audio output, a garment output controller that controls the presentation element'"'"'s emission of said perceivable output, and a receiver for receiving a signal that is encoded with a team event message for the sport team whose logo or indicia appears on the garment, wherein said garment output controller causes the presentation element to emit a perceivable output in response to said team event message. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A sport-fan garment comprising:
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a logo or other indicia of a sport team that is visible when the garment is worn, a presentation element that emits a perceivable output, wherein said perceivable output includes a visible output and an audio output, a garment output controller that controls the presentation element'"'"'s emission of said perceivable output, and a receiver for receiving a signal that is encoded with a team event message for the sport team whose logo or indicia appears on the garment, wherein said received signal is in a format and protocol used by a wide area RF broadcast transmitter that embeds said team event messages in RF transmissions that are capable of nearly simultaneously reaching a plurality of sport fan garments located over a region that spans a substantial portion of the geographic market for that sport team, a team identifier that identifies said sport team to said garment output controller, and a decoder for determining if the team event message relates to said team identified by said team identifier, wherein said garment output controller causes the presentation element to emit a perceivable output in response to a team event message only if the message is determined by said decoder to be related to said team identified by said team identify.
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