Information-presentation structure with impact-sensitive color changing incorporated into sports-playing structure such as basketball or volleyball court
First Claim
1. An information-presentation (“
- IP”
) structure comprising a sports-playing structure which comprises an object-impact (“
OP”
) structure having an exposed surface for being impacted by an object comprising a sports instrument or a person including any clothing worn by the person wherein;
the surface comprises (a) an in-bounds (“
IB”
) area defined by a closed boundary and (b) an out-of-bounds (“
OB”
) area surrounding the IB area and adjoining it along the closed boundary, a finite-width closed boundary line extending fully along the closed boundary and having opposite inside and outside edges of which one is situated in one of the IB and OB areas and the other meets the other of the IB and OB areas;
the OI structure comprises (a) variable-color (“
VC”
) inside-edge boundary-vicinity (“
BV”
) line-adjoining (“
LA”
) structure extending to the surface at VC inside-edge BV LA area situated in the IB area and largely adjoining the inside edge of the boundary line at least partly along its length or/and (b) VC outside-edge BV LA structure extending to the surface at VC outside-edge BV LA area situated in the OB area and largely adjoining the outside edge of the boundary line at least partly along its length, each BV LA structure normally appearing along its LA area as a normal-state BY LA color if that LA structure is in the OI structure; and
each BV LA structure in the OI structure comprises a principal impact-sensitive (“
IS”
) component and a principal color-change (“
CC”
) component, an impact-dependent (“
ID”
) segment of the IS component responding to the object impacting the LA area of that LA structure at an ID object-contact (“
OC”
) area spanning where the object contacts that LA area by providing a principal impact effect if the impact meets threshold impact criteria of that LA structure, an ID segment of the CC component responding to the impact effect, if provided, by causing an ID portion of that LA structure to temporarily appear along an ID print area of that LA area largely as generic changed-state BV LA color materially different from the normal-state LA color of that LA structure, the print area of that LA area at least partly encompassing, at least mostly outwardly conforming largely to, and being largely concentric with its OC area.
0 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A variable-color region (106) of a sports-playing structure of an information-presentation structure extends to an exposed surface (102) at a surface zone (112), normally appears along it as a principal color, and includes impact-sensitive and color-change components (182 and 184). A boundary line (1306/1308 or 1386/1388) extends along an in-bounds area (1302 or 1382) of the surface. A segment (192) of the impact-sensitive component responds to an object (104) impacting the zone at an object-contact area (116) by providing an impact effect if the impact meets threshold impact criteria. A segment (194) of the color-change component responds to the impact effect by causing an impact-dependent portion (138) of the region to temporarily appear along a print area (118) of the zone as changed color materially different from the principal color. The zone typically adjoins the boundary line or an internal line (1334 or 1396).
57 Citations
20 Claims
-
1. An information-presentation (“
- IP”
) structure comprising a sports-playing structure which comprises an object-impact (“
OP”
) structure having an exposed surface for being impacted by an object comprising a sports instrument or a person including any clothing worn by the person wherein;the surface comprises (a) an in-bounds (“
IB”
) area defined by a closed boundary and (b) an out-of-bounds (“
OB”
) area surrounding the IB area and adjoining it along the closed boundary, a finite-width closed boundary line extending fully along the closed boundary and having opposite inside and outside edges of which one is situated in one of the IB and OB areas and the other meets the other of the IB and OB areas;the OI structure comprises (a) variable-color (“
VC”
) inside-edge boundary-vicinity (“
BV”
) line-adjoining (“
LA”
) structure extending to the surface at VC inside-edge BV LA area situated in the IB area and largely adjoining the inside edge of the boundary line at least partly along its length or/and (b) VC outside-edge BV LA structure extending to the surface at VC outside-edge BV LA area situated in the OB area and largely adjoining the outside edge of the boundary line at least partly along its length, each BV LA structure normally appearing along its LA area as a normal-state BY LA color if that LA structure is in the OI structure; andeach BV LA structure in the OI structure comprises a principal impact-sensitive (“
IS”
) component and a principal color-change (“
CC”
) component, an impact-dependent (“
ID”
) segment of the IS component responding to the object impacting the LA area of that LA structure at an ID object-contact (“
OC”
) area spanning where the object contacts that LA area by providing a principal impact effect if the impact meets threshold impact criteria of that LA structure, an ID segment of the CC component responding to the impact effect, if provided, by causing an ID portion of that LA structure to temporarily appear along an ID print area of that LA area largely as generic changed-state BV LA color materially different from the normal-state LA color of that LA structure, the print area of that LA area at least partly encompassing, at least mostly outwardly conforming largely to, and being largely concentric with its OC area. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
- IP”
-
5. An information-presentation (“
- IP”
) structure comprising a color-change (“
CC”
) controller and a sports-playing structure which comprises an object-impact (“
OI”
) structure having an exposed surface for being impacted by an object comprising a sports instrument or a person including any clothing worn by the person wherein;the surface comprises (a) an in-bounds (“
IB”
) area defined by a closed boundary and (b) an out-of-bounds (“
OB”
) area surrounding the IB area and adjoining it along the closed boundary, a finite-width closed boundary line extending fully along the closed boundary and having opposite inside and outside edges of which one is situated in one of the IB and OB areas and the other meets the other of the IB and OB areas;the OI structure comprises (a) variable-color (“
VC”
) inside-edge boundary-vicinity (“
BV”
) line-adjoining (“
LA”
) structure extending to the surface at VC inside-edge BV LA area situated in the IB area and largely adjoining the inside edge of the boundary line at least partly along its length or/and (b) VC outside-edge BV LA structure extending to the surface at VC outside-edge BV LA area situated in the OB area and largely adjoining the outside edge of the boundary line at least partly along its length, each BV LA structure normally appearing along its LA area as a normal-state BV LA color if that LA structure is in the OI structure; andan impact-dependent (“
ID”
) portion of each BV LA structure in the OI structure responds to the object impacting the LA area of that LA structure at an ID object-contact (“
OC”
) area spanning where the object contacts that LA area by providing a principal characteristics-identifying impact signal if the impact meets threshold impact criteria of that LA structure, the impact signal identifying an expected location of an ID print area in that LA area and principal general supplemental impact information for the impact, the controller responding to the impact signal, if provided, by determining whether the supplemental impact information meets principal supplemental impact criteria for that LA structure and, if so, by providing a principal CC initiation signal, the ID portion of that LA structure responding to the initiation signal, if provided, by temporarily appearing along an ID print area of that LA area largely as generic changed-state BV LA color materially different from the normal-state LA color of that LA structure, the print area of that LA area at least partly encompassing, at least mostly outwardly conforming largely to, and being largely concentric with its OC area. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9)
- IP”
-
10. An information-presentation (“
- IP”
) structure comprising a sports-playing structure which comprises an object-impact (“
OI”
) structure having an exposed surface for being impacted by an object comprising a sports instrument or a person including any clothing worn by the person wherein;the surface comprises (a) an in-bounds (“
IB”
) area defined by a closed boundary and (b) an out-of-bounds (“
OB”
) area surrounding the IB area and adjoining it along the closed boundary, a closed boundary line extending along the closed boundary, the IB area having at least one finite-width internal line different from the boundary line, each internal line having a pair of opposite edges;the OI structure comprises, for each internal line, variable-color (“
VC”
) internal line-adjoining (“
LA”
) structure extending to the surface at VC internal LA area largely adjoining one edge of that internal line at least partly along its length, each internal LA structure normally appearing along its LA area as a normal-state internal LA color; andeach internal LA structure comprises a principal impact-sensitive (“
IS”
) component and a principal color-change (“
CC”
) component, an impact-dependent (“
ID”
) segment of the IS component responding to the object impacting the LA area of that LA structure at an ID object-contact (“
OC”
) area spanning where the object contacts that LA area by providing a principal impact effect if the impact meets threshold impact criteria of that LA structure, an ID segment of the CC component responding to the impact effect, if provided, by causing an ID portion of that LA structure to temporarily appear along an ID print area of that LA area largely as generic changed-state internal LA color materially different from the normal-state LA color of that LA structure, the print area of that LA area at least partly encompassing, at least mostly outwardly conforming largely to, and being largely concentric with its OC area. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
- IP”
-
13. An information-presentation (“
- IP”
) structure comprising a color-change (“
CC”
) controller and a sports-playing structure which comprises an object-impact (“
OI”
) structure having an exposed surface for being impacted by an object comprising a sports instrument or a person including any clothing worn by the person wherein;the surface comprises (a) an in-bounds (“
IB”
) area defined by a closed boundary and (b) an out-of-bounds (“
OB”
) area surrounding the IB area and adjoining it along the closed boundary, a closed boundary line extending along the closed boundary, the IB area having at least one finite-width internal line different from the boundary line, each internal line having a pair of opposite edges;the OI structure comprises, for each internal line, variable-color (“
VC”
) internal line-adjoining (“
LA”
) structure extending to the surface at VC internal LA area largely adjoining one edge of that internal line at least partly along its length, each internal LA structure normally appearing along its LA area as a normal-state internal LA color; andan impact-dependent (“
ID”
) portion of each internal LA structure responds to the object impacting the LA area of that LA structure at ID object-contact (“
OC”
) area spanning where the object contacts that LA area by providing a principal characteristics-identifying impact signal if the impact meets threshold impact criteria of that LA structure, the impact signal identifying an expected location of an ID print area in that LA area and principal general supplemental impact information for the impact, the controller responding to the impact signal, if provided, by determining whether the supplemental impact information meets principal supplemental impact criteria for that LA structure and, if so, by providing a principal CC initiation signal, the ID portion of that LA structure responding to the initiation signal, if provided, by temporarily appearing along an ID print area of that LA area largely as generic changed-state internal LA color materially different from the normal-state internal LA color of that LA structure, the print area of that LA area at least partly encompassing, at least mostly outwardly conforming largely to, and being largely concentric with its OC area. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
- IP”
Specification