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Information-presentation structure with impact-sensitive color-change and image generation

  • US 10,258,827 B2
  • Filed: 11/03/2016
  • Issued: 04/16/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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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;

    an image-generating (“

    IG”

    ) structure for generating images; and

    an IG controller responsive to the object impacting the OC area for causing the IG structure to generate a principal print-area vicinity (“

    PAV”

    ) image comprising an image of the print area and adjacent surface extending to at least a selected location of the exposed surface if the impact meets the threshold impact criteria.

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