Billiard Ball Rotation Sensor for Cyber Game Simulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing billiard game systems fail to accurately measure and simulate the spinning direction and speed of a billiard ball, leading to inaccurate collision simulations and reduced realism in cyber billiard games.
Innovation Solution
A billiard ball driving state information input and control device that includes a hitting input device with impact sensors and rotation measurement sensors to measure hitting information, a table fixing device for stable rotation, and a control unit for processing and displaying the data, allowing for accurate simulation of billiard ball movements and collisions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a billiard ball is allowed to rotate freely to simulate real billiard gameplay, then the realism of the cyber billiard game is improved, but it becomes difficult to accurately measure the spinning direction and speed of the billiard ball
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a camera as an intermediary device to capture the spinning motion of the billiard ball. The camera records the ball's rotation, and the control unit analyzes these visual data to determine spinning direction and speed, thereby solving the measurement difficulty while maintaining the realism of free rotation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex mechanical measurement devices with an optical system (camera) and computational analysis. Instead of using mechanical sensors that would interfere with the ball's free rotation, the system uses visual capture and digital image processing to measure spinning parameters
2Measurement precision
If impact sensors and rotation measurement sensors are added to accurately measure hitting information, then the measurement precision is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The camera serves multiple functions: it captures the hitting moment, records the ball's initial position, and tracks the spinning motion throughout the trajectory. This single device performs what would otherwise require multiple specialized sensors, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining measurement precision
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a digital copy of the physical billiard ball's motion through video recording. By analyzing this optical copy rather than directly measuring physical parameters with complex sensors, the system achieves accurate measurement of hitting information with simpler equipment
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a device for inputting and controlling driving state information of a billiard ball for playing a billiard game in cyberspace and, more specifically, to a device for inputting and controlling driving state information of a billiard ball, in which an actual billiard ball is fixedly mounted on a standard table, wherein the billiard ball is mounted to be freely rotatable, and is hit by an actual billiard cue stick to receive the billiard ball's effecto information, rotation speed, and rotation direction, as well as driving state information for hitting strength and movement direction, and the received information is processed through driving state information processing software to display an image result reflecting the billiard ball's movement direction and movement amount on the actual billiard table, thereby making it possible to enjoy a billiard game in cyberspace as though a real game were being played.