Dart Game Apparatus Position Correction via Segment Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing dart game apparatuses often inaccurately detect the position of a dart's impact due to dimensional errors on the board surface, angle of impact, or dart shape, leading to incorrect scoring and hindering game progress.
Innovation Solution
A dart game apparatus with a first detecting part using light sources and photo-sensors to calculate the dart's position, and a second detecting part using segment sensors to verify the segment, with a correcting mechanism to adjust the detected position to ensure accuracy, ensuring the dart is correctly scored.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If a photo-sensor is used to detect the dart position on the board surface, then the position can be automatically detected, but detection errors occur due to dimensional errors, impact angle, or dart shape variations
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses segment sensors to detect which segment the dart actually landed in, then compares this with the photo-sensor detection result. When there is a discrepancy, the system corrects the detected position based on the segment sensor feedback, ensuring accurate scoring despite initial detection errors.
Solution Approach 2:
Segment sensors are introduced as intermediary detection elements that verify the dart's actual segment. These sensors act as a mediator between the photo-sensor detection and the final scoring determination, providing a backup verification mechanism that corrects errors from the primary detection system.
2Productivity
If the detected position is used directly for scoring, then the scoring process is simple and fast, but incorrect scores are calculated when detection errors occur
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where segment sensor data is used to verify and correct photo-sensor detection results before final scoring. This ensures scoring accuracy without significantly impacting the overall scoring speed, as the correction process is automated.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary verification by comparing photo-sensor detected position with segment sensor data before final scoring is determined. This preliminary check prevents incorrect scores from being calculated, ensuring reliability before the final scoring decision is made.
3Measurement precision
If manual correction of detection errors is implemented, then scoring accuracy can be improved, but time and effort are required which hinders game progress
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-correction of detection errors automatically using segment sensor data. The correction process is handled by the system itself without requiring manual intervention, thus improving position detection accuracy while maintaining fast game progress.
Solution Approach 2:
Automated feedback from segment sensors enables the system to self-correct detection errors in real-time. This automatic correction mechanism improves measurement precision without causing time loss, as the entire correction process occurs automatically within the electronic scoring system.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The apparatus accurately outputs the dart's position, preventing incorrect scoring and allowing the game to progress efficiently by correcting positional errors based on segment verification.
Implementation Method 1
a first detecting part that detects a position of a point where a dart sticks in the dart board
Implementation Method 2
a second detecting part that detects a segment where the dart sticks from a plurality of segments
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AI summary
A dart game apparatus 100 is provided with: a dart board in which a dart can stick and a plurality of segments are demarcated; a first detecting part 100 that detects a position of a point where the dart stuck in the dart board; a second detecting part 102 that detects a segment of the point where the dart stuck from the plurality of segments; a correcting part 104 that corrects the position detected by the first detecting part 100 based on the segment detected by the second detecting part 102 if a segment corresponding to the position detected by the first detecting part 100 is different from the segment detected by the second detecting part 102; and an outputting part 106 that output the position detecting by the first detecting part 100 or position corrected by the correcting part 104.