Multi-Layer Golf Ball Color Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Golf balls lack a superior overall color appearance that is consistent across varying lighting conditions and backdrops, as existing technologies do not effectively coordinate hue, saturation, and chroma to create a visually appealing and consistent color experience.
Innovation Solution
A golf ball design that incorporates multiple color contributing components with distinct hues, saturations, and chromas, where each component contributes to an overall hue, saturation, and chroma, ensuring the golf ball exhibits a multi-dimensional color appearance with depth and richness irrespective of lighting conditions, achieved by varying the thickness and translucency of these components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single color is used on the golf ball, then the design is simple and manufacturing is easy, but the color appearance is not visually appealing and lacks depth under varying lighting conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The golf ball color is divided into multiple distinct color layers (first color layer, second color layer, third color layer) with different hues, saturations, and chromas. Each layer contributes differently to the overall appearance, with the first layer providing base color, the second layer adding depth, and the third layer enhancing visual appeal under varying lighting conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies composite color layers combining different colorants with specific optical properties. The color layers use combinations of pigments and dyes with different characteristics to achieve a multi-dimensional color appearance that cannot be obtained with a single colorant system.
2Ease of manufacture
If multiple color layers are added to the golf ball, then the visual appearance and depth are enhanced, but the manufacturing complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The color structure is segmented into three distinct layers, each with specific functional characteristics. The first color layer provides the base appearance, the second color layer adds depth and dimension, and the third color layer enhances visual appeal under varying lighting. This segmentation allows each layer to be optimized independently while contributing to the overall effect.
Solution Approach 2:
Each color layer is positioned at a specific location on the golf ball surface and has specific optical properties tailored to its function. The first layer has higher chroma for visibility, the second layer has different saturation for depth, and the third layer has specific hue characteristics for lighting adaptation. This local optimization of color properties achieves superior overall appearance.
3Ease of manufacture
If the golf ball uses colorants with high saturation, then the color appears vivid and eye-catching, but the color consistency across different lighting conditions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The color saturation is segmented across different layers with different saturation levels. The first color layer uses high saturation for visibility, the second color layer uses moderate saturation for depth, and the third color layer uses adjusted saturation for lighting consistency. This segmentation allows each layer to contribute differently to overall color consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the saturation parameter across different color layers to achieve optimal performance. By varying the saturation level in each layer and adjusting the optical properties of the colorants, the golf ball maintains color consistency across different lighting conditions while remaining visually appealing.
4Ease of manufacture
If the golf ball incorporates multiple color contributing components with different hues, then the overall color appearance becomes multi-dimensional and rich, but the manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The color contributing components are segmented into distinct layers, each with specific hue, saturation, and chroma characteristics. The first layer establishes the base color, the second layer adds dimensional depth, and the third layer refines the overall appearance. This segmentation simplifies the manufacturing process by addressing color control in discrete, manageable steps.
Solution Approach 2:
Each color layer is positioned and formulated with specific local color properties that contribute to the overall multi-dimensional appearance. The first layer has specific hue and chroma for visibility, the second layer has different properties for depth, and the third layer has optimized properties for overall aesthetic quality. This local quality approach achieves complex color effects through simpler, controlled layers.
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AI summary
The present invention is directed to a golf ball comprising a core, a cover and optionally an intermediate layer disposed between the core and the cover which in any combination comprise at least two color contributing components, each of which comprises a colorant that contributes to an overall golf ball color, the color contributing components having different hues and different saturations, wherein the hue and saturation and a chroma of each contributing component contributes to an overall golf ball hue, saturation and chroma such that: the overall golf ball hue is different than the hue of each color contributing component; the overall golf ball saturation is different than the saturation of at least one of the color contributing components; and the overall golf ball chroma is different than the chroma of at least one of the color contributing components.