Staging Ball Integrating Light and Sound for Interactive Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
In existing lighting staging systems using balls with LEDs, spectators often fail to recognize the relevance between their actions and the sound effects, especially in crowded venues, leading to a diminished interactive experience.
Innovation Solution
Integrating both a light-emitting unit and a sound output unit inside a ball or a swing body, equipped with operation sensing units and control systems, to synchronize light and sound effects with the spectator's interactions, and using wireless communication for synchronized timing control to ensure a unified and engaging experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If sound effects are output from venue speakers when a spectator tosses a ball, then sound staging is achieved, but the spectator is less likely to recognize the relevance between their operation and the sound effect
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the light-emitting unit and sound output unit into a single integrated device housed within the ball. This merging ensures that both light and sound effects originate from the same location (the ball itself), creating a unified sensory feedback mechanism that directly links the spectator's action of tossing the ball to the combined light-sound response, thereby resolving the causality recognition issue.
Solution Approach 2:
The ball acts as an intermediary device between the spectator's action and the feedback effect. By placing both light and sound output units inside the ball, the ball becomes the direct mediator that delivers synchronized visual and auditory feedback immediately upon being tossed, eliminating the disconnect between action and response that occurs when sound comes from distant venue speakers.
2Reliability
If multiple speakers are installed in the event venue for sound effects, then sound coverage is improved, but synchronization and uniformity of sound output across multiple staging apparatuses becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the sound output function by placing an independent sound output unit within each individual ball (staging apparatus). Each ball contains its own speaker that can be independently controlled, allowing precise synchronization of sound effects across multiple balls without the complexity of coordinating multiple central speakers. This segmentation enables reliable synchronized sound delivery while simplifying the overall system control architecture.
3Adaptability or versatility
If both light-emitting unit and sound output unit are mounted inside the ball, then interactive staging effect is enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies multi-functionality by integrating multiple output units (light-emitting and sound output) within the single ball structure. The ball serves as a universal staging apparatus that can deliver both visual and auditory feedback, enhancing interactive capabilities. The operation sensing unit detects various user interactions (tossing, catching, holding), and the control unit coordinates both light and sound outputs based on the detected operation, maximizing the versatility of a single device.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances the interactive experience by clearly linking the spectator's actions with simultaneous sound and light effects, improving engagement and coherence in large-scale events by ensuring synchronized and uniform sound output across multiple staging apparatuses.
Implementation Method 1
a light-emitting unit and a sound output unit which are disposed in the ball... When the light-emitting unit emits light, the (transparent or semitransparent) ball is lit from an inside of the ball
Implementation Method 2
When the sound output unit outputs a sound effect or the like, spectators or the like present around the ball catch the sound
Data Source
AI summary
To more effectively perform staging using light and sound. A staging apparatus 1 is provided with a ball 2 in which a gas is contained, and an internal device 200 including a sound output unit 270 and a light-emitting unit 240 provided in the ball 2. In the internal device 200, sound is outputted from the sound output unit 270 when an operation of the ball 2 is sensed. The staging apparatus 1 preferably receives, from an external control device or the like, a synchronization signal for synchronizing the timing at which sound is output, and outputs sound at a timing that is in accordance with the synchronization signal.