Adidas Ag

Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nürnberg

Robert Frank Kirk

Constantin Zwick

Iain James Sabberton

Peter Georg Laitenberger

Bjoern Michael Eskofier

Dominik Schuldhaus

Christian DiBenedetto

Eva Andrea Dorschky

Jack Huang

Bruno Jean Antonelli

Harald Geyer

Dirk Meythaler

Harald Körger

John Kelley

Lee Hickey

Angus Wardlaw

Christopher Edward Holmes

John Whiteman

Zachary Clinton Coonrod

Christian Dibenedetto

Marco Fischhold

Carl Arnese, Iii

Ernie Rustam

Daniel Stephen Price

Brian Hoying

Giridharan Kirupanantham

Dylan Moore

Daniel Cocking

Heather Frances Driscoll

Ian James Sabberton

Benjamin Turck

Stanislav Gousev

Marco Fischold

Maike Petra Stöve

Heather Frances Driscol

Björn Michael Eskofier

Daniel Paul Cocking

Described are shoes for ball sports including an upper having an outer surface. An actuator is configured to change at least one surface property of a portion of the outer surface of the upper, and a sensor is configured to be sensitive to movements of the shoe. A processing unit is connected to the actuator and the sensor and configured to process sensor data retrieved from the sensor and to cause the actuator to change the at least one surface property of the portion of the outer surface of the upper if a predetermined event is detected in the sensor data.

Shoes for ball sports

Described are materials for a shoe upper, in particular for soccer shoes, with a particularly low weight. The material includes an inner polyurethane layer, an outer polyurethane layer, and a textile reinforcing layer. The textile reinforcing layer is arranged between the inner polyurethane layer and the outer polyurethane layer. The inner polyurethane layer and the outer polyurethane layer comprise thermoset polyurethane. The textile reinforcing layer comprises apertures through which the inner polyurethane layer and the outer polyurethane layer are connected to each other.

Material for shoe upper

A sole for a sports shoe comprises a plurality of profile elements and a friction element. The profile elements are distributed such that the friction element can contact a sports ball to increase the friction between a lower side of the sole and the sports ball.

Sole for a shoe

Described are supporting elements for a shoe, in particular for soccer shoes or American football shoes, as well as a sole and a shoe with a supporting element. The supporting element includes a first bending stiffness for bendings from an initial unbent state up to an upper end of a threshold angle range, and a second bending stiffness for bendings beyond the upper end of the threshold angle range, wherein the second bending stiffness is greater than the first bending stiffness.

Supporting element for shoes

Described are materials for a shoe upper, in particular for soccer shoes, with a particularly low weight and improved tensile strength. The material includes a first foil layer and a textile reinforcement layer, which is at least partially laminated with the first foil layer. The textile reinforcement layer includes a first textile material with at least three axes, each axis defining an orientation of a set of essentially parallel yarn-portions in the textile material.

Described are methods and systems for associating frames in a video of an activity of a person with an event. The methods include recording a video of an activity of a person; storing a time-series of a plurality of sensor data () obtained from a sensor assembly () of at least one sensor () coupled to the person while the person is performing the activity; synchronizing the video with the sensor data (); detecting an event in the time-series; and associating the event with at least one corresponding frame in the video showing the event.

Method and device for associating frames in a video of an activity of a person with an event

Methods for determining a property of a trajectory of a ball with a mobile computer device are described, which include: (a) capturing a sequence of video frames of the ball with a camera of the mobile computer device; (b) determining a first picture coordinate of the ball in a first video frame of the sequence; (c) determining a second picture coordinate of the ball in a second video frame of the sequence; and (d) computing a property of the trajectory of the ball based on a difference of the first and second picture coordinates, a time difference between the first and second video picture and a reference quantity, which may be determined based on a form and/or dimension of the ball in a picture taken with the camera.

Method of measuring a property of a trajectory of a ball with a mobile computer device

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Robert Frank Kirk