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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2015
Shottracker, Inc., Mission Hills, KS (US);
Bruce C. Ianni, Mission Hills, KS (US);
Davyeon D. Ross, Overland Park, KS (US);
Clint A. Kahler, Overland Park, KS (US);
Thomas James Keeley, Kansas City, MO (US);
Harold K. Hoffman, Jr., Overland Park, KS (US);
Roger Allan Gruenke, Shawnee, KS (US);
Patrick M. Herron, Austin, TX (US);
SHOTTRACKER, INC., Merriam, KS (US);
Abstract
A made-shot-detecting net system is configured to determine when a basketball passes through the net. The system uses a strand of conductive material that is laced through the net, an electrical property (e.g., resistance) of which changes (e.g., increases) as the net—and hence the strand of conductive material—is stretched. By filtering out steady-state components of a voltage signal obtained from the net, instances where the net is being stretched can be identified. A value obtained by integrating (i.e., summing) the voltage output over the course of a stretch event is compared to various thresholds to identify the nature of the event. In certain embodiments, the fact that a shot has been made is transmitted wirelessly to a basketball-performance tracking application running on a mobile electronic computing device.