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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022
Filed:
May. 28, 2020
Glo-flite Llc, Seattle, WA (US);
Jamilla Kounellas, Seattle, WA (US);
Kevin Hay, Des Moines, WA (US);
Paul Wierenga, Seattle, WA (US);
Glo-Flite LLC, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and techniques for automatically detecting and tracking hockey goal events during hockey play are provided. Example embodiments provide an Automated Hockey Goal Detection System or goal detection system, which enables goal events during hockey play to be automatically and immediately detected and notifications generated therefor and for automatically tracking and communicating attributes of such events such as puck speed and location. Automated event information may be automatically recorded and/or communicated to other devices, such as a remote computing device, to analyze player or game effectiveness. An example goal detection system utilizes an infrared transmitting hockey puck and an infrared sensing goal frame with one or more sets of multiple infrared sensors arranged around the perimeter of the goal frame. The goal frame may include a control unit that determines the location and speed of the puck within the goal frame by evaluation of the active sensors.