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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2023
Toca Football, Inc., Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Edward J. Lewis, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Wayne Morton Rapp, Irvine, CA (US);
Steven Eannarino, Newport Beach, CA (US);
TOCA Football, Inc., Costa Mesa, CA (US);
Abstract
A computerized method is disclosed that includes operations of detecting a through-beam between first and second sensors of a first sensor pair, the first sensor being located at a first goal post of a goal apparatus, the second sensor being located at a second goal post of the goal apparatus, wherein the first goal post and the second goal post form a goal plane, detecting an interrupt in the through-beam between the first and second sensors, and responsive to detecting the interrupt determining an object has passed through the goal plane, and determining a speed of the object as the objected passed through the goal plane. In some instances, the operations include determining a time duration of the interrupt. In some instances, the operations include correlating the time duration of the interrupt with a known size of the object.