Patent ID: 11957967
Assignee: nan
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A sports performance sensing device that communicates information to an external computer, comprising:
a housing, formed in a shape of a sports ball of a same weight and size as a regulation ball used in a game being played using the sports ball, the housing having an outer surface;
a finger pressure sensor, formed of a pressure sensing fabric inside the outer surface of the housing, the pressure sensing fabric sensing pressure over an entirety of the outer surface of the housing, to sense at least finger pressure and finger placement over an entirety of the outer surface of the housing,
the outer surface formed of a skin of the sports ball, where the skin of the ball is shaven down so that a thickness of the skin of the sports ball is reduced compared to a normal thickness of a regulation ball to accommodate a thickness of the pressure sensing fabric;
additional sensors that are located inside the housing, which detect movements of the housing and transmit information indicative of said movements of the housing to the external computer, wherein the additional sensors include at least one of a speed sensor, a rotation sensor, and an acceleration sensor, and wherein the additional sensors are located in a way which is radially symmetrical, to maintain a radial symmetry of the sports ball; and
circuitry inside the housing, receiving information from the finger pressure sensor, and transmitting the information to the external computer.