Patent Application
20120256884
Not Applicable
The concept of the invention came during watching John Madden provide color commentary on NFL football games. His descriptions of the plays typically involved his using a stylus to telestrate upon the screen the movement of the players during a sequence of plays. This enhanced the viewing experience of the audience. However, this was a passive enhancement. The Sport-Strator was devised to allow the viewing audience to take an active role in watching televised events and thus increase their interactive experience. Essentially getting them more involved with the broadcast they are viewing.
The “Sport-Strator” is a graphics tablet with an underlying monitor in synchronicity of display to a television with which it communicates. With use of a stylus, a user can draw images upon the graphics tablet that will appear on the television displaying that same monitor-received broadcast.
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Drawings Indicia:
Top View—This photo shows the “Sport-Strator” tablet from a top view.
Side View—Photo shows the tablet from a side perspective.
Top Side View—Photo shows the wireless infra-red port on the tablet.
Component View—Photo shows the stylus and the transceiver.
Connection Options View—Photo shows how the tablet is connected through either a RBG plug or a USB plug. Older television sets can be accommodated with these various options.
Wireless Operation View—Photo shows how the wireless connection would operate.
Stylus Operation View—Photo shows how the stylus would be used on the tablet.
Wireless Operation after Stylus Use—Photo shows what the operation would look like after the stylus use on the tablet through wireless connection.
The “Sport-Strator” features a graphics tablet, a video monitor built into that graphics tablet, and a stylus that can be used upon that graphics tablet. A transceiver assembly communicates resultant signals from this graphics tablet to a television, the broadcast received by said television displays upon the aforementioned monitor, and for display of graphics upon that television. Control buttons for the prompting of actions are also featured upon the hosting frame of the graphics tablet. The graphics tablet features a rubberized material about its outer perimeter to provide grip enhancement and shock absorption.
The monitor of the “Sport-Strator” is of liquid crystal display (LCD) format, and is placed within the two (2) planes of a graphics tablet. This graphics tablet is of passive class, designed in matrix approach, and with grid alignment between these two (2) planes. The monitor-encasing graphics tablet is included within a surrounding frame. The surrounding frame includes operating controls for particular functions of the “Sport-Strator”, including play, rewind, fast forward, pause, clear, and reset. The stylus used with this graphics tablet includes an LC circuit of resonant circuit format, and for communication with the grids in the monitor. The communication of that topographical formulation is sent by a transmitter included within the graphics tablet to a receiver. This receiver is attached to a television, and for communication of the graphic images received by the graphics tablet upon that same television.
A user may attach the receiver of the “Sport-Strator” upon a television. Upon saving or rewinding any image upon that television, followed by the pause function, he or she may use the stylus to create images upon the broadcast, and with the purpose of applying personalized interpretation. The images created by the user through the stylus will then be displayed upon the television in accompaniment to its broadcast signal.
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| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61516513 | Apr 2011 | US |
