Claims:In a Self-Assessment Monitoring Cricket Bat,
We claim that,
1. Self-Assessment Monitoring Cricket Bat is a unique (restricted to innovations in cricket bat) designed cricket bat for self-performance monitoring and which,
a) Contains a 3-Axis sensor to record the angular and rotational movement information.
b) Contains a special purpose logic board or microcontroller to process the overall logical functions of the system.
c) Contains the motion and shock-sensor to identify the proposed cricket bat’s impact with the surrounded object.
d) Contains a storage device to store the recorded information internally on-board for further processing.
e) Contains a rechargeable battery and battery charging unit for portability.
f) Contains a wireless connectivity module for external device connectivity.
2. Self-Assessment Monitoring Cricket Bat has a unique and novel internal electronics component box design to balance the center of gravity and equally divided weight on either side to allow the stress-free movement of the cricket bat.
3. Self-Assessment Monitoring Cricket Bat has unique and novel self-rotational and directional movement assessment functionality which takes the best utilization of sensory information and helps to monitor the bat’s movement information.
4. Self-Assessment Monitoring Cricket Bat has unique and novel self-impact detection with the surrounding object functionality, this would be helpful in the assessment and the decision making about the impact on the bat in the match.
5. Self-Assessment Monitoring Cricket Bat has unique and novel wireless data communication features to allow the sharing bat’s movement information with the remote supportable device.
6. Self-Assessment Monitoring Cricket Bat has unique and novel sensory information capturing process and saves records on internal flash memory for future data analysis.

Dated: 29th of July 2020
, Description:
1.0 Title of the Invention:
“Self-Assessment Monitoring Cricket Bat”
2.0 Field of the Invention:
[1001] With the rapid innovations in sensor technologies, researchers are more focused on cricket research. The game world has been continuously evolving over the years and the use of technology is only one of the areas that have influenced many sports today. Check out the annual Sports Technology Awards for the latest technology breakthroughs in the world of sports. One criticism of using the technology is that it can slow down the speed of the game, but on the other hand, for many people, it makes browsing more enjoyable to see the right solution.
[1002] Many innovations are continuously going on in the cricket gaming world mainly to take the right decision in real match events. Entertainers are also making huge research to make this game more special with a high level of graphics, data analytics, player quick history, and finally, every ball delivered and every shot played reach out to the audience with great details. All these innovations are focused on final match viewing and making it more profitable and entertainment-based.
[1003] On the other hand very fewer innovations are happening in cricket game training session management or monitoring performance of an individual player with the right tools or the right coaches. Still, beginner players depend upon the coaches and player can’t monitor his own performance progression or regression. Players need different tools or the system which may help them know the progress of every player after every trial match or training session.
[1004] Proposed innovation mainly deals in designing and developing the smart self-assessment monitoring cricket bat. This bat will be having a specially designed sensor board that will keep track of every movement performed by the player including rotational, transformational, and acceleration motions. This bat will also have a special sensor that will note the impact of the bat on the surrounding or strike on the ball.
[1005] With this level of innovation any player can monitor his own performance every strike by strike, session by session, and day by day. This bats hardware will share data with specially designed data analytics software which will be trained by expert coaches and software will show the accuracy in every strike along with progression or the regression in playing pattern.

3.0 Background of the Invention:

[1006] As the innovation work is directly dealing with the real-time gaming apparatus which needs to test in the field only and the targeted game is the most popular in Asian countries, hence it is a bit possible that other researchers are also working on these technologies and the subject. This takes our proposed system at multiple levels or researches and studies. Here we come up with a different survey about available similar research and also what has been published in journals and research publications.
[1007] StanceBeam Striker Cricket Bat Sensor: The Striker is designed to fit on top of any cricket bat - turning it into a Smart Bat. The unique motion sensor captures all the information on your game - and Connects with the StanceBeam APP. See your maximum and impact speeds for all your swings while you are playing your session. StanceBeam app displays power generated by your swings. You can see your back lift angle and direction, downswing angle, and your follow-through angle for all your swings in the StanceBeam app. StanceBeam app calculates the efficiency of your shot so you can improve your timing of the impact on the ball. (Reference through web search)
[1008] Intel bat sensor prototype: Intel engineers used a coin-sized Intel Curie compute module – a wireless data processing hub with motion sensors and built-in algorithms – to create a tiny puck that fits into a sleeve covering the bat handle. It debuted in “the first smart cricket tournament”: the 2017 International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy, played in the U.K. June 1-18. The tiny sensor measures eight classifications of a batter’s swing, including back lift angle, follow-through angle, impact angle, maximum bat speed, bat speed at impact, time to impact, and 3D swing and plane path. These measurements can be televised, so fans see more precisely a batter performance. (Reference through web search)
[1009] The main objective of the proposed system is to precisely identify every small angular and rotational movement and motion impact with a swing speed of a cricket bat using sensory information and analyze this data with the help of game expert coach defined patterns to evaluate every player’s every played shot performance. With the help of sensing, wireless communication and visual data simulation in 3D space objectives would be achieved.

4.0 Summary of the Invention:

[1010] In the process of research, the first step to the design and development of the proposed system cricket bat with an inbuilt accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, wireless transmitter, and microcontroller. This bat will continuously take the reading from every connected sensor and send this information to the wireless connected device over a wireless link. This is the main part of the innovation but needs to be developed in the first phase because everything starts with the data-gathering phase.
[1011] Most critical part of the project is to gathering cricket bat sensor information and representing that information in a 3-D environment along with the motion control part. This will help the user to understand the actual movement performed in 3-D space. In this phase development of 3-D space for data, the representation will be carried out this may be a mobile or desktop application that receives data over a communication port.
[1012] Next phase is about providing options for coaches to define the standards for every action for different players with different physical appearances. This information then utilized by the system for comparison purposes and the system can show where players every shot lacking or improved with. This phase plays a major role in the proposed system as it deals with data analytics and data visualization.
[1013] In the last phase cricket bat will be given to a real field player for testing purposes and the system will use it's AI and ML engines to improve its comparison and analytics ability with higher accuracy and show the right performance results. This is the most difficult yet important part of the proposed system which will help coaches and players to understand their performance measurements.
[1014] Proposed system collects all the information from the inbuilt sensor module in bat and it plays a major role in system development. Hardware modules will be having data generation and acquisition components from sensor and data transmission components to transmit information to data gathering or wirelessly connected devices at the same time all information will be stored inbuilt memory for future analysis and synchronization.

[1015] Once the information/data received from sensors it can be reviewed in a mobile app or desktop app in 3d space. the 3d space simulation of received data. This data will help the player to analyze the batting pattern. These patterns can be defined by the best cricket coaches and the system will try to match the predefined patters with fresh input and figure out the players batting performance. This way system may help the player to conduct a self-paced training session with or without coach availability and even the coach can serve their experiences and expertise to multiple players at the same time. This 3D space simulation will represent bats pitch, yaw, roll, tilt X, and Y angle and finally impact information. This information would be generated at the speed of a minimum of 30 records per second for better simulation.

5.0 Brief Description of the Drawings:

Figure. 1: Illustrates the structural modification in the proposed bat and specially designed carving to fix the logic and circuit box inside.
Figure. 2: Illustrates the different possibilities of the logic and circuit box enclosure size depending upon the bat type and shape.
Figure. 3: Illustrates the internal electronics and logic board block and arrangement.
Figure. 4: Since the while playing the cricket shots, the bat moves in different planes, angles, or rotations. This movement information needs to record and monitor hence the figure illustrates the proposed cricket bat possible angular or the rotational movement system.
Figure. 5: Illustrates how the proposed cricket bat made to maintain the center of gravity at a particular point and how it needs to be weight balanced form different sides.
Figure. 6: Illustrates the movement structure and the data representation method in 3D space.

6.0 Detailed Description of the Drawings:

The purpose and working of the present system are clearly described in the background of the system and summary of the system. The various components and their functions are further described in the detailed description as follows.

Figure 1. Proposed Cricket Bat Special Design Cut

[100] – The real cricket bat selected for carving and electronics component fitment from the proposed system. This bat may be different but we proposed to select a specific bat to maintain the weight and size of the bat to the standards.
[101] – The carving or the cut made in a real bat to fix the proposed system electronics or the logic box, so this is the actual cricket bat where the proposed system attached.
[102] – Open enclosure of the fitment box made to be matched the bat design to match playing comfort to the player and no major embossment would be in the design.
[103] – Internal battery charging circuit requires an external power supply and it requires external connectivity so this part is the power connector.
[104] – Since the proposed system may connect to remote devices using wireless signals technology hence this part is the reset switch which will be used to reset the communication or the connectivity.
[105] – This part would be the multi-color indication LED to show the connection and power status of the device.
[106] – To protect the logic board, then this part would be the enclosure closing lid tough enough to handle high impact.

Figure 2. Proposed Cricket Bat Circuit Box Design

[102.1] – Stage or the option first of circuit box design which can be fixed in flat bats or kept as it is ignoring the dynamics of the bat.
[102.2] – Stage or the option second of circuit box design which can be fixed in hand made of learning bats with minimum consideration about dynamics of the bat.
[102.3] – Stage or the option third of circuit box design which can be fixed in professional player bats with considering the full dynamics and dimensions of the bat.
Figure 3. Proposed Cricket Bat Electronics Block Structure

[200] – Full sized professional cricket bat or the selected base model of proposed system attachment.
[201] – Covering block structure for complete electronics circuits and the logic board along with other modules.
[202] – Since the proposed system (the cricket bat) electronics operate on an internal rechargeable battery, this unit will be used to charge the battery power pack.
[203] – This is a rechargeable battery pack to power up the entire electronics circuit.
[204] – Entire operations and functionality of the proposed system will be controlled and executed by the microcontroller or the central processing unit.
[205] – Flash storage will be used to store the sensor information captured at real-time for further analysis, the information or the records stored can be deleted after the data analysis
[206] – The proposed system needs to connect to remote devices to transfer the data, so this module will be used to transmit the information using wireless communication.
[207] – The cricket bat get impact from surroundings including the ball, the impact would be detected with its impact intensity using this shock sensor module.
[208] – 3-Axis sensor would be used to detect the motion of the proposed system (the cricket bat) in multiple left-right, up-down, forward-backward directions.
[209] – Gyroscope sensor will detect the rotational motion of the proposed system (the cricket bat).
[210] – Accelerometer sensor get the quick acceleration force of the proposed system (the cricket bat) in multiple directions and the multiple left-right, up-down, forward-backward directions.
[211] – The proposed system logic board works on the battery power supply. To save the battery and stop recording sensor data when the proposed system not in use, this motion sensor will send a specific signal to the microcontroller.
[212] – This virtual zig-zag line in the drawing denotes the wireless communication between the wireless transmitter and the wireless receiver.
[213] – To receive wireless data send by the proposed system wireless transmitter this module will be used to read the incoming data, where this device could be connected to any supportable hardware like a computer or mobile phone.
[214] – This block illustrates the possibilities of receiving devices to receive the data sent by the proposed system for further data analysis. This invention is limited to sending the data mainly rest the data can be managed by supporting devices.

Figure 4. Proposed Cricket Bat Angular / Rotational Movement System

[300] – Since the proposed system (Cricket bat) travels in multiple directions this motion denotes its angular motion in side by side or left-right direction.
[301] – Displacement or the movement of the proposed system (cricket bat) in left-right directions.
[302] – Since the proposed system (Cricket bat) travels in multiple directions this motion denotes its angular motion in the forward-backward direction.
[303] – While traveling or displacement of the proposed system (Cricket bat ) in forward-backward directions 303 illustrates the maximum possible forward movement.
[304] – While traveling or displacement of the proposed system (Cricket bat ) in forward-backward directions 304 illustrates the maximum possible backward movement.
[305] – Displacement or the movement of the proposed system (cricket bat) in forward-backward directions.
[305] – While playing the bat may rotate to its own angle hence the 306 illustrates the rotation pattern of the proposed system (cricket bat).

Figure 5. Proposed Cricket Bat Center of Gravity Management

[400] – This denotes or illustrates the alignment and weight balance for both proposed electronics devices and the cricket bat are maintained in such a way that it will weigh the same on either side.
[401] – Electronics box or the enclosure and PCB (Printed circuit board) is designed in such a way that if hold from the center the weight at either side will be equal, hence 401 denotes the left side of the electronics box.
[402] – Electronics box or the enclosure and PCB (printed circuit board) is designed in such a way that if hold from the center the weight at either side will be equal, hence 402 denotes the right side of the electronics box.
[403] – To get the best performance including the electronics box bat also need to be perfectly balanced from a weight and dimensions perspective, hence the 403 denotes the left side balanced weight of the cricket bat.
[404] – To get the best performance including the electronics box bat also need to be perfectly balanced from a weight and dimensions perspective, hence the 403 denotes the right side balanced weight of the cricket bat.

Figure 6. Proposed Cricket Bat 3D Space Movement Methodology

[500] – The proposed system (cricket bat with electronics box inside) is designed to record the bat’s movements in multiple perspectives including rotations, transformation, and accelerations hence the 500 illustrates the 3-D space or the playing area surface.
[501] – It illustrates the actual directions of the considerations, where multiple directions including left-right, forward-backward, and up-down would get recorded using sensors.
[502] – Actual sensor information will be presented in a data analytics and data visualization software in 3-D format, 502 illustrates how data would be presented through some line drawing and color-coding.