US 12,345,406 B2
Interactive LED system for enhancing billiard gameplay
Blake Robert Martin, Oakdale, MN (US)
Assigned to BLAKE MARTIN, Tucson, AZ (US)
Appl. No. 18/833,139
Filed by Blake Robert Martin, Oakdale, MN (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 2, 2023, PCT No. PCT/US2023/061847
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 25, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/154654, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 17, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/267,765, filed on Feb. 9, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2025/0129931 A1, Apr. 24, 2025
Int. Cl. F21V 33/00 (2006.01); F21V 23/00 (2015.01); F21W 131/40 (2006.01); F21Y 103/10 (2016.01); F21Y 113/00 (2016.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01)
CPC F21V 33/008 (2013.01) [F21V 23/003 (2013.01); F21W 2131/40 (2013.01); F21Y 2103/10 (2016.08); F21Y 2113/00 (2013.01); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for use with a billiards table, comprising:
addressable multi-color LED strips, each of the LED strips having a length corresponding to a length of a bumper of the billiards table, wherein each bumper of the billiards table corresponds to one of the addressable multi-color LED strips, wherein each the LED strips are electrically connected in series, and wherein each of the LED strips includes a plurality of LEDs and a plurality of addressable pixels, and each of the addressable pixels including one or more of the plurality of LEDs;
a controller connected to an end of the series-connected LED strips, wherein the controller is configured to send signals through the LED strips to control which one or more pixels are activated and one or more colors of light to be produced by corresponding one or more LEDs for the one or more activated pixels; and
a user device configured to communicate with the controller and to implement a program configured to enable a user of the user device to send lighting commands to the controller during gameplay, wherein the lighting commands are indicative of user-desired changes to lighting provided by the addressable multi-color LED strips, and the controller is configured to implement the commands by sending corresponding signals to the addressable multi-color LED light strips to implement the changes to the lighting.