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Ball Course Detection Function for the Blind Bowling Support System Using a Depth Sensor

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To realize a blind bowling support system that tells information to a blind player using a voice synthesizer, a function of ball course detection is being developed after implementation of a function of counting remaining pins. The new function detects a position of thrown ball on an area of arrow marks on the bowling lane using a depth sensor. The sensor is connected to a pipe frame that bridged over the lane. Based on the evaluation by a blind bowling player, it can be shown that the function works basically well, although there is still potential to improve its stability.

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  1. Tenpin Bowling - General information. http://www.ibsasport.org/sports/tenpin-bowling/ . Accessed 25 Mar 2016

  2. Seoul 2015 IBSA World Games. http://www.ibsawg2015seoul.org/en-us . Accessed 25 Jan 2016

  3. Kobayashi, M.: Blind bowling support system which detects a number of remaining pins and a ball trajectory. In: Miesenberger, K., Fels, D., Archambault, D., Penaz, P., Zagler, W. (eds.) ICCHP 2014, Part I. LNCS, vol. 8547, pp. 283–288. Springer, Heidelberg (2014)

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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 25350752.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Tsukuba University of Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

    Makoto Kobayashi

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  1. Institute Integriert Studieren, Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Rehabilitationswissenschaften, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Christian Bühler

  3. Masaryk University , Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Penaz

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Kobayashi, M. (2016). Ball Course Detection Function for the Blind Bowling Support System Using a Depth Sensor. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9759. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41267-2_1

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