Hawk-Eye, the UK firm firm at the back ball-tracking technology, has sole the firm to wiring hulk Sony for an undisclosed sum.
The Winchester firm creates ball-tracking technology for tennis and cricket.
With Fifa similar to expand its experiments with goal-line technology there potentially might moreover be future openings in football.
Hawk-Eye contriver Paul Hawkins mentioned the takeover by Sony combined "immense opportunities is to sports industry".
The device is moreover used in snooker.
The buy includes all egghead skill rights, Hawk-Eye's stream full time staff together with its technology, program and engineering.
Hawk-Eye was put up for sale final September by its owners, who add Mark Getty, a associate of the affluent US business dynasty,
They had hoped to capture a large firm that could help the firm expand.
Despite its high-profile brand name, Winchester-based Hawk-Eye is a comparatively tiny firm with increase of 1.1m final year.
Last autumn, it mentioned it approaching to make a distinction of 1.8m this year, reflecting enlargement in the tennis world in particular.
Calls for goal-line technology in football increased after the World Cup contest in South Africa when England's Frank Lampard had a objective disallowed against Germany.
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