Processing images includes projecting an infra-red pattern onto a three-dimensional object and producing a first image, a second image, and a third image of the three-dimensional object while the pattern is projected on the three-dimensional object. Automated response processing further includes determining, using a processor, a semantic identifier for the first audible prompt using semantic analysis and storing the semantic identifier of the first audible prompt in association with the response. The shaft includes a nut-shaped platform and an arcuate positioning limiter disposed in the circular working channel. The predetermined parameter may include a coolant temperature, ambient temperature or a coolant content and others. Herewith it is especially used for a golf club shaft, while maintaining a characteristic of light weight, securing strength equal to or greater than a steel-made golf shaft, and suppressing unnecessary deflection and vibration, so as to provide a sports equipment made of a reinforced fiber combined material such as a gold club shaft having high strength such as bending and twisting rigidity.