US 11,452,944 B2Granted

Immersive live-action gaming facility

AssigneeActivate Games Inc.

InventorAdam Schmidt

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Abstract

An immersive gaming facility has a plurality of game rooms, each with a respective interactive gaming space with electronically controlled interactive game elements, a respective entrance through which participants are admissible from a waiting area with a respective sign-in station operable to control admission of participants in a groupwise fashion. After admission, an executed game session involves controlled operation of the interactive game elements and monitoring of participant interaction therewith to identify participant completion or failure of tasks in said game session; and terminate execution of said game session upon expiry of a time limit or multiple detected failures exceeding a predetermined limit. The waiting areas are accessible independently of one another off a shared common area, allowing participation among the game rooms in any participant-selected order. The gaming spaces are darkened environments illuminated only by the interactive game elements and game status displays.

Claims27

Dependent claims

An immersive gaming facility comprising:

a plurality of game rooms that are each independently accessible from a common area of said facility and that each comprise:
a respective interactive gaming space situated inside said game room and separated from said common area;
a respective entrance through which a waiting group of one or more participants are admissible to the respective interactive gaming space from said common area;
a respective set of interactive game elements installed in the respective interactive gaming space for interaction therewith by said one or more participants once admitted thereto;
and
a respective room control system comprising a respective admission control device that guides or facilitates admission to the interactive gaming space through the respective entrance, said respective game control system being configured to:
independently of an occupied or unoccupied status of any other one of the plurality of game rooms, control or guide admission of the waiting group of one or more participants into the interactive gaming space through said respective entrance, including changing said admission control device from an admission-denial state to an admission-allowance state to permit or guide entrance of said waiting group of one or more participants into the interactive gaming space through the respective entrance;
and
after said admission of said waiting group of one or more participants, change said admission control device back into the admission-denial state and perform execution of a game session involving controlled operation of the interactive game elements and monitoring of participant interaction therewith.

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A gaming facility comprising:

a plurality of interactive gaming spaces, each having associated therewith:
a respective set of interactive game elements installed in said interactive gaming space for interaction therewith by a group of one or more participants occupying the interactive gaming space;
and
a respective game control system configured to perform execution of a game session involving controlled operation of the interactive game elements and monitoring of participant interaction therewith;
wherein the gaming facility is further characterized by at least one of the following features:
(a) configuration of the respective game control system of each interactive gaming space to, after termination of the game session, present to the group of one or more participants a selectable replay option, subject to confirmation that another group of one or more participants is not awaiting authorized admittance to the interactive gaming space;
(b) for each game control system, inclusion of a respective sign-in station installed outside, but proximate, the respective interactive gaming space, and configuration of said sign-in station to, prior to execution of the game session, compile a game sign-in list composed of one or more members of the group of one or more participants by collecting identifying information from said one or more members via a sign-in scanner or reader of the sign-in station, and based on collection of said identifying information via said sign-in scanner or reader, adding identities of said one or more members to the game sign-in list;
(c) communicable connection of the respective game control system of each interactive gaming space with a management server that hosts, or is communicable with, a participant database in which participant profiles with respective scoring records are stored, and wherein:
the respective game control system of each interactive gaming space is connected to the interactive game elements therein to control the interactive game elements in accordance with programmed gaming logic, and monitor participant interaction with said interactive game elements to derive game results therefrom;
the management server is communicable with the respective game control system of each game room to update the scoring records in the participant profiles based on said game results;
and
the facility comprises at least one score-checking station that resides separately of the sign-in stations, comprises a score-station scanner or reader, and is configured to retrieve the identifying information of any participant via said score-station scanner or reader, and communicate with the management server to query the scoring records of said participant profile and display score data therefrom to said participant;
and
(d) at least one scanner-equipped or reader-equipped participant registration station residing separately of the sign-in stations, and configured to scan or read the identifying information from each participant during an initial registration procedure prior to sign-in at any of the sign-in stations, and comprising a user-interface operable to receive sign-up or sign-in information from the participant and to create or retrieve a new or existing participant profile in the participant database, to which the participant registration station assigns the unique identifier.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/514,419Filed 29 Oct 2021 · continuation
Priority: CA CA 306884020 Jan 2020
Published: US 2022/0105436 A17 Apr 2022
Granted: 27 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

A63G 31/00
Amusement arrangements
A63G 33/00
Devices allowing competitions between several persons, not otherwise provided for
E04H 3/10
Buildings or groups of buildings for public or similar purposes; Institutions, e.g. infirmaries or prisons: for meetings, entertainments, or sports
A63G
Merry-go-rounds

Family

Application62/846,912Us provisional application · filed 13 May 2019
Application16/822,767Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Mar 2020
US 11,161,050 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 2 Nov 2021
US 2022/0105436 A1Pre-grant publication · published 7 Apr 2022
US 2020/0360826 A1Published application
US 11,452,944 B2This patent

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