Board game system and method
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited
InventorKathrin Carolin Strangfeld
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Abstract
A board game system comprises a game board, having a surface adapted to receive a board game overlay, a detector array adapted to detect the respective positions of a plurality of game pieces placed on top of the board game overlay, and a transmitter adapted to transmit data indicating the respective positions to an entertainment device; and an entertainment device, having a receiver adapted to receive from the game board data indicating the respective positions of the plurality of game pieces, a game state analyser operable to update the state of a game in dependence upon the indicated respective positions of the plurality of game pieces, and an image generator operable to generate an image for output to a display, the content of the image being responsive to the detected state of the game.
Claims12
A game board, comprising:
- a board;
- a surface adapted to receive a board game overlay;
- a base comprising a rotatable mount for the game board;
- a rotation sensor operable to detect a relative rotation of the board to the base;
- a detector array adapted to detect respective positions of a plurality of game pieces placed on top of the board game overlay;
- and
- a transmitter adapted to transmit, to an entertainment device, data indicating the respective positions and data indicating the detected relative rotation.
A system comprising:
- a game board, the game board comprising
- a board;
- a surface adapted to receive a board game overlay;
- a base comprising a rotatable mount for the game board;
- a rotation sensor operable to detect a relative rotation of the board to the base;
- a detector array adapted to detect respective positions of a plurality of game pieces placed on top of the board game overlay;
- and
- a transmitter adapted to transmit, to an entertainment device, data indicating the respective positions and data indicating the detected relative rotation, and
- the entertainment device, the entertainment device comprising
- a receiver adapted to receive from the game board the data indicating the respective positions of the plurality of game pieces and the data indicating the detected relative rotation;
- a game state analyser operable to update the state of a game in dependence upon the data indicating the respective positions and the data indicating the detected relative rotation;
- and
- an image generator operable to generate an image for output to a display, the content of the image being responsive to the detected state of the game.
A method of interacting with a board game for an entertainment device, the board game comprising a board, a surface adapted to receive a board game overlay, a base comprising a rotatable mount for the game board, a rotation sensor operable to detect the relative rotation of the board to the base, a detector array adapted to detect respective positions of a plurality of game pieces placed on top of the board game overlay, and a transmitter adapted to transmit, to the entertainment device, data indicating the respective positions and data indicating the detected relative rotation, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving from the game board the data indicating the respective positions and the data indicating the detected relative rotation;
- updating the state of a game in dependence upon the data indicating the respective positions and the data indicating the detected relative rotation;
- and
- generating an image for output to a display, the content of the image being responsive to the detected state of the game.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer executable instructions adapted to cause a computer system to perform the method of interacting with a board game for an entertainment device, the board game comprising a board, a surface adapted to receive a board game overlay, a base comprising a rotatable mount for the game board, a rotation sensor operable to detect the relative rotation of the board to the base, a detector array adapted to detect respective positions of a plurality of game pieces placed on top of the board game overlay, and a transmitter adapted to transmit, to the entertainment device, data indicating the respective positions and data indicating the detected relative rotation, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving from the game board the data indicating the respective positions and the data indicating the detected relative rotation;
- updating the state of a game in dependence upon the data indicating the respective positions and the data indicating the detected relative rotation;
- and
- generating an image for output to a display, the content of the image being responsive to the detected state of the game.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.