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US 2007/0184908 A1Published application
Virtual bowling with a bowling ball having an RFID tag
OwnerJan Hanseninventor
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Abstract
A bowling ball tagged with a radio-frequency identification (“RFID”) tag is used to provide information about the bowling ball to a computer. The computer can use this information to generate a more accurate calculation of the onward travel of the ball toward the pins and to present a more accurate image of the bowling ball on the screen in a virtual bowling game.
Claims27
A virtual bowling system comprising:
- a bowling lane;
- a display device;
- at least one sensor operative to sense movement of a bowling ball on the bowling lane;
- a radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader operative to read an identifier transmitted by an RFID device in the bowling ball, the identifier identifying information about the bowling ball;
- and
- at least one computer operative to generate a display, on the display device, of a virtual bowling ball traveling down a virtual portion of the bowling lane and interacting with virtual bowling pins based on data from the at least one sensor and based on the information about the bowling ball identified by the identifier transmitted by the RFID device.
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A virtual bowling system comprising:
- a bowling lane;
- a display device;
- at least one sensor operative to sense movement of a bowling ball on the bowling lane;
- a radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader operative to read an identifier transmitted by an RFID device in the bowling ball, the identifier identifying information about the bowling ball;
- and
- circuitry operative to generate a display, on the display device, of a virtual bowling ball traveling down a virtual portion of the bowling lane and interacting with virtual bowling pins based on data from the at least one sensor and based on the information about the bowling ball identified by the identifier transmitted by the RFID device.
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A method for virtual bowling, the method comprising:
- receiving movement information of a bowling ball on a bowling lane;
- receiving an identifier transmitted by a radio-frequency identification (RFID) device in the bowling ball, the identifier identifying information about the bowling ball;
- and
- displaying a virtual bowling ball traveling down a virtual portion of the bowling lane and interacting with virtual bowling pins based on the movement information of the bowling ball on the bowling lane and based on the information about the bowling ball identified by the identifier transmitted by the RFID device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.