Manual-entry semi-automatic electronic bowling scorer
OwnerVito A. Trujilloinventor
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a manual-entry electronic bowling scorer utilizing keyboard console. The console has a minimum number of data entry keys for supplying scoring data to a pair of individual CRT scoring displays, associated with a pair of adjacent lanes, and includes CRT instruction displays for indicating the desired sequence of data entry to be made through the keyboard. The video generation circuits for the scoring displays include separate border and character memories enabling a wide variety of scoring formats to be entered on such displays, and a single display control module controls the pair of scoring displays and the instruction displays by the use of two-port memories in the video generation circuits.
Claims33
In a manual-entry electronic scoring system for bowling, including a video scoring display and a manual entry keyboard for entering scoring data to be processed and applied to the scoring display, the improvement comprising:
- a data processing unit for providing instruction signals in response to entries from said manual entry keyboard;
- a video instruction display for displaying sequential messages to instruct a scorekeeper as to entries to be made on the keyboard;
- video signal generating means coupled to drive said instruction display;
- memory means coupled to receive signals from said data processing unit, and coupled to said video signal generating means for providing data to define the content of instruction messages to be displayed on said introduction display;
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- display control means coupled to said memory for selecting memory data to be coupled to said video signal generating means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.