Interactive arcade game apparatus
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsDouglas H. Smith, James E. Stoneham, William P. Fricke, Anthony L. Creed, Peter N. Skillman, Johnson K. Chow
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Abstract
An interactive game apparatus in which players throw projectiles, such as soft balls, against a display panel on which a target image is projected and contact sensitive elements aligned with target areas in the projected image are activated by a hit from the thrown projectile to initiate a change in the projected image uniquely associated with the target area hit and the player who threw the projectile. An embodiment in the context of a tic-tac-toe game is described. A number of embodiments for identifying specific projectiles with a player responsible for throwing the projectile are described.
Claims8
Interactive video game apparatus comprising:
- a video display panel having a multi-dimensional array of contact responsive elements responsive to impingement of projectiles tossed by player participants to register a characteristic of the contact between the projectile and the display panel;
- a video display projector for displaying a video game on the display panel, the game elements being related to the position of the contact responsive elements on the display panel such that such registered characteristic of contact by the projectile with the display panel contributes to scoring in the displayed video game;
- player operated video display element creation means for allowing player participants in the game to create and display customized video elements for display in conjunction with display of the video;
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- means for displaying one or more of said customized display elements in association with contact between said projectiles and the contact sensitive elements of the display panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.