Shooting game machine
AssigneeKonami Corporation
InventorKetsu Oh
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Abstract
A shooting game machine includes: a display device having a display screen for displaying a target; a hitting device which hits the target; a reference disposed in the vicinity of the display screen; an image pick-up device which picks up an image in an image area located in a hitting direction of the hitting device; a reference position detector which detects the position of the reference within the image picked up by the image pick-up device; and a hit position detector which detects the position on the display screen hit by the hitting device based on the position of the reference detected by the reference position detector.
Claims20
A targeting game machine comprising:
- a display device having a display screen for displaying a target;
- a targeting device for targeting the target;
- a reference emitter disposed to emit a reference signal from a vicinity of the display screen;
- the targeting device having an image pick-up device which picks up an image in an image area facing the targeting device;
- a reference position detector which detects the position of the reference signal within the image picked up by the image pick-up device;
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- a targeted position detector which detects a position on the display screen targeted by the targeting device based on the position of the reference signal detected by the reference position detector.
A method of detecting a targeted position of a targeting device for use in a targeting game machine including a display device having a reference disposed in a display screen, the targeting device having an image pick up device for picking up an image in an image area, a reference position detector for detecting a reference position of the reference within the image picked up by the image pick up device and a targeted position detector for detecting a targeted position targeted by the targeting device, the method comprising the steps of:
- detecting the reference position in the image picked up by the image pick up device;
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- detecting the targeted position targeted by the targeting device with respect to the reference position.
A targeting game machine comprising:
- a display device having a display screen for displaying a target;
- a targeting device for targeting the target;
- a reference disposed in the display screen;
- the targeting device having an image pick up device for picking up an image of the display screen;
- a reference position detector for detecting a position of the reference in the image picked up by the image picked up device;
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- a targeted position detector for detecting a targeted position targeted by the targeting device in the image picked up by the image pick up device based on the position of the reference.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.