Electronic card system and method
AssigneeCdg Electrohex Ltd.
InventorErez Schwartz
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Abstract
An electronic game card (1) comprising a controller and one or more communication devices (12), all contained within a planar card having three or more sides. The communication devices (12) allow communications between adjacent cards when two cards are placed close to each other, with one side of each card opposite a side of the other card. An electronic card game method comprising: Defining the number of participants in the game; setting up the game; each participant locates his/her cards on a flat surface, adjacent to each other; performing a setup procedure; automatically recognizing the game configuration; detecting and addition of a new card and automatically responding thereto.
Claims16
An electronic game card comprising:
- a planar card having three or more sides and a top surface, and forming a platform for holding a detachable thin cover card;
- controller means in the planar card;
- one or more communication means in the planar card and coupled to the controller means, wherein the communications between adjacent cards when two cards are placed close to each other, with one side of each card opposite a side of the other card;
- user input means coupled to the controller means;
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- a code reader coupled to the controller means and configured to read a card code from the detachable thin cover card coupled to the top surface of the planar card;
- wherein the planar card is generic and the thin cover card contains electronic coded description thereof.
An electronic card game comprising:
- a plurality of cards located on a bi-directional pattern adjacent to each other, wherein each card includes a controller and one or more communication devices, and wherein one of the cards is a master card operable to communicate with each card and to activate an output of each card according to rules of the games stored therein, wand the rest of the cards are generic slave cards each having a personality contained in a detachable thin cover card coupled to a top surface of the generic slave card, each thin cover card having code description thereof that can be identified by any of the slave cards when attached thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.