Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a game requiring strategy or problem solving by a...
Reexamination Certificate
1999-04-14
2001-05-15
Harrison, Jessica J. (Department: 3713)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a game requiring strategy or problem solving by a...
C273S237000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06231441
ABSTRACT:
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a computer game provided with a games' board and a computer connected thereto for controlling game facets.
Nowadays there are numerous computer games or computer assisted games having a great variety of subjects and games to be played on a games' board. It is an object of the present invention to provide an alternative computer game with which in a simple manner the game can be played by one or more persons.
For this purpose the invention provides a computer game provided with a games' board and a computer connected thereto for controlling game facets, said games' board having a first number of side edges and a second number of playing areas, each playing area containing an activation element connected with the computer, in which operating the activation element activates or deactivates a certain game facet, and having a mark device for separately displaying a number of distinctive marks, said number of distinctive mark corresponding to said first number of side edges, each mark device being connected to the corresponding activation element and to the computer and being operable by the activation element and/or the computer, each side edge containing a third number of operating means for operating the computer for activating or deactivating certain game facets. As each playing area can display a number of distinctive marks, a game assisted by the computer or a computer chip can be played on the games' board by a same number of players as the number of distinctive marks. The game to be played depends on the programme loaded in the computer or the chip in which certain game facets can be activated or deactivated by operating the activation elements and/or the operating Means.
In U.S. Pat. No. 3,888,491 an electronic system is disclosed for the remote transmission and display of game moves in real time in which one or more electronic board game consoles are provided, each having a 64-square chess board. Positioned beneath each of the 64 squares on each console, there is located a display unit which on proper energization is capable of producing a display image of any one of the game playing pieces. Logic circuitry is provided to permit each player of the game to selectively cause his images to be automatically transferred from one square to another as well as to selectively create or eliminate those piece images at preselected squares. Logic circuitry is further provided in which a plurality of board square memory elements, at least one for each square of the board, store coded representations of the playing piece images, and wherein said representations are monitored by decoding devices which facilitate the display of a given piece image at a given square. Additional logic circuitry is provided comprising at least one temporary storage memory element serving as a temporary storage for the coded representation of a playing piece transferred from one square to another, while an enabling circuit is provided to permit the transfer of an image only to those destination squares either at which no image is currently displayed, or at which an image belonging to an opposing player is displayed.
Thus U.S. Pat. No. 3,888,491 relates contrary to the present invention to the game of chess, necessitating that any one of the chess game pieces (six black ones, six white ones) can be displayed on each playing area. This is, amongst other things, contrary to the invention in which the number of distinctive marks to be displayed on each playing area corresponds to the number of side edges of the games' board.
The games' board can be displayed on a touch-sensitive screen, each activation element being a part of the screen, i.e. a displayed playing area.
Alternatively, the games' board is a physical games' board, each activation element being a push-button.
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Harrison Jessica J.
Jones Scott E.
Ladas & Parry
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