Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Perceptible output or display
Patent
1995-07-27
1999-03-02
Harrison, Jessica
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Perceptible output or display
463 30, 348588, 348565, 348552, A63F 922, H04N 974, G06R 3153
Patent
active
058762868
ABSTRACT:
An improved game apparatus for a television and a control method thereof capable of playing a game using a remote controller and an OSD, which includes an operating unit for setting a certain mode and starting a game; an input/output controller for receiving the output signal of the operating unit; a game-exclusive ROM for outputting a game program in accordance with an output signal of the input/output controller; a game-exclusive RAM for storing a currently playing game state; an on-screen controller for outputting original color signals of an on-screen display so as to display a game state; a tuner for receiving a combined picture signal transferred from an antenna; a picture signal processing unit for receiving a combined picture signal outputted from the tuner and for outputting television picture original color signals; a first switch for outputting selectively outputting the original color signals of an on-screen display outputted from the on-screen controller and television picture original signals outputted from the picture processing unit in accordance with a control signal of a microprocessor; and a picture controller for displaying the original color signals outputted from the first switch on a screen of a television.
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Harrison Jessica
LG Electronics Inc.
Sager Mark A.
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