Amusement devices: games – Surface projectile game; game element – Simulated game
Patent
1989-04-05
1991-06-18
Coven, Edward M.
Amusement devices: games
Surface projectile game; game element
Simulated game
273176B, 273176FA, 273176FB, 273181E, 273183R, 273184R, 273185R, 273185B, A63B 6936
Patent
active
050244418
ABSTRACT:
A golf course simulator comprises a track running between a driving area and a target. The track incorporates a plurality of selectively openable and closable holes. The target marks the boundary between the virtual space in which an objective hole is situated in a first phase of the game, when the strokes played are swings, and a real space in which the objective hole is materialized by opening one hole, once the player has come close enough to the objective hole. The simulator is controlled by an appropriately programmed computer. For swings the driving area incorporates a ball sensor and the target incorporates an impact detector matrix. Measuring the time between the departure of the ball and the impact on the target, at a known distance, and location of the point of impact on the target supply initial speed, lift and drift information to determine the point of arrival of the ball in the virtual space and to deduce therefrom objective parameters. If the objective hole is in the real space one hole is opened and the length of the putt as determined by sensors arranged along the track results in the opening of another hole corresponding to the distance for the remaining putt or putts.
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Coven Edward M.
Harrison Jessica
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