Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Patent
1996-05-06
1997-12-23
Harrison, Jessica
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
273148B, A63F 924
Patent
active
057001944
ABSTRACT:
A programmable joypad circuit for playing PC games includes a panel having a plurality of control buttons, a directional button, a switching button, a mode selecting switch, a four/eight direction mode switch, a setting switch and a control circuit having a microprocessor, a memory, a switching circuit, and a parallel/serial conversion circuit. The microprocessor has a plurality of input and output pins respectively coupled with the control buttons, the directional button, the switching button, and mode selecting switch, and setting switch, a data input pin coupled to the PC, a clock pin coupled to the PC, a set pin coupled to said parallel/serial conversion circuit via the direction mode switch, the setting switch, and a control pin coupled to the switch circuit composed of a first transistor and a second transistor each having a collector and an emitter respectively connected to a corresponding data pin and clock pin of the microprocessor and a base connected to a control pin of the microprocessor.
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patent: 5259626 (1993-11-01), Ho
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patent: 5421590 (1995-06-01), Robbins
Harrison Jessica
O'Neill Michael
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