Amusement devices: games – Physical skill or ability – Game element capture or pick up using manual dexterity
Patent
1990-06-08
1992-05-26
Brown, Theatrice
Amusement devices: games
Physical skill or ability
Game element capture or pick up using manual dexterity
273438, 434 62, 434 64, 434 65, 434 71, 434 69, A63F 922, G09B 904
Patent
active
051160510
ABSTRACT:
A pressure-sensitive control device for a simulated vehicle in a video game or simulator. In the preferred embodiment a brake pedal control device is implemented having a strain gauge which senses the strain in the material of the brake pedal. This strain is amplified by a differential amplifier having a self-adjusting input circuit with a long time constant which causes any variations in the input voltage not due to changing strain on the brake pedal to be applied to both inputs of a differential amplifier in common mode, thereby cancelling the effect thereof. Only voltage differences resulting from variations in the strain on the brake pedal are amplified by the differential amplifier and output for use by the video game or simulator.
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Behensky Max L.
Durfey Erik J.
Moncrief Rick L.
Atari Games Corporation
Brown Theatrice
Fish Ronald C.
Harrison Jessica J.
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