Video target control and sensing circuit for photosensitive gun

Amusement devices: games – Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor... – Simulated game

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273313, 273DIG28, 434 20, 434 22, 340708, 382 59, A63F 922

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ABSTRACT:
A television game apparatus according to this invention reads white picture data from a program ROM (6) to transfer it to a video RAM (8) and displays, on a television monitor (11), the white picture data, together with target or other data read from a character ROM (9). When a pistol (4) is leveled at a target on the screen of the television monitor (11) and the trigger is pulled, a switch (44) is closed to produce a trigger signal, on the basis of which black picture data is read from the program ROM (6) and displayed on the television monitor (11). Immediately after the black picture was displayed, the white picture is displayed in the next frame in the position where the target was displayed just before and/or around the periphery thereof. The light from this white picture is detected by a phototransistor (41), whose detection signal, when extracted by a filter (45, 46), is used as a detection signal from the target. Thus, there is no danger of mistaking the light from an illuminator for the light from the target.

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