Virtual target getting game system

• US 20060009271A1
• Filed: 07/11/2005
• Published: 01/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited, Sanrio Company Limited (SANRIO)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited, Sanrio Company Limited (SANRIO)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Makoto, Nakata, Yasuyuki, Oikawa, Kouichi, Nishibata, Masafumi, Ikeda, Hisayoshi, Kamada, Toru
• Application Number:
  US11/177,314
• Publication Number:
  US 20060009271A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/235 using a wireless connection, e.g. infrared or piconet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/46 Computing the game score
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1031 using a wireless connection, e.g. Bluetooth, infrared connections
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1062 being specially adapted to a type of game, e.g. steering wheel
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8094 Unusual game types, e.g. virtual cooking

Abstract

A player has an insect net to which a RF tag is attached and brings the RF tag close to a RF reader/writer mounted on a main game machine. A game controlling device records information about virtual insects that were spuriously gotten by the player through a RF reader/writer. To finish the game, the player brings the RF tag of the insect net close to a RF reader/writer of a result generating device. The result generating device reads player'"'"'s information and the information about the virtual insects gotten by the player and output the result to a display or a printer.

Claims

1. A virtual target getting game system, comprising:

a target-getting tool to which a RF tag is attached;

a main game machine in which RF reader/writers are mounted at positions of virtual targets to be gotten;

a game controlling device that controls a RF reader/writer to record information about a virtual target assigned thereto into a RF tag when a player brings said RF tag attached to said target-getting tool close to said RF reader/writer to spuriously get said virtual target by said target-getting tool; and

a result generating device that outputs the information about a player and information about said virtual targets that were spuriously gotten by said player read from said RF tag when said player brings said RF tag attached to said target-getting tool close to a RF reader/writer of said result generating device.

3. The virtual target getting game system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said result generating device outputs the total score calculated based on the scores predetermined for the respective virtual targets.

4. The virtual target getting game system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said virtual targets are explicitly displayed on the front surface of said main game machine that is looked by a player, and wherein said RF reader/writers are mounted at the positions corresponding to the displayed positions of said virtual targets on the back surface of said main game machine that cannot be looked by a player.

5. The virtual target getting game system according to claim 4, wherein a background of said virtual targets is displayed in addition to said virtual targets on the front surface.

6. The virtual target getting game system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a background of said virtual targets is displayed on the front surface of said main game machine that is looked by a player, and wherein said RF reader/writers are mounted at any positions on the back surface of said main game machine that cannot be looked by a player.

7. The virtual target getting game system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said result generating device shows digital contents corresponding to said virtual targets that were spuriously gotten by said player on a display.

8. The virtual target getting game system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said result generating device prints digital contents corresponding to said virtual targets that were spuriously gotten by said player.

9. The virtual target getting game system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said result generating device delivers digital contents corresponding to said virtual targets that were spuriously gotten by said player to a player'"'"'s communication terminal.

2. A virtual target getting game system, comprising:

a target-getting tool to which a RF tag is attached;

a main game machine in which RF reader/writers are mounted at positions of virtual targets to be gotten;

a game controlling device that controls a RF reader/writer to read identifying information recorded in said RF tag and transmits the identifying information about said RF tag paired with information about a virtual target assigned to said RF reader/writer that reads the identifying information when a player brings said RF tag attached to said target-getting tool close to said RF reader/writer to spuriously get said virtual target by said target-getting tool;

a database device that is connected with said game controlling device through a network and stores pairs of the identifying information about said RF tag and the information about said virtual target transmitted by said game controlling device; and

a result generating device that outputs the identifying information about a player based on the identifying information about said RF tag read from said RF tag by a RF reader/writer mounted thereon and the information about said virtual targets that were spuriously gotten by said player retrieved from said database device based on the identifying information about said RF tag when said player brings said RF tag attached to said target getting tool close to a RF reader/writer of said result generating device.