SHOOTING GAME

• US 20090163261A1
• Filed: 06/10/2008
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Game Concepts Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Game Concepts Ltd.
• Inventors: Crompton, Gordon
• Application Number:
  US12/136,281
• Publication Number:
  US 20090163261A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/5
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/0256 with adjustable angle of evaluation
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/02 Shooting or hurling games throwing-implements for sports or recreational use A63B65/00; throwing or projecting toys per se A63H33/18; gun simulators F41A33/00, e.g. light- or radiation-emitting guns F41A33/02; practice apparatus for gun-aiming F41G3/26, e.g. using a light-emitting device F41G3/2616; targets, target ranges, bullet catchers F41J, photo-electric hit-detector systems F41J5/02
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/0252 Shooting devices therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3297 Fairground games, e.g. Tivoli, coin pusher machines, cranes

Abstract

A shooting game uses items fired from shooter 4 towards screen 2. Moving targets 32 are displayed on screen 2, and impact of items 28 on targets 32 is detected. The screen image may represent a storyline that is changed depending on the targets hit.

Claims

1. A token operated game, comprising:

a screen display;

a shooter for shooting items towards the screen display;

a location detecting means at the screen display for detecting the location on the display at which the items impact the display; and

a controller arranged to display targets on the screen display at locations that are not fixed, to move targets to different locations on the screen display and/or to present targets at different locations, and to compare the target locations on the screen with the detected location on the display to detect items impacting the targets;

wherein the location detecting means comprises a means for forming an infrared grid pattern over the front of the screen and a means for detecting interruptions in the infrared grid pattern to detect items impacting the screen.

2. A token operated game according to claim 1 wherein the infrared-grid pattern is spaced from the front of the screen by 20 mm to 60 mm.

3. A token operated game according to claim 1, wherein

the controller stores a plurality of different game sequences including still or moving images for display and at least one target, and

the controller is arranged to select one of the plurality of different game sequences and displays the one of the plurality of different game sequences on the display depending on which target location has been hit by an item.

4. A token operated game according to claim 1 wherein the display screen comprises a protective membrane on the front surface of the screen.

5. A token operated game according claim 4 further comprising a belt for returning items shot from the shooter back to the hopper.

6. A token operated game according to claim 1 wherein the items shot are tokens.

7. A token operated game according to claim 6 further comprising a pusher for returning tokens shot from the token shooter back to the hopper

8. A token operated game according to claim 1 wherein the items shot are balls.

9. A token operated game according to claim 1 wherein the controller is arranged to display a special target sequence at the detected target when the controller detects the impact of a token on a target.

10. A method of operating a shooting game, comprising:

displaying targets on a screen display at locations that are not fixed;

shooting items towards the screen display;

detecting the location where items hit the screen display by detecting interruptions in an infra-red grid pattern in front of the screen to detect items impacting the screen; and

comparing the target locations on the screen with the detected location on the display to detect items impacting the targets; and

select one of a plurality of different game sequences and displaying the selected one of a plurality of different game sequences on the display depending on which target location has been hit by an item.