GAMES BOARDS WITH SQUARES WITH DIGITAL RECOGNITION AND ASSOCIATED DIGITAL PLAYING PIECE

• US 20130012312A1
• Filed: 01/12/2011
• Published: 01/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bertrand Duplat, Jean Etienne Mineur
• Original Assignee: Bertrand Duplat, Jean Etienne Mineur
• Inventors: Mineur, Jean Etienne, Duplat, Bertrand
• Granted Patent: US 8,684,806 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/31
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/241 Touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2419 Optical
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2250/287 Cameras therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/00643 Electric board games; Electric features of board games electric word or number games A63F3/0421; computer chess G06F; electric raffle games A63F3/081

Abstract

The present invention therefore relates to a games board assembly comprising a series of squares, the squares representing the locations on which the individualised playing pieces of each player are restricted in terms of movement by the rules of the game, characterised in that each square on the games board comprises a digital recognition pictogram, the playing piece is a digital playing piece which incorporates a calculator, a screen interface, game software, pictogram recognition means on the board, playing piece movement calculation means on the board, a touchscreen which represents, according to the position of the digital playing piece on the games board, the characteristics of the square and/or of the updated game data field on which the digital playing piece is physically positioned.

Claims

1. - a games board assembly (10) comprising a series of squares (11i), the squares (11i) representing the locations on which the individualised playing pieces (20) of each player are restricted in terms of movement by the rules of the game, characterised in that each square (11i) on the games board (12) comprises a digital recognition pictogram (12i), the playing piece (20) is a digital playing piece which incorporates a calculator, a screen interface, game representation software on the screen interface, pictogram recognition means on the board, playing piece movement calculation means on the board, a casing which accommodates digital functions and makes a touchscreen (20) appear, which represents, according to the position of the digital playing piece (20) on the games board (10), the characteristics of the square (11i) and/or of the updated game data field on which the digital playing piece (20) is physically positioned.

2. - the games board and digital playing piece assembly according to:

claim 1, characterised in that the position recognition of the digital playing piece (20) on the games board (10) is obtained by the playing piece photographing the square recognition pictogram (12i).

3. - The games board and digital playing piece assembly according to claim 1, characterised in that the positional recognition of the digital playing piece (20) on the board (10) is obtained through integration of the calculator which measures the movement (31, 32, 33) of the playing piece on the board and automatically calculates the position thereof on the board.

4. - The games board and digital playing piece assembly according to claim 3, characterised in that the game software of the digital playing piece incorporates the built-in movement calculator data and gives the instruction to the screen to automatically represent the new game square (11i+1) on which the playing piece is located.

5. - The games board and digital playing piece assembly according to claims 3 and 4, characterised in that the game software of the digital playing piece enables the position of the digital playing piece to be directly confirmed on the screen interface (20) by pressing the square pictogram (51i) representing the specific square (110 on the game interface appearing on the touchscreen (20).