Electronic games
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1. Playing apparatus that comprises, in combination:
- a television receiver that operates within a channel allocated for television broadcasting; and
electronic control means adapted to produce on the image screen of the television receiver the simulation of at least part of a playing area and the simulation of active components of a game, said electronic control means comprising comparator means that serves to locate the horizontal and vertical coordinates of a point, that is, the x and y spatial location of the point, on the image screen, said comparator means comprising a first pair of comparators that act in combination to locate the horizontal coordinate of the point and a second pair of comparators that act in combination to locate the vertical coordinate of the point.
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Abstract
An electronic game wherein an electronic controller, connected to introduce RF signals through the antenna circuit of a television receiver, introduces to the receiver electric signals that produce on the screen thereof the simulation of at least part of a playing area and the simulation of active parts or components of a game.
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49 Claims
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1. Playing apparatus that comprises, in combination:
- a television receiver that operates within a channel allocated for television broadcasting; and
electronic control means adapted to produce on the image screen of the television receiver the simulation of at least part of a playing area and the simulation of active components of a game, said electronic control means comprising comparator means that serves to locate the horizontal and vertical coordinates of a point, that is, the x and y spatial location of the point, on the image screen, said comparator means comprising a first pair of comparators that act in combination to locate the horizontal coordinate of the point and a second pair of comparators that act in combination to locate the vertical coordinate of the point. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
- a television receiver that operates within a channel allocated for television broadcasting; and
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24. Playing apparatus as claimed in claim 24 wherein the offset means comprises two ramp generators each of which generates a pair of offset waveforms, one pair of the offset waveforms serving to determine the vertical limits of the simulated object and the other pair of offset waveforms serving to determine the horizontal limits of the simulated object, said one pair of offset waveforms being connected as input to the first pair of comparators and said other pair of offset waveforms being connected as input to the second pair of comparators.
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25. Playing apparatus as claimed wherein the manually controllable voltage source includes an automatic override that acts selectively to effect a change in the speed of the simulated ball independent of the manual setting of the manually controllable voltage source.
- 46. For use in a system that includes a television receiver, electronic control means operative to produce on the screen of the television receiver the simulation of at least part of a playing area and the simulation of active components of a game, said electronic control means comprising analog mapping circuit means and digital means that act together to produce said components, said analog mapping circuit comprising comparator means that serves to locate the horizontal spatial coordinate and the vertical spatial coordinate of a point on the image screen, said comparator means comprising one pair of comparators that interact to locate the horizontal coordinate and another pair of comparators that interact to locate the vertical coordinate, each pair comprising two comparators whose outputs are ANDed together.
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48. An electronic controller for a cathode ray tube that operates in a raster-scan mode that comprises, in combination, means to generate an analog map including two ramp generators, the first ramp generator being synchronized to produce a voltage ramp that has a minimum value when the raster-scan beam of the tube is at one horizontal end of the image screen of the tube and a maximum value when the raster-scan beam is at the other horizontal end of the image screen and the second ramp generator being synchronized to produce a second voltage ramp that has a minimum value when the raster-scan beam is at one vertical end of the screen and a maximum value when the raster-scan beam is at the other vertical end of the screen such that the horizontal and vertical coordinates of a point on the image screen can be represented by two voltages, one referenced to the first voltage ramp and the other referenced to the second voltage ramp;
- means to generate a digital map that includes two counters, the first counter being synchronized to produce a linear counting sequence wherein the output magnitude of the first counter has a minimum value when the raster-scan beam is at one horizontal end of the image screen and a maximum value when the raster-scan beam is at the other horizontal end of the image screen and the second counter being synchronized to produce a linear counting sequence wherein the output magnitude of the second counter has a minimum when the raster-scan beam is at one vertical end of the image screen and a maximum value when the raster-scan beam is at the other vertical end of the image screen such that the horizontal and vertical coordinates of a point on the image screen can be represented by two digital addresses, one address of the two being a count on the first counter and the other address being a count on the second counter;
the analog map and the digital map bearing a time-phase relationship to the raster-scan beam and to each other; and
means connected to the generators for providing synchronization. - View Dependent Claims (49)
- means to generate a digital map that includes two counters, the first counter being synchronized to produce a linear counting sequence wherein the output magnitude of the first counter has a minimum value when the raster-scan beam is at one horizontal end of the image screen and a maximum value when the raster-scan beam is at the other horizontal end of the image screen and the second counter being synchronized to produce a linear counting sequence wherein the output magnitude of the second counter has a minimum when the raster-scan beam is at one vertical end of the image screen and a maximum value when the raster-scan beam is at the other vertical end of the image screen such that the horizontal and vertical coordinates of a point on the image screen can be represented by two digital addresses, one address of the two being a count on the first counter and the other address being a count on the second counter;
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