Game point scoring and analyzing device

• US 4,879,651 A
• Filed: 01/05/1989
• Issued: 11/07/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert E. Little Jr
• Original Assignee: Robert E. Little Jr
• Inventors: Little, Robert E. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Jerry
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tbui, Kim Thanh
• Application Number:
  US07/293,536
• Time in Patent Office: 306 Days
• Field of Search: 364/410, 364/411, 273/176 A, 273/180 A, 273/183 R, 273/32 R, 273/1 ES, 273/162 A
• US Class Current: 700/92
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/025 adapted to a specific application
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 273/26 Point counters and score indicators

Abstract

A device resembling a miniature calculator to be worn either on the wrist by a player, or hand-carried by another person, the device having two elongated multiple-digit displays, one for catagorizing and listing points won by the user and the type of shot on which the win was based, and the other for categorizing and listing points lost to the opponent and the type of shots on which the loss was based. The device has a point-WON button and a point-LOST button, which serve to determine which of the two displays will be receiving a point to be newly entered, and the device has a number of additional buttons serving to categorize the type of shot resulting in a won or a lost point. The device can be reset manually, and also has gates which establish a required sequence for pressing the buttons which sequence prevents any accidental double entry of a score either by pressing a button twice or by the bounce of a button'"'"'s electrical keyboard switch.

Claims

1. A game point scoring and analyzing device for tabulating and displaying for a plurality of different shot categories the number of shots in each category which resulted in game points won and lost by an individual during a game, comprising:

(a) an electronic circuit mounted within a portable display case of a size to be worn on the individual'"'"'s wrist, means for providing power to the electronic circuit through an ON/OFF switch, said electronic circuit including first and second electronic counters and first and second numerical displays for each shot category, said first numerical displays representing points won by the individual and said second numerical displays representing points lost by the individual, each of said electronic counters having a clock terminal for increasing a count and having a counter reset terminal for resetting the counter to zero;

(b) first and second counter control gates connected to said first and second electronic counters, respectively, each of said counter control gates having first and second inputs and an output connected to said clock terminal of the associated electronic counter and operates in response to said first and second inputs being enabled to increment the associated electronic counter;

(c) a point-won and a point-lost enable circuit, said point-won enable circuit including input terminal means and output terminal means, said output terminal means of said point-won enable circuit being connected to said first inputs of said first counter gate for each of said first electronic counters, said point-lost enabling circuit including input terminal means and output terminal means, said output terminal means of said point-lost enable circuit being connected to said first input of said second counter gate for each of said second electronic counters;

(d) a point-won button means operative when actuated to enable said input terminal of said point-won enable circuit, and a point-lost button means operative when actuated to enable said input terminal of said point-lost enable circuit;

(e) a plurality of shot button means, one for each different shot category, each shot button means being connected to said second inputs of both said first and second counter gates in each different shot category, and each shot button means being manually operable to enable said second inputs of said first and second counter gates; and

(f) and gate means coupled with said first and second counter control gates for each different shot category and said point-won and point-lost enable circuits, and operative to establish a required sequence which requires the pressing of said point-won or said point-lost button means prior to the pressing of a shot button means in order to increment a count in any of said first and second electronic counters;

(g) said input terminal means of said point-won and point-lost enable circuits respectively, include a point-won flipflop and a point-lost flipflop, each flipflop including a set and a reset terminal, said gate means including first and second enable circuit gates, said first enable circuit gate having an output coupled to the reset terminal of said point-won flipflop and having an input connected to said first counter control gates, said second enable circuit gate having an output coupled to the reset terminal of said point-lost flipflop and having an input connected to said second counter control gates, said first and second enable circuits being operative to reset both flipflops whenever any of said first or second counter control gates increments an electronic counter,

(h) said first and second enable circuit gates have second inputs, said second input of said first enable circuit gate being connected to an output of said point-lost flipflop and said second input of said second enable circuit gate being connected to an output of said point-won flipflop, said second inputs of said first and second enable circuit gates being operative to deliver outputs to reset one flipflop when the other flipflop is set, whereby the information regarding points won and lost in each of the plurality of different shot categories is readily available for immediate use by the individual while a game is in progress.

2. A scoring and analyzing device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said device is powered by a battery through an ON/OFF switch, and wherein said enable circuit gates have third inputs coupled with said ON/OFF switch and operative upon actuation of the switch to deliver from said outputs of said enable circuit gates to reset both flipflops.

3. A scoring and analyzing device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the numerical displays of the plurality of different shot categories are arranged in two rows of windows across said display case, one row of windows and displays representing said points won and the other row representing said points lost.

4. A scoring and analyzing device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the shot buttons are marked with indicia indicating the categories of shots that they respectively represent, and wherein the windows corresponding with the various shot buttons are marked with similar indicia.

5. A scoring and analyzing device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display case has a front face through which said first and second numerical displays are viewable and having a rear face supporting a securing means;

and a wrist band for gripping the individual'"'"'s wrist, said wrist band having means for releasably engaging said securing means to support said display case on the individual'"'"'s wrist, said wrist band being separable from said display case for washing.

6. A portable game point scoring and analyzing device for tabulating and displaying for a plurality of different shot categories the number of shots in each category which resulted in game points won and lost by an individual during a game, comprising:

(a) an electronic circuit mounted within a portable display case of a size to be worn on the individual'"'"'s wrist, said electronic circuit including a plurality of first and second electronic counters which are connected to a plurality of first and second numerical displays, each of the different shot categories being reflected by one of said first and second numerical displays, said first numerical displays representing points won by the individual within the different shot categories and said second numerical displays representing points lost by the individual within the different shot categories, each of said electronic counters having a clock terminal for incrementing a count and having a counter reset terminal for resetting the counter to zero;

(b) Power means for energizing said electronic circuit through an ON/OFF switch, said first and second numerical displays being continuously energized by said power means when said ON/OFF switch is in an ON position so that said first and second numerical displays of each of the different shot categories are continuously and simultaneously displayed to reflect all counts entered into each of said first and second electronic counters so that information regarding points won and points lost in each of the plurality of different shot categories is continuously available for immediate use by the individual when a game is in progress.

(c) first and second counter control gates connected to said first and second electronic counters, respectively, each of said counter control gates having first and second inputs and an output connected to said clock terminal of the associated electronic counter and operative in response to said first and second inputs being enabled to increment the associated electronic counter;

(d) a point-won and a point-lost enable circuit, said point-won enable circuit including input terminal means and output terminal means, said output terminal means of said point-won enable circuit being connected to said first inputs of said first counter gate for each of said first electronic counters, said point-lost enabling circuit including input terminal means and output terminal means, said output terminal means of said point-lost enable circuit being connected to said first input of said second counter gate for each of said second electronic counters;

(e) a point-won button means operative when actuated to enable said input terminal of said point-won enable circuit, and a point-lost button means operative when actuated to enable said input terminal of said point-lost enable circuit;

(f) a plurality of shut button means, one for each different shot category, each shot button means being connected to said second inputs of both said first and second counter gates in each different shot category, and each shot button means being manually operable to enable said second inputs of said first and second counter gates; and

(g) gate means coupled with said first and second counter control gates for each different shot category and said point-won and point-lost enable circuits, and operative to establish a required sequence which requires the pressing of said point-won or said point-lost button means prior to the pressing of a shot button means in order to increment a count in any of said first and second electronic counters.

7. A scoring and analyzing device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the numerical displays of the plurality of different shot categories are arranged in two rows of windows across said display case, one row of windows and displays representing said points won and the other row representing said points lost.

8. A scoring and analyzing device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the display case has a front face through which said first and second numerical displays are viewable and having a rear face supporting a securing means;

and a wrist band for gripping the individual'"'"'s wrist, said wrist band having means for releasably engaging said securing means to support said display case on the individual'"'"'s wrist, said wrist band being separable from said display case for washing.

9. A scoring and analyzing device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the shot buttons are marked with indicia indicating the categories of shots that they respectively represent, and wherein the windows corresponding with the various shot buttons are marked with similar indicia.