Brunswick Bowling & Billiards Corporation

Roland C Bouchard

Warren Edwin Guthrie

Kurt Dykema

Troy A Recknagel

David L Mowers

Brent Bouws

Gary A Brouwers

Robert J Prinz

David L Apple

Timothy J Ryan

Michael A Cutlip

An RFID pin detection system includes bowling pins incorporating RFID tags and a pin deck incorporating reader antennas located in positions corresponding to the placement of the bowling pins. A controller energizes the reader antennas to activate RFID tags in those bowling pins that are in the pin-up position. The pin-up information is used in automatic scoring.

Radio frequency identification (RFID) pin detection system

A bowling center control system includes an input device configured for input of a bowler's selection of one of a plurality of entertainment styles, wherein each style has predetermined audiovisual, lighting and sound characteristics. A bowling center control system further includes a multimedia server in communication with the input device. The multimedia server is configured with multimedia content corresponding to each of the characteristics of each entertainment style. The multimedia server is further configured to associate predetermined portions of the content with the bowler in response to the bowler's selected style. The multimedia server is yet further configured to generate an output signal operative to reproduce at least certain portions of the predetermined portions of the content corresponding to the characteristics of the selected entertainment style in response to a signal indicative of an occurrence of a bowling event associated with the bowler.

Bowling center control system

A bowling scoring console is disclosed having a housing and a video display monitor mounted in the housing. The console may have one or more of a video game processor, an Internet access device, and a television receiver mounted in the housing and coupled to the display monitor. Methods are also disclosed for using a video game device and an Internet access device in a bowler staging area of a bowling center.

Consoles for playing and/or scoring games, internet access, and communication

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Grand Rapids, MI, United States of America

Roland C Bouchard