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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1995
Tetsuo Tokito, Sagamihara, JP;
Shuichi Nakatome, Yokohama, JP;
Yasufumi Tanabe, Yokohama, JP;
Toshitake Inagaki, Sagamihara, JP;
Tatsuo Kawabuchi, Oota-ku, JP;
Hiroshi Takeuchi, Oota-ku, JP;
Kotaro Nakano, Yokohama, JP;
Yasuo Mori, Oota-ku, JP;
Takaharu Aoki, Tama, JP;
Hideyuki Kaneko, Kawasaki, JP;
Teruyoshi Takahashi, Nakano-ku, JP;
Shinya Niwa, Kawasaki, JP;
Kiyoshi Minami, Kawasaki, JP;
Manabu Matsuo, Kawasaki, JP;
Namco Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A ball game apparatus has a plurality of balls, a spiral rail for automatically delivering the balls, a field portion on which the balls delivered by the spiral rail can roll with a given degree of freedom, winning pocket portions and invalid pockets formed over the field portion for receiving a plurality of the balls in each of them, a CCD camera for counting the number of balls received in the winning pocket portions and a calculator for calculating a score from the number of balls counted by the CCD camera.