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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1998
Douglas H Smith, Spencerport, NY (US);
James E Stoneham, Menlo Park, CA (US);
William P Fricke, Fairport, NY (US);
Anthony L Creed, Los Altos, CA (US);
Peter N Skillman, San Carlos, CA (US);
Johnson K Chow, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An interactive game apparatus in which players throw projectiles, such as soft balls, against a display panel on which a target image is projected and contact sensitive elements aligned with target areas in the projected image are activated by a hit from the thrown projectile to initiate a change in the projected image uniquely associated with the target area hit and the player who threw the projectile. An embodiment in the context of a tic-tac-toe game is described. A number of embodiments for identifying specific projectiles with a player responsible for throwing the projectile are described.