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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:
Jun. 21, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2004
Applicants:
Hiromu Ueshima, Shiga, JP;
Shuhei Kato, Shiga, JP;
Mark Kanghyeon Kim, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
SSD Company Limited, Kusatsu-Shi, Shiga, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 (2006.01); A63F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A card game apparatusincludes an image sensor. The image sensor photographs a design (: FIG.) printed on a card. A photographic signal from the image sensor is sampled by a game processor, and is further re-sampled to form a photographic pixel data array. A ROMis provided with a database (A: FIG.) which is assigned a comparison data array and a card ID for each entry. By searching the database based on the photographic pixel data array, the processorobtains one card ID and displays card data of the card identified by the card ID on a television monitor.