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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2007
Toshiyuki Kaji, Ohta-Ku, JP;
Toshikazu Yoshida, Yamato, JP;
Hidenori Shiba, Sagamihara, JP;
Takao Yamauchi, Ohta-Ku, JP;
Fumihiro Kato, Yokohama, JP;
Junichi Tsuchiya, Ohta-Ku, JP;
Yoshitaka Maeyama, Ohta-Ku, JP;
Jinichiro Okuda, Ohta-Ku, JP;
Mitsuhiko Kakita, Ohta-Ku, JP;
Toshiyuki Kaji, Ohta-Ku, JP;
Toshikazu Yoshida, Yamato, JP;
Hidenori Shiba, Sagamihara, JP;
Takao Yamauchi, Ohta-Ku, JP;
Fumihiro Kato, Yokohama, JP;
Junichi Tsuchiya, Ohta-Ku, JP;
Yoshitaka Maeyama, Ohta-Ku, JP;
Jinichiro Okuda, Ohta-Ku, JP;
Mitsuhiko Kakita, Ohta-Ku, JP;
Sega Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A card game system, including a plurality of terminal apparatuses, a card data reading unit for detecting unique data of each of cards when an operator arranges and manipulates a set of cards selected by the operator on a flat surface of the panel on the terminal apparatus, and a game execution unit which is arranged to organize a playing team in a virtual game space based on the data detected from the cards placed on the flat surface of the panel and to execute a game against another playing team organized on another terminal apparatus connected via a network. A progress of the game is controlled in response to manipulation by the operator with the cards on the panel, a main control unit to which individual game data is transmitted from the plurality of the terminal apparatuses, and a display connected to the main control unit.