Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
  • A63F9/24—Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
  • A63F9/24—Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for
  • A63F2009/2401—Detail of input, input devices
  • A63F2009/2402—Input by manual operation
  • A63F2009/2408—Touch-sensitive buttons
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
  • A63F9/24—Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for
  • A63F2009/2401—Detail of input, input devices
  • A63F2009/2411—Input form cards, tapes, discs
  • A63F2009/2413—Magnetic
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
  • A63F9/24—Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for
  • A63F2009/2448—Output devices
  • A63F2009/245—Output devices visual
  • A63F2009/2451—Output devices visual using illumination, e.g. with lamps
  • A63F2009/2454—Output devices visual using illumination, e.g. with lamps with LED

Definitions

• the invention relates to an electronic one player logical toy or game with a planar (two dimensional ⁇ or spatial (three-dimensional) play field, the field elements of which may change their visually or otherwise perceptible state or appearance,
• Toys are already known the field-elements of which can be selected and appointed by touching them or in any other suitable manner, for which purpose every individual field-element is provided with a sensor sensing the fact of appointing, as well as with means displaying the momentary state.
• the toy contains a central electronic control unit responding to the output signal of the sensor of the appointed field-element, this control unit being able to change the state of one or more other field-elements belonging to the appointed one according to a certain predefined relationship.
• a predefined targetconfiguration by means of a finite number of appointmeats.
• a large number of configurations may be produced by changing the states of the fieldelements.
• the aim of the game is to produce a certain configuration or to restore a certain initial configuration after having mixed the states of the fieldelementso
• the aim of the present invention is to produce an electronic logical game in which the logical and geometrical conceptions, of the player come into full display, because according to the invention the relationship once prescribed between the appointed or selected field-element and the other elements belonging to it remains unchanged independently of the position of the appointed element, and, in addition, several such relationships can be used, that is to say at the beginning of the play the player may choose any of the relationships stored in the electronic control unit of the game.
• FIG. 1 shows a simplified block scheme of the invention
• Figure 2 schematically shows the inner structure of the central control unit
• Figure 3 shows a simplified circuit layout of the toy
• FIG. 4 is a simplified block scheme of another embodiment
• Figure 5 illustrates a possible starting configuration of the playing field according to Fig. 3
• Figure 6 shows the change of condition of the configuration of Fig. 5 after the first step
• Figure 7 depicts the configuration after the second step.
• the display means 2 provided in each of the field-elements may be electromechanic, hot-wired (filament), vacuumfluorescent, liquid-crystalline means or those provided with a light emitting diode (LED), or it can consist of any other suitable device. All of the display means 2 are directly connected to a central control unit 3, the input of which is controlled by sensing means 1 also belonging to the field-elements.
• the sensing means 1 can be mechanical, magnetic, optical, inductive, capacitive or sensor switches.
• the main task. of the sensing means is to sense the appointing of the field-element belonging to it.
• the appointment can be performed by hand or by some tool (e. g. magnetic rod).
• the signal of the sensing means 1 of the just appointed field-element arrives to the central control unit 3, and thus this unit actuates the appointed fieldelement itself and/or one or more other fieId-elements related to the appointed field-element according to a certain relationship, in order to let their display means 2 function.
• Figure 2 shows the most important parts of the central control unit 3» According to this figure this unit contains a relationship storage 4 having two-state storage elements, an adder 5, an address-producing logic 6 and a state storage 7 composed of as much elements as the number of field-elements.
• the former elements may take as much states as the display means are able to show.
• the address producing logic 6 is in a two-way connection with the adder 5 and with the state storage 7, out th ⁇ relationship storage 4 is in junction with adder
• the lines 8 of the sensing means 1 (not shown in Fig. 2) are. connected to the address producing logic, while the output lines 9 of the state storage are connected to the display means 2 also not shown in Fig. 2.
• the functioning of the central control unit in the most general form is as follows:
• the configuration written (stored) in the relationships storage 4 (in the example according to Fig. 2 a cross built by logic ones) represents the relationship which determines which field-elements should change their state if any fieldelement is selected and appointed.
• the address producing logic 6 being connected to the sensing means, senses the position of the selected field element.
• control unit 3 Substantially in all of the forms or embodiments of the control unit 3 the inner structure is constructed according to Figure 2, independently from the fact that software, hardware or their combination was realized.
• the central control unit contains another storage means of n-bits for each of the field-elements, where n is the total number of field-elements.
• the n-bits storage means stores for each of the field-elements the information which determines which of the field-elements should change their state after appointment.
• all the control and storage functions can be solved by suitably programmed memory, which substitutes the two above mentioned memories.
• the other field-elements which change their states will have their new state according to the following rule: if the old state of the fieldelement corresponded to a number different from a, the new state will be that corresponding to the old number increased by 1. If the old state corresponded to number m, the new state of the field element will be the state corresponding to the number O. If only two states are possible the said rule- can be implemented by an exclusive-OR operation between the old and the new state.
• every sensing element is connected via the gate system 14 to a row-selecting input 17 of the memory 21 (e. g. EAM).
• a row-selecting input 17 of the memory 21 e. g. EAM.
• the circuit 25 selecting the game-function is well suitable for the prescription of different game-conditions, so e. g. one of the push buttons 26 enables the choice of two kinds of relationships.
• the field elements being on contact along a common boundary line with the appointed one and the appointed one itself are influenced; this means that when applying this re lationship in an absolutely dark play-field, a configuration having the shape of a cross can be illuminated.
• the appointed field-element itself and those field-elements will be influenced which can be reached by the move of a chess-knight.
• FIG. 4 is a simplified block scheme of the toy according to the invention.designed with software. With this solution the central control unit is replaced by one single microcomputer 34 which scans by means of its line outputs 31 and column outputs 32 the sensing and display means on the play-field, and takes the information relating to the appointment, by the aid of its sensor inputs 33.
• the use of the logical toy according to the invention will now be described by presenting configurations having been obtained by some steps that is to say by appointing of field-elements.
• the configuration according to Fig. 6 is obtained, and if the second element of line 3 is appointed as the next step, a configuration according to Fig. 7 appears.
• the logical toy according to .the invention can be realized as a three-dimensional design too, e. g. the elements of the play field can be arranged either on the surface of the spatial formation or in the inner volume thereof.
• the gamefunctions are completed by score indicators.
• This function can be most. advantageously realized by using the play field as a dot-matrix display. So e. g. with the embodiment depicted in Fig. 4 it suffices to properly complete the actuating program in order to be able to display the data qualifying the intermediate or final scorings, e. g. the number of appointings performed, the elapsed time, or the. combination thereof, either alphanumerically or graphically, in form of stationary or moving symbols.

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