DE2654391A1 - METHOD FOR PLAYING WITH A TV RECEIVER - Google Patents

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German ITT Industries GmbH R.D. Burth et al 16-4

Hans-Bunte-Str. 19 * M Mon / sp

7800 Freiburg i. Br. November 29, 1976

DEUTSCHE ITT INDUSTRIES GESELLSCHAFT LIMITED LIABILITY

FREIBURG I. BR.

Method of playing with a television receiver

There are already known televisions that can be connected to an additional device via the antenna lead can be used, instead of the television program received from a broadcaster, game and / or player symbols are visible to make, these symbols can be moved by appropriate actuation of setting elements, see DT-OSen 19 17 437, 19 51 848, 20 17 312 and 20 30 959 and the corresponding US-PSs 37 28 480, 36 59 284, 37 78 058 and 36 59 285 as well as the DT-OS 26 09 826.

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From DT-OS 20 30 959, page 12, 1st paragraph, it is also known, the additional required for playing To arrange game sub-circuits that generate the game symbols in the television receiver itself as a component thereof, while the control means assigned to the player or players are separated from the television set in at least one arranged and connected via the antenna socket game control device are summarized.

From the mentioned prior art it is also known that To generate game symbols so that their color and / or movement and / or position on the screen as a function of which is controlled on at least one game control device by commands generated by at least one player in such a way that the game symbols, among other things. can be moved gradually horizontally or vertically.

The mentioned prior art deals practically exclusively with those types of play that are only related to the physical responsiveness and / or the dexterity of the player make certain demands. Described in detail The following types of play are therefore in the prior art: target shooting (turkey spit game); Solve quiz questions; to match two points; Cat and mouse game; Roulette; Chase and hunting games (fox hunting with three Players); Table tennis; Baseball; Hockey; Football; Motor race; Games with wall reflection (ice hockey, billiards); Bowling; Stroboscope; Kaleidoscope; Race; Handball; Pinball; Golf; Ghost game; Spelling test, volleyball; Fistball.

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As an aside, it is also mentioned in the prior art that a front mask is placed on the screen of the television receiver can be, the z. B. has the pattern of a board game (checkerboard pattern), so that a modified form of this Board game can be played. Furthermore, the mask can also contain a maze, from which the player a game symbol must lead out within a set time. Finally it should be mentioned that instead of the on-screen attached mask a corresponding screen pattern can be generated directly. About the latter The prior art does not contain any further details other than the aforementioned mention.

As already mentioned, the state of the art deals exclusively with games that are only based on the make demands on the players' ability to react physically or on their skill. In contrast, it is a task of the invention, a method for playing on the seats of a playing field grid of the screen of a television receiver according to the preamble of claim 1 to indicate by which method games that affect the intelligence of the Player's certain requirements are made possible. This is particularly, but not exclusively, on playing other types of board games that are not specified in the prior art mentioned at the outset but are known per se thought. But other types of games on an at least partially divided area should also be included the procedure mentioned be possible.

The object on which the invention is based is achieved by the measures in accordance with the characterizing part of the patent claim 1 solved. Further training and advantageous training

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Developments of the invention are specified in the subclaims »

The invention will now be based on the figures of the drawing explained in more detail.

Fig. 1 shows schematically the arrangement of command keys in connection with the invention Process used game controller and

Fig. 2 to 9 show different arrangements of playing field grids with associated game and Marking symbols as they occur when carrying out the method of the invention can.

In Fig. 1, a convenient arrangement of the operating buttons of a game control device is shown, as it is in context can be used with the invention. The buttons of the Game control device can, for example, be arranged within a housing used for remote control of the television receiver together with the buttons assigned to the remote control be. However, it is also possible to create your own game * - control device. to use, either, as with the input mentioned prior art, is connected to the television set via the antenna extension or which can be connected to an existing remote control device.

According to FIG. 1, the game control device contains seven keys which, when actuated, trigger a corresponding command.

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Release keys 1 to 4 marked with the four arrows the step-by-step movement of the marker symbol in the corresponding Direction, i.e. up, down, right or left, off. The key 5 labeled S generates a command on the indicated by the marking symbol Place the playing field grid a game symbol is generated. If key 5 is pressed with one of keys 1 to 4 operated at the same time, the marker symbol moves, possibly together with a game symbol, in the selected one Direction gradually further.

The key 6 labeled T is assigned a command with which, for example, the color and / or shape of a game symbol can be changed. The key labeled St is finally the start key for starting the game.

In Fig. 2 there is a playing field grid consisting of 8x8 places shown, with which a variant of a game known among schoolchildren as "ship sinking" is made possible. to The start of the game is generated by a random generator provided in the television set at any point within the grid any pattern of differently shaped figures. In the exemplary embodiment of FIG. 2, these exist Figures and others from the juxtaposition of one square 21. In Fig. 2, the pattern consists of a four-square and one three-square row as well as two two-square rows. There are also three more places for the The playing field grid is occupied by one square each. In Fig. The marker symbol 22 is also shown, which is represented by the 1 explained commands are moved horizontally and vertically on the playing field grid place by place can.

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The pattern of 14 squares 21 shown in FIG. 2 expediently appears for about five seconds and then disappears then again. The player thus has enough time to memorize the arrangement of the pattern. After the disappearance of the pattern, the player uses the four directional buttons to move the marker symbol to a place that he sees as from Pattern has been remembered. When the command is triggered with the S button 5, a game symbol appears on this field, preferably a square corresponding to one of the squares 21, the color of which indicates whether the place was previously from a square 21 was occupied or not. In the case of a black and white television receiver, different shades of gray can thus be used or the success of the memory can be indicated by the colors black and white.

In the case of color television receivers, there are of course appropriate Colors available. For example, for a "hit", i.e. when a field is selected, the previously was occupied by the pattern, the game symbol will appear in red, while in the case of a previously unoccupied space the game icon appears in blue. Instead of distinguishing the game symbols that appear by their color, it is of course also possible to distinguish them by their shape, for example the one symbol as a triangle and the other as a square or a circle or a star.

In Fig. 3, the playing field grid is shown with the corresponding number of hatched game symbols 31, as it can be used to implement the game known as "solitaire". Here, there is the pitch grid of a cruciform arrangement 33 places that are up to the central space occupied by play symbols 31, while in the medium-

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The marker symbol 32 is located in the empty space. Through appropriate Pressing the direction buttons 1 to 4 is now brought the marker symbol 32 to any game symbol and after pressing the S button 5 while simultaneously pressing one of the buttons 1 to 4, this game symbol is like this moved that it is brought over another over to a free space on the playing field grid. The one on the TV logical circuit provided for generating the playing field grid and the game symbols as well as the marking symbol is designed in this case so that, in accordance with these rules of the game, a game symbol is correctly skipped this is deleted and the corresponding space becomes free. The aforementioned logic circuit can be constructed in this way that it first checks whether there is still a game symbol in the desired direction of movement and, if so, whether there is a free space behind this game symbol. Only in this case will the intended movement also executed.

In Fig. 4 the playing field grid of the known Mühle game is shown in square form, with a marker symbol 41 for each of the two players being shown on two of the places marked by dots. The nine game symbols of different colors and / or shapes assigned to each player are "placed" alternately by the two players on the positions of the playing field grid. To do this, use the four direction buttons 1 to 4 and the corresponding commands to move the respective marker symbol to the space to be occupied and then press the S button 5, whereupon the corresponding game symbol is generated on this space. By means of the logic circuit already mentioned, the course of the game can be modified in such a way that the

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move players through the background color of the playing field grid, which corresponds to the color of his game symbols, is made aware of his ability to move will. Furthermore, the logic circuit can be designed in such a way that that orders from a player who is not currently on the move, have no effect.

According to the well-known rules of the game of the Mühle game, you can already try to "place" the game symbols become to reach a so-called "mill", d. H. three game symbols in a row. In this case can according to the rules of the game, a game symbol of the not located in a "mill" formed by its game symbols removed from the second player. To carry out this game process, the logic circuit can be designed in this way, for example be that the other player moves his marker symbol to the Hawliiepim; »symbol to be removed and then the T button 6 is pressed, whereby this game symbol disappears.

After all game symbols have been set, the game symbols are set on the lines of the playing field grid of one Place moved to an adjacent free place. Here, too, it is always sought after, a "mill" to reach. The game symbols are moved as in the arrangement according to FIG. 3 by setting the corresponding marking symbol 41, 42 to the corresponding game symbol and simultaneously pressing one of the direction buttons to 4 and the S key 5. If one of the players has only three game symbols left in the game, he needs to be Game symbol no longer along the lines of the playing field grid to move, but can "jump" with it from place to place.

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FIG. 5 shows a playing field grid corresponding to the playing field grid of FIG. 3, but not all of them Spaces occupied with game symbols. Rather, according to FIG. 5, a number of game symbols 51 of one type and a single game symbol 52 of the different type distributed in the indicated manner on the cross-shaped playing field grid. A marker symbol 53 is also present. This game can be seen as a "wolf-and-sheep game", the game symbol 52 can be thought of as "wolf" and the game symbols 51 can be thought of as "sheep". The game symbol 52 can be moved forwards, backwards and sideways by means of the marker symbol 53, with one also the marking symbols 51 can be skipped if there is a free space on the grid behind it. Such a skipped game icon 51 is deleted.

On the other hand, the game symbols 51 may only be moved forwards and sideways and no other game symbol skip. In this case, too, the background color of the playing field grid can be used to indicate which Kind of game symbols on the train is. The "wolf" is defeated when the "sheep" have enclosed him in such a way that he neither pull can still jump. The "wolf" is victorious when he "ate" all the "sheep", i. H. so has deleted.

6 shows the playing field grid with some game symbols of different types 61, 62 and two different ones Marking symbols 63, 64, as it is used in the known "Reversi game". Reversi is a placement game for two participants, each of whom z. B. 32 game symbols

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has available. The player with the game symbols 61 At the beginning, place two game symbols in the middle of the grid. The other player bets on this two game symbols 62. From then on, only one game symbol is placed alternately.

The two marker symbols are used to set the game symbols 63, 64 are used, which correspond to the type of place to place already described several times above can be moved. Here, too, the background color of the playing field grid can be used to indicate that the game is on the move respective player are displayed.

As is well known, there are two different types of Reversi game Game rules variants. Reversi can be played in both ways with the method according to the invention on a television receiver will. In one variant of the game rules, the two players try to circle opposing game symbols. Game symbols are considered circled when a ring of opposing game symbols is formed around them. For this Ring can also be used as part of a single edge of the playing field grid edge. In Fig. 6 are in the upper Game field grid half three game symbols 62 from the upper game field grid and five game symbols 61 included. The four game symbols 62 in the lower right corner, on the other hand, cannot be included as the game field grid corners according to the rules of the game may not be used for locking.

The enclosed game symbols must change their color, d. H. henceforth they are among the game symbols of the encircling player. Again, this player, to whom the Encirclement has succeeded, his marker symbol successively on the enclosed game symbols 62 and demands

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from his opponent that he presses the T key 6, whereupon the game symbols 62 change their color.

In the other game rule variant v / ground two game symbols 61 and in the middle of the grid at the beginning of the game two game symbols 62 are set adjacent to it. A game symbol will then alternate here as well set, which must, however, follow on from those set so far. During the course of the game, an attempt is made to find opposing game symbols in a line between two of your own game symbols "to pinch", which is both horizontal and vertical as well as diagonally. The game symbols "gripped" in this way must in turn have their color switch.

In Fig. 7 the playing field grid of a further game is shown, which is preferably intended for a single player and is known as "Master-Mind". Using a random generator in the television set becomes an arbitrary row in a row with η-places (n = 4 in Fig. 7) that remains invisible until the end of the game Sequence of game symbols 71 ... 74 of different or the same color generated, for the number m of different colors mi-.n applies.

The rest of the field grid consists of 7x8 places, from which the upper half is used initially. By means of the marking symbol 75, parallel to the column with the invisible game symbols 71 ... 74 generate a series of game symbols by triggering game commands accordingly, wherein the marking symbol 75 assumes the m different colors, for example in seconds, one after the other. By pressing the S button 5 you can access the corresponding

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Place a game symbol with the one just reached on the grid Color can be generated.

If all four upper places in a column are occupied, compare the logic circuit in the television set the combination of the invisible ones determined by the random number generator Game symbols 71 ... 74 with the set combination and gives in the corresponding space in the corresponding column of the lower half of the playing field grid by two between each other and by those used in the upper half of the field Game symbols different games | (symbols provide information to the effect that

T. reveals a hint symbol that a game symbol is correctly selected in terms of color and position and

2. The second hint symbol shows that any game symbol is in the color, but not is correctly selected in the position.

Using these hints, the player can combine determine what kind of invisible game symbols are. The other six represent this successive determination Columns of the upper half of the playing field grid are available. The columns of the top half are all with game symbols occupied, the previously invisible combination appears so that the course of the game can be checked can.

In Fig. 8, a playing field grid is shown in which all Places with similar game symbols 81 are occupied. the

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The logic circuit contained in the television set is constructed in such a way that that via a random generator, starting in the "upper left corner, initially one between 1 and 1Ό Number of game symbols is deleted. Now, starting in the lower right corner, the player will at most k game symbols deleted in sequence, where k ^ 1 and any subset of k can be deleted per move.

In the next move, the television set also deletes a maximum of ρ game symbols, where again pj> 1 and likewise any subset of ρ can be deleted. The player wins if he reaches the middle of the first Reached the playing field grid by a train. This game is known as "Nimb".

Finally, FIG. 9 shows the arrangement of a playing field grid with two marking symbols 91, 92, as is the case, for example can be used by two players to "place pieces". It is specified here that the playing field grid is as possible occupied quickly and as completely as possible by means of connected figures of two, three, four or five game symbols shall be. A variation of this game is to have five of your own game symbols in a straight line to form a chain to be arranged, whereby this can be done in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction and the game symbols alternately must be wagered by the individual players.

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Claims (7)

Fl 918 R.D. Burth et al 16-4 PATENT CLAIMS (1 _r method for playing on the seats of a playing field grid of the screen of a television receiver which, in addition to the usual television reception subcircuits, has game subcircuits that generate game symbols, their color and / or movement and / or position on the screen depending on the is controlled on at least one game control device by commands generated by at least one player in such a way that the game symbols are moved horizontally or vertically, among other things, step by step, characterized in that the game symbols are placed on the places of the playing field grid in this way and / or from place to place in this way are moved or deleted from the places of the playing field grid in such a way that at least one horizontally or vertically movable marking symbol (22; 32; 41, 42; 53; 63, 64; 75; 91, 92) by means of a first command on the desired place it is set that if a space is not yet occupied with a game symbol, this is replaced by a second Be miss is generated thereupon and is moved by a third command together with the marking symbol or that with a game symbol (21; 31; 51, 52; 61, 62; 81; 71 75; 81) this already occupied space by a corresponding command together with the marking symbol moved, deleted in this space or changed in its color and / or shape. 2. The method according to claim 1 for a player with a game control device, characterized in that at the start of the game except for a central place in the field grid 809823/0056 - 15 - - vs - Fl 918 J RD Burth et al 16-4 all places are occupied with the same game symbols (31) that a game symbol only has another game symbol is moved away to an unoccupied space adjacent to this and that the other game symbol is on the so skipped space is deleted (Fig. 3, 5). 3. The method of claim 1 for a player with a Game control device, characterized in that at the start of the game any pattern of differently shaped figures from game symbols by means of a random generator is generated on the playing field grid for brief perception by the player that after the disappearance of the pattern, the marker symbol (22) is moved to a place on the playing field grid and that on this Place one of two game symbols of different shape and / or color is generated, depending on whether the Space was previously occupied by a game symbol of the figure or not (Fig. 2). 4. The method of claim 1 for a player with a Game control device, characterized in that at the start of the game by means of a random generator in one to End of the game, invisible row with η places any sequence of game symbols (71 ... 74) of different or the same Arbe, where for the number m of different colors m ^ n that Marking symbol (75) assumes the m different colors one after the other for short time intervals and that by means of of the second command, the game symbol is generated at the location of the marking symbol with the color that has the marker symbol at the beginning of the second command (Fig. 7). 809823/0055 -16- Fl 918 * 3 ^R ~ ^D · ^{Burth et al} 1-6-4 " 5. The method of claim 1 for a player with a Game control device, characterized in that, at the start of the game, all places on the playing field grid have game symbols (81) can be proven that by means of a random generator Starting from a corner, at most k (k> 1) game symbols are deleted one after the other per alternating move and that by means of the marking symbol (81) starting from a diagonal corner per alternate play at most ρ (ρ "> 1) Game symbols are deleted (Fig. 8>. 6. The method according to claim 1 for at least two players each with a game controller, characterized in that each player has a marker symbol (41, 42; 91, 92) is assigned different shape and that the game symbols assigned to each player with different Colors and / or shapes are generated. 7. The method according to claim 6, characterized in that the color of a game symbol (62) of a first color and / or shape into the other color and / or shape of a game symbol (61) of another color and / or shape changed or the game symbol (62) is deleted if the game symbol (61) of the other color and / or other shape takes the place of the game symbol (62) of the first color and / or takes shape, or if all possible or specially agreed, the place of a game symbol (62) spaces adjacent to the first color and / or shape Game symbols (61) of the other color and / or shape are occupied (Fig. 6). 809823 / 005B