JP3421873B2 - LCD game machine - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable game device using a liquid crystal display board.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There are various conventional game machines,
In each case, a text or a picture stored in advance in the memory is reproduced and displayed on the liquid crystal display panel itself.

[0003]

Therefore, the liquid crystal display plate must be a display plate that is finely driven and controlled so that various complicated characters and figures are displayed on the liquid crystal, and the liquid crystal display plate itself is expensive and the display mechanism. Was complicated and the cost was high. Also, the characters and figures that can be displayed are limited to those stored in memory, making expansion difficult and causing players to get bored.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points.
The purpose is to provide a liquid crystal game device that can simplify the display of the liquid crystal display board by using a card having character information , realize low cost, and can easily expand without expressing the information to be expressed. is there.

[0005]

To achieve SUMMARY OF to and act above objects, the present invention has a liquid crystal display panel to the surface, sentences
A card having character information is set along the back surface of the liquid crystal display plate so that it can be inserted and removed freely, and the liquid crystal display plate is driven so that any character of the card is left and other characters are masked, and a desired meaningful character is set. The liquid crystal game device has a display control means for extracting and displaying information.

Since the liquid crystal display plate only masks (hides) the characters on the card and does not display the characters on the liquid crystal display plate itself, the liquid crystal display plate itself is low in price, and the display mechanism and display control are also performed. It is simple and can be expected to greatly reduce costs. Also, the type of character information displayed can be changed by changing the card set in the liquid crystal game device, and the character information can be easily expanded.

By providing an input means for inputting conditions and controlling the display based on the input conditions, it is possible to change the type of display contents for each condition for one card, and to obtain character information of various contents. Can be displayed.

[0008] The identification SL when the given the identification symbol card, the card is inserted along the back surface of the liquid crystal display panel
By providing a reading means for reading the number, it is possible to automatically identify the type of card and use the same identification information for display control, and the card does not need to have a uniform restriction on the arrangement of characters written on the card. Display control suitable for each case is possible, and cards of different game types can be used.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention shown in FIGS. 1 to 6 will be described below. The liquid crystal game device 1 of the present embodiment has a flat rectangular box-shaped casing 2 having a size that can be easily held with one hand, and a rectangular liquid crystal display plate 3 is greatly stretched in front of the casing 2. The selection switch 4 and the determination switch 5 are disposed below the selection switch 4.
A rectangular flat space is formed along the inner surface of the liquid crystal display plate 3, and the flat space has a flat opening 7 on the upper surface of the casing 2.

A card 8 is inserted through the opening 7 and set along the back surface of the liquid crystal display panel 3. A bar code for identifying the card is printed on the back surface of the card 8.
An optical reading device 6 is provided along the flat space into which the card 8 is inserted on the liquid crystal game device 1 main body side, and the optical reading device 6 can read a barcode when the card 8 is inserted. The identification mark of the card 8 is not limited to the bar code and may be any identification code.

Characters are arranged on the surface of the card 8, but they are arranged in a non-uniform manner and do not form a sentence at all. That is, the subject in which particles etc. are connected to the words that are the elements of the sentence,
It has no meaning by itself because many kinds of letters are arranged for each element in the state of verb, object, complement or word alone without any context.

However, by appropriately selecting and arranging from the elements of these sentences, the sentence can be configured to have one meaning, and by changing the selected element, sentences having various meanings can be configured. Normally, a certain condition is given and a sentence under the condition is selected, and the selection switch 4 and the decision switch 5 are operated to set the condition.

On the other hand, the liquid crystal display panel 3 has a structure in which rectangular liquid crystal portions capable of masking the characters of the card 8 set on the back surface are arranged as the minimum unit which can be independently driven by applying a voltage. Normally, the liquid crystal part to which the voltage is applied is opaque and masks the characters of the corresponding part of the card 8 set along the back surface, but when the voltage is released, the liquid crystal part becomes transparent and the liquid crystal display panel 3 is displayed. It becomes possible to directly see the corresponding characters written on the card 8 set on the back side of the card from the front side.

The drive control of the liquid crystal display panel 3 is performed by the microcomputer 10, and a schematic block diagram of the control system is shown in FIG. The signals from the selection switch 4 and the decision switch 5 and the card identification information signal read by the optical reading device 6 are input to the microcomputer 10, and the microcomputer 10 uses the signal information to output a large number of liquid crystals on the liquid crystal display panel 3. A portion to which no voltage is applied (display portion) is selected from the portions, and the display portion is finally randomly selected from the random numbers generated by the random number generating means 11 at that time.

The result thus selected is the display driver.
Output to 12 and LCD driver 3 by the same display driver 12
Is driven, and the voltage application is released only in the selected liquid crystal portion, so that characters appear and one sentence is formed as a whole.

FIG. 3 shows a schematic work procedure in the above control system.
Will be explained. First, when the card 8 is inserted into the liquid crystal game device 1 (step 1), the bar code attached to the card 8 is read by the optical reading device 6 to identify the card (step 2), and then a display for setting conditions is displayed. Done (step 3).

That is, if the word which is the condition element is extracted and displayed from the letters written on the card and matches the condition desired by the player, the condition is determined by pressing the decision switch 5 (step 4). If they do not match, pressing the selection switch 4 displays a word that means another condition or the opposite condition. You can select the condition you want to set by operating the selection switch 4, and when the target word is displayed, press the decision switch. Press 5 to confirm.

When there are many kinds of conditions to be set, it is judged whether or not all the conditions have been set (step 5) and steps 2 and 3 are repeated until all the conditions are set, and all the conditions are set. After that, the process proceeds from step 5 to step 6 to determine the display candidate portion based on the card identification information and the set conditions.

That is, some candidates for the elements of the displayed sentence that meet the conditions set for the type of card identified here are determined. The microcomputer 10 has an algorithm for selecting candidate text elements for each condition.

Then, in the next step 7, a random number is generated,
The display portion is determined from the elements of the sentence that are candidates based on the random number, the application of the voltage to the liquid crystal portion corresponding to the display portion is instructed to be released (step 8), and the final sentence is displayed.

Looking now at the case of application to a tarot fortune telling game, a plurality of cards 8 are in one set, and even if the same card is the same, depending on the place where each card 8 is placed, etc. On the other hand, in the past, it was necessary to decipher from experience or by reading a manual, but in the present liquid crystal game device 1, the result of the fortune-telling is displayed in text only by inserting and setting a card and inputting conditions.

An example of the card 8 is shown in FIG. 4, and the elements of the words and sentences are arranged on the surface without any context. The word etc. is included.

If the card 8 is placed at a place, the card 8 is inserted and set in the liquid crystal game device 1 in order to know its meaning. Then the inserted card 8
The card is automatically read by the optical reading device 6, and the player first sets the conditions.

As shown in FIG. 5, the condition word "upper" is displayed, and all other characters are masked. Therefore, the player puts the condition "upper" on the card 8 on the display. If the position matches, the decision switch 5 is pressed to determine the same condition, and if the displayed condition is not met, the selection switch 4 is pressed to display the next word "down". Thus, each time the selection switch 4 is pressed, the word indicating the placement condition of the card is displayed. Therefore, the word indicating the actual placement position is displayed and the decision switch 5 is pushed to determine the condition.

If there is a condition to be set next, it is set similarly. Then, when all the conditions are set, all the elements of the sentence that may be displayed as a result of fortune-telling are determined as candidates, and the display portion is randomly determined from the candidates, and as shown in FIG. A sentence that is the result of fortune-telling is displayed. Therefore, even under the same conditions, different fortune-telling results will be displayed at that time.

As described above, even a beginner of fortune-telling a tarot can understand the meaning of the card without having to read the instruction manual, and the fortune-telling game can be smoothly played. Since the content fortune-telling differs for each card, the type of text displayed will also differ.

Also, since the card can be newly made easily, the displayed text can be easily changed to a new one, and the character information can be easily expanded. Liquid crystal display board 3
Since it is not for displaying characters by itself but for simply masking characters, the liquid crystal display panel itself is not complicated, and the display mechanism and display control are simple, and the cost can be significantly reduced. .

In the main body of the apparatus, the optical reader 6 is a card 8
Since the card is automatically identified by reading the barcode of, the type of game can also be identified automatically.
It is versatile because it can execute various games with a single LCD game device.

The above-described embodiment is an example applied to a tarot fortune-telling game, but it can be applied to other fortune-telling games, card games, etc., and a so-called game book in which the game progresses while the player sequentially selects a selection branch. It can also be applied to play such as.

In the above embodiment, the condition input is performed by the selection switch 4 and the decision switch 5. However, there are some cards that do not require the condition input, and such a card can be immediately set in the liquid crystal game device 1. The text is selected and displayed. In addition, depending on the game, if the order of the cards to be set in the liquid crystal game device 1 is determined, the first card is used as a card for condition input only, and when the game starts, the condition is set in advance using the same card and the next card is selected. You can select and display sentences as soon as you set them without inputting conditions.

[0031]

According to the present invention, since the liquid crystal display plate only masks the characters on the card, and the liquid crystal display plate itself does not display information, the liquid crystal display plate itself is low in price and the display mechanism and The display control is simple, and it can be expected to greatly reduce the cost. Also, the type of character information displayed can be changed by changing the card set in the liquid crystal game device, and the character information can be easily expanded.

By providing an input means for inputting conditions and controlling the display based on the input conditions, it is possible to change the type of display contents for one card for each condition, and to obtain character information of various contents. Can be displayed.

[0033] The identification SL when the given the identification symbol card, the card is inserted along the back surface of the liquid crystal display panel
It is possible to automatically identify the type of card and use the same identification information for display control by providing a reading unit that reads the number, and it is not necessary to unify the information on the card and adapts to each card. Since the display control can be performed, cards of different kinds of games can be used, and a liquid crystal game device having versatility can be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a liquid crystal game device and a card according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a control system of the liquid crystal game device.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a schematic work procedure by the control system.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a card.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a state in which the card is viewed through a liquid crystal display plate.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a state in which sentences are displayed when the card is viewed through a liquid crystal display plate.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Liquid crystal game device, 2 ... Casing, 3 ... Liquid crystal display board, 4 ... Selection switch, 5 ... Decision switch, 6 ... Optical reading device, 7 ... Aperture, 8 ... Card, 10 ... Micro switch, 11 ... Random number generation means , 12 ... Display driver.

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (56) Reference JP-A-5-341708 (JP, A) Actual development Sho 59-76289 (JP, U) (58) Fields investigated (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) A63F 9/00-13/12

Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. A card having a liquid crystal display plate on the front surface and having character information is set so as to be freely inserted and removed along the back surface of the liquid crystal display plate, and any character of the card is left and other characters are masked. A liquid crystal game device comprising display control means for driving the liquid crystal display plate to extract and display character information having a desired meaning. 2. The liquid crystal game device according to claim 1, further comprising input means for inputting conditions, wherein the display control means performs display control based on input information of the input means. 3. An identification mark is attached to the card, and the reading means is provided for reading the identification mark when the card is inserted along the back surface of the liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal game device according to claim 2.