Three dimensional lamp array game system

摘要

A hand-held, cubic, transparent game system containing a cubiform array of individual LEDs arranged as a cubic matrix of rows and columns, an inclinometer, sound chip and speaker and a timer. Electronic control circuitry including a game-programmed processor is connected between the inclinometer and the LED array to control visible operating states of individual lamps in response to output signals from the inclinometer, according to rules of a game program. Sequential LEDs in a direction of inclination are momentarily flashed to define a traveling cursor. Turning the housing through 90 degrees transfers cursor between a row and a column.

主权项

1. A light-displaying game system comprising:
a hand-held lamp housing; a lamp display comprising a three-dimensional array of individual lamps supported by the housing; means for providing output signals in response to player input; electronic control circuitry including a game-programmed processor connected between said means and the lamp array to control visible operating states of individual lamps of the array in response to the output signals, according to rules of a game program on the processor, wherein said means comprises one of a three-dimensional inclinometer and a three-dimensional accelerometer in the housing providing the output signals in response to player manipulation of the housing, and wherein said one of an inclinometer and accelerometer is an inclinometer and a game program initially causes the control circuitry to place a first lamp in a first, cursor forming, operating state which is visibly different than a second operating state of at least one, next adjacent lamp and, when a player tilts the housing to a first inclination in which one of said at least one next adjacent lamp is positioned at a different level from the first lamp, causes the control circuitry to change, sequentially, respective individual operating states of respective successive next adjacent lamps in a direction of the inclination to the first operating state and, to simultaneously change the respective operating states of each lamp having a state previously changed to the first operating state back to the second operating state, providing the impression that the cursor is traveling in the direction of the inclination.