US 12,392,586 B2
Dart game apparatus and dart game system providing event effect
Sang Uk Hong, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to PHOENIXDARTS CO., LTD, Seoul (KR)
Filed by Phoenixdarts Co., Ltd., Seoul (KR)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/490,936.
Application 17/490,936 is a continuation of application No. 15/740,054, abandoned, previously published as PCT/KR2017/011999, filed on Oct. 27, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2017-0134890 (KR), filed on Oct. 17, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0090884 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. F41J 3/02 (2006.01); F41J 3/00 (2006.01); G09B 19/00 (2006.01)
CPC F41J 3/02 (2013.01) [F41J 3/0014 (2013.01); G09B 19/0038 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
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1. A dart game apparatus comprising:
a dart target having a plurality of score areas;
a sensing unit sensing a hit location of a dart pin in the dart target;
a display unit providing a display area surrounding an outline of the dart target, provided in a body structure of the dart game apparatus, and outputting a variable screen, the variable screen displaying various visual effects, the display unit comprising a touch sensor to detect at least one of a touch pressure, a touched position and a touched area in the display unit; and
a controller including a processor configured to control at least one process of the dart game apparatus and a non-transitory computer readable medium including a computer program with encoded commands configured to cause the processor to perform a process, wherein the controller:
controls the display unit at least partially based on the hit location of the dart pin in the dart target sensed by the sensing unit;
controls the display unit at least partially based on the detection of at least one of a touch pressure, a touched position and a touched area in the display unit sensed by the touch sensor;
determines an event effect to be displayed and a location where the event effect is displayed in the display area at least partially based on the hit location of the dart pin in the dart target;
determines, pre-event generation, whether a predetermined event occurs at least partially based on progress information of a dart game which is currently in progress before the dart pin is thrown; and
determines a location of a pre-event generation effect to be displayed in the display area is output based on an event which occurs when the predetermined event occurs.