Automatic bowling scorer with cathode ray tube display

Claim 2

In an automatic bowling scorer for presenting a visual display of the history of a game of bowling comprising a cathoderay tube having a display face, circuit means for controlling the cathode-ray tube so that the display face of the cathode-ray tube is divided into discrete areas representative of the (frame) frames of a game of bowling for at least one player, first means (associated with the face of the cathode-ray tube) adjacent said discrete areas to identify the player associated with the discrete areas representative of the frames of the game, and second means (associated with said display face of the cathoderay tube) adjacent said discrete areas to identify the frame each discrete area represents.

Claim 3

The combination as defined by claim 1 wherein said first means comprises an area for displaying a players name and said second means comprises numbers one through ten to identify the 10 frames of the game of bowling.

Claim 4

The combination as defined by claim 2 including display logic means coupled to said cathode-ray tube to constrain the latter to indicate pinfall and total for each frame.

Claim 5

The combination of claim 3 wherein said display logic means includes strike symbol generating means and spare symbol generating means.

Claim 6

The combination of claim 4 wherein said display logic means includes split symbol generating means.

Claim 7

An automatic bowling scorer for presenting a visual display of the history of a game of bowling comprising a cathode ray tube having a display face, circuit means for controlling the cathode-ray tube so that the display face of the cathode-ray tube is divided into discrete areas representative of the various frames of a game of bowling for at least one player, signal-generating means coupled to generate signals representative of the number of pins felled by a ball, calculating means fed by said signal generating means to compute total score from the signals representative of the number of pins felled according to the rules of the game as the game progresses frame by frame, and display logic means fed by said calculating means to drive said cathode-ray tube to display the score history of the game frame by frame.

Claim 8

An automatic bowling scorer for presenting a visual display of the history of a game of bowling comprising a cathode ray tube having a display face, circuit means for controlling the cathode-ray tube so that the display face of the cathode-ray tube is divided into discrete areas representative of the various frames of a game of bowling for at least one player, signal-generating means coupled to generate signals representative of the number of pins felled by a ball, calculating means fed by said signal generating means to compute total score from the signals representative of the number of pins felled according to the rules of the game as the game progresses frame by frame, and display logic means fed by said calculating means to drive said cathode-ray tube to display the score history of the game frame by frame.

Claim 9

The combination of claim 6 wherein said calculating means includes a memory means to store the signals representative of pinfall for the various frames.

Claim 10

The combination of claim 7 wherein said memory means comprises a recirculating delay line.

Claim 11

The combination of claim (8) 7 including means fed by said calculating means to record permanently the history of the game bowled.

Claim 12

The combination of claim (8) 7 including means to selectively enter pinfall for a ball of a desired frame into said calculating means.

Claim 13

The combination of claim 10 incLuding means to selectively enter player blind score into said calculating means.

Claim 14

The combination of claim 11 including means to selectively enter team handicap into said calculating means.

Claim 15

The combination of claim 12 including means to selectively enter team marks handicap into said calculating means.

Claim 16

An automatic bowling scorer for presenting a visual display of the history of a game of bowling comprising a cathode-ray tube having a display face, circuit means for controlling the cathode-ray tube so that the display face of the cathode-ray tube is divided into discrete areas representative of the various frames of a game of bowling, first signal-generating means coupled to generate signals representative of the number of pins felled by a ball on a first lane, second signal-generating means coupled to generate signals representative of the number of pins felled by a ball on a second lane, search means to select the lane on which a ball has been rolled, memory means coupled to the signal generating means of the lane selected by the search means to receive and store signals representative of pinfall for the ball rolled, calculating means to compute total score frame by frame to the last frame bowled coupled to feed said total score frame by frame to said memory means, and display logic means fed by said memory means to drive said cathode-ray tube to display the score history of the game frame by frame.

Claim 17

An automatic bowling scorer for presenting a visual display of the history of a game of bowling comprising a cathode-ray tube having a display face, circuit means for controlling the cathode-ray tube so that the display face of the cathode-ray tube is divided into discrete areas representative of the various frames of a game of bowling, first signal-generating means coupled to generate signals representative of the number of pins felled by a ball on a first lane, second signal-generating means coupled to generate signals representative of the number of pins felled by a ball on a second lane, search means to select the lane on which a ball has been rolled, memory means coupled to the signal generating means of the lane selected by the search means to receive and store signals representative of pinfall for the ball rolled, calculating means to compute total score frame by frame to the last frame bowled coupled to feed said total score frame by frame to said memory means, and display logic means fed by said memory means to drive said cathode-ray tube to display the score history of the game frame by frame.

Claim 18

The combination of claim 14 including manually controlled signal-generating means coupled to feed selectively signals representative of pinfall to said memory means.

Claim 19

The combination of claim 15 wherein said calculating means includes means to inhibit the display of the score history of the game frame by frame during the occurrence of an unbroken string of strikes.

Claim 20

The combination of claim 16 wherein said memory means comprises a recirculating delay line.

Claim 21

An automatic bowling scorer for presenting a visual display of the history of a game of bowling comprising a first cathode-ray tube having a display face, circuit means for controlling the cathode-ray tube so that the display face of the cathode-ray tube is divided into discrete areas representative of the various frames of games of bowling, said first cathode-ray tube being associated with a first lane, a second cathode-ray tube having a display face, circuit means for controlling the cathode-ray tube so that the display face of the cathode-ray tube is divided into discrete areas representative of the various frames of other games of bowling, said second cathode-ray tube being associated with a second lane, first signal-generating means coupled to generate signals representative of the number of pins felled by a ball on the first lane, second signal-generating means coupled to generate signals representative of the number of pins felled by a ball on the second lane, memory means to receive and store signals representative of the history of the games, search means to selectively couple said first signal-generating means and said second signal-generating means to said memory means, calculating means to compute total score frame by frame as a game progresses for each player and to feed said total score frame by frame to said memory means, and display logic means fed by said memory means to drive said first cathode-ray tube to display the score history of the games of a first group of players frame by frame and to drive said second cathode-ray tube to display the score history of the games of a second group of players frame by frame, and means coupled to said display logic means to generate for selective display spare and strike occurrences.

Claim 22

An automatic bowling scorer for presenting a visual display of the history of a game of bowling comprising a first cathode-ray tube having a display face, circuit means for controlling the cathode-ray tube so that the display face of the cathode-ray tube is divided into discrete areas representative of the various frames of games of bowling, said first cathode-ray tube being associated with a first lane, a second cathode-ray tube having a display face, circuit means for controlling the cathode-ray tube so that the display face of the cathode-ray tube is divided into discrete areas representative of the various frames of other games of bowling, said second cathode-ray tube being associated with a second lane, first signal-generating means coupled to generate signals representative of the number of pins felled by a ball on the first lane, second signal-generating means coupled to generate signals representative of the number of pins felled by a ball on the second lane, memory means to receive and store signals representative of the history of the games, search means to selectively couple said first signal-generating means and said second signal-generating means to said memory means, calculating means to compute total score frame by frame as a game progresses for each player and to feed said total score frame by frame to said memory means, and display logic means fed by said memory means to drive said first cathode-ray tube to display the score history of the games of a first group of players frame by frame and to drive said second cathode-ray tube to display the score history of the games of a second group of players frame by frame, and means coupled to said display logic means to generate for selective display spare and strike occurrences.

Claim 23

The combination of claim 18 including controllable signal-generating means selectively coupled by said search means to said memory means to modify the number of pins felled by a rolled ball.

Claim 24

The combination of claim 19 wherein said controllable signal generating means comprises means to generate a team handicap eNtry.

Claim 25

The combination of claim 20 wherein said controllable signal-generating means comprises means to generate a team marks handicap entry.

Claim 26

The combination of claim 21 wherein said controllable signal-generating means comprises means to generate a player blind score entry.

Claim 27

The combination of claim 22 including means fed by said memory means to record permanently the history of a game of bowling.

Claim 28

The combination of claim 23 wherein said means comprises a magnetic tape.

Claim 29

The combination of claim 23 wherein said means comprises a printed tape.

Claim 30

The combination of claim 23 wherein said means comprises a punched tape.

Claim 31

The combination defined in claim 1 including display logic means coupled to said cathode-ray tube to constrain the latter to indicate pinfall and totals for each frame of a said game of bowling.

Claim 32

The Combination of claim 6 including means fed by said calculating means to record permanently the history of the game bowled.

Claim 33

The combination of claim 28 wherein said means comprises a magnetic tape.

Claim 34

The combination of claim 28 wherein said means comprises a printed record.

Claim 35

The combination of claim 28 wherein said means comprises a punched tape.

Claim 36

The combination of claim 6 including means to selectively enter pinfall for a ball of a desired frame into said calculating means.

Claim 37

The combination of claim 6 including means to selectively enter team handicap into said calculating means.

Claim 38

The combination of claim 6 wherein said calculating means includes means to inhibit the display of the score history of the game of a player frame by frame during the occurrence of an unbroken string of strikes by that player.

Claim 39

The combination of claim 6 including means to selectively enter pinfall for a ball of any given frame; and wherein said calculating means includes means updating the displayed totals of frames subsequent to said given frame and previously scored in said bowling game.

Claim 40

The combination of claim 7 including means to selectively enter pinfall for a ball of any given frame; and wherein said calculating means includes means updating said pinfall stored in said memory means and the displayed totals of frames subsequent to said given frame and previously scored in said bowling game.

Claim 41

The combination of claim 7 wherein said calculating means includes means to inhibit the display of the score history of the game of a given player frame by frame during the occurrence of an unbroken string of strikes.

Claim 42

An automatic bowling scorer for presenting a visual display of the history of a game of bowling for two teams of bowlers comprising: cathode-ray tube means for displaying said history having display face means on which said history is displayed for each of said teams; circuit means for controlling the display face means of said cathode-ray tube means so that portions of said display face means are divided into discrete areas representative of the various bowling frames to be bowled by each team and each player thereon; signal generating means coupled to generate signals representative of the number of pins felled by a given ball during the course of said game and the player and team identity for that ball; calculating means fed by said signal generating means to compute the total score of an identified player representative of the number of pins felled according to the rules of the game as the game progresses frame by frame; and display logic means fed by said calculating means to drive said cathode-ray tube means to display the score history of the game frame by frame for said players and said teams on said display face means.

Claim 43

An automatic bowling scorer for presenting a visual display of the history of a game of bowling for two teams of bowlers comprising: cathode-ray tube means for displaying said history having display face means on which said history is displayed for each of said teams; circuit means for controlling the display face means of said cathode-ray tube means so that portions of said display face means are divided into discrete areas representative of the various bowling frames to be bowled by each team and each player thereon; signal generating means coupled to generate signals representative of the number of pins felled by a given ball during the course of said game and the player and team identity for that ball; calculating means fed by said signal generating means to compute the total score of an identified player representative of the number of pins felled according to the rules of the game as the game progresses frame by frame; and display logic means fed by said calculating means to drive said cathode-ray tube means to display the score history of the game frame by frame for said players and said teams on said display face means.

Claim 44

The combination of claim 38 including means fed by said calculating means to record permanently tHe history of the game bowled.

Claim 45

The combination of claim 38, wherein said signal generating means includes means to identify a given frame to which said given ball is related; and said calculating means includes means updating the displayed totals of frames subsequent to said given frame and previously scored in said bowling game.