Ball game apparatus with a plurality of different balls and winning pocket portions
US5634639A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 29, 1995 |
| Grant date | Jun 3, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 29, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG07F17/3211
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
A ball game apparatus has a plurality of balls, a spiral rail for automatically delivering the balls, a field portion on which the balls delivered by the spiral rail can roll with a given degree of freedom, winning pocket portions and invalid pockets formed over the field portion for receiving a plurality of the balls in each of them, a CCD camera for counting the number of balls received in the winning pocket portions and a calculator for calculating a score from the number of balls counted by the CCD camera.
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