Interactive Dart Target Display for Hit-Triggered Event Effects
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing dart game apparatuses and systems lack features to enhance user engagement and convenience, leading to diminished interest and enjoyment.
Innovation Solution
A dart game apparatus with a dart target, sensing unit, display unit, and controller that provides a variable screen and event effects based on hit location, allowing for interactive gameplay and competitive match-ups with virtual players.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a traditional dart game apparatus is used, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but user engagement and entertainment value are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the dart target with a display unit and sensing unit to create an integrated game apparatus. The display unit is positioned behind the dart target, and the sensing unit detects dart hits through the target, merging scoring, display, and detection functions into a single apparatus that enhances user engagement while maintaining reasonable structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The dart target serves multiple functions: it acts as the traditional scoring target, a backdrop for the display unit to show game information and effects, and a component that enables the sensing unit to detect hit locations. This multi-functionality increases adaptability and entertainment value without proportionally increasing structural complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If no visual feedback is provided, then the apparatus is simpler, but user enjoyment and interaction are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display unit provides immediate visual feedback to players by displaying hit location information, scoring results, and event effects directly behind the dart target. This feedback mechanism enhances interactive gameplay by allowing players to see the results of their throws in real-time, while the display unit integrates seamlessly with the existing target structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The display unit adds a visual dimension to the traditional dart game by displaying information in the space behind the target. This utilizes the third dimension (depth behind the target face) to provide enhanced user interaction without complicating the front-facing target structure that players interact with.
3Adaptability or versatility
If event effects are added based on hit location, then entertainment value increases, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sensing unit detects the specific hit location on the dart target and provides this information to the controller, which then triggers appropriate event effects through the display unit. This feedback loop enables dynamic entertainment effects such as highlighting hit areas or displaying special animations based on where the dart landed, enhancing the entertainment element while using the existing sensor and display infrastructure.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are a dart game apparatus and a dart game system outputting an event effect. The dart game apparatus may include: 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 the dart target, provided in a body structure of the dart game apparatus, and outputting a variable screen, 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 controlling the display unit at least partially based on the hit location of the dart pin in the dart target.