Multiple participant moving vehicle shooting gallery
CA 2075122 A1 · Owner: Raytheon Company · Inventors: Brooke, Kenneth R.; Harvard, Albert F.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Abstract From the Canadian patent
An interactive system that employs moving vehicles in which participants ride and from which they engage computer-generated pop-up and prepositioned simulatedtargets using simulated weapons. The vehicle carries the participants a predetermined distance using a track or trough-guidance mechanism through a covered and darkened path as they engage the simulated targets. Each participant operates independently of the others and engages targets that are displayed during travel along the track. The participants occupy seats having safety restraints and operate a fixed, swivel-based, simulated weapon and sight it to fixed targets having predetermined locations and to the targets generated by a …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed July 31, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 31, 2012.
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