Card game player
CA 2078176 C · Owner: Hara, Hiroshi · Inventors: Hara, Hiroshi
Overview
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A card game player is provided which decides the content of a game according to data that is obtained by a bar code and which makes the content of the game visible and audible thereby ap-, pealing visually and audibly and improving in forcefulness reality, and unexpectedness of development of the game. A bar code reading and operating means 10 which reads out a bar code 1a of a card 1 and which converts data that is obtained by reading out the bar code 1a into another piece of information is connected with a game apparatus 12 on which specialized software for game 14 is mounted which decides the content of the game according to the information, the game apparatus 12 being connected with an …
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- Filed September 14, 1992 and granted August 5, 1997. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 14, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by September 14, 2014.
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