US Patent Application 17776861. GAME MAT, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD simplified abstract
GAME MAT, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
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Masahiro Sueyoshi of Tokyo (JP)
GAME MAT, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A simplified explanation of the abstract
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 17776861 titled 'GAME MAT, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
Simplified Explanation
The patent application describes a game mat that can manage information about a card game played using cards, in association with a mat ID of the mat.
- The game mat includes a mobile terminal antenna that receives a radio wave from a mobile terminal that communicates with a server managing a game using an IC card.
- The game mat also includes an IC card antenna that communicates with the IC card, which has an IC chip for contactless reading and writing of data.
- The game mat has a memory that stores a mat ID, which is identification information of the mat.
- An internal IC chip in the game mat receives commands from the mobile terminal and stores information about the game transmitted from the server, associating it with the mat ID.
- This technology can be used with a play mat for a card game using a smartphone with NFC functionality and an IC card.
Original Abstract Submitted
There is provided a game mat, an information processing apparatus, and an information processing method that can manage information regarding a game played using cards, in association with a mat ID of a mat serving as a storage space of the cards. A game mat according to an aspect of the present technology is a mat including: a mobile terminal antenna that receives a radio wave output by a reader/writer of a mobile terminal that communicates with a server that manages a game using an IC card; an IC card antenna that communicates with the IC card including an IC chip for an IC card in which reading/writing of data is performed contactlessly by a command transmitted from the reader/writer; a memory that stores a mat ID, which is identification information of a mat; and an internal IC chip that receives a command transmitted from the reader/writer and stores, into the memory in association with the mat ID, information regarding the game transmitted from the server. The present technology can be applied to a play mat of a card game using a smartphone having an NFC function and an IC card.
