Abstract: A bowler performance tracking system monitors at least one of a number of steps in an approach, a maximum rearward angle attained by a bowling ball during the approach, a release angle of the bowling ball upon release by a bowler onto a bowling lane, a ball speed, an arm speed, a ball trajectory, and bowler scores during a bowling game. The system includes a wearable performance tracking device dimensioned and configured to be worn by the bowler and having a housing assembly with a motion sensor camera unit mounted therein. A digital display assembly is disposed on the housing assembly and is visible to the bowler. A control assembly includes a data storage unit configured to store an amount of data, and the control assembly also has a display interface operable with the digital display assembly to cause at least one display parameter to be displayed thereon.

Abstract: A method of gaming comprising: providing a table game of the type where a player seeks to sink one or more balls of a set of balls in one or more pockets of the table by striking the balls with a cue ball in accordance with the rules of the table game; receiving a wager from a player additional to any amount required to play the table game, the wager entitling the player to receive at least one bonus associated with an event if the player achieves the event; and electronically monitoring play of the table game to determine whether the player achieves the event and the bonus should be awarded to the player.

Abstract: A device for displaying information, in particular for bowling alleys, comprises first detector mechanism, to detect an arrangement pattern of one or more bowling pins and generate a corresponding main detection signal, incorporating an identification code, and a control unit, connected to the first detector mechanism, for receiving the main detection signal at input; the control unit is set up in such a way that at output it transmits at least one animation according to the identification code incorporated in the main detection signal. The device is also equipped with a display element, connected to the control unit, for receiving the animation at input and allowing it to be displayed.

Abstract: A bowling automatic scoring system so far provided an excitor by animated graphics just for the display of the bowling result when strike or spare are detected, but this invention is to display an excitor of a non-animated, video recorded actual person. This invention is a CM Auto-Scorer for advertisements and sales promotion of sponsors which displays bowling results for a bowling game in a bowling center by an excitor of a non-animated, video recorded actual person with sound and automatically judges if a bowler goes beyond a given standard by frequency of excitors, by types of excitors, and/or by displayed frames.

Abstract: Two optical techniques for selective detection of a regular-sized, standard cue ball. Both techniques make it possible to distinguish a regular-sized, standard size cue ball from object balls within a standard set. The first technique is called the “optical density discrimination” technique. It is based on the fact that the optical density of the cue ball is significantly less than the optical density of the object balls. The second technique is called the “fluorescence discrimination” technique. It requires that the cue ball be manufactured with a fluorescent pigment in its outer surface during manufacture. Discrimination is then based on detecting the fluorescence of the cue ball.