Patent ID: 9457261
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: A63D

Claim Text:
1. A process for providing pictorial representations representative of a score of a bowling game in a bowling center which is implemented in a computing infrastructure with a scoring software being executed thereon, comprising: calculating, using an electronic processor which implements the scoring software, a score of a game based on a number of bowling pins which are knocked down by a bowler of the bowling game; determining, using the electronic processor, whether or not a particular score was achieved based on the number of the bowling pins knocked down by a throw of the bowling ball of the bowler; correlating, using the electronic processor, a plurality of individual pictorial representations of a video game to the score of the bowling game, as detected by the scoring software using the electronic processor and which was determined to meet the particular score, such that each individual pictorial representations is a function of a particular amount of the bowling pins knocked down in the throw of the bowling by the bowler of the bowling game; and displaying, using the electronic processor, the plurality of individual pictorial representations in a sequence on a monitor based on a result of the throw of the bowling ball, until the sequence of pictorial representations creates a full representation of a preselected picture on the monitor associated with the game and which is representative of a game played.