Patent ID: 8382579
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A card for use with a game apparatus comprising: a game program execution means which executes a game program; an input means operable by a player; and a card data detection means which is arranged to mount a set of cards for a single scan, the set of cards being selected by the player from a variety of cards which include cards representing game characters as well as functions related to the game characters and provided with code, patterns indicative of the game characters or the functions related to the game characters, wherein said card data detection means detects, in a single scan, a set of data from said cards selectively mounted to the card data detection means, said detected data containing data indicative of a game character selected by the player and of a function related to the game character, wherein said game program execution means executes the game program to perform a game with the game character selected by the player and the function related to the game character determined in response to said data detected from said set of cards mounted to the game apparatus and in response to signals from said input means; wherein each of the set of cards has a pair of major plane faces and side faces between said pair of major plane faces, one of the side faces being printed with the code pattern including said data unique to the card.