Patent ID: 6917282

Claim:
A touch pad scoring apparatus for a dart game including a dart board that is separate from the touch pad scoring device and at least one dart, the touch pad scoring apparatus comprising: a stand alone housing; an electronic controller within the housing; a touch pad supported by the housing and having: a graphical representation of the dart board on its face, a plurality of touch pad segments on the graphical representation of the dart board, each of the touch pad segments corresponding to an associated dart board segment, and a plurality of sensors adapted to detect the presence of pressure applied to any one of the plurality of touch pad segments and to generate a signal corresponding to the touch pad segment to which pressure has been applied, the plurality of sensors being operatively connected to the controller; an electronic game memory operatively connected to the controller; and an electronic display operatively connected to the controller; whereby: pressure applied to at least one of the touch pad segments associated with the graphical representation of the dart board corresponding to the dart board segment struck by a thrown dart causes a score associated with the struck dart board segment to be electronically tracked by the game memory, and the controller causes a signal corresponding to the score to be output to the electronic display.