Patent ID: 8342925

Claim:
A gaming apparatus comprising: a housing, the housing having a playing field, the playing field having a proximate end and a distal end; a display operably connected to the housing; one, and only one, pair of transmitters and one, and only one, pair of sensors, the one pair of transmitters comprising a first transmitter and a second transmitter that are each configured to transmit one and only one beam across the playing field, the one pair of sensors comprising a first sensor and a second sensor, the first transmitter configured to transmit a first beam across the playing field to the first sensor, the first sensor configured to read the first beam, the second transmitter configured to transmit a second beam across a playing field to the second sensor, the second sensor configured to read the second beam, the first beam and the second beam oriented to intersect at approximately the center of the width of the playing field; and a game controller adapted to predict a location of a virtual puck and control the display of the location of the virtual puck on the display based on information received from the first and second sensor.