Patent ID: 8062120

Claim:
A dynamic entertainment card comprising: a flexible substrate in the form of a selected one of a playing card, a trading card, and a collectible card, said substrate having a front face and a back face and being suitable for being held in a player's hand as one of a plurality of like dynamic entertainment cards during a card game; an electronic circuit coupled to said substrate; an input interface coupled to said electronic circuit; a flexible display coupled with said electronic circuit and mounted on said front face; a memory, coupled to said electronic circuit, containing executable instructions for card-game rules; and a processor coupled to said flexible display and said memory to facilitate gameplay of said card game by applying said executable instructions for said card-game rules; the dynamic entertainment card operative to: apply said executable instructions for said card-game rules by said processor-coupled-to-said-flexible-display-of-the-dynamic-entertainment-card to determine a first card-state in said card game; display a first image on said flexible display mounted on said front face according to said first card-state; and as said gameplay of said card game progresses: obtain entertainment information via said input interface; apply said executable instructions for said game rules by said processor-coupled-to-said-flexible-display-of-the-dynamic-entertainment-card to determine a second card-state in said card game according to said entertainment information; and change said flexible display to display a second image on said flexible display mounted on said front face according to said second card-state; wherein said entertainment information includes proximity information indicating that a second dynamic entertainment card is in physical proximity to the dynamic entertainment card.