A calibration method for a camera which monitors a target board is disclosed, comprising steps: using the camera to capture a target image corresponding to the target board; using rotation and translation to align the target image to a reference standard and acquire the corresponding relationship of the target image and the target board; defining a region of interest above the target image; using at least one positioning marker in at least two positions of the target board, whose actual space coordinates are known, and using the camera to acquire at least two image coordinates of the positioning markers in the region of interest; and using the known actual space coordinates and the acquired image coordinates to work out the exact position of the camera. Thereby, the positions of the cameras can be used to correctly determine the positions of darts.

The invention relates to dartboard games, where projectiles are thrown at a target. The face of the dartboard has a realistic, lifelike image of a game animal, and the higher scoring regions correlate to the kill zone of the game animal's anatomy. Lower scoring regions correlate to the rest of the body of the game animal, and penalty scoring regions may be present, scoring negative points. Players try to land their darts in certain scoring regions in order to score the most points, depending upon the rules of the game. Rules are provided for a 300 point and 21 point game. If the images are printed on the dartboard, the darts may be thrown or launched with an apparatus like a mini-bow or blow-gun. If the images are projected, the darts may be virtual.

A gaming apparatus including a tracking system arranged to track at least one position of a user delivered projectile; and a processing unit for receiving tracking data detected by the tracking system to generate projectile data representative of a path of the user delivered projectile.

Disclosed is a computer program stored in a computer readable storage medium, the computer program providing a method of identifying a hit location of a dart pin when being executed in one or more control units of a dart game device, the method including: generating first history information in response to a first dart pin throw; obtaining a dart target photographing image in response to a second dart pin throw, wherein the dart target photographing image includes an image of a dart target and a plurality of dart pins hitting the dart target; and determining, by a dart pin location identification network model, hit location information of a dart pin corresponding to the second dart pin throw based on the first history information and the dart target photographing image.

A sports-inspired dart game and method of playing the dart game are described. Embodiments of the sports-inspired dart game can include, but are not limited to, a dart board including indicia of a field of play, a mat including distance markers from which players throw darts, and a plurality of game pieces removably coupled to the dart board and implemented as targets and anti-targets on the dart board. Different rules can be implemented for a particular sports-inspired game being played.

An outdoor dart tossing game includes a target board that is positionable on a support surface. The target board has a plurality of target spaces therein. A plurality of canisters is included and each of the canisters contains a pressurized fluid. Each of the canisters is inserted into a respective one of the target spaces and each of the canisters is comprised of a rigid material. A plurality of darts is included and each of the darts is assigned to a respective player. Each of the darts is thrown towards the target board in the attempt of striking one of the canisters with the dart. Additionally, each of the canisters is pierced by the dart when the dart strikes the canister thereby releasing the pressurized fluid from the canister. In this way each of the canisters communicates a visual alert to the players that one of the canisters has been struck.

A modular game dart comprised of a plurality of metal modules that mate together using male and female threads incorporated in the modules. The modules comprise one tip mounting section module, one shaft mounting section module, and a plurality of barrel modules, with the modules mating together end-to-end using corresponding internal and external male and female threads to form a dart.

Disclosed is a dart game apparatus according to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure. The dart game apparatus may include: a dart target capable of accommodating a thrown dart pin; a sensing unit sensing a hit location of a thrown dart pin; a controller determining score information depending on each of one or more dart pins thrown by a first player based on information on the hit location, which is received from the sensing unit, determining the determined respective score information of the first player to be output in response to throwing of the respective dart pins, permitting a second player to throw the dart pins when it is sensed that a round of the first player ends, determining the score information depending on each of one or more dart pins thrown by the second player, comparing the determined respective score information of the second player with current score information of the first player, and determining whether the current score information depending on throwing of the dart pins of the second player is output in association with comparison result information based on a result of the comparison; and an output unit outputting the score information depending on the throwing of the dart pins and the result information of the comparison according to the control by the controller.

Disclosed is a method for providing a dart game, the method being performed by a dart game device, the method including: obtaining, in response to a first throw of a first dart pin, a first image corresponding to a dart target including the first dart pin; obtaining, in response to a second throw of a second dart pin, a second image corresponding to the dart target including the second dart pin; generating first location information of the first dart pin corresponding to the first image and second location information of the second dart pin corresponding to the second image by using an artificial intelligence-based dart pin location identification network model; and generating a play result for the dart game including the first throw and the second throw by using the first location information and the second location information.

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a dart game apparatus which provides a player with a drink based on a hit location of a dart pin. The dart game apparatus may include: a dart target including a plurality of score regions; a sensing unit configured to detect a hit location of a dart pin in the dart target; a dispenser configured to supply a drink to a cup based on the hit location of the dart pin; and a controller configured to control an operation of the dispenser.