Electronic hoop game

Abstract

Electronic hoop spinning game uses a spinning hoop carried by a user's rotating hip. Hoop carries a passive or active transmitter and spaced apart stationary receiver senses each pass of the hoop-transmitter. Controller, coupled to receiver, has a counter spin-count-passes. Controller, coupled to display, visually shows hoop count. Controller/receiver may be on and in a cell phone as an APP. Hoop-transmitter in removable wrap-around flexible carrier on hoop. Display may be integrated with controller or separate or a phone screen. Controller and spin-counter-memory maintains hoop count data. Sometimes controller transmits count data to computer-enabled device, game console/controller, set top box, or streaming video player. Display may be TV or monitor. User actuatable (UA) input module accepts ON-OFF, reset and player designation commands. When reset, controller alters count data to predetermined or saved number (player 1 - 2 count).

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . An electronic hoop spinning game operable on a rotating hip of a user comprising:
 a hoop adapted to twirl about the rotating hip of the user, the hoop having a substantially circular cross-sectional shape;
 a passive or an active transmitter mounted on the hoop; 
 a stationary receiver disposed apart from but within the range of the hoop-mounted transmitter; 
 a controller coupled to the receiver, the controller having a counter for counting the passing of the hoop-mounted transmitter past the receiver, and the controller coupled to a display; 
 wherein when the controller maintains a count of the number of times the hoop-mounted transmitter passes the receiver as a hoop count and engages the display to visually present the hoop count to the user. 
   
     
     
         2 . The game as claimed in  claim 1  wherein the hoop-mounted transmitter is disposed in a flexible carrier adapted to be wrapped around a segment of the hoop, the flexible carrier being removably attachable to the hoop and the carrier having a releasable closure mechanism to enable the carrier to be wrapped around the hoop segment. 
     
     
         3 . The game as claimed in  claim 2  wherein the display is a display screen disposed separate and apart from the controller. 
     
     
         4 . The game as claimed in  claim 3  wherein the controller has a memory coupled thereto, the controller also has a transceiver coupled to the controller and the memory, controller maintaining the hoop count as hoop count data in the memory, and the controller transmitting the hoop count data to a computer-enabled device. 
     
     
         5 . The game as claimed in  claim 4  wherein the computer-enabled device is one of a tablet computer, a cell phone, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a game console, set top box, and a streaming video player. 
     
     
         6 . The game as claimed in  claim 4  wherein the display screen is a television or monitor. 
     
     
         7 . The game as claimed in  claim 4  including a user actuatable (UA) input module coupled to the controller, the UA module accepting ON-OFF commands, a reset count command, and a player designator command, in the presence of the reset command the controller altering the hoop count data to a predetermined number, and in the presence of the player designator command the controller assigning the hoop count data to a designated player. 
     
     
         8 . An electronic hoop spinning game operable on a rotating hip of a user and adapted to communicate with the user's cell phone comprising:
 a hoop adapted to twirl about the rotating hip of the user, the hoop having a substantially circular cross-sectional shape;   a transmitter mounted on the hoop, the hoop-mounted transmitter having a cell phone transceiver module in communication with the user's cell phone;   the user's cell phone having an APP operating as a stationary receiver within the range of the hoop-mounted transmitter;   the APP having a counter for counting the passing of the hoop-mounted transmitter past the stationary receiver, and the APP engaging a cell phone display screen for presentation of a hoop count to the user, the APP maintaining hoop count data of the number of times the hoop-mounted transmitter passes the stationary receiver and engages the cell phone display to visually present the hoop count data to the user.   
     
     
         9 . The game as claimed in  claim 7  wherein the hoop-mounted transmitter is disposed in a flexible carrier adapted to be wrapped around a segment of the hoop, the flexible carrier being removably attachable to the hoop and the carrier having a releasable closure mechanism to enable the carrier to be wrapped around the hoop segment. 
     
     
         10 . The game as claimed in  claim 8  wherein the APP includes a user actuatable (UA) input module, the UA module accepting ON-OFF user commands, a reset count command, and a player designator command, in the presence of the reset command the APP altering the hoop count data to a predetermined number, and in the presence of the player designator command the APP assigning the hoop count data to a designated player. 
     
     
         11 . An electronic hoop spinning game operable on a rotating hip of a user comprising:
 a hoop adapted to twirl about the rotating hip of the user, the hoop having a substantially circular cross-sectional shape;   a color differentiated element mounted on a hoop segment, the color differentiated element having a different color or light reflective characteristic than a remainder of the hoop other than the hoop segment;   a stationary sensor receiver disposed apart from but within the visual range of the color differentiated element;   a controller coupled to the sensor receiver, the controller having a counter for counting the passing of the color differentiated element past the sensor receiver, and the controller coupled to a display;   wherein when the controller maintains a count of the number of times the color differentiated element passes the sensor receiver as a hoop count and engages the display to visually present the hoop count to the user.   
     
     
         12 . The game as claimed in  claim 11  wherein the color differentiated element is a flexible carrier adapted to be wrapped around the hoop segment, the flexible carrier being removably attachable to the hoop and the carrier having a releasable closure mechanism to enable the carrier to be wrapped around the hoop segment.