Interactive gaming with co-located, networked direction and location aware devices
US8246467B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 29, 2009 |
| Grant date | Aug 21, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 10, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA63F2300/6045
- WIPO fieldFurniture, games
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
An interactive game environment includes two or more co-located, networked, direction and location aware interactive game devices. The game devices share a common reference coordinate frame (e.g., a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate frame). Each game device maintains its own device state (e.g., position, orientation, time) in the reference coordinate frame. Each interactive game device shares its device state with the other interactive game devices using communication technology (e.g., Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular). Each interactive game device can use the device states of the other interactive game devices to project the relative positions and orientations of the other interactive game devices into a local, fixed coordinate frame of the interactive game device. These projections allow each interactive gaming device to know the position and orientation of the other interactive game devices in an interactive game environment defined by the reference coordinate frame.
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