Electronic entertainment and communication system

Details Electronic entertainment and communication system Electronic entertainment and communication system

1998-06-19

2000-11-28

Hjerpe, Richard A.

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Plural display systems

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345502, 345508, 345520, 345522, 463 43, G09G 500

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061541869

ABSTRACT:
An electronic entertainment and communications system permits users to actively participate in video game play or to use other data processing/communication services. In a guest room based entertainment system or in a passenger based entertainment system, each guest or passenger is associated with a terminal device including a display and a controller. An array of video graphics processing systems is provided where the number of video graphics processing systems in the array is less than the number of guest or passenger terminals. Each video graphics processing system includes a video graphics program executing processor, which processes information generated during an interactive video graphics display session, and a memory system storing a video graphics program. Each video graphics processing system in the array is assignable to any of the guest or passenger terminals.

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