Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Reexamination Certificate
2008-07-22
2008-07-22
Donovan, Lincoln (Department: 2837)
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
C084S678000, C084S600000, C250S578100, C250S222100, C250S215000, C250S208200, C250S206000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07402743
ABSTRACT:
“Method and apparatus entraining interactive media players into a sustained experience of “Kinesthetic Spatial Sync,” defined as a perceived simultaneity and spatial superposition between a non-tactile, full body (“free-space”) input control process and immersive multisensory feedback. Asynchronous player input actions and (MIDI tempo) clock-synchronous media feedback events exhibit a seamless synesthesia1or multisensory events fused into an integral event perception, this being between musical sound (hearing), visual responses (sight), and body kinesthetic (radial extension, angular position, height, speed, timing, and precision). This non-tactile interface process and multisensory feedback “look and feel” is embodied as an optimal ergonomic human interface for interactive music and as a six-degrees-of-freedom full-body-interactive immersive media controller. The invention provides for a wide scope of fully reconfigurable transfer functions between kinesthetic input features and media responses (“Creative Zone Behaviors”) managed by means of MIDI protocol and/or display interface commands. Alternative forms of optomechanical embodiments are disclosed, including floor Platform systems and floor-stand-mounted Console systems, all of which exhibit identical free-space input and integrated media response paradigms.”
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Clark David F.
Gibbon John G.
Advantia Law Group
Body Harp Interactive Corporation
Donovan Lincoln
Starkweather Michael W.
Warren David S.
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