Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-11
2011-01-11
Laneau, Ronald (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
Reexamination Certificate
active
07867088
ABSTRACT:
An interactive game system includes a specially prepared DVD game disk with video images such as of a game show, and game data and instructions encoded within the VBI data on the disk. A game control unit receives all of the video signals recorded on from the DVD including both video images and the VBI data, extracts the VBI data, and uses the VBI data in conjunction with a plurality of handheld player inputs to allow users to select and answer game questions. The game control unit keeps track of whether the player inputs were correct or incorrect, the players' cumulative scores in accordance with their answers, and displays the players cumulative scores as video overlay on top of the recorded video images to be sent to a video display such as a standard television set. The game control unit controls chapter selection on the user's particular DVD player model via a programmable wireless transmitter, and performs other logic, video, and audio generating and processing functions to allow a highly interactive game playing experience for multiple players.
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Intellectual Property Law Offices of Joel Voelzke, APC
Laneau Ronald
MGA Entertainment, Inc.
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