Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Access or authorization
Reexamination Certificate
2007-12-18
2007-12-18
Pezzuto, Robert (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Access or authorization
Reexamination Certificate
active
10679790
ABSTRACT:
An interactive presentation and/or entertainment system, such as interactive personal computer software and/or interactive, live theater, allows participants to determine the events that occur throughout a story. Given simulated environments and story characters within them, the player introduces elements, picked from a list, which advances the narrative, event by event. Feedback about the current state of the situation or characters provides motivation to choose subsequent events. These events change situations, environments, and/or the characters within the narrative. As a result, greater flexibility and control with less confusion is achieved over previous methods and apparatuses. The story can be rewound and/or played with different choices, resulting in different outcomes. Source image/sound/description data may include prerecorded video, prerecorded audio, prewritten description, live acting, computer-based audio, computer-based imagery, computer-generated dialogue, and/or computer-generated characters. The range of events available are limited only by the design of the narrative, not this apparatus.
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Nemitz Keith G.
Pezzuto Robert
Thomas Eric M.
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