Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-25
2011-01-25
Laneau, Ronald (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
Reexamination Certificate
active
07874917
ABSTRACT:
A method for detecting direction when interfacing with a computer program is provided. The method includes capturing an image presented in front of an image capture device. The image capture device has a capture location in a coordinate space. When a person is captured in the image, the method includes identifying a human head in the image and assigning the human head a head location in the coordinate space. The method also includes identifying an object held by the person in the image and assigning the object an object location in coordinate space. The method further includes identifying a relative position in coordinate space between the head location and the object location when viewed from the capture location. The relative position includes a dimension of depth. The method may be practiced on a computer system, such as one used in the gaming field.
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Deshpande Hrishikesh R.
Marks Richard L.
Isenberg Joshua D.
JDI Patent
Laneau Ronald
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
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