Amusement devices: games – Problem eliciting response – Questions and answers
Patent
1993-05-05
1995-02-28
Harrison, Jessica J.
Amusement devices: games
Problem eliciting response
Questions and answers
A63F 922
Patent
active
053930703
ABSTRACT:
Talking video games can provide simulated voice dialogs between human players and animated characters on a video screen. When two or more characters are in two different scenes, the animated picture may alternate between the two scenes to give an illusion that the actions in both scenes are happening simultaneously. A character in one scene talks with a character in the other scene who then may talk back. Each scene branches to two or more subsequent scenes. But within each scene there are several branching dialog sequences, thereby providing a large variety of possible dialogs. Scenes are separated in space or in time. The characters may be shown talking with each other through a voice communication apparatus such as a telephone or two-way radio or through an opening in a wall such as a window or door. Each player has a hand-held controller that displays two or more phrases or actions. A player responds by pressing a button next to a selected phrase or action. An animated character then acts or verbally responds as if it had been spoken to by the human player or by one of the other characters. Speech recognition is not required.
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