Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a game requiring an element of a participants physical...
Patent
1997-08-05
1999-12-14
Harrison, Jessica J.
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a game requiring an element of a participants physical...
434250, A63F 922
Patent
active
060010134
ABSTRACT:
A video dance game apparatus for displaying an image of at least two dancers on a screen and controlling the dancers to play various dance performances in accordance with an external operation to thereby offer a dance game, is provided with: an image displaying device for displaying the image of the dancers; a dance music output device for outputting a music signal indicating a dance music; a beat information generating device for generating beat information on the basis of the music signal; a dance performance data selecting and reading out device for selecting and reading out one of the dance performance data pieces stored in a dance performance data memory device; an image control device for controlling the image displaying device to change the image of the dancers such that the dancers play a dance performance corresponding to the read out dance performance data piece; an operation device by which the external operation is inputted, for operating the dance performance data selecting and reading out device in accordance with the external operation to select and read out the one of the dance performance data pieces; and a score calculating device for calculating a game score on the basis of a time lag between a read-out timing of the dance performance data piece and a generation timing of the beat information.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5513129 (1996-04-01), Bolas et al.
patent: 5792031 (1998-08-01), Alton
Harrison Jessica J.
Pioneer Electronics Corporation
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