Amusement devices: games – Games accessories – All video game accessories
Patent
1988-10-17
1990-12-11
Coven, Edward M.
Amusement devices: games
Games accessories
All video game accessories
273 1E, 273DIG28, 272 73, 340709, A63F 900
Patent
active
049764357
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is an adapter for driving control inputs of a video game system, providing a plurality of selectable functional relationships between a set of input signals and the control inputs, and includes an output section for communicating with the system, a receiver for the input signals, and a microprocessor converter for driving the output section in response to the input signals and for changing a functional relationship between the input signals and the output section according to a configuration selector. The configuration selector defines a first function wherein one of the control inputs is responsive to a particular input signal, and a second function wherein a different one of the control inputs is responsive to the input signal. The first and second functions advantageously provide selective transformations between frames of reference of the input signals and the video game itself whereby video games having differing frames of reference can be operated within the same user frame of reference. Typically, the system receives up, down, left, and right control inputs, the input signals including left and right input signals, the first function defining activation of the left and right control inputs from respective left and right input signals, the second function instead defining activation of the up and down control inputs from the same left and right input signals. Similarly, the configuration selector defines functional relationships for certain of the control inputs in terms of range selectable pedal rate thresholds of an exercise bicycle operated by the user.
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Shatford Will
Shatford, III Walter T.
Coven Edward M.
Harrison Jessica J.
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