Wireless controller for a video game player

Details Wireless controller for a video game player Wireless controller for a video game player

2003-04-16

2004-12-07

Nguyen, Kim (Department: 3713)

Amusement devices: games

Including means for processing electronic data

Player-actuated control structure

C463S039000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06827648

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. The Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a wireless controller for a video game player, and more particularly relates to a wireless controller for a video game player comprising a wireless receiver and a sound transformer that are connected with a first memory chip receiver of the video game player. The built-in microphone and the amplifier of the wireless receiver allow the user to use the wireless controller to transmit signals and communicate with the wireless receiver wirelessly. Thus without using headset with microphone, the user can control the wireless controller and also communicate with the other online player within an effective transmission range.
2. Description of the Related Art
Nowadays, online game is very popular and all the manufacturers of game players continue developing newer game players for the recreation of on-line users. For capitalizing the market, the manufacturers of game players provide various peripheral products for facilitating the video game player in view of user friendly control and convenience, for example, some manufacturers have design a headset with microphone in order to allow the user to communicate with other online game players in order to create more fun for the online users while playing the game.
Referring to
FIGS. 1A
,
1
B,
1
C and
2
, show a conventional video game player. As shown, the video game system A
10
(XBox of Microsoft) comprises a controller A
20
, a sound transformer A
30
, and a sound device A
40
. The sound device A
40
comprises a headset A
41
with microphone A
42
particularly for the online game. A first memory chip receiver A
22
of the controller A
20
is for receiving the sound transformer A
30
with an external card bus, and the sound transformer A
30
is used as a communication medium between the second communication interface A
35
and the controller A
20
. A sound transmission wire A
43
is used as a communication medium between the headset A
41
with microphone A
42
and the headset jack A
34
with sound transformer A
30
. Thus the first control circuit A
21
and first communication interface A
25
of the controller A
20
is able to communicate with the video game system A
10
. Further, the controller A
20
comprises a second memory chip receiver A
23
and a button A
24
, wherein the second memory chip receiver A
23
is a prescribed slot and the button A
24
is for controlling the game and for switching the functions. The sound transformer A
30
comprises a second control circuit A
31
, a volume control button A
32
and a microphone switch A
33
. The volume control button A
32
is for controlling the volume of the headset A
41
and the microphone switch A
33
is for turning the microphone A
42
on or off through the second control circuit A
31
.
However, the above conventional video game player has several defects as follows:
1. The specification of the headset A
41
and the microphone A
42
are different from the one available in the market, and therefore the user has to purchase the video game player together with the sound transformer A
30
as a set if any one of the headset A
41
or microphone A
42
is out of order. Therefore, it is expensive for the user to replace the whole video game player.
2. The headset A
41
and microphone A
42
need to communicate with sound transformer A
30
through the sound transmission wire A
43
, thus could cause inconvenience to the user, for example, entanglement of the sound transmission wire A
43
and/or limited length of the sound transmission wire A
43
, while using the controller A
20
.
3. The headset A
41
and microphone A
42
are directly held on the user's ear, this would be uncomfortable to the user after long-hour usage due to the weight of the headset A
41
and microphone A
42
.
4. The user is unable to move freely because of the sound transmission wire
43
and controller transmission wire.
5. The user is unable to control the volume and turning the microphone A
42
on or off instantly, thus the fun of playing by such controller A
20
will not be as much as desired.
Therefore, it is highly desirable to improve the video game player in order to overcome the above defects of the prior art.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, in the view of the foregoing, the present inventor makes a detailed study of related art to evaluate and consider, and uses years of accumulated experience in this field, and through several experiments, to create a new wireless controller for video game player. The present invention provides an innovated cost effective wireless controller for video game player, which would allow the user to control the controller wirelessly within an effective range providing great convenience and recreation to the user while playing the game.
According to an aspect of the present invention, the connection to the wireless controller is accomplished in an orderly fashion, wherein signals input by a button on the wireless controller is transmitted in an orderly fashion to a third control circuit, a second wireless receiving/transmitting circuit and a first wireless receiving/transmitting circuit. The signal is further transmitted to a first control circuit, and then finally transmitted to a video game system through the first communication interface. The wireless controller is used for transmitting the signal and control the wireless receiver wirelessly. Further, the wireless controller has a button for controlling the volume of the amplifier and for turning the microphone of the wireless receiver on or off. Therefore, the user need not hold the wired controller or wear the headset with microphone to play the game for communicating with the other players.


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