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US 10,152,115 B2Granted
Generating position information employing an imager
AssigneeI-Interactive LLC
InventorDavid L. Henty
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Abstract
An application control system and method using generated position information of a control device and adapted for use with a display is disclosed. The control device may be conveniently held by a user. An imager is employed to image the control device to detect reference fields and generate position information. This information is used by the control device to control an application.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- receiving image information from an imager;
- identifying at least one pattern of light-emitting reference elements configured on a user-manipulated device based on one or more predetermined shapes that are formed by the at least one pattern of light-emitting reference elements;
- determining reference information based on the at least one pattern of light-emitting reference elements;
- generating position information based at least in part on the reference information, the position information expressing a position of the user-manipulated device;
- generating control information from the one or more predetermined shapes;
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- controlling an application based on the position information and the control information.
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A system for controlling an application on a display, comprising:
- a light detection system;
- a user-movable device having a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a reference pattern having a shape identifying at least one reference field of the user-movable device;
- a position detection module coupled to the light detection system, the position detection module including one or more processors including programmed instructions for determining identified reference information based on the at least one reference field;
- and generating position information based at least in part on the identified reference information, the position information changing in response to movement of the user-movable device, wherein the programmed instructions are responsive to a reset operation initiated by a user where a pointing position is changed by the user to a desired pointing position and the position information is reset;
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- a control module including one or more processors including programmed instructions for controlling an application based on the position information.
3 more elements
An entertainment control system, comprising:
- an imager;
- a user-movable object having plural LEDs arranged in one or more patterns;
- a control device including processing circuitry and associated instructions for receiving image information from the imager, identifying reference fields of the user-movable object based on the one or more patterns, determining identified reference information based on the reference fields, generating position information based at least in part on the identified reference information, the position information changing in response to movement of the user-movable object relative to the imager, determining control information based on a shape of the one or more patterns, and controlling an application based on the position information and the control information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.