US 10,380,826 B2Granted

Systems and methods for unlocking user interface elements

AssigneeDisney Enterprises, Inc.

InventorsJoseph Cho, Christopher Heatherly, Matthew Danner, Patrick Sager, Alif Khalfan, Bojan Jovanovic

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Abstract

There is provided a system comprising a touch screen display, a non-transitory memory storing a user interface, one or more software applications, and a game application, and a hardware processor executing the game application to launch a game for playing by the user using the touch screen display, receive a game play input from the user, while playing the game using the touch screen display, unlock a locked game element of a plurality of locked game elements of the game, in response to the game play input by the user, and add one of a plurality of user interface elements corresponding to the unlocked game element for display by the user interface, in response to the unlocking, wherein each of the plurality of locked game elements corresponds to one of the plurality of user interface elements, and wherein the user interface is used by the one or more software applications.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a display;
a non-transitory memory storing a user interface keyboard, one or more software applications, and a game application;
and
a hardware processor executing the game application to:
launch a game for playing by a user using the display;
receive a game play input from the user, while playing the game using the display;
unlock a locked game element of a plurality of locked game elements of the game, in response to the game play input by the user, wherein each of the plurality of locked game elements corresponds to one of a plurality of user interface elements;
and
modify the user interface keyboard to add one of the plurality of user interface elements corresponding to the unlocked game element to the user interface keyboard, in response to the unlocking;
wherein the user interface keyboard, including the one of the plurality of user interface elements corresponding to the unlocked game element, is used by the one or more software applications, and wherein the hardware processor when executing the one or more software applications displays, on the display, the user interface keyboard including the one of the plurality of user interface elements added to the user interface.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/331,720Filed 21 Oct 2016
Published: US 2018/0114398 A126 Apr 2018
Granted: 13 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification22 codes

G07F 17/3209
Player-machine interfaces: input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen
A63F 13/2145
For locating contacts on a surface, e.g. floor mats or touch pads: the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
A63F 13/42
Processing input control signals of video game devices, e.g. signals generated by the player or derived from the environment: by mapping the input…
A63F 13/533
Involving additional visual information provided to the game scene, e.g. by overlay to simulate a head-up display [HUD] or displaying a laser…:…