Timing offset tolerant karaoke game
AssigneeSony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited
InventorsRichard Bates, Pauline Bozek
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Abstract
Game processing apparatus comprises means for indicating successive target actions to be executed by a user, each target action having an associated target time of execution; and scoring logic in which detected user actions are compared with the target actions, the storing logic comprising: an input arrangement by which user actions may be detected; means for comparing a detected sequence of user actions with a sequence of target actions; and means for detecting a timing offset between the sequence of user actions and a corresponding sequence of target actions; in which the comparison of subsequent user actions with respective target actions is arranged to apply the timing offset as a relative displacement between the detected user actions and the target times.
Claims19
Game processing apparatus comprising:
- means for indicating successive target actions to be executed by a user, each target action having an associated target time of execution;
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- scoring logic in which detected user actions are compared with the target actions, the scoring logic comprising:
- an input arrangement by which user actions may be detected;
- means for comparing a detected sequence of user actions with a sequence of target actions;
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- means for detecting a timing offset between the sequence of user actions and a corresponding sequence of target actions;
- in which, for the comparison of subsequent user actions with respective target actions, the apparatus is arranged to apply the timing offset as a relative displacement between the detected user actions and the target times.
A method of game processing in which user actions are compared with target actions, the method comprising:
- indicating successive target actions to be executed by a user, each target action having an associated target time of execution;
- detecting user actions;
- comparing a detected sequence of user actions with a sequence of target actions,
- detecting a timing offset between the sequence of user actions and a corresponding sequence of target actions;
- in which the comparison of subsequent user actions with respective target actions is arranged to apply the timing offset as a relative displacement between the detected user actions and the target times.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.