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AssigneeSony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
InventorsIvan Nelson Wakefield, William O. Camp, JR.
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An interactive media and game system creates a live event simulation that enables users to participate in a live event through a virtual participant controlled by the user. A game server receives user input controlling a position of a virtual participant in said live event, determines a position and orientation of the virtual participant based on said user input, and creates a simulated view of the event from the perspective of the virtual participant. To create the simulated view, the game server selects a video source from among a plurality of video sources based on the position of the virtual participant, determines a position and orientation of the selected video source, and transforms a video image supplied by the selected video source based on the position and orientation of the selected video source relative to the virtual participant. Transforming may entail interpolating between two or more video images from two of more different video sources.
A method of simulating participation in a live event, said method comprising:
An interactive media and game system for creating a live event simulation, said interactive media and game system comprising:
The interactive media and game system 11 wherein the video processor is configured to transform a video image from the selected video source by interpolating between two or more video images from two or more selected video sources to generate an intermediate view and subsequently scaling the intermediate view based on a distance of said virtual participant and a distance of said intermediate view from one or more objects in the view of said video images.
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