US 2010/0062854 A1Published application

Entertainment System

AssigneeSony Computer Entertainment Inc.

InventorsTeiyu Goto, Katsu Saito, Akio Ohba, Hiroyuki Segawa

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Abstract

Provided is a game system utilizing the LEDs of a controller (20). In a game system (1), an image pickup device (2) takes the image of the controller (20). The controller (20) includes a plurality of input units for performing an operation input to proceed a game, and a plurality of LEDs for expressing a controller number to be set in the controller (20), in a game application to be executed. A game device (10) accepts and reflects the operation input of the controller (20), upon the processing of the game application, acquires the taken image from the image pickup device (2), acquires a position in the taken image of the controller (20) from the positions of the LEDs in the taken image, reflects the acquired position information upon the processing of the game application, and generates an image signal indicating the application processing result based on the operation input and the acquired position information.

Claims5

Dependent claims

An entertainment system, comprising:

an operation input apparatus from which a user makes an operation input;
a processing apparatus which processes an application based on an operation input in the operation input apparatus and generates an image signal for showing the result of processing of the application;
an image pickup apparatus which captures the operation input apparatus;
and an image display apparatus which outputs an image signal generated in the processing apparatus, wherein:
the operation input apparatus includes a plurality of input units from which a user makes an operation input for advancing an application, and a plurality of light emitting elements for indicating a number set for the operation input apparatus in an application executed;
and
the processing apparatus accepts an operation input provided to the operation input apparatus and reflects the operation input in the processing of an application, acquires a captured image from the image pickup apparatus, acquires the position of the operation input apparatus in the captured image based on the position of the light emitting element in the captured image and reflects the acquired position information in the processing of the application, and generates an image signal showing the result of application processing performed based on the operation input and acquired position information.

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Facts

Application: 12/067,468Filed 23 Feb 2007
Priority: JP 2006-07005914 Mar 2006
Published: 11 Mar 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification21 codes

A63F 13/06
A63F 13/213
Characterised by their sensors, purposes or types: comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells
A63F 13/20
Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions: input arrangements for video game devices
A63F 13/24
Input arrangements for video game devices: constructional details thereof, e.g. game controllers with detachable joystick handles