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AssigneeHarmonix Music Systems, Inc.
InventorsDouglas Robert Applewhite, Christopher Joseph Foster, Joshua Forrest Stoddard
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Described are methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, for preventing an unintentional deploy of a bonus in a video game. In one aspect this is accomplished by displaying, on a display in communication with a game platform, a target music data of a musical composition. The game platform receives a music performance input data via the microphone, and also determines if the music performance input data has a predetermined degree of matching with a vocal cue. If so, the performance input data is prevented from executing an improvisation deploy.
A method executed on a game platform in signal communication with a display and a first microphone, the method comprising:
A computer program product, tangibly embodied in a computer-readable storage medium, the computer program product including instructions operable to cause a data processing apparatus to:
A system comprising:
An apparatus comprising:
A method executed on a game platform in signal communication with a display and a microphone, the method comprising:
A computer program product, tangibly embodied in a computer-readable storage medium, the computer program product including instructions operable to cause a data processing apparatus to:
A system comprising:
An apparatus comprising:
A method executed on a game platform in signal communication with a display and a microphone, the method comprising:
A computer program product, tangibly embodied in a computer-readable storage medium, the computer program product including instructions operable to cause a data processing apparatus to:
A system comprising:
An apparatus comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.