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US 2014/0004934 A1Published application
Tv-to-game sync
AssigneeDisney Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsMichael Peterson, Brian Robillard, Julius Harper
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Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for unlocking in-game content for a video game application. In one embodiment, the video game application may be operated by a user that is concurrently viewing media content. The video game application captures an audio signal from the concurrently-playing media content, performs content recognition on the captured audio signal, and determines whether to unlock one or more portions of in-game content based on the identified media content.
Claims11
A computer-implemented method for providing a game environment, comprising:
- executing, on a computing device, an application comprising a game environment having locked content with a predefined association with one or more keys;
- receiving, on the computing device, data comprising at least one of audio data and video data;
- generating at least a key of the one or more keys based on the received data;
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- modifying, by operation of a processor of the computing device, the application based on the generated key by unlocking at least a portion of the locked content that augments gameplay within the game environment.
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