Interactive multi-screen display

A method of playing a video football game between first and second teams involving at least two players using at least first and second displays comprising the steps of:

• receiving successive frames of a video signal depicting the football game;
• detecting certain frames of the successive frames that relate to formation selection or play selection for at least one team in the game by recognizing first predetermined content of the frames that relate to formation selection or play selection;
• determining which team is on the offense or which team is on the defense by recognizing a possession indicator and its location in the frames that relate to formation selection or play selection;
• displaying the detected formation selection or play selection frames for the team on the offense only to the display held by the player on the offense and the formation selection and play selection frames for the team on the defense only to the display held by the player on the defense;
• and
• displaying the frames that do not relate to formation selection or play selection so that they are visible to all players.

A method of playing a video game between at least first and second teams that at different times are in a first mode of play and a second mode of play, the game involving at least two players wherein a first player uses a first display to play the game and a second player uses a second display to play the game comprising the steps of:

• generating successive frames of a video signal depicting the video game;
• detecting certain frames of the successive frames that contain first information that is to be made available to the player in the first mode of play but not the player in the second mode of play and second information that is to be made available to the player in the second mode of play but not the player in the first mode of play by recognizing first predetermined content of the certain frames;
• determining which player is in the first mode of play;
• displaying the first information on the display used by the player in the first mode of play;
• displaying the second information on the display used by the player in the second mode of play;
• and
• displaying any remaining information on a display visible to all players.