Music game software and input device utilizing a video player
AssigneeActivision Publishing, Inc.
InventorsKarthik Bala, John Reine
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Abstract
A video game includes an audio-video stream combined with game graphics and game sounds. The game graphics are overlaid on the video stream and updated in synchronization with the stream. Update of the game graphics and sounds depends on inputs received from a game player. The game player may provide input using a game controller coupled to the video game by an adapter. The video game may play on a Blu-ray player.
Claims18
A method performed by a movie player including a video disc reader, a media decoder for decoding audio-video data from the video disc reader, and a processor configured by program instructions, the method comprising:
- commanding playback of video clips comprised of a sequence of video frames, as part of providing presentations of a video game, the playback of the video clips including decoding, by the media decoder, of video data for video frames, the video data stored on a local removable optical media, to provide decoded video signals, the media decoder decoding the video data in segments, in a list of segments, each segment having a beginning time and an ending time identified by time stamps, the media decoder decoding the video data in a sequence determined in accordance with the list of segments and based on input received from a controller during game play and a current game state;
- generating, by the processor, and commanding display of game graphics, including prompts to a user to operate the controller, as part of providing presentations of the video game in conjunction with playback of the video clips;
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- generating, by the processor, and commanding display of revised game graphics as part of providing presentations of the video game based on input received from the controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.