Harmonix Music Systems, Inc.

Isaac Adams

Matthew C Boch

Dean N Tate

Adam Carriuolo

Kasson D Crooker

Marc A Flury

Eitan Glinert

Eran B Egozy

Ryan Lesser

Matthew Moore

Dare Matheson

Joshua Randall

Seth Goldstein

Marc Albert Flury

Matthew Christopher Boch

Dean Nicholas Tate

This disclosure relates generally to analysis of movement that is electronically captured and recognition of which movement was performed for purposes of evaluation. This type of motion capture, analysis and evaluation can have applicability across a number of fields, such as healthcare, entertainment, communication, and manufacturing. The recognition can occur once movement information collected from sensors is inputted into the system. The system can then analyze the movement information to determine what the movement is. In some games, such as sports games, movement recognition can provide feedback to a user about what they are doing. In other games, such as dance games, movement recognition can allow for users to dance a move from a set of moves providing for a more entertaining game.

Movement based recognition and evaluation

Presented herein are methods, apparatuses, programs, and systems for scoring a player performance comprising one or more poses in a dance-based video game. a performance 3D skeleton is received that indicates a pose of the player. A score is calculated by comparing a position, a timing, or both, associated with one or more joints of the performance 3D skeleton to a position, a timing, or both, associated with one or more joints of a target pose and altering one or more characteristics of the dance-based video game based on the score.

Dance game and tutorial

Presented herein are methods, apparatuses, programs, and systems for prompting a player to perform a series of dance moves. A player is prompted to perform a series of dance moves by providing a timeline comprising at least a first time interval associated with a first dance move, and a second time interval associated with a second dance move; displaying an icon representing the first dance move at a first location on the display for the duration of the first time interval; and displaying an icon representing the second dance move at the first location on the display for the duration of the second time interval, wherein the icon representing the first dance move includes one or more representations of a body and indicates on the one or more representations of the body at least one body part whose position is important during the performance of the first dance move.

Prompting a player of a dance game

Display screen or portion thereof with an icon for displaying dance moves

Display screen or portion thereof with boombox icon

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Revere, MA, United States of America

Isaac Adams