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Russell E Glaser

Kevin Lee Furr

Duan Martin Evans

Stephen William Clements

Tiina Björk

Steven Ryan Gunn

Craig R Maitlen

Richard S Lum

Rowland Lee Brown

Charles Cummins

Timothy Thomas Gray

Wei Guo

Thamer A Abanami

Suzan Marashi

Leonardo G Del Castillo

Marc Anthony Salazar

Julian Selman

Steven Michael Sommer

Ryan Gunn

Amy Lynn Landers

Angela Kathleen Warren

Tito Pagan

John Clavin

Paolo V Malabuyo

Brian Peter Kralyevich

Alan Thomas Shen

Peter Glenn Sarrett

Scott Henson

Steven Michael Beeman

Forrest Elliott

Robert Sheldon Walker

Kevin L Furr

By adjusting visual settings on a display behind a section of a background to emphasize menu options, a user can determine the status in the series of menus and sub-menus and can better read the menu options.

Adaptable transparency

A computing device can include a recognition mode interface utilizing graphical elements, such as virtual fireflies, to indicate recognized or identified objects. The fireflies can be animated to move across a display, and the fireflies can create bounding boxes around visual representations of objects as the objects are recognized. In some cases, the object might be of a type that has specific meaning or information to be conveyed to a user. In such cases, the fireflies might be displayed with a particular size, shape, or color to convey that information. The fireflies also can be configured to form shapes or patterns in order to convey other types of information to a user, such as where audio is being recognized, light is sufficient for image capture, and the like. Other types of information can be conveyed as well via altering characteristics of the fireflies.

Adjusting graphical characteristics for recognition interfaces

A computing device can utilize a recognition mode wherein an interface utilizes graphical elements, such as virtual fireflies, to indicate recognized or identified objects. Fireflies can be displayed near an input element to indicate that a recognition mode is available. When a user selects the input element, the fireflies can appear to emanate from the input element and disperse across the display screen. As objects are recognized, fireflies can create bounding boxes around those objects, or otherwise appear proximate those objects, to indicate recognition. The fireflies can again disperse as the objects fall out of view, and can begin moving towards new objects as features of those objects are identified as potential object features. A subsequent selection of the input element to exit recognition mode can cause the fireflies to appear to retreat to their original location in, or near, the input element.

Graphical behaviors for recognition interfaces

An electronic game system and a method of its operation are provided for virtual space mapping of a variable activity region in physical space. A calibration input may be received from a positioning device of a game controller that indicates waypoints that define an activity region in physical space. A scale factor may be identified between the activity region and an interactive game region in virtual space based on the calibration input. Positioning information may be received from the positioning device that indicates a position of the positioning device within the activity region. The position of the positioning device within the activity region may be mapped to a corresponding virtual position within the interactive game region based on the scale factor.

Virtual space mapping of a variable activity region

A method of associating a controller to a console comprises, at the controller, establishing a connection with the console such that the controller is assigned to one of a plurality of different ports of the console over which different controllers may separately communicate with the console. A visual indication is then provided on the controller to indicate to the user of the controller which one of the plurality of different ports of the console has been assigned to the controller and over which the controller communicates with the console.

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