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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
May. 29, 2013
Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Ryan Challinor, Cambridge, MA (US);
Dare Matheson, Providence, RI (US);
Kasson D. Crooker, Arlington, MA (US);
Marc A. Flury, Rosemount, MN (US);
Matthew C. Boch, Somerville, MA (US);
Eran B. Egozy, Brookline, MA (US);
Dean N. Tate, Cambridge, MA (US);
HARMONIX MUSIC SYSTEMS, INC., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention includes methods, systems, computer program products and means for providing an intuitive user interface for interacting with a game console that obviates the need for, or use of, a typical game controller. In one embodiment, the user interface comprises an analog-like mechanism for manipulating a menu and icon system. The menu system allows the user to highlight a menu option or icon using movement along one axis and to activate the menu option or icon via movement on a different axis. In one embodiment, highlighting is associated with a vertical motion and activation is associated with a horizontal motion. The vertical motion can be tied to the vertical movement of a particular appendage, e.g., the up and down movement of the user's right arm, and the horizontal motion can be tied to the horizontal movement of that or another appendage, e.g., movement of the right arm or hand across the body from right to left.