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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2020
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Jeffrey Elbert, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Przemyslaw Iwanowski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brent David Strong, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Matthew S. Daly, La Crescenta, CA (US);
Sarit Ghildayal, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Bob Hickman, Simi Valley, CA (US);
John Cody Hampton, Orlando, FL (US);
Alex Christopher Wilde, Orlando, FL (US);
Amanda Marie Leahy, Orlando, FL (US);
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
A gameplay system for providing interactivity based on a piece of merchandise or other object held or worn by a player. Th system includes an object identification assembly, which may be a modified computer vision system, that operates to sense, for a gameplay participant, the presence and identity of a particular augmenting object such as themed merchandise worn or held by a rider of a theme park ride. The sensing may be performed by detecting an on-and-off pattern of light emitted from the object. In response, the gameplay system selects or modifies the interactive features of gameplay associated with the participant based on the identified augmenting object. For example, the interactive features are selected from memory by the gameplay system controller to match a character associated with the augmenting object during any interactive gameplay. This allows the gameplay participant to choose their abilities or powers for gameplay.