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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sega Enterprises, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 9/24 ;
Abstract
An expansion unit or is connected to a controller body including an analog direction key , a digital direction key , command buttons , command levers , etc. An expansion unit including a photo emitting unit is connected to thereby make the controller cordless. An expansion unit including a photo detecting unit , whereby shooting games in which an enemy on a monitor screen can be shot can be played. An expansion unit including a vibration unit is connected, whereby a vibration is given to the controller body to make a shooting game more realistic. New functions can be added to the conventional controller, and the new functions can be added freely without making no change to the controller body.