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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2010
Marc A. Flury, Cambridge, MA (US);
Kasson D. Crooker, Arlington, MA (US);
Matthew C. Boch, Somerville, MA (US);
Eran B. Egozy, Brookline, MA (US);
Dean N. Tate, Cambridge, MA (US);
Seth Goldstein, Exeter, NH (US);
Isaac Adams, Revere, MA (US);
Adam Carriuolo, Rehoboth, MA (US);
Marc A. Flury, Cambridge, MA (US);
Kasson D. Crooker, Arlington, MA (US);
Matthew C. Boch, Somerville, MA (US);
Eran B. Egozy, Brookline, MA (US);
Dean N. Tate, Cambridge, MA (US);
Seth Goldstein, Exeter, NH (US);
Isaac Adams, Revere, MA (US);
Adam Carriuolo, Rehoboth, MA (US);
Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
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.