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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2012
Ronald Keryuan Huang, Milpitas, CA (US);
Rob Mayor, Cupertino, CA (US);
Isabel Mahe, Cupertino, CA (US);
Patrick Piemonte, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ronald Keryuan Huang, Milpitas, CA (US);
Rob Mayor, Cupertino, CA (US);
Isabel Mahe, Cupertino, CA (US);
Patrick Piemonte, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An interactive game environment includes two or more co-located, networked, direction and location aware interactive game devices. The game devices share a common reference coordinate frame (e.g., a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate frame). Each game device maintains its own device state (e.g., position, orientation, time) in the reference coordinate frame. Each interactive game device shares its device state with the other interactive game devices using communication technology (e.g., Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular). Each interactive game device can use the device states of the other interactive game devices to project the relative positions and orientations of the other interactive game devices into a local, fixed coordinate frame of the interactive game device. These projections allow each interactive gaming device to know the position and orientation of the other interactive game devices in an interactive game environment defined by the reference coordinate frame.