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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2008
Wei Yen, Seattle, WA (US);
Ian Wright, Mountain View, CA (US);
Xiaoyuan Tu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Stuart Reynolds, Mountain View, CA (US);
William Robert Powers, Iii, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles Musick, Jr., Belmont, CA (US);
John Funge, Sunnayvale, CA (US);
Daniel Dobson, Atherton, CA (US);
Curt Bererton, Burlingame, CA (US);
Wei Yen, Seattle, WA (US);
Ian Wright, Mountain View, CA (US);
Xiaoyuan Tu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Stuart Reynolds, Mountain View, CA (US);
William Robert Powers, III, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles Musick, Jr., Belmont, CA (US);
John Funge, Sunnayvale, CA (US);
Daniel Dobson, Atherton, CA (US);
Curt Bererton, Burlingame, CA (US);
AiLive, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A movable game controller for controlling aspects of a computer controlled game display with apparatus for determining the linear and angular motion of that movable controller. The apparatus includes a plurality of self-contained inertial sensors for sensing the tri-axial linear and tri-axial angular motion of the moving controller. Each sensor is mounted at a fixed linear position and orientation with respect to the others. The linear and angular motion of the controller is computed from the correlated motion sensor readings of each of the plurality of self-contained inertial sensors.