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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2008
C. Matthew Dawson, Highland, UT (US);
Emily Tyndall, Draper, UT (US);
Kristin Mae Yee, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
David Neil Christenson, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Edward Gilmore Martin, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
James Patrick Rowe, Herriman, UT (US);
Casey Shane Nelson, Sandy, UT (US);
Jamison R. Titera, Bountiful, UT (US);
Paul Mombourquette, Sandy, UT (US);
Rich Reagan, South Jordan, UT (US);
C. Matthew Dawson, Highland, UT (US);
Emily Tyndall, Draper, UT (US);
Kristin Mae Yee, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
David Neil Christenson, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Edward Gilmore Martin, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
James Patrick Rowe, Herriman, UT (US);
Casey Shane Nelson, Sandy, UT (US);
Jamison R. Titera, Bountiful, UT (US);
Paul Mombourquette, Sandy, UT (US);
Rich Reagan, South Jordan, UT (US);
DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
One particular implementation of the present invention may take the form of a method and apparatus for providing various dance movements as input to a dancing video game. The method and apparatus may detect the hand and arm movements of a video game player and interpret those movements as inputs to the video game. The video game may then compare the dancing movements of the user to expected dance movements to determine if the correct dance movement was performed by the user. The video game may also display a video game environment that instructs and interacts with the user to perform several dance movements of the video game. In this manner, the method and apparatus may provide a more realistic and dynamic dancing video game experience than previous dancing video games that only allowed the player to press buttons as inputs to the game.