GAMING UTILIZING ACTUAL TELEMETRY DATA

• US 20010003715A1
• Filed: 12/22/1998
• Published: 06/14/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: JUTZI, CURTIS E., CONNELLY, JAY
• Granted Patent: US 7,211,000 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/40
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/5252 using two or more virtual cameras concurrently or sequentially, e.g. automatically switching between fixed virtual cameras when a character changes room or displaying a rear-mirror view in a car-driving game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/65 automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/803 Driving vehicles or craft, e.g. cars, airplanes, ships, robots or tanks
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/812 Ball games, e.g. soccer or baseball
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/409 Data transfer via television network
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/64 for computing dynamical parameters of game objects, e.g. motion determination or computation of frictional forces for a virtual car
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/69 Involving elements of the real world in the game world, e.g. measurement in live races, real video
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8011 Ball
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8017 Driving on land or water; Flying

Abstract

Gaming utilizing actual telemetry data. In one embodiment, a system including a source of actual telemetry data regarding an event, such as a sporting event, and a gaming application utilizing the actual telemetry data. In one embodiment, by utilizing actual telemetry data, the ability to play a game as if the game player were involved in a current sporting event, in real-time, is provided.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a source of actual telemetry data regarding an event; and

,

a gaming application utilizing the actual telemetry data.

2. The system of

claim 1

, wherein the event comprises a sporting event.

3. The system of

claim 1

, wherein the source of actual telemetry data comprises a storage storing the data as previously captured by data capture equipment.

4. The system of

claim 3

, wherein the storage is selected from the group essentially consisting of:

a removable storage medium, a server.

5. The system of

claim 1

, wherein the source of actual telemetry data comprises data capture equipment to capture data from each of at least one contestant of the event for substantially real-time utilization by the gaming application.

6. The system of

claim 5

, further comprising a transport medium to communicate the actual telemetry data from the source to the gaming application.

7. The system of

claim 6

, wherein the transport medium comprises:

a transceiver coupled to the data capture equipment; and

,

an uplink coupled to the transceiver.

8. The system of

claim 7

, wherein the transport medium further comprises:

a downlink communicatively coupled to the transceiver; and

,

a network communicatively coupling the downlink to the gaming application.

9. The system of

claim 8

, wherein the network is selected from the group essentially consisting of:

the Internet, an intranet, and an extranet.

10. The system of

claim 1

, wherein the event is selected from the group essentially consisting of:

auto racing, golf, baseball, football, basketball, tennis, and hockey.

11. The system of

claim 1

, wherein the gaming application is run on a platform selected from the group essentially consisting of:

a computer, a television set-top box, a stand-alone video game, and a video-gaming system console.

12. The system of

claim 1

, wherein the gaming application utilizes the actual telemetry data to display a simulated version of the event.

13. The system of

claim 1

, wherein the gaming application utilizes the actual telemetry data to provide a user-participatory simulated version of the event.

14. A method comprising:

capturing actual telemetry data regarding an event; and

,

utilizing the actual telemetry data within a gaming application.

15. The method of

claim 14

, wherein the event comprises a sporting event.

16. The method of

claim 14

, further comprising storing the actual telemetry data on a storage for later utilization by the gaming application.

17. The method of

claim 14

, further comprising communicating the actual telemetry data in substantially real-time for substantially immediate utilization by the gaming application.

18. The method of

claim 14

, wherein utilizing the actual telemetry data within a gaming application comprises displaying a non-participatory simulated version of the sporting event based on the actual telemetry data.

19. The method of

claim 14

, wherein utilizing the actual telemetry data within a gaming application comprises providing a user-participatory simulated version of the sporting event based on the actual telemetry data.

20. A machine-readable medium having processor instructions stored thereon for execution by a processor to perform a method comprising:

receiving actual telemetry data regarding an event; and

,

utilizing the actual telemetry data regarding the event to provide a simulated version of the sporting event.

21. The machine-readable medium of

claim 20

, wherein the event comprises a sporting event.

22. The machine-readable medium of

claim 20

, wherein receiving actual telemetry data regarding an event comprises retrieving the actual telemetry data from a storage storing the data as previously captured by data capture equipment.

23. The machine-readable medium of

claim 20

, wherein receiving actual telemetry data regarding an event comprises retrieving the actual telemetry data in substantially real-time from a transport medium communicatively coupled to data capture equipment capturing in substantially real-time the data.

24. The machine-readable medium of

claim 20

, wherein utilizing the actual telemetry data regarding a sporting event to provide a simulated version of the event comprises utilizing the actual telemetry data to display a non-participatory simulated version of the sporting event.

25. The machine-readable medium of

claim 20

, wherein utilizing the actual telemetry data regarding an event to provide a simulated version of the event comprises utilizing the actual telemetry data to provide a user-participatory simulated version of the event.