Game
First Claim
1. A game for providing a mixed reality experience to a user, the game comprising:
- a game board having at least one marker;
game objects to be manipulated by the user, each object having at least two surfaces, each surface having a marker; and
game logic to manage game play according to predetermined game rules;
wherein the position and orientation of the game board and game objects is tracked by identifying markers on the game board and game objects, and game play occurs in response to manipulation of at least one object; and
multimedia content associated with at least one identified marker is retrieved and superimposed in a relative position to the at least one identified marker, to provide a mixed reality experience to the user.
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Abstract
A game for providing a mixed reality experience to a user, the game comprising: a game board having at least one marker, game objects to be manipulated by the user, each object having at least two surfaces, each surface having a marker and game logic to manage game play according to predetermined game rules. In addition, the position and orientation of the game board and game objects is tracked by identifying markers on the game board and game objects, and game play occurs in response to manipulation of at least one object. Furthermore, multimedia content associated with at least one identified marker is retrieved and superimposed in a relative position to the at least one identified marker, to provide a mixed reality experience to the user.
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62 Claims
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1. A game for providing a mixed reality experience to a user, the game comprising:
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a game board having at least one marker;
game objects to be manipulated by the user, each object having at least two surfaces, each surface having a marker; and
game logic to manage game play according to predetermined game rules;
wherein the position and orientation of the game board and game objects is tracked by identifying markers on the game board and game objects, and game play occurs in response to manipulation of at least one object; and
multimedia content associated with at least one identified marker is retrieved and superimposed in a relative position to the at least one identified marker, to provide a mixed reality experience to the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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18. A gaming system for providing a mixed reality experience to a user, the system comprising:
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an image capturing device configured to capture images of a game board and game objects of a game, in a first scene; and
a microprocessor configured to track the position and orientation of the game board and game objects by identifying markers on the game board and game objects;
wherein the microprocessor is configured to retrieve multimedia content associated with at least one identified marker, and to generate a second scene including the associated multimedia content superimposed over the first scene in a relative position to the at least one identified marker, and wherein game play occurs in response to manipulation of at least one game object. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53)
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54. A method for playing a game having a game board and game objects, to provide a mixed reality experience to a user, the method comprising:
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capturing images of the game board and the game objects, in a first scene; and
tracking the position and orientation of the game board and game objects by identifying markers on the game board and game objects;
retrieving multimedia content associated with at least one identified marker, and generating a second scene including the associated multimedia content superimposed over the first scene in a relative position to the at least one identified marker, and responding to manipulation of at least one game object. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56, 57)
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Specification