COMPUTER-CONTROLLED VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
First Claim
1. A computer-controlled video entertainment system, the system comprising:
- a display device for displaying video entertainment pictures to at least one user;
at least one computing device, in particular at least one server, being installed remotely from said display device and executing an entertainment software application for providing output data to be transmitted via an IP-based network to said the display device to display the video entertainment pictures;
a sensor device being installed in the vicinity of said display device and comprising at least one optical sensory element and at least one acoustic sensory element for providing user-related input data as rich input data to be processed by said entertainment software application, the sensor device further comprising a network interface for transmitting said input data via said IP-based network to said at least one computing device.
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Abstract
A computer-controlled video entertainment system providing user-related input data to said system. The invention provides an rich input sensor device having direct access to an IP-based network, in particular to the Internet, for transmitting sensor signals or data derived thereof as user-related input data via the IP-based network to a remote computing device or server, preferably to a cloud of servers, which then process these input data for controlling the running entertainment program. The sensor device can be made simple, since it is mainly designed to detect user activities and to generate sensor signals which are directly transmitted as input data to the remote computer(s) or server(s). The sensor device can directly communicate with any IP-based computing device (gaming server or the like) being installed remotely and having powerful hardware and software to process the received input data.
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19 Claims
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1. A computer-controlled video entertainment system, the system comprising:
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a display device for displaying video entertainment pictures to at least one user; at least one computing device, in particular at least one server, being installed remotely from said display device and executing an entertainment software application for providing output data to be transmitted via an IP-based network to said the display device to display the video entertainment pictures; a sensor device being installed in the vicinity of said display device and comprising at least one optical sensory element and at least one acoustic sensory element for providing user-related input data as rich input data to be processed by said entertainment software application, the sensor device further comprising a network interface for transmitting said input data via said IP-based network to said at least one computing device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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