SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL DANCING

• US 20140015650A1
• Filed: 07/16/2012
• Published: 01/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shmuel Ur
• Original Assignee: Shmuel Ur
• Inventors: UR, Shmuel
• Granted Patent: US 8,779,908 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/407.1
• 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 13/816 Athletics, e.g. track-and-field sports
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/847 Cooperative playing, e.g. requiring coordinated actions from several players to achieve a common goal
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8047 Music games

Abstract

A system and method for enabling social dancing. The system comprising a movement registration module configured to monitor and identify movements by a participant; and a tactile feedback actuator configured to supply tactile feedback to the participant based on a determination by a logic module. The method performed by a computerized device, the method comprising: monitoring movements by a participant; determining feedback in response to the movements; and instructing a tactile feedback actuator to supply the feedback to the participant.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a movement registration module configured to monitor and identify movements by a participant; and

a tactile feedback actuator configured to supply tactile feedback to the participant based on a determination by a logic module.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said tactile feedback actuator is configured to be worn by the participant.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said tactile feedback actuator is configured to provide tactile feedback to a body portion of the participant selected from the group consisting of:

a chest, a back, and a hip.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said tactile feedback actuator is configured to provide tactile feedback to a hand of the participant.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said movement registration module is operatively coupled to a motion sensing input device configured to detect movement by the participant.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein said motion sensing input device is a remote sensor.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein said motion sensing input device is a video camera recording activity of the participant, and wherein said movement registration module being configured to analyze the recorded activity and identify gestures.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein said motion sensing input device is a configured to be held or worn by the participant, said motion sensing input device is configured to identify position and movement of said motion sensing input device thereby detecting gestures by the participant.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein said logic module is configured to determine movements of a virtual partner of the participant and induce tactile feedback accordingly via said tactile feedback actuator.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein said logic module is operative to communicate with a second system monitoring movements by a second participant, wherein the tactile feedback to the participant is based on the movements of the second participant.

11. The system of claim 1 further comprising an output device configured to provide a visual display to the participant of a dancing activity based on the movements by the participant.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the output device is a display.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the visual display includes an avatar representing a dance partner.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the avatar is based on a real-time visual recording of the dance partner.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the avatar is generated by said logic module so as to match the movements by the participants identified by said movement registration module.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein said system is operatively coupled with a one or more systems via a network, wherein each system is associated with a real-life participant, wherein said system and the one or more systems are jointly configured to simulate a ballroom in which the real-life participants are dancing.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein said movement registration module is configured to identify gestures associated with a social dance routine, and wherein said tactile feedback actuator is configured to supply tactile feedback associated with a response of a dance partner to the social dance routine.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein the participant is performing a co-operative physical activity.

13. The system of 11, wherein the output device is a wearable augmented reality glasses.

20. A computer-implemented method performed by a computerized device, the method comprising:

monitoring movements by a participant;

determining feedback in response to the movements; and

instructing a tactile feedback actuator to supply the feedback to the participant.