SERVER, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A GAME IN A SERVER, MOBILE APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOBILE APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A GAME IMAGE IN A DISPLAY APPARATUS

• US 20140243086A1
• Filed: 02/21/2014
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Doh-hyeong, YANG, Seung-joo, KANG, Han
• Application Number:
  US14/186,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20140243086A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/31
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/26 having at least one additional display device, e.g. on the game controller or outside a game booth
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/31 Communication aspects specific to video games, e.g. between several handheld game devices at close range
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/355 Performing operations on behalf of clients with restricted processing capabilities, e.g. servers transform changing game scene into an encoded video stream for transmitting to a mobile phone or a thin client
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing

Abstract

A method for controlling a game in a server which is connectable to a display apparatus and a mobile apparatus is provided. The game controlling method includes, when a game execution command is received from a mobile apparatus, providing the mobile apparatus with a manipulation content which corresponds to the game execution command, generating a game image which corresponds to the game execution command as a real-time stream, and transmitting the generated real-time stream to the display apparatus.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a game using a server, the server being connectable to a display apparatus and a mobile apparatus, the method comprising:

when a game execution command is received from the mobile apparatus, providing the mobile apparatus with a manipulation content, the manipulation content corresponding to the game execution command;

generating a game image as a real-time stream, the game image corresponding to the game execution command; and

transmitting the generated real-time stream to the display apparatus.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user control command through a manipulation image, the manipulation image corresponding to the provided manipulation content; and

wherein the generating comprises generating a game image as a real-time stream, the game image corresponding to the received user command.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the game execution command comprises information on a display apparatus, the display apparatus being synchronized with the mobile apparatus, and

wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the generated real-time stream to a display apparatus, the real-time stream corresponding to the information on the display apparatus.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the manipulation content is a real-time stream of a manipulation image for a user manipulation in game execution.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the game execution command is a command for executing one game among a plurality of games, the plurality of games being providable from the server, and

wherein the manipulation content and the game image correspond to the executed game.

6. A method for controlling a mobile apparatus, the mobile apparatus being connectable to a server and a display apparatus, the method comprising:

when a first application is operated, receiving a manipulation content corresponding to the first application from the server;

displaying a manipulation image corresponding to the received manipulation content;

receiving a user control command from the displayed manipulation image; and

transmitting the received user control command to the server so that a game image corresponding to the user control command is displayed on the display apparatus.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising:

when the first application is operated, operating a second application of the display apparatus in the display apparatus, the second application corresponding to the first application,

receiving apparatus information on the display apparatus from the display apparatus; and

transmitting the received apparatus information on the display apparatus to the server.

8. The method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising:

updating the manipulation image in response to the user control command.

9. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the manipulation content is a real-time stream of a manipulation image for a user manipulation in game execution.

10. A method for displaying a game image in a display apparatus, the display apparatus being connectable to a server and a mobile apparatus, the method comprising:

when a synchronization command is received according to operation of a first application installed in the mobile apparatus, operating a second application of the display apparatus, the second application corresponding to the first application;

when the second application is operated, receiving a game image as a real-time stream from the server, the game image corresponding to the first application; and

displaying the received real-time stream.

11. A server, comprising:

a communication unit which communicates with a display apparatus and a mobile apparatus, the display apparatus and the mobile apparatus being connectable to the server; and

a controller which, when a game execution command is received from the mobile apparatus, generates a manipulation content corresponding to the game execution command, generates a game image corresponding to the game execution command as a real-time stream, and controls the communication unit to transmit the generated manipulation content and real-time stream to the display apparatus.

12. The server as claimed in claim 11, wherein the communication unit receives a user control command through a manipulation image, the manipulation image corresponding to the transmitted manipulation content from the mobile apparatus, and

wherein the controller generates a game image as a real-time stream, the game image corresponding to the received user control command.

13. The server as claimed in claim 11, wherein the game execution command comprises information on a display apparatus, the display apparatus being synchronized with the mobile apparatus, and

wherein the controller controls the communication unit to transmit the generated real-time stream to a display apparatus, the real-time stream corresponding to information on the display apparatus.

14. The server as claimed in claim 11, wherein the manipulation content is a real-time stream of a manipulation image for a user manipulation in game execution.

15. The server as claimed in claim 11, wherein the game execution command is a command for executing one game among a plurality of games, the plurality of games being providable from the server, and

wherein the manipulation content and the game image correspond to the executed game.

16. A mobile apparatus which is connectable to a server and a display apparatus, comprising:

a communication unit which, when a first application is operated, receives a manipulation content, the manipulation content corresponding to the first application from the server;

a display apparatus which displays a manipulation image corresponding to the received manipulation content;

an input unit which receives a user control command from the displayed manipulation image; and

a controller which controls the communication unit to transmit the received user control command to the server so that a game image which corresponds to user control command is displayed on the display apparatus.

17. The mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the communication unit, when the first application is operated, operates the second application of the display apparatus which corresponds to the first application in the display apparatus, and receives apparatus information on the display apparatus from the display apparatus, and

wherein the controller controls the communication unit to transmit the received apparatus information on the display apparatus to the server.

18. The mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the controller controls the display to update and display the manipulation image in response to the user control command.

19. The mobile apparatus as claimed in claim 16, wherein the manipulation content is a real-time steam of a manipulation image for a user manipulation in game execution.

20. A display apparatus which is connectable to a server and a mobile apparatus, comprising:

a controller which, when a synchronization command is received according to operation of a first application which is installed in the mobile apparatus, operates a second application of the display apparatus which corresponds to the first application;

a communication unit which, when the second application is operated, receives a game image corresponding to the first application as a real-time stream from the server; and

a display which displays the received real-time stream.