REAL-TIME VIDEO FEED BASED MULTIPLAYER GAMING ENVIRONMENT

• US 20160243441A1
• Filed: 02/22/2016
• Published: 08/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peter Garbowski
• Original Assignee: Peter Garbowski
• Inventors: Garbowski, Peter, Kelly, Blair, Farin, Dirk, Nellet, Ryan
• Granted Patent: US 9,987,557 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/213 comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells A63F13/219, A63F13/655 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/358 Adapting the game course according to the network or server load, e.g. for reducing latency due to different connection speeds between clients
• 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

Abstract

Methods and systems for real-time video-based multiplayer gaming environments enable operators to remotely control vehicles over a network comprising a base station and a server. Cameras may record and transmit encoded video relating to the vehicles for display at a remote console. In response, the operator is able to input commands to remotely control the operation of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A real-time video feed based multiplayer gaming system, the system comprising:

a plurality of unmanned vehicles at an operations area, each vehicle comprising a camera configured to capture video data; and

a server configured to;

receive captured video data from at least one vehicle of the plurality of vehicles;

send the captured video data to a remote console associated with the at least one vehicle; and

dynamically manage resources within the system by performing an operation based on a network performance metric or a processing performance metric corresponding to the remote console associated with the at least one vehicle, the operation selected from a group consisting of;

encoding the captured video data, transcoding the captured video data, and decoding the captured video data.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a base station at the operations area, the base station communicatively coupled to the plurality of vehicles and the server.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the server is further configured to send a signal to the base station to prepare the operations area and the plurality of vehicles for a match.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the server is further configured to receive an input signal from the remote console associated with the at least one vehicle and send the input signal to the at least one vehicle.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the server is further configured to:

receive a plurality of connection requests from a plurality of remote consoles; and

associate each of the plurality of remote consoles with at least one of the plurality of vehicles.

6. A method of managing a real-time video feed based multiplayer gaming system, the method comprising:

receiving captured video data from a vehicle associated with a user;

encoding the captured video data using multi-slice parallelism, key and predicted frames, and forward error correction;

sending the captured video data to a remote console associated with the user;

receiving input from the user;

transmitting the input to the vehicle associated with the user.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein encoding the captured video data comprises encoding the captured video data based on a network performance metric or a processing performance metric corresponding to the remote console.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving log in credentials from the user; and

associating the vehicle with the user using the credentials.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein receiving the captured video data comprises receiving the captured video data through a base station;

and wherein transmitting the input to the vehicle comprises transmitting the input to the base station.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising modifying a performance parameter of the vehicle using a network performance metric or a processing performance metric corresponding to the remote console.