Automatic polling and display interactive entertainment system
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1. An interactive entertainment system, comprising:
- an image storage medium for storing images at addresses;
means for retrieving the images from the storage medium substantially instantaneously by accessing the images using the addresses;
a display coupled to the retrieving means;
means for communicating a list of choices of images from the storage medium to an audience; and
means for conducting a poll of the audience including at least a pair of polling units, each unit having means for registering a user choice of images from the storage medium and means for producing a signal in response to the registered user choice and wherein the conducting means includes means coupled to the polling units for receiving the signal and for tabulating user choices;
wherein the conducting means automatically causes the retrieving means to access a first stored image at an address and supply the first stored image to the display based upon the tabulated user choices.
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Abstract
An interactive entertainment system allows an audience to select the perspective or plot of an interactive episode. The audience is provided with polling units with which to vote during scenes of the episode. A polling computer and main computer tabulate the results of the voting and then select a series of images stored on a videodisk to be played by a videodisk player and transmitted to a video projection unit.
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25 Claims
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1. An interactive entertainment system, comprising:
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an image storage medium for storing images at addresses; means for retrieving the images from the storage medium substantially instantaneously by accessing the images using the addresses; a display coupled to the retrieving means; means for communicating a list of choices of images from the storage medium to an audience; and means for conducting a poll of the audience including at least a pair of polling units, each unit having means for registering a user choice of images from the storage medium and means for producing a signal in response to the registered user choice and wherein the conducting means includes means coupled to the polling units for receiving the signal and for tabulating user choices; wherein the conducting means automatically causes the retrieving means to access a first stored image at an address and supply the first stored image to the display based upon the tabulated user choices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. An interactive entertainment system, comprising:
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an image storage medium for storing images at addresses; means for retrieving the images from the storage medium substantially instantaneously by accessing the images using the addresses; means for communicating a list of choices of images from the storage medium to an audience; a display coupled to the retrieving means; and means for conducting a poll of the audience including at least a pair of polling units, each unit having means for registering a user choice of the images from the storage medium and means for producing a signal in response to the registered user choice and, wherein the polling units are divided into at least two groups, the conducting means includes at least two junction boxes, each junction box is connected to a group of polling units for receiving the signals, and each junction box records the user choices registered at each polling unit within a group and transmits those user choices to a means for tabulating user choices; wherein the conducting means automatically causes the retrieving means to access a first stored image at an address and supply the first stored image to the display based upon the tabulated user choices, the tabulating means transmits a tabulation image to the display and the tabulation image overlays the image on the display retrieved from the storage medium. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25)
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