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Entertainment system for performing human intelligence tasks

  • US 8,206,222 B2
  • Filed: 01/29/2009
  • Issued: 06/26/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • a server configured for distributing digital image data to a game client via a computer network, wherein the digital image data represents images of physical objects;

    a game client in communication with the server, the game client comprising a memory holding a game engine configured to operate on the game client, wherein the game engine is configured to (a) output the digital image data as part of game output in response to receiving the digital image data from the server, to (b) contemporaneously output a game environment in coordination with and exclusive of the digital image data, to (c) generate a game score responsive to user input received by the game client from a user interface device during game play, by increasing the game score in response to user input indicating consistency in human visual discrimination of images included in the digital image data for a user of the game engine and reducing the game score in response to user input indicating inconsistency in human visual discrimination of the images, and (d) to output a record identifying a sequence of the images output during game play correlated to the user input; and

    the server, inferring a predetermined attribute of ones of the images based on the record.

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