Multiplatform gaming system

• US 8,267,793 B2
• Filed: 08/17/2010
• Issued: 09/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Engolz, Ofir, Toledano, Eyal
• Primary Examiner(s): Elisca, Pierre Eddy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kamal, Shahid
• Application Number:
  US12/857,681
• Publication Number:
  US 20120046108A1
• Time in Patent Office: 763 Days
• Field of Search: 463/1, 463/9, 463/40, 463/42, 345/158
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/50 Controlling the output signals based on the game progress
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/403 Connection between platform and handheld device
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/406 Transmission via wireless network, e.g. pager or GSM

Abstract

A multiplatform gaming system comprises in combination: (a) a mobile communication device provided with circuitry suitable to communicate over one or more communication channels; (b) software provided in said mobile device to receive inputs from one or more sensors of the device, and to transmit control data relying on said inputs over a communication channel; and (c) a gaming platform provided with a display, which platform runs software suitable to receive said control data and to control the behavior of a game according to such control data.

Claims

1. A gaming system comprising in combination:

(a) a mobile communication device comprising one or more image sensors, an image processor, a short range transceiver, a gaming client, and a display on which a game is displayable by means of said gaming client;

(b) software provided in said mobile device to receive inputs from said one or more image sensors, and to transmit control data relying on said inputs to said gaming client; and

(c) a stand-alone electronic device comprising a display a short range transceiver, and an image processor,

wherein the image processor of said mobile device is operable to generate a pixel map representative of an image frame captured by said one or more sensors from a portion of an image displayed on the display of said stand-alone device, said pixel map being transmittable to said stand-alone device via the short range transceiver thereof,

wherein the image processor of said stand-alone device is operable to generate, from said transmitted pixel map, one or more markers visible on the display of said stand-alone device, each of which being indicative of a corresponding border region of said captured image frame, to assist in aiming said mobile device,

wherein the image processor of said mobile device is operable to generate one or more augmented reality images which are displayable on the display of said mobile device, said one or more augmented reality images being related to said image portion captured by said one or more sensors;

wherein the gaming client is operable to (a) store position and status data of three dimensional elements for generating the one or more augmented reality images that are displayable on the display of the mobile device in response to predetermined events of the game and (b) coordinate a three dimensional frame of reference of each of the elements with a two dimensional frame of reference of the captured image.