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Entertainment device, system, and method

  • US 8,970,624 B2
  • Filed: 05/06/2010
  • Issued: 03/03/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An entertainment device comprising:

  • an image receiver operable to receive, from a video camera, images captured by the video camera;

    display logic, connectable to a display, for displaying the images captured by the video camera, together with one or more selection icons, each selection icon corresponding to a game object;

    an image processor operable to detect the presence and position of an augmented reality marker in images received from the camera;

    a detector operable to detect the presence of the augmented reality marker at an image position corresponding to a selection icon for at least a predetermined selection time period; and

    associating logic, responsive to such a detection, operable to associate the game object corresponding to the one of the selection icons with the augmented reality marker, so that the display logic displays the game object so as to move the game object with the detected position of the augmented reality marker;

    in which, if the detector detects the presence of the augmented reality marker for at least a second predetermined period of time at an image position corresponding to a second one of the selection icons which is different from the selection icon corresponding to the object currently associated with the augmented reality marker, the associating logic is operable to disassociate the augmented reality marker from the previous game object, and to associate the augmented reality marker with a new game object corresponding to the second one of the selection icons; and

    in which the second predetermined time period is different from the predetermined selection time period.

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