Interactive audio-visual puzzle

• US 9,561,431 B1
• Filed: 12/03/2014
• Issued: 02/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gabriel E. Pulido
• Original Assignee: Gabriel E. Pulido
• Inventors: Pulido, Gabriel E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lim, Seng H
• Application Number:
  US14/559,716
• Time in Patent Office: 797 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/00 Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions gaming systems which provide a financial reward G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/54 involving acoustic signals, e.g. for simulating revolutions per minute [RPM] dependent engine sounds in a driving game or reverberation against a virtual wall
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/247 audible, e.g. using a loudspeaker
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8064 Quiz
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 9/0612 Electronic puzzles
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied

Abstract

An interactive audio-visual puzzle is presented herein. Particularly, in order to create, design or otherwise prepare the puzzle, audio content and a digital object are selected and partitioned into a plurality of separate segments or pieces. For example, the audio content may be partitioned in separate segments of time and the object may be separated into a plurality of visual puzzle pieces. Each of the puzzle pieces are assigned or associated with a different one of the audio segments. The puzzle pieces may be movably (e.g., liner, planar, rotational, etc.) disposed about the display. The goal of the puzzle or game is for the player to reconstruct both the visual object and the audio composition by aligning the puzzle pieces in the correct order, orientation and/or rotationally aligned relation.

Claims

1. A computer-based interactive audio-visual puzzle for the arrangement of audio components associated with a plurality of puzzle pieces to collectively create a continuous audio content, comprising:

an interactive puzzle application accessible via a computer system, the computer system comprising a computer processor, a memory device, a display, and a user input device,

said interactive puzzle application structured to present a plurality of puzzle pieces on the display, said plurality of puzzle pieces being structured for user manipulated disposition into an aligned orientation,

each of said plurality of puzzle pieces comprises a visual component and an audio component,

each of said plurality of puzzle pieces further being disposable in a rotationally aligned relation and a rotationally unaligned relation, wherein said puzzle pieces disposed in said rotationally unaligned relation beyond a predetermined rotational threshold comprise a modified audio component,

wherein said aligned orientation of said plurality of puzzle pieces is defined as a connected arrangement of said plurality of puzzle pieces along a single axis while each of said plurality of puzzle pieces are disposed in said rotationally aligned relation, wherein said single axis represents a timeline associated with said audio component from a starting puzzle piece to an ending puzzle piece, and

wherein said audio components of said connected arrangement of said plurality of puzzle pieces collectively represent said continuous audio content along said timeline.

2. The puzzle as recited in claim 1 wherein said modified audio component is defined as said audio component played in reverse.

3. The puzzle as recited in claim 1 wherein said predetermined rotational threshold comprises a rotational boundary defined approximately at least forty five degrees rotated away from said rotationally aligned relation.

4. The puzzle as recited in claim 3 wherein said predetermined rotational threshold comprises a rotational boundary defined approximately at least ninety degrees rotated away from said rotationally aligned relation.

5. The puzzle as recited in claim 4 wherein said modified audio component is defined as said audio component in reverse.

6. The puzzle as recited in claim 1 wherein said interactive puzzle application is structured to movably dispose said plurality of puzzle pieces about said display without user manipulation.

7. The puzzle as recited in claim 6 wherein said interactive puzzle application is structured to rotationally dispose said plurality of puzzle pieces about said display without user manipulation.

8. The puzzle as recited in claim 1 further comprising at least one disruptive object movably disposed about said display, said at least one disruptive object being structured to cause at least one of said plurality of puzzle pieces to be movably disposed about said display upon collision therewith.

9. The puzzle as recited in claim 1 further comprising at least one disruptive object movably disposed about said display, said at least one disruptive object being structured to cause at least one of said plurality of puzzle pieces to be rotationally disposed upon collision therewith.

10. The puzzle as recited in claim 1 wherein said visual components of said plurality of puzzle pieces disposed in said aligned orientation collectively and visually represent a predetermined graphical object at least partially representative of said audio composition.

11. A computer-based interactive audio-visual puzzle for the arrangement of audio components associated with a plurality of puzzle pieces to collectively create a continuous audio content, comprising:

an interactive puzzle application accessible via a computer system, the computer system comprising a computer processor, a memory device, a display, and a user input device,

said interactive puzzle application structured to present a plurality of puzzle pieces on the display, said plurality of puzzle pieces being structured for user manipulated disposition into an aligned orientation,

said interactive puzzle application being further structured to movably dispose said plurality of puzzle pieces without user manipulation,

said interactive puzzle application further comprising at least one disruptive object movably disposed on said display, wherein at least one of said plurality of puzzle pieces is movably disposed upon a virtual collision between said at least one of said plurality of puzzle pieces and said at least one disruptive object,

each of said plurality of puzzle pieces comprises a visual component and an audio component,

each of said plurality of puzzle pieces being disposable between a rotationally aligned relation and a rotationally unaligned relation,

wherein said aligned orientation of said plurality of puzzle pieces is defined as a connected arrangement of said plurality of puzzle pieces along a single axis while each of said plurality of puzzle pieces are disposed in said rotationally aligned relation, wherein said single axis represents a timeline associated with said audio component from a starting puzzle piece to an ending puzzle piece, and

wherein said audio components of said connected arrangement of said plurality of puzzle pieces collectively represent said continuous audio content along said timeline.

12. The puzzle as recited in claim 11 wherein at least one of said puzzle pieces disposed in said rotationally unaligned relation comprises a modified audio component.

13. The puzzle as recited in claim 11 wherein at least one of said puzzle piece disposed in said rotationally unaligned relation beyond a predetermined rotational threshold comprises said modified audio component.

14. The puzzle as recited in claim 13 wherein said modified audio component comprises a reversed version of said audio component corresponding said at least one puzzle piece disposed in said rotationally unaligned relation.

15. A computer-based interactive audio-visual puzzle for the arrangement of audio components associated with a plurality of puzzle pieces to collectively create a continuous audio content, comprising:

an interactive puzzle application accessible via a computer system, the computer system comprising a computer processor, a memory device, a display, and a user input device,

said interactive puzzle application structured to present a plurality of puzzle pieces on the display, said plurality of puzzle pieces being structured for user manipulated disposition into an aligned orientation,

each of said plurality of puzzle pieces comprises a visual component and an audio component,

wherein said aligned orientation of said plurality of puzzle pieces is defined as a connected arrangement of said plurality of puzzle pieces wherein said audio components of said plurality of puzzle pieces collectively represent said continuous audio content along a timeline defined from a starting puzzle piece to an ending puzzle piece, and

at least one faux puzzle piece comprising a dynamically changing incorrect audio component, wherein disposition of said at least one faux puzzle piece in a connected relation with said plurality of puzzle pieces will define an incorrect aligned orientation.

16. The puzzle as recited in claim 15 wherein said at least one faux puzzle piece comprises a correct visual component.

17. The puzzle as recited in claim 16 wherein said interactive puzzle application is structured to modify said dynamically changing incorrect audio component upon a predetermined event associated with said at least one faux puzzle piece.

18. The puzzle as recited in claim 17 wherein said predetermined event comprises a collision with a disruptive object.

19. The puzzle as recited in claim 18 wherein said predetermined event comprises a collision with at least one of said plurality of puzzle pieces.

20. The puzzle as recited in claim 17 wherein said predetermined event comprises user manipulation of said at least one faux puzzle piece.