Electronic devices in local interactions between users

• US 9,671,858 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2014
• Issued: 06/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Smoot, Lanny, Mkrtchyan, Armen, Mazzocco, Leonard J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Allen
• Application Number:
  US14/586,544
• Publication Number:
  US 20150111646A1
• Time in Patent Office: 889 Days
• Field of Search: 463 36
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/213 comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells A63F13/219, A63F13/655 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/005 Input arrangements through a video camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/10 Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/20 Movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition recognition of facial expressions G06V40/16

Abstract

In one implementation, a method includes detecting, using a processor, user input through a camera lens. The method further includes determining, using the processor, that an identity of a user, selected from identities of at least two users, is associated with the user input. The method also includes tracking, using the processor, a local interaction between the at least two users based on at least the identity, the user input, and stored rules that govern the local interaction. The tracking can include determining whether the user has complied with the stored rules that govern the local interaction. Furthermore, the local interaction can include a multiplayer game.

Claims

1. A system for interaction with a user using one or more game objects and a computer including a processor, a display and a camera lens, the system comprising:

a vision adaptor for placement on the camera lens, the vision adaptor configured to obtain a user input and provide the user input to the camera lens, wherein the user input uses the one or more game objects;

a software application for execution by the processor to;

provide, utilizing the display, a game for playing by the user using the one or more game objects to provide the user input to the game;

obtain the user input provided by the user playing the game, wherein the user provides the user input to the game using the one or more game objects, and wherein the user input is obtained by the vision adaptor and provided by the vision adaptor to the camera lens for capturing one or more images of the one or more game objects;

determine the user input based on analyzing the one or more images of the one or more game objects captured by the camera lens; and

perform an action in the game being played by the user, in response to the user input to the game, based on the analyzing of the one or more images of the one or more game objects captured by the camera lens.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the vision adaptor includes a mirror directing the user input to the camera lens.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the user input is provided by the user moving the one or more game objects as the user input to the game being played by the user, and wherein the processor determines the moving of the one or more objects by analyzing the one or more images captured by the camera lens.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein determining the user input to the game being played by the user based on analyzing the one or more images of the one or more game objects includes recognizing a color of the one or more game objects.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein determining the user input to the game being played by the user based on analyzing the one or more images of the one or more game objects includes recognizing a shape of the one or more game objects.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein determining the user input to the game being played by the user based on analyzing the one or more images of the one or more game objects includes recognizing an orientation of the one or more game objects.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein determining the user input to the game being played by the user based on analyzing the one or more images of the one or more game objects comprises recognizing a visual indicia on the one or more game objects.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the vision adaptor is attachable to the computer.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the vision adaptor changes a field of view of the camera lens.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the game action includes displaying a game score based on the user input to the game being played by the user.