Output production

• US 10,046,241 B1
• Filed: 07/30/2011
• Issued: 08/14/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Integrated Technology LLC
• Original Assignee: B&O Gaming, LLC
• Inventors: Krosky, Ronald Charles, Clark, Brendan Edward
• Primary Examiner(s): Deodhar, Omkar
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hoel, Matthew D.
• Application Number:
  US13/194,946
• Time in Patent Office: 2,572 Days
• Field of Search: 463 6, 463 30- 32, 463 43, 463 42, 463 58- 69
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/67 adaptively or by learning from player actions, e.g. skill level adjustment or by storing successful combat sequences for re-use
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/69 by enabling or updating specific game elements, e.g. unlocking hidden features, items, levels or versions
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/803 Driving vehicles or craft, e.g. cars, airplanes, ships, robots or tanks
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8017 Driving on land or water; Flying

Abstract

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with output production are described. One example system comprises an analysis component configured to analyze a data set to produce an evaluation result. The system also comprises a production component configured to produce a rendered output based, at least in part, on the evaluation result, where the rendered output is stored in a computer-readable medium.

Claims

1. A system, that is at least partially hardware, comprising:

an identification component configured to identify a racing area for a vehicle set with a tire set in a racing video game;

a check component configured to determine an action set of the vehicle set that causes a remnant of the tire set to be laid upon the racing area;

a determination component configured to determine where to place the remnant of the tire set on the racing area based, at least in part on the action set of the vehicle set; and

a modification component configured to make an alteration to the racing area such that the remnant impacts performance of the vehicle set.

2. The system of claim 1,

where the vehicle set comprises a first vehicle with a first tire set and a second vehicle with a second tire set,

where the tire set comprises the first tire set and the second tire set,

where the remnant is a remnant from the first tire set, and

where the second vehicle is impacted by the remnant from the first tire set.

3. The system of claim 2, comprising:

an collection component configured to collect an first indicator of a first action of the first vehicle in the racing video game that causes the remnant from the first tire set to be laid upon the racing area from a first playing location and configured to collect a second indicator of a second action of the second vehicle in the racing video game that causes a remnant from the second tire set to be laid upon the racing area from a second playing location; and

a broadcast component configured to broadcast the racing area with the alteration in accordance with the remnant from the first tire set and the remnant from the second tire set to the first playing location and configured to broadcast the racing area with the alteration in accordance with the remnant from the first tire set and the remnant from the second tire set to the second playing location,

where the first playing location and the second playing location are remote to one another.

4. The system of claim 2,

where the first vehicle and the second vehicle are human-controlled vehicles competing against one another in an online gaming session.

5. The system of claim 2,

where the first vehicle and the second vehicle are human-controlled vehicles competing against one another in a single-console gaming session.

6. The system of claim 2,

where the first vehicle is a human-controlled vehicle competing in an single-console gaming session and

where the second vehicle is a console-controlled vehicle competing in the single-console gaming session.

7. The system of claim 1,

where the vehicle set comprises exclusively one vehicle,

where the remnant is laid on a previous lap,

where the vehicle is impacted on a subsequent lap, and

where the previous lap and the subsequent lap are part of a single racing session.

8. A system, that is at least partially hardware, comprising:

an identification component configured to identify a racing surface of a racing circuit in a racing video game during a racing video game session;

a determination component configured to determine a first temperature for a first portion of the racing surface and a second temperature for a second portion of the racing surface; and

a modification component configured to cause the first portion of the racing surface to implement with the first temperature and the second portion of the racing surface to implement with the second temperature,

where the first temperature and the second temperature are different temperatures,

where the first portion of the racing surface and the second portion of the racing surface do not overlap one another,

where the first portion of the racing surface being at the first temperature causes a vehicle of the racing video game to have a first response to an action,

where the second portion of the racing surface being at the second temperature causes the vehicle of the racing video game to have a second response to the action, and

where, due to the difference in temperature, the first response and the second response are not identical.

9. The system of claim 8, comprising:

a monitor component configured to monitor an operation of the vehicle as the vehicle traverses the racing surface; and

an evaluation component configured to evaluate the operation to produce an evaluation result;

where the determination component is configured to determine a change to the first temperature based, at least in part, on the evaluation result,

where the modification component is configured to cause the first portion of the racing surface to implemented with the changed first temperature and

where the changed first temperature is different from the first temperature.

10. The system of claim 9,

where the modification component causes the first portion of the racing surface to implemented with the changed first temperature without a change to the second portion of the racing surface and

where operation of the vehicle causes virtual rubber to be placed on the racing surface that impacts performance of the vehicle.

11. The system of claim 9,

where the vehicle is a first vehicle,

where the racing video game session is an online racing video game session between at least a first player playing at a first gaming apparatus and a second player playing at a second gaming apparatus,

where the first player controls the first vehicle,

where the second player controls a second vehicle,

where an action by the second vehicle produces a first response when the racing surface is at the first temperature,

where the action by the second vehicle produces a second response when the racing surface is at the changed first temperature, and

where the first response and the second response are not identical.

12. The system of claim 9,

where the vehicle is a first vehicle,

where the racing video game session is a racing video game session between at least a first player playing at a gaming apparatus and a second player playing at the gaming apparatus,

where the first player controls the first vehicle,

where the second player controls a second vehicle,

where an action by the second vehicle produces a first response when the racing surface is at the first temperature,

where the action by the second vehicle produces a second response when the racing surface is at the changed first temperature, and

where the first response and the second response are not identical.

13. The system of claim 9,

where the vehicle is a gaming-apparatus controlled vehicle,

where the racing video game session is a racing video game session between at least a player-controlled vehicle and the gaming apparatus controlled vehicle,

where an action by the player-controlled vehicle produces a first response when the racing surface is at the first temperature,

where the action by the player-controlled vehicle produces a second response when the racing surface is at the changed first temperature, and

where the first response and the second response are not identical.

14. The system of claim 8,

where the first temperature is derived, at least in part, from a first level of virtual sun exposure to the first portion,

where the first temperature is derived, at least in part, from a second level of virtual sun exposure to the second portion, and

where the first level of virtual sun exposure and the second level of virtual sun exposure are not identical.

15. A system, that is at least partially hardware, comprising:

an identification component configured to identify a change in a temperature of a racing surface in a racing video game;

a determination component configured to determine an impact of the change in the temperature of the racing surface; and

a modification component configured to make an alteration to the racing surface in accordance with the impact of the change in the temperature,

where the alteration influences performance of a vehicle in the racing video game.

16. The system of claim 15,

where the change in temperature occurs during a single racing video game race.

17. The system of claim 16,

where the single racing video game race is an online single racing video game race,

where a first competitor competes in the online single racing video game race from a first local console,

where a second competitor competes in the online single racing video game race from a second local console,

where the first local console and the second local console communicate with a remote server that hosts the single racing video game race.

18. The system of claim 16,

where the single racing video game race is solo human-player single racing video game race.

19. The system of claim 16,

where the change in the temperature is produced, at least in part, by the vehicle travelling over the racing surface during the single racing video game race.

20. The system of claim 15,

where the change in temperature occurs between a first racing video game race and a second racing video game race.