ENVIRONMENT SENSING FOR INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT

• US 20080320126A1
• Filed: 06/25/2007
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Drucker, Steven, Yee, Dawson, Allard, James E., Finger, James C., Alles, David Sebastien, Roup, Oliver R., Sloo, David H., Holmdahl, Todd E.
• Application Number:
  US11/767,731
• Publication Number:
  US 20080320126A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce

Abstract

The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate an enhanced entertainment experience based upon interactivity between entertainment medium or content and a content consumer'"'"'s environment. In one aspect, based upon features or condition of a content consumer'"'"'s environment, entertainment content can be interactively selected or modified. In another aspect, based upon features included in the entertainment content, components or conditions extant in the environment can be interactively updated or modified.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates an enhanced entertainment experience based upon interactivity between an entertainment medium and an environment, comprising:

a content component that communicates with an entertainment medium, the entertainment medium includes entertainment content;

a detection component that obtains an environment variable associated with an environment; and

a configuration component that receives an input from the content component or the detection component and dynamically determines an interactive setting based upon the input.

2. The system of claim 1, the entertainment content is interactively configurable in accordance with the interactive setting.

3. The system of claim 2, the input is based upon the environment variable obtained by the detection component.

4. The system of claim 1, the content component applies the interactive setting to at least one of the entertainment medium or the entertainment content.

5. The system of claim 1, the environment is associated with consumption of the entertainment content.

6. The system of claim 1, the environment includes the content component.

7. The system of claim 1, the environment includes an environment component that is interactively configurable in accordance with the interactive setting.

8. The system of claim 7, the input is based upon the environment variable obtained by the detection component.

9. The system of claim 7, the input is an instruction from the entertainment medium or the entertainment content communicated to the content component.

10. The system of claim 7, the configuration component applies the interactive setting to the environment component.

11. The system of claim 7, the environment component is exclusive of the entertainment medium.

12. The system of claim 1, the configuration component intelligently infers the interactive setting based at least in part upon historical data.

13. The system of claim 1, the environment variable is a biometric associated with a consumer of the entertainment content, the consumer is extant in the environment.

14. The system of claim 1, the environment variable is a response to a stimulus provided by at least one of the entertainment medium or the entertainment content.

15. The system of claim 1, the environment variable is a count of a number of consumers of the entertainment content, the consumers are extant in the environment.

16. The system of claim 1, the environment variable is a brightness level extant in the environment.

17. A method for facilitating an enhanced entertainment experience based upon interactivity between an entertainment medium and an environment, comprising:

interfacing with an entertainment medium that provides entertainment content;

sensing an environment variable from an environment associated with consumption of the entertainment content; and

determining an interactive setting based upon receiving data from at least one of the entertainment medium, the entertainment content, or the environment.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising at least one of the following acts:

applying the interactive setting to the entertainment content;

applying the interactive setting to the entertainment medium;

or

applying the interactive setting to an environment component.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising at least one of the following acts:

inferring the interactive setting based upon a biometric;

inferring the interactive setting based upon a stimulus occurring in the environment;

or

inferring the interactive setting based upon a change occurring in an environment component.

20. A system for obtaining feedback from an entertainment consumption environment for enhancing an entertainment experience, comprising:

means for communicating with an entertainment medium, the entertainment medium including entertainment content;

means for obtaining an environment variable from an environment associated with consumption of the entertainment content; and

means for ascertaining an interactive setting in accordance with data received from at least one of the entertainment medium, the entertainment content, or the environment.