Gaming utilizing actual telemetry data

• US 7,211,000 B2
• Filed: 12/22/1998
• Issued: 05/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Jutzi, Curtis E., Connelly, Jay
• Primary Examiner(s): Thai; Xuan M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen; Binh-An D.
• Application Number:
  US09/218,822
• Publication Number:
  US 20010003715A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,052 Days
• Field of Search: 463 40- 45, 463/31, 463/35, 463/37, 463/2, 463/4, 463/6, 273/317, 273/317.2, 273/317.3, 273/317.4, 273/317.5, 273/317.6, 273/329, 273/371, 273/246, 273/461
• US Class Current: 463/40
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/5252 using two or more virtual cameras concurrently or sequentially, e.g. automatically switching between fixed virtual cameras when a character changes room or displaying a rear-mirror view in a car-driving game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/65 automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/803 Driving vehicles or craft, e.g. cars, airplanes, ships, robots or tanks
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/812 Ball games, e.g. soccer or baseball
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/409 Data transfer via television network
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/64 for computing dynamical parameters of game objects, e.g. motion determination or computation of frictional forces for a virtual car
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/69 Involving elements of the real world in the game world, e.g. measurement in live races, real video
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8011 Ball
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8017 Driving on land or water; Flying

Abstract

Gaming utilizing actual telemetry data. In one embodiment, a system including a source of actual telemetry data regarding an event, such as a sporting event, and a gaming application utilizing the actual telemetry data. In one embodiment, by utilizing actual telemetry data, the ability to play a game as if the game player were involved in a current sporting event, in real-time, is provided.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a source of actual telemetry data regarding an event, wherein the actual telemetry data comprises quantitative data measurements of characteristics of the event, and wherein the source comprises at least one data measurement instrument to collect the quantitative data measurements;

a media manager to manage bandwidth and multicast address assignment and to export interfaces used to configure and retrieve the actual telemetry data;

a capture manager to manage stream objects, wherein each stream object is to send a stream relating to the event;

a controller to communicate announcements regarding the event via an exported internal interface; and

a gaming application utilizing the actual telemetry data to provide a viewing experience of the event comprising viewing shots and angles not covered by cameras at the event.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the event comprises a sporting event.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the source of actual telemetry data comprises a storage storing the data as previously captured by data capture equipment.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the storage is selected from a group essentially consisting of:

a removable storage medium and a server.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the source of actual telemetry data comprises data capture equipment to capture data from each of at least one contestant of the event.

6. The system of claim 5, further comprising a transport medium to communicate the actual telemetry data from the source to the gaming application.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the transport medium comprises:

a transceiver coupled to the data capture equipment; and

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an uplink coupled to the transceiver.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the transport medium further comprises:

a downlink communicatively coupled to the transceiver; and

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a network communicatively coupling the downlink to the gaming application.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the network is selected from a group essentially consisting of:

the Internet, an intranet, and an extranet.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the event is selected from a group essentially consisting of:

auto racing, golf, baseball, football, basketball, tennis, and hockey.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the gaming application is run on a platform selected from a group essentially consisting of:

a computer, a television set-top box, a stand-alone video game, and a video-gaming system console.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the gaming application utilizes the actual telemetry data to display a simulated version of the event.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the gaming application utilizes the actual telemetry data to provide a user-participatory simulated version of the event.

14. A method comprising:

capturing actual telemetry data regarding an event, wherein the actual telemetry data comprises quantitative data measurements of characteristics of the event, and wherein capturing further comprises collecting the quantitative data measurements from at least one data measurement instrument;

managing bandwidth and multicast address assignment, and exporting interfaces used to configure and retrieve the actual telemetry data using a media manager;

communicating announcements regarding the event via an exported internal interface; and

utilizing the actual telemetry data within a gaming application to provide a viewing experience of the event comprising viewing shots and angles not covered by cameras at the event.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the event comprises a sporting event.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising storing the actual telemetry data on a storage for later utilization by the gaming application.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein utilizing the actual telemetry data within a gaming application comprises displaying a non-participatory simulated version of the sporting event based on the actual telemetry data.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein utilizing the actual telemetry data within a gaming application comprises providing a user-participatory simulated version of the sporting event based on the actual telemetry data.

19. A machine-readable medium having processor instructions stored thereon for execution by a processor to perform a method comprising:

receiving actual telemetry data regarding an event, wherein the actual telemetry data comprises quantitative data measurements of characteristics of the event, and wherein the actual telemetry data is collected via at least one data measurement instrument;

managing bandwidth and multicast address assignment, and exporting interfaces used to configure and retrieve the actual telemetry data using a media manager;

communicating announcements regarding the event via an exported internal interface; and

utilizing the actual telemetry data regarding the event in an application to provide a simulated version of the event, wherein the simulated version comprises a viewing experience of the event comprising viewing shots and angles not covered by cameras at the event.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the event comprises a sporting event.

21. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein receiving actual telemetry data regarding an event comprises retrieving the actual telemetry data from a storage storing the data as previously captured by data capture equipment.

22. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein receiving actual telemetry data regarding an event comprises retrieving the actual telemetry data in substantially real-time from a transport medium communicatively coupled to data capture equipment capturing in substantially real-time the data.

23. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein utilizing the actual telemetry data regarding a sporting event to provide a simulated version of the event comprises utilizing the actual telemetry data to display a non-participatory simulated version of the sporting event.

24. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein utilizing the actual telemetry data regarding an event to provide a simulated version of the event comprises utilizing the actual telemetry data to provide a user-participatory simulated version of the event.