Systems and methods for control device including a movement detector

• US 9,504,917 B2
• Filed: 12/02/2013
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Rabin, Steven, Ohta, Keizo, Sato, Kenta
• Primary Examiner(s): McCulloch, Jr., William H
• Application Number:
  US14/094,372
• Publication Number:
  US 20140121019A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,093 Days
• Field of Search: 463/30, 463/31, 463/36, 463/37, 463/38, 463/39, 715/863
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/211 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/428 involving motion or position input signals, e.g. signals representing the rotation of an input controller or a player's arm motions sensed by accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/573 using trajectories of game objects, e.g. of a golf ball according to the point of impact
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/812 Ball games, e.g. soccer or baseball
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/87 Communicating with other players during game play, e.g. by e-mail or chat
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/105 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6045 for mapping control signals received from the input arrangement into game commands
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8011 Ball
• 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: G06F 3/0325 using a plurality of light emitters or reflectors or a plurality of detectors forming a reference frame from which to derive the orientation of the object, e.g. by triangulation or on the basis of reference deformation in the picked up image
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors

Abstract

An example image processing system and method uses a control device including a movement detector. Gesture inputs corresponding to a gesture made by moving the control device are used for animation. An animation begins based on at least one gesture input received prior to completion of the gesture and the animation is modified based on at least one gesture input received after the beginning of the animation.

Claims

1. An image processing system comprising:

a control device including a movement detector; and

a processing system that receives inputs corresponding to a gesture made by moving the control device, begins an animation of an object along an initial trajectory which is independent of one or more aspects of the gesture received prior to completion of the gesture, and modifies the animation of the object to be along a subsequent trajectory based on at least the one or more aspects of the gesture received after the beginning of the animation.

2. The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the movement detector comprises an accelerometer.

3. The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the movement detector comprises a gyroscope.

4. The image processing system according to claim 1, wherein the movement detector comprises an accelerometer and a gyroscope.

5. A method comprising:

receiving inputs corresponding to a gesture made by moving a control device;

beginning an animation of an object along an initial trajectory which is independent of one or more aspects of the gesture received prior to completion of the gesture; and

modifying the animation of the object to be along a subsequent trajectory based on at least the one or more aspects of the gesture received after the beginning of the animation.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the inputs correspond to accelerometer outputs.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the inputs correspond to gyroscope outputs.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein the inputs corresponds to gyroscope and accelerometer outputs.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer readable code embodied therein which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising:

receiving inputs corresponding to a gesture made by moving a control device;

beginning an animation of an object along an initial trajectory which is independent of one or more aspects of the gesture received prior to completion of the gesture; and

modifying the animation of the object to be along a subsequent trajectory based on at least the one or more aspects of the gesture received after the beginning of the animation.

10. An image processing system for providing animation of a trajectory of a struck object, comprising:

a control device including a movement detector; and

a processing system that receives inputs corresponding to a gesture made by moving the control device to simulate striking an object, begins animation of a trajectory of the struck object which is independent of one or more aspects of the gesture received prior to completion of the gesture, and modifies the animation of the trajectory to a subsequent trajectory based on at least the one or more aspects of the gesture received after the beginning of the animation.

11. The image processing system according to claim 10, wherein the movement detector comprises an accelerometer.

12. The image processing system according to claim 10, wherein the movement detector comprises a gyroscope.

13. The image processing system according to claim 10, wherein the movement detector comprises an accelerometer and a gyroscope.

14. The image processing system according to claim 10, wherein the struck object comprises a ball.

15. A method comprising:

receiving inputs corresponding to a gesture made by moving a control device to simulate striking an object;

beginning animation of a trajectory of the struck object which is independent of one or more aspects of the gesture received prior to completion of the gesture; and

modifying the animation of the trajectory to a subsequent trajectory based on at least the one or more aspects of the gesture received after the beginning of the animation.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the inputs correspond to accelerometer outputs.

17. The method according to claim 15, wherein the inputs correspond to gyroscope outputs.

18. The method according to claim 15, wherein the inputs corresponds to gyroscope and accelerometer outputs.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer readable code embodied therein which, when executed by a computer causes the computer to perform operations comprising:

receiving inputs corresponding to a gesture made by moving a control device to simulate striking an object;

beginning animation of a trajectory of the struck object which is independent of one or more aspects of the gesture received prior to completion of the gesture; and

modifying the animation of the trajectory to a subsequent trajectory based on at least the one or more aspects of the gesture received after the beginning of the animation.