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Methods for controller pairing with assigned differentiating color/player

  • US 9,669,304 B2
  • Filed: 11/04/2013
  • Issued: 06/06/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of pairing controllers to a base computing device for playing a game executed on the base computing device, comprising:

  • establishing communication between a first and second controller and the base computing device, the communication identifying each of the first and second controllers as active, the base computing device being connected to a camera for capturing images of the first controller and the second controller;

    detecting a pairing initiation signal, at the base computing device, from at least one of the first or second controllers, the pair initiation signal being generated in response physical contact between the first and second controllers, the physical contact being a tap between the first and second controllers and the tap is detected by an accelerometer associated with at least one of the first and second controllers;

    setting the first and second controllers as paired to a first player;

    assigning a first color at the base computing device to the first player that is paired to the first and second controllers; and

    transmitting, from the base computing device, instructions to one of the first or second controllers to cause a light bar on a surface of the first controller to illuminate in the first color and a light on the second controller to illuminate in the first color, the illumination in the first color additionally used for tracking position of at least one the first and second controllers, wherein tracking position is enabled by detecting changes in positon of the first color in the images captured by the camera, wherein the method is executed by a processor.

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