Patent ID: 9682320
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: A63F

Claim:
1. A game controller, comprising: an image capture unit; a body; at least one input device assembled with the body, the input device manipulable by a user to register an input from the user; an inertial sensor operable to produce information for quantifying a movement of said body through space; at least one light source assembled with the body; a processor coupled to the image capture unit and the inertial sensor, wherein the processor is configured to track the body by analyzing a signal from the inertial sensor and analyzing an image of the light source from the image capture unit; and wherein the processor is configured to establish a gearing between movement of the body and actions to be applied by a computer program, wherein one or more of the actions to be applied by the computer program includes generation of a noise, wherein changes in the gearing between the movement of the body and the generation of the noise vary a degree of response of the noise to the movement of the body during movement of the body as the noise is being generated, wherein the movement of the body is determined from inertial forces detected by the inertial sensor, or from analysis of the image from the image capture unit, or from both inertial forces detected by the inertial sensor and analysis of the image from the image capture unit, wherein the gearing changes during movement of the body.