Patent ID: 8350805
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: A63F,G06F

Abstract:
1. An entertainment system comprising: a plurality of input devices through which a user performs an input operation; a processing device which processes an application based on the input entered into the plurality of input device and generates an image signal showing a processing result of the application; an image capturing device which captures images of a space; an image display device which outputs the image signal generated by the processing device, wherein each of the plurality of input devices has wherein the processing device comprises: an extracting unit configured to extract an image of a turned-on light emitting element from captured images that have been successively captured at a predetermined capturing speed by the image capturing device and to generate positional information indicating a position of the extracted image of the light-emitting element in the captured images; and a determination unit configured to determine, when it is determined that two images of light-emitting element are at a predetermined distance or less from each other in the captured images by referring to two items of positional information in two successively captured images generated by the extracting unit, that said images of light-emitting element in the two successively captured images are those of the same light-emitting element, and to count the number of captured images in which the turned-on state of the light-emitting element is successively captured; wherein the determination unit has a database of the flashing pattern of each of the input devices and refers to the number of captured images in which the turned-on state of the same light-emitting element is successively captured using the database so as to identify an input device having said light emitting element, and wherein the positional information of the image of the light-emitting element held by the identified input device is reflected in application processing.