Patent ID: 8723984
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: A63F,G06F,H04S

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for capturing image and sound during interactivity with a computer game in a game environment, comprising: an image capture unit for capturing one or more image frames of the game environment, the game environment defined for interactive game play in a vicinity of a display upon which the computer game is rendered, the captured one or more image frames being processed to identify at least one active image area that is to include a user, the active image area identifying a zone of focus from which to process interactive sounds of the user for the interactive game play; and a sound capture unit for capturing sound from the game environment, the sound capture unit identifying one or more sound sources, the sound capture unit configured to process sound to the substantial exclusion of sounds outside of the zone of focus, the excluded sounds being sounds which are not central to gameplay of the computer game, wherein the interactive sounds of the user are captured and processed for the zone of focus and used for interactivity with the computer game.