Patent ID: 8169406
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: A63F,A63H,A63J,G06F,G09G

Abstract:
1. An interactive gaming system for amusing or entertaining one or more game participants playing a game in which a virtual play environment is represented through one or more computer-animated visual, aural or tactile effects, said interactive gaming system comprising: at least one gaming console configured and adapted to produce said one or more computer-animated visual, aural or tactile effects in accordance with a particular selected game desired to be played by said one or more game participants, said at least one gaming console comprising a first wireless transceiver adapted to provide two-way wireless communications with one or more associated wireless devices; one or more wireless motion-sensitive input devices sized and configured to be held and operated by each of said one or more game participants using a single hand to play said particular selected game at least in part by moving, shaking, twisting, waving or pointing said input device, each said one or more input devices comprising: at least one camera adapted to be provided in communicative association with said at least one gaming console, said at least one camera being further configured and adapted to capture one or more digital images containing said light signal or pattern and to communicate said one or more digital images to said at least one gaming console; and wherein said at least one gaming console is further configured and adapted to process said one or more digital images by analyzing the position and/or movement of said light signal or pattern and to thereby activate, modify or control said one or more computer-animated visual, aural or tactile effects based at least in part on said processed digital images.