Patent ID: 8465365
Filing Date: 2013-06-18
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A method of playing a video football game between at least first and second teams that are alternately on the offense or the defense, the game involving first and second players using at least first and second displays comprising the steps of: receiving successive frames of a video signal depicting the football game; detecting certain frames of the successive frames that relate to formation selection or play selection in the game by recognizing first predetermined content of the frames that relate to formation selection or play selection; determining which team is on the offense or which team is on the defense by recognizing in the frames that relate to formation selection or play selection an indication of which team is on the offense or the defense; displaying the detected formation selection or play selection frames for the team on the offense on one of the first and second displays visible to the player whose team is on the offense and not others and displaying the detected formation selection and play selection frames for the team on the defense on the other of the first and second displays visible to the player whose team is on the defense and not others; and displaying the frames that do not relate to formation selection or play selection so that they are visible to all players.