Patent ID: 7510477
Filing Date: 2009-03-31
Classification: A63F,F41A

Abstract:
1. A control device for operation by a user for controlling a display of a computer system for use with a video game, the control device comprising: a housing having a shape adapted to be handled by a user of a video game; a coordinate control unit including a motion sensor included within said housing, said housing being adapted to be handled by the user for generating input information related to a vertical and a horizontal tilt of the control device; a game play control unit included within said housing adapted to be handled by the user for generating game play input information; and a controller adapted to process the input information from the coordinate control unit to provide to the computer system point of view information of an avatar in a video game virtual environment, and adapted to process said input information from the game play control unit to provide to the computer system game play information representative of at least changes in latitudinal and longitudinal position of the avatar in the video game virtual environment, thereby creating a unified representation of changes of the point of view of the avatar within the video game virtual environment, which unified representation encompasses both horizontal and vertical changes of the avatar's point of view within the video game virtual environment in response to handling by the user of the control device while not within the video game virtual environment, as well as latitudinal and longitudinal changes of the avatar's position as expressed within the point of view of the video game virtual environment, in response to handling by the user of the game play control unit while not within the video game virtual environment.