Patent ID: 8241125

Claim:
A method of interaction with a games machine, comprising the steps of: capturing, with a camera, a wide angle image of an environment, in which the wide-angle image is substantially hemispherical; obtaining image features from the wide angle image, and interpreting those image features as inputs to software running on the games machine, wherein the step of obtaining said image features from the wide angle image further comprises the steps of: mapping, with a processing device, one or more regions of the wide-angle image to corresponding one or more flat image planes, hereafter referred to as facets; obtaining said image features from a plurality of the facets of the mapped wide angle image; and estimating, from said image features obtained from the plurality of the facets, the positioning of at least part of the body of at least a first user; in which the wide angle image is mapped to facets such that each of a plurality of users in the wide angle image is mapped to a separate respective facet.