Patent ID: 8829323

Claim:
A system for enhancing interaction with a music simulation program, the system comprising: a processor; a control circuit operatively connected to the processor; a memory accessible by the processor and including the music simulation program which is executable by the processor to provide a user-interaction with a song or a video for a prescribed duration of the song or the video, respectively; a controller interactively coupled with the music simulation program and operable in at least a first interactive mode and a second interactive mode to provide an output to a user, each interactive mode being mutually exclusively selectable by the user for operation throughout the prescribed duration, and comprising, relative to one another, a unique selection of a musical instrument or a microphone; and a motion sensor operatively connected to the control circuit; and a motion control application comprising one or more software modules encoded in the memory and executable in the processor so as to configure the control circuit, in response to an input from the motion sensor: to generate a selection-control signal based on the input; and to switch the controller from one of the at least first and second interactive modes to another of the at least first and second interactive modes in response to the selection-control signal; whereby the user-interaction with the controller during the prescribed duration of the song or the video is included in the output to the user, including any switching from one musical instrument or microphone to another.