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Gaming peripheral including rotational element

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-02-25
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA LLC
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In currently known board-shaped peripherals, however, the board is fixed to a base unit which is bulky and relatively large in size.
In addition to the relatively large size of prior art board-shaped peripherals, the requirement for a physical interconnection of the base unit with the game console, and also the lack of any capability for the user to rotate the board in roll, as well as in yaw and pitch, during game play, limit the attractiveness of such board-shaped peripherals, and thus the attractiveness of games that can be played with such board-shaped peripherals.

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[0019]As shown in FIG. 1, a system 10 in accordance with one aspect of the invention comprises a game console 12, a display 14, a peripheral 16 and other components typically present in game consoles. The system is used by a user.

[0020]The game console 12 preferably includes a processor 18 and memory 20. Memory 20 stores information accessible by processor 18, including instructions 22 for execution by the processor 18, and data 24 which is retrieved, manipulated or stored by the processor 18. The memory 20 may be of any type capable of storing information accessible by the processor; by way of example, hard-drives, ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, DVD, write-capable memories, and read-only memories.

[0021]The instructions 22 may comprise any set of instructions to be executed directly (e.g., machine code) or indirectly (e.g., scripts) by the processor 18. The terms “instructions,”“steps” and “programs” may be used interchangeably herein. The functions, methods and routines of the program in accord...

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Abstract

A gaming peripheral for use during play of an electronic video game includes a board member and a rotational element extending from a bottom surface of the board member. The board member is rotatable about any of three mutually orthogonal axes, by a user standing on a top surface of the board member and applying a force to the rotational element which is contacting an opposing surface, such as the ground. The board member includes a rotation determination element for generating data representative of the rotation of the board member about any of the three axes. The rotational element and the rotation determination element can be disengageably engaged with the board member, such that a conventional, standalone board member, for example, a skateboard, is readily convertible between the gaming peripheral and the standalone skateboard.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application claims the benefit of the filing date of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 189,385 filed Aug. 19, 2008, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Some peripherals for gaming software include motion sensing devices that transmit, to a gaming console, information representative of rotation of the peripheral about an axis. For example, a peripheral having the configuration of a skateboard may be manipulated by a user to cause rotation of the skateboard about an axis, and data representative of the rotation of the peripheral is transmitted from the peripheral to the gaming console for use during play of a game on the gaming console.[0003]In the prior art, board-shaped peripherals typically include a board fixedly mounted to a base unit, which is electronically hardwired to a gaming console. The user, when standing on the board, can cause the board to rotate in pitch o...

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IPC IPC(8): A63F9/24
CPCG06F3/0338G06F3/0334
Inventor MILLER, IV, THOMAS MARSHALL
Owner SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA LLC