Multi-media device enabling a user to play audio content in association with displayed video

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8431811
APP PUB NO 20110143837A1
SERIAL NO

12932275

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A multi-media entertainment device enabling a user to control sound/audio elements of a music or sound program while video is displayed and which is correlated to the played sound elements. The user interacts with triggers such as laser beams that can be interrupted by a player's fingers to play music. The video track is displayed, and the user controls the audio play of the sound track by interrupting the beams, each beam associated with a different instrument. This allows the user to play the multimedia device along with a displayed video performance, in synchronization with one or more musicians displayed on a display. The user's play may be scored as a function of the user's accuracy of engaging the triggers. For instance, a user can strum a trigger associated with a guitar program in unison with a guitarist on the display. The music created by the user interacting with multiple triggers is sympathetic and always synchronized to the video performance. If the user misses the timing of a note, the sound is not played. In another version, the user interacts by playing the triggers controlling sound elements associated with a displayed video game.

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TOPDOWN LICENSING LLC6001 W PARMER LN STE 370 - 1071 AUSTIN TX 78727

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Riopelle, Gerald Henry Scottsdale, US 11 140

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