Timing offset tolerant karaoke game

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8634759
APP PUB NO 20070178971A1
SERIAL NO

10564103

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Game processing apparatus comprises means for indicating successive target actions to be executed by a user, each target action having an associated target time of execution; and scoring logic in which detected user actions are compared with the target actions, the storing logic comprising: an input arrangement by which user actions may be detected; means for comparing a detected sequence of user actions with a sequence of target actions; and means for detecting a timing offset between the sequence of user actions and a corresponding sequence of target actions; in which the comparison of subsequent user actions with respective target actions is arranged to apply the timing offset as a relative displacement between the detected user actions and the target times.

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SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT EUROPE LIMITED10 GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET LONDON GREATER LONDON W1F 7LP

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bates, Richard Eliot London, GB 2 30
Bozek, Paulina London, GB 1 4

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