Kid Aphex
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Check out this patent application:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph...s1=nintendo.AS.&OS=AN/nintendo&RS=AN/nintendo
To be sure, the application is filled with so much techno-lingo I'm at a bit of a loss. But after skimming it a few times, here are some of the more 'interesting' sections:
[it seems to me the 'invention' is referred to as "System 50"]
In this example, system 50 is capable of processing, interactively in real time, a digital representation or model of a three-dimensional world. System 50 can display some or all of the world from any arbitrary viewpoint. For example, system 50 can interactively change the viewpoint in response to real time inputs from handheld controllers 52a, 52b or other input devices. This allows the game player to see the world through the eyes of someone within or outside of the world. System 50 can be used for applications that do not require real time 3D interactive display (e.g., 2D display generation and/or non-interactive display), but the capability of displaying quality 3D images very quickly can be used to create very realistic and exciting game play or other graphical interactions.
Nothing very interesting so far...seems normal.
To play a video game or other application using system 50, the user first connects a main unit 54 to his or her color television set 56 or other display device by connecting a cable 58 between the two. Main unit 54 produces both video signals and audio signals for controlling color television set 56. The video signals are what controls the images displayed on the television screen 59, and the audio signals are played back as sound through television stereo loudspeakers 61L, 61R
Again, this sounds just like your typical console.
Here's where it gets a bit interesting:
Still another possibility is for commands intended for processing by the graphics and audio processor 114 to arrive via a data communications connection such as network 138. In one example, graphics commands, audio commands and/or other commands intended to be processed by graphics and audio processor 114 may arrive from a data communications network 138 via modem 136. Such commands could be transmitted, for example, from a remote system 50 of the same configuration as that shown in FIG. 2 in order to provide interactive multi-user remote game play. The commands could originate from any other source including a personal computer, a mini-computer or main frame computer, a data transmitter, or any other data source
After reading the entire patent, I'm thinking this system may have a lot more to do with "MAKING" games than we're thinking. Maybe a sort of "Mariopaint-esque" console?
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph...s1=nintendo.AS.&OS=AN/nintendo&RS=AN/nintendo
To be sure, the application is filled with so much techno-lingo I'm at a bit of a loss. But after skimming it a few times, here are some of the more 'interesting' sections:
[it seems to me the 'invention' is referred to as "System 50"]
In this example, system 50 is capable of processing, interactively in real time, a digital representation or model of a three-dimensional world. System 50 can display some or all of the world from any arbitrary viewpoint. For example, system 50 can interactively change the viewpoint in response to real time inputs from handheld controllers 52a, 52b or other input devices. This allows the game player to see the world through the eyes of someone within or outside of the world. System 50 can be used for applications that do not require real time 3D interactive display (e.g., 2D display generation and/or non-interactive display), but the capability of displaying quality 3D images very quickly can be used to create very realistic and exciting game play or other graphical interactions.
Nothing very interesting so far...seems normal.
To play a video game or other application using system 50, the user first connects a main unit 54 to his or her color television set 56 or other display device by connecting a cable 58 between the two. Main unit 54 produces both video signals and audio signals for controlling color television set 56. The video signals are what controls the images displayed on the television screen 59, and the audio signals are played back as sound through television stereo loudspeakers 61L, 61R
Again, this sounds just like your typical console.
Here's where it gets a bit interesting:
Still another possibility is for commands intended for processing by the graphics and audio processor 114 to arrive via a data communications connection such as network 138. In one example, graphics commands, audio commands and/or other commands intended to be processed by graphics and audio processor 114 may arrive from a data communications network 138 via modem 136. Such commands could be transmitted, for example, from a remote system 50 of the same configuration as that shown in FIG. 2 in order to provide interactive multi-user remote game play. The commands could originate from any other source including a personal computer, a mini-computer or main frame computer, a data transmitter, or any other data source
After reading the entire patent, I'm thinking this system may have a lot more to do with "MAKING" games than we're thinking. Maybe a sort of "Mariopaint-esque" console?
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