Daniel M Mueller

US Patent:

7137891, Nov 21, 2006

Filed:

Jan 31, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/773452

Inventors:

Timothy D. Neveu - Foster City CA, US
Jonathan H. Beard - Foster City CA, US
Daniel Mueller - Foster City CA, US
Keith Friedly - Foster City CA, US
Erik R. Medina - Foster City CA, US

Assignee:

Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. - Foster City CA

International Classification:

A63F 9/24

US Classification:

463 31, 463 7, 463 8, 463 37, 463 38

Abstract:

A video game player can easily target and attack one or more enemies in a video game environment. The player may quickly designate an enemy on a display screen as a target and associate the enemy with a controller button on a video game controller. When the game player actuates the controller button, a player character initiates an attack on the targeted enemy that is assigned or associated with the button. The character initiates the attack on the enemy regardless of whether the character is facing toward the enemy or away from the enemy. If multiple enemies are present and multiple controller buttons are available, the player can choose which enemy will be targeted and associated with a controller button. This allows the player flexibility in choosing which enemies to attack. The player can also associate additional enemies with different buttons on a controller.

US Patent:

7455589, Nov 25, 2008

Filed:

Mar 13, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/375296

Inventors:

Timothy D. Neveu - Foster City CA, US
Jonathan H. Beard - Foster City CA, US
Daniel Mueller - Foster City CA, US
Keith Friedly - Foster City CA, US
Erik R. Medina - Foster City CA, US

Assignee:

Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. - Foster City CA

International Classification:

A63F 9/24

US Classification:

463 37, 463 7, 463 8

Abstract:

A video game player can easily target and attack one or more enemies in a video game environment. The player may quickly designate an enemy on a display screen as a target and associate the enemy with a controller button on a video game controller. When the game player actuates the controller button, a player character initiates an attack on the targeted enemy that is assigned or associated with the button. The character initiates the attack on the enemy regardless of whether the character is facing toward the enemy or away from the enemy. If multiple enemies are present and multiple controller buttons are available, the player can choose which enemy will be targeted and associated with a controller button. This allows the player flexibility in choosing which enemies to attack. The player can also associate additional enemies with different buttons on a controller.

US Patent:

7946909, May 24, 2011

Filed:

Oct 31, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/591314

Inventors:

Timothy D. Neveu - Foster City CA, US
Jonathan H. Beard - Foster City CA, US
Daniel Mueller - Foster City CA, US
Keith Friedly - Foster City CA, US
Erik R. Medina - Foster City CA, US

Assignee:

Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC - Foster City CA

International Classification:

A63F 9/24

US Classification:

463 7, 463 37

Abstract:

A system and method are disclosed for ordered execution of actions in a game environment is disclosed. An indication of a first object having been targeted in the game environment may be received whereby the object is assigned a first target slot. An indication of a second object having been targeted in the game environment may then be received, this second targeted object being assigned a second target slot. An action is then executed in the game environment with respect to each of the targeted objects in response to a command from an input device. The execution of the action with respect to each of the targeted objects may occur in accordance with an order defined by the target slots.

US Patent:

20090183623, Jul 23, 2009

Filed:

Jan 16, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/355549

Inventors:

Daniel Mueller - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

G10H 1/40

US Classification:

84612

Abstract:

Providing time and event information of a musical score, including: visually providing time information of a plurality of parts of a musical score, wherein each part of the musical score includes at least one bar; and animating beats within each bar of the at least one bar to show a path between the beats and to trace the path of a time signature at a current tempo.