Mark J Stanley

US Patent:

20050176504, Aug 11, 2005

Filed:

Feb 9, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/708125

Inventors:

Mark Stanley - Bellevue WA, US

International Classification:

A63F013/00

US Classification:

463037000

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for adapting a computer pointing device to a video game console. In one embodiment a mouse plugs into an adapter which has an output that plugs into an input of a console. The adapter receives motion data from one or more computer mice and translates this into a format compatible with a game controller for that console. This data is then output to the console which perceives the data as from a single game controller. Thus computer pointing device output, such as from a mouse, is adapted to a console such that the user can control games on that console using the mouse. Data from a computer pointing device can also be combined with data from a keyboard such that the user may play games on a console using a mouse and a keyboard, as is common on personal computers.

US Patent:

20050176505, Aug 11, 2005

Filed:

Feb 9, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/774715

Inventors:

Mark Stanley - Bellevue WA, US

International Classification:

A63F013/02

US Classification:

463037000

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for adapting a computer pointing device to a video game console. In one embodiment a mouse plugs into an adapter which has an output that plugs into an input of a console. The adapter receives motion data from one or more computer mice and translates this into a format compatible with a game controller for that console. This data is then output to the console which perceives the data as from a single game controller. Thus computer pointing device output, such as from a mouse, is adapted to a console such that the user can control games on that console using the mouse. Data from a computer pointing device can also be combined with data from a keyboard such that the user may play games on a console using a mouse and a keyboard, as is common on personal computers.

US Patent:

20070117628, May 24, 2007

Filed:

Nov 19, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/164360

Inventors:

Mark Stanley - Bellevue WA, US

International Classification:

A63F 9/24

US Classification:

463036000

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for providing realistic gun motion input to a video game. In one embodiment, a plastic enclosure houses a video camera, PCB, microcontroller processor, and many buttons for controlling various aspects of a video game. The processor examines images from the video camera using various feature tracking algorithms and determines the direction and magnitude of motion of the video camera, and hence the motion of plastic gun shaped enclosure in which the video camera is mounted, and that the game player is wielding. This motion data is translated into motion data that a video game running on a video game console can understand, and transmitted to the video game console. The end result is that a user pointing and moving the plastic gun will cause the in game character of the video game to move and point its gun in concert with the game player, thereby providing an intuitive and fun aiming mechanism for playing video games. The button presses that the game player initiates on the apparatus are also reported to the video game and also affect various actions therein.