Patents by Inventor Dean Nicholas Tate

Dean Nicholas Tate has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Dance Game and Tutuorial
    Publication number: 20110306396
    Abstract: Presented herein are methods, apparatuses, programs, and systems for scoring a player performance comprising one or more poses in a dance-based video game. a performance 3D skeleton is received that indicates a pose of the player. A score is calculated by comparing a position, a timing, or both, associated with one or more joints of the performance 3D skeleton to a position, a timing, or both, associated with one or more joints of a target pose and altering one or more characteristics of the dance-based video game based on the score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Harmonix Music Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Albert Flury, Kasson D. Crooker, Matthew Christopher Boch, Eran B. Egozy, Dean Nicholas Tate, Seth Goldstein, Isaac Adams, Adam Carriuolo