Abstract: Embodiments of a new and innovative button construct include a curved button, a flexible printed circuit, and a frame. The curved button has a first, exterior side configured to be contacted by a user, and a second, interior side opposite the first, exterior side. The flexible printed circuit includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes at least one touch sensor. The first portion and the second portion are folded relative to one another such that the frame is disposed between the second portion and at least the portion of the first portion including the touch sensor(s). The touch sensor(s) of the first portion is disposed between the second, interior side of the curved button and the frame.

Abstract: The present invention is to, on a basis of data including information capable of specifying a motion input by a performer who plays a character arranged in a virtual space and a speech of the performer, produce a behavior of the character, to enable the character viewed from a predetermined point of view in the virtual space to display on a predetermined display unit, and to enable a sound depending on the speech of the performer to output. A behavior of a mouth of the character in the virtual space is controlled based on the data, a next facial expression to be taken as the facial expression of the character is specified in accordance with a predetermined rule, and switching control is performed on the facial expression of the character in the virtual space to the facial expression, which is specified by the step of specifying, with lapse of time.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for monitoring gameplay trajectories for stopping points and applying a time-based setting. The gameplay trajectories may be based on patterns within real-time gameplay data. The server may predict one or more stopping periods within a gameplay session based on a comparison of the gameplay trajectory data to the time-based setting. Then, the setting may be applied to generate options for transitioning out of the gameplay session at a next predicted timing point.

Abstract: A game controller for a mobile device that includes a first handle, a first bumper, and a first switch. The first handle is configured to contact and support a mobile device. The first bumper is coupled to the first handle. The first bumper is configured to accept touch inputs. The first bumper includes a pivot rod at a first end of the first bumper that is configured to engage a track slot of the first handle. The pivot rod is configured to rotate within the track slot and to translate within the track slot. The first bumper further includes a plunger at a first-span distance from the pivot rod. The first switch is within the first handle and is configured to be activated by touch inputs to the first bumper. The plunger of the first bumper is configured to contact and impart a force to the first switch.

Abstract: A combat control method for a game object, a computer readable storage medium, and an intelligent terminal are provided. The combat control method includes: controlling game objects comprising a game object in a first combat lineup and a game object in a second combat lineup to enter a combat state; controlling a first game object in the first combat lineup to point to a second game object in the second combat lineup, and controlling a third game object in the first combat lineup to point to a fourth game object in the second combat lineup, until each game object in the first combat lineup or in the second combat lineup is configured with a pointed game object; calculating a combat result, and pointing the game object with a winning combat result in the first combat lineup to the game object with a winning combat result in the second combat lineup.

Abstract: The invention provides an improved controller (10) for a games console. The invention is a games controller (10) that is intended to be held by a user in both hands in the same manner as a conventional controller (1). Additionally, the controller of the invention (10) may comprise the same controls (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) as a conventional controller (1). The controller of the present invention (10) is advantageous as it additionally comprises two additional controls (11A, 11B, 11C, 11D) located on the rear of the controller (10) in a position to be operated by the middle fingers of a user (12). The additional controllers (11A, 11B, 11C, 11D) may be paddle levers and may replicate the functions of one or more of the controls (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) located on the front or top of the controller (10).

Abstract: A steering wheel instrument assembly includes a button assembly having a microprocessor and a push-button switch. A function table has a unified format code associated with the push-button switch and indicates a desired vehicle operation. The assembly includes a vehicle protocol adapter module having another microprocessor with a second function table having the unified format code associated with an OEM format code. The microprocessor of the button assembly retrieves the unified format code when the push-button switch is activated and sends the unified format code to the vehicle protocol adapter module. The vehicle protocol adapter module retrieves the OEM format code from the second function table in response to receiving the unified format code and sends the OEM format code to an engine control unit.

Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processor coupled to a memory storing instructions and to a near field sensor. Execution of the instructions can cause the processor to perform operations including defining a zone corresponding to a portion of an accessory comprising the sensor, detecting a gesture of an object in the zone by sensing the object with the sensor, determining that the gesture is a new gesture not previously associated with the zone and not previously associated with a gaming action controlling presentations produced by a gaming application, associating the gesture with the zone and with the gaming action, subsequently detecting the gesture in the zone, obtaining the gaming action associated with the gesture, and transmitting the gaming action to the gaming application. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Provided is an inputting device including an operation button that is pressed in a first direction, a switch that is located in the first direction with respect to the operation button and is pushed by the operation button, a circuit board including a conductor pad located on an outside with respect to an external shape of the operation button when the operation button is viewed in the first direction, and a detection conductor provided on the operation button, in which the detection conductor includes a movable portion attached to the operation button, an elastic portion extending from the movable portion in a direction intersecting with the first direction, and a fixation portion connected to the elastic portion and attached to the conductor pad, and movement of the movable portion in the first direction is permitted by elastic deformation of the elastic portion.

Abstract: There are provided a controller apparatus and a control method thereof. The controller apparatus is held by a hand of a user and includes a microphone, a tactile sensation presentation device that presents a tactile sensation to the hand of the user, and a speaker. In addition, during a period in which the user inputs sound from the microphone, the controller apparatus reduces emission of sound of the speaker and causes the tactile sensation presentation device to perform control of tactile sensation presentation.

Abstract: A hand-worn workwear unit for scanning barcodes, including a portable control system configured to connect to an external device via a wireless signal, a sensor module having a barcode scanner, a peripheral device, and a seat fastened to a backhand portion of the hand-worn workwear unit. The portable control system and the sensor module form a structural unit configured to be inserted into and removed from the seat. The seat provides a contact point for detachably electrically connecting the peripheral device and the sensor module via one or more wires in the hand-worn workwear unit. The peripheral device has push button which is arranged outside on an index finger portion of the hand-worn workwear unit.

Abstract: A system may include an electronic device such as a head-mounted device and a handheld input device for controlling the electronic device. A tracking device may be removably coupled to the handheld input device to increase the precision with which the head-mounted device tracks the handheld input device. The tracking device may have larger dimensions than the handheld input device and/or may have an expandable housing that expands and retracts. Visual markers on the tracking device may include infrared light-emitting diodes, geometric surface features, or other optical tracking features. The tracking device may serve as a secondary input device for the head-mounted device when the tracking device is decoupled from the input device. The tracking device may have a recess for receiving a shaft of the input device and may have magnets or other attachment structures for attaching the tracking device to the input device.

Abstract: Networked gaming systems and methods with location-based restrictions. A gaming system includes a game administration server, a communication interface, and a memory containing program instructions to cause at least one processor of the game administration server to estimate a current location of a player using the gaming system, dynamically create a customized list of available games for a player at the current location based on a location of a player gaming client being used by the player, present the customized list of available games to the player gaming client through the communications interface, receive, from the player gaming client through the communications interface, a selection of a game by the player from the customized list of available games, initiate the game on a gaming server, and compensate the player with player winnings.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method, device, and storage medium for controlling a virtual object. The method includes obtaining, by a device, a first virtual feature and a second virtual feature, a virtual object in a virtual scene comprising the first virtual feature and the second virtual feature. The device includes a memory storing instructions and a processor in communication with the memory. The method further includes obtaining, by the device, a first physical force matching the first virtual feature and a second physical force matching the second virtual feature; and controlling, by the device according to the first physical force, the first virtual feature to perform a first action, and controlling, according to the second physical force, the second virtual feature to perform a second action.

Abstract: A control device and a correcting method of a control device with a strength feedback function are disclosed. The control device includes a vibrator, a driver, a strength sensor, and a processor. In correction procedures, the driver provides a driving signal with a plurality of different setting voltage values respectively to the vibrator. In each correction procedure, the driver adjusts a frequency of the driving signal to setting frequency values by time division. In the correction procedures, the strength sensor senses a strength generated by a vibration of the vibrator to obtain strength sensing information respectively corresponding to the setting voltage values. The processor analyzes the strength sensing information, the setting frequency values, and the setting voltage values to obtain relationship information between the setting frequency values and the setting voltage values corresponding to each strength sensing information.

Abstract: A four-axis joystick provides the ability to control four parameters in a single input device. In one embodiment, the Z-direction of control is implemented by a telescoping joystick handle, with the X- and Y-directions of control being implemented by pivoting motions of the handle in directions radial to an axis of the joystick handle, and the theta-direction of control implemented by rotation of a portion of the handle about the handle axis. The four-axis joystick may be used as an input device for audio mixing applications with the X-, Y-, and Z-dimensions of control mapped to panning of an audio source in the left-right, forward-backward, and up-down directions respectively, and the theta-dimension mapped to volume control of low frequency effects.

Abstract: A game controller for a mobile device having a first handle, a second handle, a bridge coupling the first handle to the second handle, and a magnetic connector. The first handle includes a user-accessible, first hardware interface configured to accept touch inputs. The second handle includes a user-accessible, second hardware interface configured to accept touch inputs. The magnetic connector is configured to magnetically retain a mobile device to the game controller.

Abstract: A method for controlling a game character, comprising following steps: in response to a sliding operation started from an initial position of the skill button, locking the virtual joystick for disabling control of the skill release direction of the game character; monitoring a track of the sliding operation, obtaining a current position P2 of a touch point of the sliding operation, and calculating a vector a; determining whether the vector a meets the condition of |a|>a preset threshold L; if yes, generating a first operating instruction to release a skill in the direction of the vector a; and unlocking the virtual joystick; if no, determining whether the sliding operation has been released; if yes, generating a second operating instruction to release the skill, wherein a release direction is a current orientation of the game character; and unlocking the virtual joystick. The method may effectively reduce a misoperation rate.

Abstract: A mobile body includes a steering unit that is displaced according to an operation by a driver, and an operation terminal holding unit that detachably holds, in the steering unit, an operation terminal including an attitude change detection unit that detects an attitude change.

Abstract: Systems, methods and software for multi-player electronic gaming are described. One embodiment includes a system for multi-player electronic gaming, the system including at least one gaming client configured to accept a selection of at least one gaming option from a player, and allow the player to play a game based on the selection of the at least one gaming option. The system includes an administration server configured to: receive the selection of the at least one gaming option from the at least one gaming client, and initiate the game for the player based on the selection of the at least one gaming option. The system includes at least one gaming server configured to run the game and transmit data about the game to the administration server.

Abstract: Disclosed are a virtual object control method performed by an electronic device. The method includes: displaying a target virtual object and a virtual action button in a display interface, the virtual action button being configured to control the target virtual object to perform a first action; displaying first prompt information in the display interface when the target virtual object is within a trigger range of a target interaction event, the first prompt information being used for prompting to perform a touch operation on the virtual action button; adding an action indicator to the first prompt information when a first touch operation satisfying a predefined threshold condition associated with a second action is initiated on the virtual action button; and controlling the target virtual object to perform the second action in the target interaction event when the first touch operation performed on the virtual action button is completed.

Abstract: A gamepad auxiliary device relating to the field of gamepad auxiliary technology is provided, comprising: an assembly part for arranging on a gamepad and covering at least a portion of the gamepad; and at least one operating rod, of which one end is a tapping end, another end is an operating end, and a middle part is assembled on the assembly part through a fulcrum; wherein when the gamepad auxiliary device is assembled on the gamepad, the tapping end extends to an upper side of the button of the gamepad, and the operating end extends to a front and lower side of the gamepad, and is located between two grips of the gamepad; wherein when an operator uses the middle finger, the ring finger or the little finger to touch the operating end to an outside, the tapping end is pressed down to tap the button of the gamepad.

Abstract: A single user input element can be used in four different modes including a first mode in which the user input element mimics a single button by restricting input along multiple axes, a second mode in which the user input element restricts input to a first axis, a third mode in which the user input element restricts input to a second axis, and a fourth mode in which the user has no restrictions to user input. A rotational cam may be used to interact with shuttle pins that control the height of a surface (e.g., an up/down position) of the plurality of fill spacers to change a look and/or feel of the user input element. A rotational structure which has lockout tabs to prevent individual rotational axis from being rotated depending on the configuration of the input device. These aspects may provide a reconfigurable direction pad for a game controller.

Abstract: Techniques are described herein that enable advanced gaming and virtual reality control using radar. These techniques enable small motions and displacements to be tracked, even in the millimeter or submillimeter scale, for user control actions even when those actions are optically occluded or obscured.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus, which may include a display unit that displays a game content positioned in a virtual space, a storage unit that stores information related to a predetermined position in the virtual space, a retrieving unit that retrieves instructions for moving including a moving direction given by a player, a calculating unit that calculates a route from a position of the game content in the virtual space to the predetermined position, a determining unit that determines whether or not the calculated route satisfies a predetermined condition related to the moving direction, and a display control unit that controls display of the game content such that the game content moves to the predetermined position along the route when it is determined that the route satisfies the predetermined condition.

Abstract: An oral care method using an electric toothbrush includes receiving brushing data from an electric toothbrush, by an application; and analyzing the brushing data by the application to display a brushing score indicating how much the brushing is performed.

Abstract: Provided are a virtual object selection method and apparatus, a terminal, and a storage medium, belonging to the field of computer and Internet technologies. When a client controls a first virtual object to perform a first operation, and a plurality of second virtual objects are distributed densely in an execution range of the first operation, the client offsets logical positions of the plurality of second virtual objects to ensure that the plurality of second virtual objects may be distinguished and a target virtual object is selected from the plurality of second virtual objects based on offset logical positions. Accordingly, a user is prevented from spending much time to select the target virtual object from the execution range of the first operation, thereby reducing operation time costs of the user and improving the operation efficiency.

Abstract: A casting device may include a microcontroller, an inertial measurement unit in communication with the microcontroller, an actuator in communication with the microcontroller, and a power source for providing power to the casting device. The casting device may also include one or more indicators that provide user feedback regarding accurate use of the device.

Abstract: An extendable mechanism may include an extension member. The extendable mechanism may further include a link member which is provided with an extension-member-guide element. The extension member may be in engagement with the extension-member-guide element of the link member in a manner so as to be retractably extendable from the link member in an extension direction along an axis of the extension member. The extendable mechanism may further include a link-member-guide element for being disposed at the body structure. The link member may be in engagement with the link-member-guide element in a manner so as to be retractably extendable from the link-member-guide element in the extension direction. The extendable mechanism may further include a biasing member for being arranged between the link member and the body structure. A controller may include a controller body and the extendable mechanism.

Abstract: An electronic device and a sensitivity adjustment method of a sensor are disclosed. The method includes: in a situation that a target program is executed by the electronic device, receiving sensing data from a target sensor; activating a sensitivity adjustment rule according to the target program; adjusting the sensing data according to the sensitivity adjustment rule; and providing the adjusted sensing data to the target program.

Abstract: A removable cover for an electronic gaming machine having one or more external surfaces is provided. The removable cover includes a printable film for positioning over the external surfaces of the electronic gaming machine, and a flexible multi-layer film covering the printable film. The multi-layer film includes an adhesive layer arranged to secure the flexible multi-layer film and printable film to the external surface of the electronic gaming machine. The removable cover is shaped to correspond with a shape of at least a portion of the external surface of the electronic gaming machine. The printable film is configured to be imprinted with one or more of graphics, patterns, colors, text, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: The invention provides an improved controller (10) for a games console. The invention is a games controller (10) that is intended to be held by a user in both hands in the same manner as a conventional controller. The controller of the invention (10) may comprise a plurality of controls (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9) on the front (F) and top (T) of the controller (10). The controller of the present invention (10) is advantageous as it additionally comprises at least one additional control (18) providing a distal input control device having an interface located in one of a plurality of faces of the controller.

Abstract: A device can include a video cable that includes opposing ends; and a human presence sensor operatively coupled to the video cable between the opposing ends.

Abstract: An input device such as a cell phone or computer game controller being held in a portrait versus a landscape orientation is used to select different computer game modes, such as zooming, switching between first and third person perspectives, etc.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for providing a game. According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for providing a game, the apparatus including: a controller configured to generate an image based on input from a user who plays a game, to generate a game object by matching at least one effect to the image, and to provide the effect corresponding to the game object when a request for the use of the game object is received in the game; and storage configured to store the game object.

Abstract: This disclosure describes a system that allows a user to track performance metrics from a game controller. These performance metrics are displayed on a screen of the game controller. In addition to the game controller, the disclosed system may comprise an app, on a device external from the game controller, that is also able to display the performance metrics as they are updated.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present specification provide systems and methods for operating game controllers. Microprocessor-controlled game controllers enable recreation of identical gaming scenarios with precision and accuracy. At least one microprocessor is connected to one or more game controllers. The microprocessor is programmed to synchronize the game controllers externally. Additionally, the microprocessor is programmed to modify one or more game controls that are provided by the game controllers. In embodiments of the present specification, game controllers are embedded with a wireless microcontroller that allow for remote feeding of commands to the microcontrollers.

Abstract: A steering apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a rim member, a center member connected to a steering shaft at a rotation center of the rim member, a first sound output apparatus provided on a front surface of the rim member or the center member, and a first rim chamber unit provided in the rim member and in communication with a space behind the first sound output apparatus.

Abstract: Disclosed are gaming systems, methods and machines that include one or more modular buttons. In particular, a modular button is configured for mounting within a frame or panel. The modular button may be interchangeable, such that various modular buttons may be added, exchanged, and/or removed from the frame. In some examples, the frame may be formed of a metal or other structural material. In some examples, the frame may be formed within a surface of another system, such as a bar-top, a gaming table, or an EGM, as a non-limiting listing of examples. The modular buttons include devices and/or circuitry to enable wireless transfer of power and/or communications.

Abstract: In a multi-GPU simulation environment, frame buffer management may be implemented by multiple GPUs rendering respective frames of video, or by rendering respective portions of each frame of video. One of the GPUs controls HDMI frame output by virtue of receiving frame information from the other GPU(s) and reading out complete frames through a physically connected HDMI output port. Or, the outputs of the GPUs can be multiplexed together.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium including a video game processing program for causing a server to select an action regarding an object of a character on a basis of predetermined selection criteria is provided. At least one usage purpose is set to the object as an action. The functions include: an extracting function configured to extract a similar object similar to a new object among selection criterion stored object, the character having already stored selection criteria for each selection criterion stored objects; and an inheriting function configured to set a selection probability of each action in the selection criteria stored so as to be associated with the new object based on a selection probability of each action in the selection criteria stored so as to be associated with the similar object with respect to at least actions set in common between the similar and new objects.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an input device including: a plurality of input members; an upper surface having a right region in which a part of the plurality of input members is disposed, a left region in which another part of the plurality of input members is disposed, and a center region that is a region between the right region and the left region; and a light emitting region formed along an outer edge of the center region. The light emitting region includes a first light emitting portion configured to indicate identification information assigned to a plurality of input devices connected to an information processing apparatus, and a second light emitting portion configured to emit light based on information different from the identification information.

Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processor that performs operations including receiving an actuation profile comprising one or more actuation thresholds responsive to a detection of a triggering event during a gaming session of a video game, configuring the sensor according to the one or more actuation thresholds, receiving, from the sensor, a signal indicating a depression range of the button, comparing the depression range to the one or more actuation thresholds of the actuation profile, and generating an actuation state when the depression range exceeds an actuation threshold of the one or more actuation thresholds. Additional embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: An image sensing device and a photographing device including the same are disclosed. The image sensing device includes a pixel array configured to have a first pixel and a second pixel that are different from each other in terms of at least one of an effective measurement distance, temporal resolution, spatial resolution, and unit power consumption, and a timing controller configured to determine whether a distance to a target object is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold distance, and selectively activate any one of the first pixel and the second pixel according to the result of determination.

Abstract: An interactive vehicle simulation system having a virtual reality engine that generates a virtual operating environment that includes a user operated vehicle having a plurality of wheel types, a vehicle position, vehicle orientation, vehicle velocity and vehicle acceleration.

Abstract: A game controller for a mobile device, the game controller having a first handle, a bridge, a first spring mechanism, and a first latch mechanism. The first handle is configured to contact and support a mobile device and includes a user-accessible, first hardware interface on a main body portion of the first handle. The bridge is in sliding engagement with the first handle. The bridge and the first handle are configured for the main body portion of the first handle to translate in a retraction direction toward a midline of the bridge and into a retracted configuration and also to translate in an extension direction away from the midline of the bridge into an extended configuration. The first spring mechanism is configured to bias the first handle toward the retracted configuration. The first latch mechanism is configured to temporarily lock the bridge in the extended configuration.

Abstract: A joystick device including a hollow housing having an endless boundary structure and a ceiling structure with an opening; a control-stick having a head portion and a stem portion, the hollow housing surrounding the stem portion with the head portion outside the hollow housing; and a plurality of biasing curved arm members extending outwardly from the stem portion and movable with the control-stick as a whole relative to the hollow housing along a plane at least substantially perpendicular to the stem portion. Each of the plurality of biasing curved arm members having a curved segment with a convex side directed towards a respective corresponding portion of the endless boundary structure so as to bias the stem portion when the control-stick is being moved towards said portion. The plurality of biasing curved arm members being distributed around the stem portion so as to cooperate with each other to centre the control-stick.

Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus for supplying user inputs to a computer program, a games controller and an actuator mounted to a controller. The apparatus comprises a case having a first part and a second part. Each of the first and second parts comprise one or more controls. One of the first and second parts comprises a sensor for determining the position of the first part relative to the second part, wherein the position of the first part relative to the second part provides an input control device.

Abstract: A virtual object control method is provided. The method includes: displaying a user interface (UI), the UI including a joystick control configured to control a virtual object to move; receiving a quick click/tap operation signal acting on a target region corresponding to the joystick control; and controlling, according to the quick click/tap operation signal, the virtual object to run in a virtual scene displayed in the UI.

Abstract: A method includes displaying, via a display device, first content with respect to which a first plurality of editing operations have been performed. The method further includes while displaying the first content, detecting, on the touch-sensitive surface, a first multi-finger gesture. The method further includes in response to detecting the first multi-finger gesture: in accordance with a determination that the first multi-finger gesture includes more than a first predetermined amount of movement in a first direction, undoing one of the first plurality of editing operations; and in accordance with a determination that the first multi-finger gesture includes more than a first predetermined amount of movement in a second direction that is different from the first direction, redoing one of the first plurality of editing operations.