Appeal No. 96-1647
Application No. 08/149,026
Alternatively, the present invention can be utilized to
provide for interactive game play as to allow an
individual player apparatus console to remotely
participate in a multiuser video game network. Thus,
for example, a person with a modern input apparatus and
an audiovisual cable link-up could tap into a centrally
located game center data base. (Column 10, lines 36
through 42).
"[A] controller apparatus for coordinating data received from the
plurality of user stations [is] interconnected thereto" (column
4, lines 39 through 41). "Thus, the master controller can
interact with and/or control a plurality of remotely located
video game units in any of the manners described above" (column
9, lines 19 through 22).
Turning next to appellants’ visage arguments, Sitrick
discloses that:
[E]ach user is identified by a distinguishable
representation. For example, color, size or shape can
be used to distinguish users. In one embodiment a
digitized image of each user’s face is used as the
distinguishable representation. (Column 1, lines 44
through 49).
Sitrick further states that:
In accordance with yet another aspect of the
present invention, the video game can be made more
personal and exciting by utilizing actual video imagery
created responsive to user inputs at the individual
game apparatus." This aspect of the invention can be
utilized in either a stand-alone video game, or can be
utilized in a multi-user game, either distributed or
centrally controlled. (Column 11, lines 1 through 5).
Sitrick provides "the necessary hardware to input and digitize a
visual image of the user of the individual game apparatus 1000"
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