Appeal No. 1997-4438
Application No. 08/173,431
The disclosed invention relates to a method and device
that provides the observer of an interactive movie the option
of observing the movie from the perspective of a selectable
character in the movie.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A method for producing a user interactive movie, said
method comprising:
recording visual images of a series of events from a
first perspective into a digital database capable of recording
visual images, said visual images forming a story comprising a
sequence of timed events;
recording visual images of the series of events from
a second perspective into a digital database, the events as
recorded from the second perspective being timed to track the
events as recorded from the first perspective;
recording instruction means into a digital database
for causing a computer to retrieve and output to a user
through user interfaces the visual images as recorded from
either the first perspective or second perspective; and
recording instruction means into a digital database
for selectively causing said computer to switch from retrieval
and output of the visual images recorded from the first
perspective to retrieval and output of the visual images
recorded from the second perspective at any selected event in
the series of events.
The examiner relies on the following references:
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