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Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Musical Player-Motion Sensing Game System
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 7, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- Mitsuhiro Nomi, Satoshi Ueno and Yasuhiro Noguchi, all from Kobe, Japan, have developed a novel game system in which a game player moves his hands to make hitting and swinging motions.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a game system, instruction marks corresponding to sounds constituting part of a music number are displayed on a monitor, and a game player plays a game by operating a signal generating device by at least one of a hitting motion and a swinging motion at specified timings based on the displayed instruction marks."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The game system is provided with a display means ...