Sony Files Patent For Wii-Like Pointing/Motion Sensing Tech

[Elven6]

Lame....Filed: June 7, 2005

Um the offical patent letter is dated November 30 2006, its on the Sega PS3 boards if u wanna check.

[F9zDark]

Um the offical patent letter is dated November 30 2006, its on the Sega PS3 boards if u wanna check.

Here you go:

Inventors: Sproul; James Shannon; (Foster City, CA) ; Burrowes; Paul deNyse IV; (Foster City, CA)
Correspondence Name and Address:

CARR & FERRELL LLP
2200 GENG ROAD
PALO ALTO
CA
94303
US

Assignee Name and Adress: Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.

Serial No.: 147858
Series Code: 11
Filed: June 7, 2005

U.S. Current Class: 717/174
U.S. Class at Publication: 717/174
Intern'l Class: G06F 9/445 20060101 G06F009/445

[mavsman4457]

Anyone know what's wrong if the command prompt opens then closes right away?

[F9zDark]

Anyone know what's wrong if the command prompt opens then closes right away?

Wow, thats really off topic man... If you are running a program that works in the command prompt, it will execute until its completion and then exit. Type cmd into Start>Run and then execute the program by entering its directory.

[808]

Filed: June 7, 2005

Which is funny, because when was the Wii remote unveiled?

September 2005 at the Tokyo Game Show


(Could be disproven, I don't know when Nintendo filed their patent)

[Elven6]

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...er%22+AND+2006

[F9zDark]

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...er%22+AND+2006

And on that site it says Filed: May 27, 2005.

The date of filing is WHEN the inventor submitted the patent to the patent office. Therefore that means thats Sony submitted motion sensing tech way before Nintendo unveiled it (from Synthesis says). If Nintendo didn't patent it, then thats their stupidity; Sony could then sue them for patent infringement.

[mavsman4457]

Anyone know what's wrong if the command prompt opens then closes right away?

Oh man I'm really sorry. I meant to post in a thread about using the sixaxis on a PC. Sorry about that and thanks for the attempted help. Don't worry I'm not an idiot, spammer, or randomer.

[PSPFR3AK]

people who say "copy" you make it sound ....bad?

[irongiant]

If you wanted a good example you would have listed the Turbo Duo, or the Sega CD.

Yup, or the Philips CDI or the Amiga CD32.. the point is everybody takes ideas from others, it's business and has always been the same. It's how things move forwards and get better, sane rational people understand that.. it's just blinkered fanbois that get all worked up about how anyone could possibly have ideas before their beloved Nintendo. The Sony hating goes way back to the original Playstation, as that's when Nintendo were knocked off their perch. If it wasn't for Sony and now also MS then Nintendo wouldn't have had any reason to come up with the DS and Wii.