Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070220583
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Prior Art Detail
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | "Silent Steel" was a 4 CD game for PCs in the mid-90s where viewers had to make selections at certain points. Depending on the selection, a different pre-recorded video segment would play. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Online Publication |
| URL | http://www.subsim.com/ssr/steel... |
| Author/Creator | |
| Title | Silent Steel |
| Publication Date | 1997 |
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Notes / To Do
| Notes | I put 1997 in the publication date, but I'm not sure when Silent Steel was first released. It came with an IBM Aptiva computer I bought in the mid-90s. |
Excerpt
Excerpt The video freezes and at the bottom of the screen appears a text menu, giving you a choice of three responses...You decide which is the appropriate response. Then the video resumes....The interactive movie branches off toward different resolutions, depending on your choices. |
Relevance
Claims
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A method of enhancing a viewer's experience of a video program, comprising:
providing a plurality of selectable alternative video program scenes for a video program being viewed on a display, the selectable alternative program versions being pre-rendered video scenes; and
prompting a user to select at least one of the selectable alternative video program scenes for viewing.
Relevance
The user/viewer selects from 3 pre-recorded alternative video segments for a "video program being viewed on a display". The only difference I see vs. claim 1 is that with Silent Steel, the user is indirectly selecting the "alternative video program scenes" by answering questions.
The user/viewer selects from 3 pre-recorded alternative video segments for a "video program being viewed on a display". The only difference I see vs. claim 1 is that with Silent Steel, the user is indirectly selecting the "alternative video program scenes" by answering questions.
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