Crazy Sony Patent: Motion sensing cameras for your hands & feet tracking your moves on the dance floor.

Crazy new Sony patent for tracking your dance moves using motion sensing cameras that attach to your hands & feet sensing your every move with the help of the patterns on a dance mat.

" BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 

Video games have become a very popular form of entertainment. A typical video game utilizes an interface or controller to receive inputs from a user. A common type of controller is a hand-held controller that uses pushbuttons or joysticks to provide inputs. Another type of controller, commonly referred to as a "dance pad" is used with games based on dance. In a typical dance-based game a user is prompted to press selected buttons on the dance pad at specific times in response to some sort of visual indicator displayed on a video screen. In the dance pad, the control buttons are typically integrated into a plastic mat. The user can press different control buttons by stepping or dancing on corresponding areas of the mat. "