Foot game controller with motion detection and/or position detection

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed having a mesh network such as a ZigBee mesh network, a game controller coupled to the mesh network; and a display device coupled to the mesh network.

1 . A foot controller, comprising:
 a foot platform;   a wireless network device coupled to the foot platform;   a motion sensor coupled to the wireless network to detect foot motion; and   a motion signal processor coupled to the motion sensor and to the wireless network device, the motion signal processor determining foot movement and applying the foot movement to a physics model of a ball and one or more players.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the wireless network device comprises one of: an 802.11 device, a Bluetooth device, an 805.15 device. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the mesh network game controller comprises a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephone. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the ball is played in a multiplayer online role-playing game. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the foot controller comprises a TV remote. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 1 , comprising a server coupled to the wireless network device and to a wide area network. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 6 , wherein the server receives a search query from the controller; the server searching one or more databases based on the search query and returning a search result on the display. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 7 , wherein a third party associated with one of the search results is selected to call back the game controller. 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 6 , wherein the server connect players to one or more game worlds. 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 6 , wherein the server instructs players to travel to one or more predetermined physical locations. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 10 , wherein the predetermined physical locations pay advertising revenue for instructions from the server. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the motion sensor comprises one of: an accelerometer, a piezoelectric transducer, a contact switch, a pressure transducer. 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 1 , comprising an electricity generator coupled to the foot platform. 
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the electricity generator comprises one of: an electrostrictive polymer, an electroactive polymer, a piezoelectric element, a solar cell. 
     
     
         15 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the motion sensor detects ball approach, plant-foot force, swing-limb loading, hip flexion, knee extension, foot contact, and follow-through. 
     
     
         16 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the motion sensor detects muscular action during approach and kick. 
     
     
         17 . The system of  claim 14 , wherein the motion sensor detects trunk motion for stabilization, right hip motion for internal rotation/hip flexion, left hip motion for extension, right knee motion for extension, left knee motion for extension, right ankle motion for plantar flexion, left shoulder for horizontal adduction. 
     
     
         18 . The system of  claim 1 , comprising a hand controller to detect hand motion and wherein the motion sensors detect swinging or cocking of the kicking limb of a kicking leg and motion in an opposite arm to the kicking leg. 
     
     
         19 . The system of  claim 1 , comprising a physics motion processor to process the current position, the motion of the foot and the force to model ball path and display the ball path. 
     
     
         20 . The system of  claim 17 , wherein the motion signal processor applies a linear relationship between foot velocity measured by the sensor and the resultant ball velocity modeled by the physics motion processor. 
     
     
         21 . A system, comprising
 a mesh network;   a network game controller coupled to the mesh network including
 one or more wearable foot and hand motion detectors, wherein the motion detectors determine hand and foot motions and apply one or more kinematics or physics models to the hand and foot motions; and 
 an in-door position detector that triangulates positions based on a plurality of wireless transmitter outputs; and 
   a display device coupled to the mesh network to render game images.   
     
     
         22 . The system of  claim 19 , wherein the motion sensor detects player trunk motion for stabilization, right hip motion for internal rotation/hip flexion, left hip motion for extension, right knee motion for extension, left knee motion for extension, right ankle motion for plantar flexion, left shoulder for horizontal adduction.