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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8000924 | Input device attitude prediction A first attitude calculation means S2 calculates a first attitude indicating an attitude of an input device itself based on a motion detection signal output from an input device equipped with a motion detection sensor. A motion calculation means S21 ca... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7955174 | Game program A CPU core of a game machine displays a game image on an LCD, executes a game process, and performs an updating process on the game image. Also, it is determined whether or not a result of the game process satisfies a predetermined condition, and if the result of th... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7909698 | Input device, input determination method, game system, game system control method, program, and information storage medium With a game system, a timing fetch section fetches an input-timing for input data determined to be valid by an input-determination section, and an evaluation section compares the fetched input-timing and a reference-timing, and evaluates an operation with an operati... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907779 | Game apparatus and storage medium storing a handwriting input program A game apparatus displays a game screen of 9×9 grid, for example, of a Sudoku puzzle on one LCD and an empty cell (cell to be answered) is large-displayed on the other LCD. A touch panel is provided on the LCD to allow a player to handwrite a numeral to fill in the... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7905781 | Information processing apparatus, information storing medium and program thereof, and operating device for game machine An information processing apparatus includes a controller (1), and a game machine (2) to which the controller (1) is connected, and from at least one of a plurality of switches provided on the controller (1), a digital output or an analog... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7800593 | Storage medium storing pointing device input adjustment program, input adjustment apparatus and input adjustment method A computer as an input adjustment apparatus includes a memory. This memory stores an input adjustment program. The computer is connected with a touch pad. When a user touches the touch pad with his/her finger, the computer is provided with touch coordinate data on a... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7781663 | Storage medium storing musical piece correction program and musical piece correction apparatus A musical piece correction apparatus corrects a sounding timing (note-on timings) of a sound constituting apart of a musical piece. First, the musical piece correction apparatus reads, from storage means, music performance data indicating sounding timings in the mus... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7724267 | Information processing program and information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus has a pointing device for designating a position of an arbitrary point with respect to a reference point O, and a processor of the information processing apparatus detects a position of the point designated by the pointing device ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7722450 | Game system, program, and information storage medium A game system including: a music reproduction section which reproduces given music data stored in a storage section; a display control section which performs display control of changing a relative positional relationship among a direction mark which directs an opera... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7711505 | Orientation calculation apparatus, storage medium having orientation calculation program stored therein, game apparatus, and storage medium having game program stored therein An orientation calculation apparatus obtains data from an input device comprising at least a gyro sensor, an acceleration sensor, and an image pickup means, so as to calculate an orientation of the input device. Firstly, the orientation calculation apparatus calcula... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7582015 | Program, information storage medium and game system A game system includes: a direction mark storage section which stores image data of a direction mark which directs an operation of a player; a display control section which performs display control of a plurality of display objects including the direction mark; a ti... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7479064 | Operating apparatus for game machine An operating apparatus for game machine includes a depressing member, and a main body of the depressing member is provided with three engaging protrusions and two depressing protrusions that downwardly protrude. For example, the two depressing protrusions are provid... | 01/20/2009 |
| D584176 | Pedometer | 01/06/2009 |
| 7467998 | Puzzle game apparatus, storage medium storing puzzle game program, and puzzle game controlling method A puzzle image to be solved, and a duplicating block for creating a duplicate character as a copy of a player character are displayed. The duplicate character is, on the basis of at least a fact that the player character is superposed on the duplicating block, gener... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7425175 | Match game program A game apparatus includes a CPU core. The CPU core firstly displays a field defined by a first side and a second side and shows a fixed block in the field. Then, the CPU core executes a player game process using the fixed block in response to a player's input operat... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7384340 | Trading cards interactive with electronic game machine and game system Trading cards consist of a single rule card and a plurality of character cards. The rule card is formed with a data recording area on its front surface. The data recording area of the rule card is mechanically readably recorded with rule program data determining a r... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7351152 | Hand-held game apparatus, game program storage medium and game control method for controlling display of an image based on detected angular velocity A game apparatus includes a hand-held housing, a display screen, and a gyro sensor for detecting an angular velocity of a rotation around an axis perpendicular to the display screen. When the player rotates the game apparatus around the axis, a rotation angle of the... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7314414 | Game device, storing medium storing game program, and game method using ultraviolet rays A game apparatus includes a CPU, and the CPU executes a game program stored in a game cartridge. During a game, the CPU corrects an ultraviolet ray value detected by an ultraviolet ray sensor in such a manner as to render equal or approximate to a setting value of t... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7278913 | Racing game program and video game device A racing game in which a player moving object controlled by a human player and a plurality of non-player moving objects automatically controlled based on a predetermined algorithm race together on a course in a virtual space is provided, wherein: different target pl... | 10/09/2007 |
| D546896 | Memory adapter for game machine | 07/17/2007 |
| D543246 | Base stand for electronic game machine | 05/22/2007 |
