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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8167718 | Storage medium storing game program, game apparatus, and game control method A game apparatus includes an LCD, and displayed on the LCD is a game screen including a display portion that displays a planar positional relationship between a player object and enemy objects present in a three-dimensional game space. The player object and enemy ob... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8152637 | Image display system, information processing system, image processing system, and video game system According to functions (the first to the third target position setup functions 242, 244, and 246) which set up as a target position, a position of reference image, a position decided by orientations of multiple cards, and a position of a character imag... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8105163 | Control device and control method A technology for expressing object movements with higher levels of realism is provided. A control part 30 arranged in a game apparatus 10 includes an input part 40 and a control part 60. The control part 60 includes a standard mode... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7985136 | Image producing device, speed expressing method, and program An operation input reception unit (201) receives an operation input for a virtual vehicle. A running condition managing unit (203) manages the running condition of the virtual vehicle based on the received operation input. An image producing unit (2... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7955173 | Game device, game control method and program There is provided a game device that can improve reality of a game field, by causing change in an image for a game field due to various reasons, such as change in viewpoint, with a simple method. With a game device, in display processing executed by a control sectio... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7951001 | Gaming device having a three dimensional display device A wagering gaming device having a three-dimensional display device which includes a plurality display screens. The display screens display three dimensional images having an height, actual width and depth. ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7857700 | Three-dimensional autostereoscopic image display for a gaming apparatus A gaming apparatus may include a display unit capable of displaying three-dimensional images, a value input device, and a controller operatively coupled to the display unit and the value input device. The display unit may include a display screen which may have a pl... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7824265 | Virtual camera control method in three-dimensional video game A central position of each character participating in a battle is obtained as a fixation point, and multiple temporary points are set on a hemisphere around the fixation point. Each temporary viewpoint position is set on a straight line connecting the fixation point... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7785200 | Game device and storage medium having game program stored therein An object is provided with a plurality of vectors each having a direction and an end position assigned to the object in a fixed manner. The game device moves the object in a three-dimensional game space, and determines whether a part of the object has contacted a pr... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7628698 | Game program A CPU core determines whether a stick is in contact with a touch panel based on an output signal from the touch panel; if not in contact, a gazing point of a virtual camera is moved to a collective center of masses for objects; on the other hand, if the stick is in ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7597622 | Game device, computer control method, and computer-readable information storage medium A game device including a player image acquisition section 50 for receiving an image of a player from image capture means in charge of image capturing of the player, a game processing section 54 for executing various types of games, and in each of the ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7588497 | Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for generating an image When a player character is moved toward a two-dimensional non-player character (NPC) in response to operation of an input section 21 by a player, a main process is repeatedly carried out by a video game apparatus 100. Thus, the two-dimensional NPC appr... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7585225 | Video game apparatus for displaying information indicating boundary between fields When movement of a player character is instructed, a position and a direction of the player character after movement thereof are calculated. When the calculated position of the player character after movement thereof is in a moving-to area moved from a current area ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7470195 | Camera control for third-person console video game In a third-person shooter video game, the viewing perspective is smoothly transitioned between an “explorer” viewpoint and a “ready” viewpoint as game conditions change. In the “explore” viewpoint, scenes are depicted from a camera positioned behind and ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7429214 | Electronic game with real feel interface The present invention relates to an electronic game, including a housing, electronic circuitry positioned within the housing, and a display unit positioned within the housing and electrically coupled to the circuitry. A first sensor is electrically coupled to the ci... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7422523 | Handheld pinball game having a changeable display A hand-held pinball game has a changeable display. The pinball game has a housing having a front face. A display screen is formed in the front face of the housing. A first opening is formed in the housing. A display card is visible through the display screen. The di... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7412348 | Storage medium storing a game program, game apparatus, and game controlling method A game system includes a game apparatus and a controller. The controller is furnished with an acceleration sensor for detecting accelerations in at least two axis directions. Game processing corresponding to the kind of an acceleration input by means of the controll... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7404766 | Gaming machine The gaming machine has the game result display means for displaying a result concerning with a game and beneficial state generating means for generating a beneficial state for a player when a specific game result is displayed on the game result display means, wherei... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7380791 | Gaming machine using controllable LEDs for reel strip illumination A backlight for a reel assembly is disclosed comprising a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs). An array of red, green, and blue diodes are positioned behind a translucent reel strip to backlight three adjacent symbols on a reel strip. The LEDs are individually... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7375678 | Displaying obstacles in perspective view A system and method for displaying obstacles in a conformal perspective view. The system comprises a display screen for graphical display of data, at least one obstacle data source, one or more graphics processors for receiving obstacle data from the at least one ob... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7361856 | Low impact switch apparatus A platform of the type holding a plurality of normally-open electric switches in position for activation of a selected individual switch by application of a force in a direction normal to a surface of the switch by a portion of a human body. An exemplary platform ac... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355134 | Practice switch apparatus A platform of the type holding a plurality of normally-open electric switches in position for activation of a selected individual switch by application of a force in a direction normal to a surface of the switch by a portion of a human body. An exemplary platform ac... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347780 | Game system and game programs A portable game system that uses polygon graphics to generate a 3-D player character, or body part such as a hand, moving through a 3-D simulated game space for display on an LCD screen in the portable game system. Overlaying an LCD screen is a touch screen that sen... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349117 | Method for introduction and linking of imaging appliances An imaging appliance family is a cooperative system of two or more imaging appliances that are linked together to share images, command and control. Imaging appliances may be linked to each other by introducing the appliances to each other, establishing a communicat... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341520 | Moving three-dimensional display for a gaming machine A gaming apparatus may include a primary display unit, a value input device, a first controller coupled to the primary display unit and the value input device, a microprocessor and associated memory, and a second display unit. The secondary display unit may include ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7326117 | Networked video game systems Video game systems for multiple-player games may exchange synchronizing data through the Internet or other data transmission link. These hidden status data records keep the video game systems synchronized with each other whenever different players are making use of ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7316617 | Game system and storage medium having stored thereon game program A first game image of a displayed region of a game space which contains all player characters is created, and a second image is created by zooming in, when a player has performed a specific operation on an operation means, on a surrounding region of a player charact... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7309285 | Gaming device having multiple transverse rotating displays A gaming device including a mechanical display device including a main housing and a plurality of movable symbol displays mounted in the main housing, wherein each of the symbol displays includes at least one symbol. The main housing includes a substantially horizon... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7300345 | Method and computer-readable medium for deploying characters in a game An object of the present invention is to deploy soccer players in optimum positions in a soccer game. As means for achieving this object, a base position and ability parameters of player characters are stored in memory as attribute data. Player character/formation s... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289823 | Video overlay buffer mirrored through a shared mailbox between two processors in a feature phone A feature phone has two processors that share a display. The display is attached to an applications processor that has a frame buffer for refreshing the display. A base-band processor also runs programs that generate graphics data that is written to a base-band fram... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7285047 | Method and system for real-time rendering within a gaming environment A method and system for real-time rendering within a gaming environment. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention discloses a method of rendering a local participant within an interactive gaming environment. The method begins by capturing a plurality of... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281981 | Image generation method, program, and information storage medium Triangular relation is introduced such that a vertical-attribute attack B1 (first action) is more advantageous than a horizontal-attribute attack B2 (second action); the horizontal-attribute attack B2 is more advantageous than a movement action ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275992 | Mobile gaming The present invention concerns an electronic gaming system configured to provide for end-user control of an on-screen gaining character, the system comprising means for generating an on-screen graphical element comprising first and second markers which are arranged ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7264547 | Game apparatus, game image preparation method and information storage medium There are disclosed a game apparatus, game image preparation method and information storage medium that when a player character moves in a three-dimensional game space, sets a plurality of viewpoints in the field of view in which this character is included and prepa... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7258613 | Gaming device having changed or generated player stimuli A gaming device having at least one changed or generated player stimulus and a method of changing or generating at least one player stimulus of a gaming device are disclosed for enhancing a player's interest, excitement, length of play, and enjoyment of the gaming d... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256797 | Image processing device with synchronized sprite rendering and sprite buffer An image processing device comprises a decoder, a sprite buffer interface, and a sprite buffer as well as a rendering engine, a frame buffer interface, and a frame buffer, which is characterized by synchronizing the write timing for the sprite buffer with the read t... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7229349 | Multi-player game system and multi-player game program A multi-player game system includes number-of-players detection means for detecting the number of players participating in the game; primary game field data storage means for storing primary game field data; secondary game field data storage means for storing at lea... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7207884 | Image processing device, image processing method, and game device and storage medium using the same An object of this invention is to provide an image processing device which does not interrupt the flow of a game. The processing board in the main game device attaches information required by the player at the completion of each stage to a map and provides it... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7207883 | Gaming machine The gaming machine comprises: backup means (96) capable of storing information concerning with a game substantially at the same time as the gaming machine is powered off; backup restoration means (97) for restoring the gaming machine in a state that th... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7199794 | Picture processing device, picture processing method, and game device and storage medium using the same The present invention provides a picture processing device capable of realizing the detailed shape and pattern of a display object which is far away from a viewpoint and which attracts a game player's attention. For example, a display object (or player) in a soccer ... | 04/03/2007 |
