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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7976392 | External interfaces for a 3D graphics system An advantageous set of external interfaces for home video game platform provide modularity and expandability while maintaining and preserving the proprietary nature of the platform. A disk drive interface provides flexible communications with an internal disk drive.... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7713129 | Image processing system An image processing system includes a fixed-type game machine and a hand-held type game machine. To the hand-held type game machine, an imaging cartridge is attached, and therefore, when an operator photographs a face image of a desired object, for example, face ima... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7588498 | Game apparatus and recording medium storing a game program The player proceeds with a game while operating a touch panel to slant a game stage with a perception that the touch panel is a plane present in a game space and capable of freely slanting. The object moves in accordance with the slant of the game stage, and the vie... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7374490 | Game system using touch panel input A player performs an input operation so as to draw a predetermined graphic on a touch panel. A type of attack against an enemy character may be determined based at least on a graphical shape of an input trajectory. An effectiveness of attack against the enemy charac... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7371178 | Card game system A card game system is disclosed, which enables to execute the card game using a basic function of a video game apparatus. The card game system includes a card acceptance means for accepting a plurality of cards of either a first category or a second category each ha... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7363443 | Systems and methods for saving data Systems and methods for saving data. A system automatically or manually saves data. The system saves two copies of the data. When a user reaches a point of achievement, the system saves a new copy of data over one of the previous copies. If the new copy of data is u... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357719 | Game system, game device, and storage medium When a character is lent from a first game device to a second game device, clocks of those two game devices are synchronized, a shared lending/borrowing expiration time is set, the use of the character is temporarily disabled in the first game device, and the use of... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352359 | Method and system for applying gearing effects to inertial tracking Methods and systems for interactive interfacing with a computer gaming system are provided. A method includes providing an input device, where the input device is configured to convey inertial data that is to be interpreted by the computer gaming system. The method ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351148 | Electronic sequence matching game and method of game play using same The present invention is directed to an apparatus and a method of game play for an electronic sequence matching game the may include a pair of elongated stick member that may be operatively coupled together by an electrical cord so the game play for the electronic m... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7350081 | Secure execution of downloaded software Proprietary programs for execution in game systems or other computers are downloaded from an Internet server in encrypted form to protect the programs from unauthorized use. The encrypted programs can be decrypted and executed only in a secure cryptoprocessor that i... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7331869 | Method and apparatus for creating and playing soundtracks in a gaming system A gaming system includes a game console that executes an application that creates and plays soundtracks through the gaming system. The application allows a user to create soundtracks by copying audio tracks from one or more audio sources. A user-created soundtrack c... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7326118 | Gaming machine, trading card and game system A gaming machine uses a trading card 20. The trading card 20 stores character data concerning a character and has a surface printed with a detail of the character data. A trading card handling device 60 writes changed character data into the tra... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324346 | Plug-in module for portable computing device A plug-in module adds functionality to a portable electronic device. The module includes a housing that is accepted by a housing port of the portable electronic device. The module includes at least one latch to secure the module to the electronic device. Each latch ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7325125 | Computer system for accessing initialization data and method therefor A method and computer system for accessing initialization data stored in a boot memory space. After the power supply starts up, the south bridge starts up and sends an initiating signal to the north bridge for starting up the north bridge. Once the north bridge has ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7302465 | Distributed multimedia transfer A multimedia distribution kiosk can communicate with a remote user to receive multimedia requests and can communicate with a multimedia content provider to obtain requested multimedia content. The kiosk can cache received multimedia content and provide the content a... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293700 | Transaction terminal device and transaction terminal control method A transaction terminal device executing a customer transaction includes a tamper-proof secured module detachably incorporated in a main unit, and an unsecured module that is not tamper-proof and is embedded in the main unit. The secured module notifies secure inform... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7285051 | Game information storage medium and game system using the same A game system includes a first game machine which operates according to a first architecture and, a second game machine which operates according to a second architecture different from the first architecture and has a processing capability lower than that of the fir... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281078 | Bank structure storage control device and paper matter authentication device A storage control device of bank structure is provided which comprises a CPU 1 and a storage 2 connected to CPU 1. Storage 2 detects and temporarily holds one of the bank addresses 0DF00h-7DF07h of the bank memories 9 to be read ou... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275994 | Game machine having wireless communication capability A video game machine is provided with wireless functionality. The wireless functionality may be built-into the video game machine or may be provided by a device that is removably attachable to the video game machine. The wireless functionality enables, among other t... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272424 | Gametenna, interfacing wireless telephone and method An interchangeable Gametenna used in conjunction with a wireless telephone to play a game. The Gametenna includes an antenna having at least one radiating element for receiving and transmitting wireless signals, and a memory device which is physically coupled to the... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7259710 | User input device A user input device (300) configured with a communication protocol for communicating transmission data with predetermined apparatus (700, 601) is disclosed. The device (300) comprises a receiving means for receiving protocol data and an associat... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7255646 | Video gaming console with printer apparatus A video gaming console comprising a housing, the housing incorporating a receptacle for receiving detachable storage means, the detachable storage means containing a computer gaming program, the housing including: communication means for receiving interaction data f... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7236978 | Configurable input buffer An electronic card comprises a card portion including one or more user interface elements formed on a surface thereof. The electronic card also comprises a memory configured on the card portion. The memory has retained therein at least a plurality of data strings ea... | 06/26/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7229355 | External memory system having programmable graphics processor for use in a video game system of the like A fully programmable, graphics microprocessor is disclosed which is designed to be embodied in a removable external memory unit for connection with a host information processing system. In an exemplary embodiment, a video game system is described including a host vi... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7223173 | Game system and game information storage medium used for same A game system includes a housing to be held by a player. The housing incorporates an XY-axis acceleration sensor to detect an acceleration in a X-axis direction and a Y-axis direction and a Z-axis contact switch to detect an acceleration in a Z-axis direction. The s... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7198568 | Game machine and game program for changing the movement of one character based on the movement of another character An image processing mechanism of a game apparatus includes a first motion control mechanism and a second motion control mechanism. The first motion control mechanism controls the motion of a first character appearing in a game space in response to an operation perfo... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7192353 | Video game apparatus, game progress method and game progress program A game progress program is provided that allows a player to play an interesting secondary game while the main program and associated data are being loaded, without increasing the amount of data to be stored. While the main program and associated data are being loade... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194033 | Efficient video coding A method (1600) and apparatus (220) for encoding a sequence of images for transmission over a communication network is disclosed. Initially (1602) an object-based first image is rendered from a computer graphics application (240). The ren... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194768 | Access control for a microprocessor card A method and apparatus for executing messages using a plurality of applications resident in a memory means (276) of an electronic card (100), is disclosed. The electronic card (100) is adapted for coupling to a reader device (300) to faci... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7165714 | Networked business system A method of procuring goods and/or services using a merchant server coupled to a computer network is disclosed. The network (100) comprises at least one smart card (120) having a memory device (122) programmed with access information correspondi... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164432 | Information processing apparatus and method therefor, and medium The present invention can realize an information processing apparatus and a method therefor which can prevent a degraded visibility even if the posture of the information processing apparatus is changed in order to provide better portability or to prevent surroundin... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159763 | Card reading device for service access A read device (1) for reading an interface card (10) is disclosed. The card (10) is configured for insertion into the read device (1). The card (10) comprises indicia (14) formed thereon and a memory (19) having data ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7156302 | Card reading device for service access A read device (1) for reading an interface card (16). The card (16) is configured for insertion into the read device (1). The card (16) comprises indicia formed thereon and a memory having data stored therein for communicating with... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155604 | Game system having selectable startup display image wherein system processor selects between internal display image or display image from external memory card There is disclosed a method of starting up an information processing apparatus which is capable of introducing a variety of elements into an image that is displayed when the information processing apparatus is started up according to a boot sequence. A memory card c... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7142231 | Method and apparatus for improved handset multi-tasking, including pattern recognition and augmentation of camera images This invention provides a handset (10) and a method of operating a handset. The handset includes a user interface that contains a data entry device (20) and a visual display device (14), a camera (16) and a controller (12) coupled ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7137894 | Hand-held display system and display method and storage medium therefor A colorizing method for a display system involves accessing a memory storing monochrome display data for a video game program. User input designates one of a plurality of different color palettes and a color display is generated based on the monochrome display data ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7134960 | External interfaces for a 3D graphics system An advantageous set of external interfaces for home video game platform provide modularity and expandability while maintaining and preserving the proprietary nature of the platform. A disk drive interface provides flexible communications with an internal disk drive.... | 11/14/2006 |
