Abstract: When a game object is located in an end range in a virtual space relating to a first end portion of a display range of a display image, the end range being in the display range, end control that causes the game object to remain in the end range is performed while a range of view is being moved in a first direction in the virtual space that is a direction perpendicular to the first end portion and aimed at inside of the display range and/or while the game object is performing an action of moving in a second direction opposite to the first direction. When the end control has continued for at least a waiting period, the game object is moved to a location other than the end range in a range in the virtual space relating to the display range.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 8, 2022
Publication date:
March 9, 2023
Applicants:
NINTENDO CO., LTD., HAL LABORATORY, INC.
Abstract: An example of an information processing system controls an action by a player character object in a virtual space in response to an action instruction based on an operation input. When the player character object performs the action, the information processing system defines a hit detection area used for defining whether the action has hit another object other than the player character object at a position that is determined based on the position and the orientation of the player character object in the virtual space, and expands the hit detection area in the depth direction of a virtual camera. If the expanded hit detection area is in contact with the other object, the information processing system performs a process based on the action against the other object.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 6, 2022
Publication date:
March 9, 2023
Applicants:
NINTENDO CO., LTD., HAL LABORATORY, INC.
Abstract: A first virtual item is provided to a user in response to purchase made by the user. A second virtual item is provided to the user free of charge according to a certain provision rule. The provision rule is changed according to purchase information related to the first virtual item.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 7, 2017
Date of Patent:
February 25, 2020
Assignees:
NINTENDO CO., LTD., HAL LABORATORY, INC.
Abstract: A first virtual item is provided to a user in response to purchase made by the user. A second virtual item is provided to the user free of charge according to a certain provision rule. The provision rule is changed according to purchase information related to the first virtual item.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 7, 2017
Publication date:
May 10, 2018
Applicants:
NINTENDO CO., LTD., HAL Laboratory, Inc.
Abstract: An example information processing device displays a partial area of a panoramic video on a display device. The information processing device obtains range information with which it is possible to identify a display range of the panoramic video to be displayed and/or to identify a position within the display range. The obtained range information is information regarding a display range determined based on an input made on a predetermined input device while the panoramic video is played. Where the panoramic video is output using the display device, the information processing device outputs the panoramic video while changing output content thereof in accordance with the obtained range information.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 24, 2016
Date of Patent:
August 29, 2017
Assignees:
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Hal Laboratory, Inc.
Abstract: A real world image captured by a real camera such as an outside right imaging unit 23b is acquired, a synthesized image is generated by synthesizing the acquired real world image and a virtual image depicting a first virtual object such as an enemy object EO, in such a manner that the first virtual object such as an enemy object EO appears to be present behind the real world image, and the synthesized image thus generated is displayed on a display device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 13, 2011
Date of Patent:
August 22, 2017
Assignees:
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Hal Laboratory, Inc.
Abstract: A program information displaying apparatus includes a CPU, and displays a plurality of program information in tabular form. For example, users register accounts as user information in the program information that the user is interested in. A priority and a display manner are set for each of the plurality of accounts, and the program information in which the account is registered is depicted in the display manner on the basis of the priority. When a first depicting method is selected, the program information is depicted in a display manner of the account with the highest priority. When a second depicting method is selected, the program information is depicted such that the display manners are layered in order of the priority.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 11, 2009
Date of Patent:
March 14, 2017
Assignees:
NINTENDO CO., LTD., HAL LABORATORY, INC.
Abstract: An example information processing device displays a partial area of a panoramic video on a display device. The information processing device determines a display range of the panoramic video to be displayed on the display device based on an input made on a predetermined input device. A range and/or a position on a panoramic image is set as a target. Then, the information processing device displays the panoramic video of the display range on the display device, and outputs guide information representing a relationship between the display range and the target.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 24, 2013
Date of Patent:
February 28, 2017
Assignees:
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Hal Laboratory, Inc.
Abstract: When an image of a marker existing in a real space is taken by using an outer camera, an image of a plurality of virtual characters which is taken by a virtual camera is displayed on an upper LCD so as to be superimposed on a taken real image of the real space. The virtual characters are located in a marker coordinate system based on the marker, and when a button operation is performed by a user on a game apparatus, the position and the orientation of each virtual character are changed. Then, when a button operation indicating a photographing instruction is provided by the user, an image being displayed is stored in a storage means.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 22, 2011
Date of Patent:
December 27, 2016
Assignees:
NINTENDO CO., LTD., HAL LABORATORY INC.
Abstract: An example information processing device displays a partial area of a panoramic video on a display device. The information processing device obtains range information with which it is possible to identify a display range of the panoramic video to be displayed and/or to identify a position within the display range. The obtained range information is information regarding a display range determined based on an input made on a predetermined input device while the panoramic video is played. Where the panoramic video is output using the display device, the information processing device outputs the panoramic video while changing output content thereof in accordance with the obtained range information.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 24, 2016
Publication date:
December 15, 2016
Applicants:
NINTENDO CO., LTD., HAL LABORATORY, INC.
Abstract: An example information processing device displays a partial area of a panoramic video on a display device. The information processing device obtains range information with which it is possible to identify a display range of the panoramic video to be displayed and/or to identify a position within the display range. The obtained range information is information regarding a display range determined based on an input made on a predetermined input device while the panoramic video is played. Where the panoramic video is output using the display device, the information processing device outputs the panoramic video while changing output content thereof in accordance with the obtained range information.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 24, 2013
Date of Patent:
November 1, 2016
Assignees:
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Hal Laboratory, Inc.
Abstract: From a panorama moving image storage unit storing a panorama moving image, a panorama moving image is read and sequentially acquired. A display range, of the acquired panorama moving image, which is to be displayed on a display device is set in accordance with an operation made by a user. A sound to be output in synchronization with display of the image on the display device is generated based on the display range. Control of sequentially displaying the display range of the acquired panorama moving image on the display device is performed. Control of outputting the generated sound from the speaker in synchronization with the display of the image on the display device is performed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 17, 2013
Date of Patent:
October 18, 2016
Assignees:
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Hal Laboratory, Inc.
Abstract: A display control apparatus connected to a display apparatus, which is remotely controllable through wireless communication, generates a first video/audio signal for displaying a first image on the display apparatus, and outputs the first video/audio signal to the display apparatus. Either of a first signal pattern indicative of a command to cause the first image based on the first video/audio signal to be displayed on the display apparatus or a second signal pattern indicative of a command to cause a second image based on a second video/audio signal, which is obtained from a device different from the display control apparatus, to be displayed on the display apparatus is selected, and a wireless signal of the selected signal pattern is outputted to the display apparatus through the wireless communication. Information determined based on the signal pattern of the outputted wireless signal is informed from an apparatus different from the display apparatus.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 4, 2008
Date of Patent:
October 4, 2016
Assignees:
NINTENDO CO., LTD., HAL LABORATORY INC.
Abstract: An information processing apparatus has upper and lower LCDs different in width and an inputter such as a touch panel, or the like. A computer of the information processing apparatus displays, out of information being made up of plurality of pages, information of a predetermined page on the upper and lower LCDs so as to be fit into the width of the lower LCD, and displays, when there is a previous or next page previous or next to the predetermined page, a part of the previous or next page at blank potions on both sides of the upper LCD. Then, in response to an input from the inputter, the information of the page displayed on the upper and lower LCDs is switched to the information corresponding to the previous or next page displayed at the blank potions on the upper LCD.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 28, 2010
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2016
Assignees:
Nintendo Co., Ltd., HAL Laboratory, Inc.
Inventors:
Yasushi Matsubara, Yumi Todo, Shinichi Kawaji
Abstract: A part of a content 61 is displayed on a display screen. If a user has designated a first area, a scrolling indicator 57 that indicates the part displayed on the display screen is displayed at a first timing. If the user has designated a second area, the scrolling indicator 57 that indicates the part displayed on the display screen is displayed at a second timing.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 20, 2010
Date of Patent:
May 24, 2016
Assignees:
NINTENDO CO., LTD., HAL LABORATORY INC.
Inventors:
Daiji Imai, Tsubasa Sakaguchi, Shohei Mizutani, Yumi Todo
Abstract: In accordance with an operation content indicated by a user's operation data, an amount of scrolling is calculated, and a display range of a table to be displayed on a display apparatus is moved in the table in accordance with the amount of the scrolling. With respect to respective drawing areas, whether or not drawing start points, from which drawing character strings are to be drawn, stay within the display range is determined. When the drawing start point of a drawing area, among the drawing areas, falls outside the display range, the drawing start point of the drawing area is changed to a position which is in the drawing area and also which stays within the display range. The character strings are arranged in the respective drawing areas from the drawing start points set to the respective drawing areas, and the table in the display range is displayed on the display apparatus together with the arranged character strings.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 15, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 26, 2016
Assignees:
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Hal Laboratory, Inc.
Abstract: A marker present in a real space is detected from each of a real image for a left eye and a real image for a right eye. The position and the orientation of each of imaging sections relative to the marker are calculated. A left virtual camera and a right virtual camera are set in accordance with the positions and the orientations of the imaging sections. A virtual model having a planar shape is placed in a marker coordinate system, and areas in the real image for a left eye and the real image for a right eye that correspond to the virtual model are set as a left texture area and a right texture area, respectively. Each of images included in a left texture area and a right texture area is applied, as a texture, to a deformation object into which the virtual model is deformed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 23, 2011
Date of Patent:
March 8, 2016
Assignees:
NINTENDO CO., LTD., HAL LABORATORY INC.
Abstract: An example information processing device displays a partial area of a panoramic video on a display device. A display range of the panoramic video to be displayed on the display device is determined based on an input made on a predetermined input device. The information processing device accepts an input of additional information for the panoramic video being displayed on the display device. Moreover, input information is stored in a storage unit, the input information including the additional information and input range information with which it is possible to identify a display range when the additional information was accepted and/or a position within the display range. The information processing device outputs the additional information together with the panoramic video based on the input range information when the panoramic video is played with the additional information having been stored.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 29, 2013
Date of Patent:
February 23, 2016
Assignees:
NINTENDO CO., LTD., HAL LABORATORY, INC.
Abstract: There is generated a display image of a state in which a three-dimensional virtual space, including a first model and a second model to which a predetermined texture is pasted, is imaged by a virtual camera, and the generated image is displayed on a display device. In the generated display image, there is rendered, at a front surface of the first model, a silhouette model which is a silhouette model that is present at a position corresponding to the second model present behind the first model with respect to a view direction of the virtual camera in the virtual space, and to which a silhouette image of the second model is pasted.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 13, 2011
Date of Patent:
November 24, 2015
Assignees:
NINTENDO CO., LTD., HAL LABORATORY, INC.
Abstract: In accordance with an operation content indicated by a user's operation data, an amount of scrolling is calculated, and a display range of a table to be displayed on a display apparatus is moved in the table in accordance with the amount of the scrolling. With respect to respective drawing areas, whether or not drawing start points, from which drawing character strings are to be drawn, stay within the display range is determined. When the drawing start point of a drawing area, among the drawing areas, falls outside the display range, the drawing start point of the drawing area is changed to a position which is in the drawing area and also which stays within the display range. The character strings are arranged in the respective drawing areas from the drawing start points set to the respective drawing areas, and the table in the display range is displayed on the display apparatus together with the arranged character strings.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 26, 2008
Date of Patent:
August 25, 2015
Assignees:
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Hal Laboratory, Inc.