Patents Assigned to HAL Laboratory, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11890543
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: Nintendo Co., Ltd., HAL LABORATORY, INC.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Sumitomo, Tatsuya Kamiyama
  • Publication number: 20240037695
    Abstract: An exemplary image processing system first writes normal line information and color information into the G buffer and depth information into the depth buffer for a first object. Next, at a time of writing the normal line information into the G buffer for a second object, the exemplary image processing system calculates a difference between the depth information of a first object and the depth information of the second object, and blends the normal line information of the first object with the normal line information of the second object based on the difference, and writes the blended normal line information into the G buffer. The exemplary image processing system then renders an image in a frame buffer based on information stored in the G buffer and light source information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicants: Nintendo Co., Ltd., HAL Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventor: Ayumu KATO
  • Publication number: 20230072022
    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.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi SUMITOMO, Tatsuya KAMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230076624
    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.
    Inventor: Takashi NEMOTO
  • Patent number: 10573127
    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.
    Inventors: Yumi Todo, Hiroshi Onishi
  • Publication number: 20180130297
    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.
    Inventors: Yumi TODO, Hiroshi ONISHI
  • Patent number: 9749672
    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.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Suzuki, Shigefumi Kawase
  • Patent number: 9737814
    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.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Suzuki, Shigefumi Kawase
  • Patent number: 9596427
    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.
    Inventors: Daiji Imai, Ryoichiro Atono
  • Patent number: 9584789
    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.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Suzuki, Kenichi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20160366460
    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.
    Inventors: Toshiaki SUZUKI, Shigefumi KAWASE
  • Patent number: 9485484
    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.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Suzuki, Shigefumi Kawase
  • Patent number: 9473699
    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.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Suzuki, Takuya Abe
  • Patent number: 9420271
    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
  • Patent number: 9324302
    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.
    Inventors: Daiji Imai, Ryoichiro Atono
  • Patent number: 9270966
    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.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Suzuki, Shigefumi Kawase, Eitaro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9196078
    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.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Suzuki, Teruhiko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9117408
    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.
    Inventors: Daiji Imai, Ryoichiro Atono
  • Patent number: 9072969
    Abstract: A three-dimensional puzzle game apparatus includes an LCD on which a three-dimensional puzzle is displayed. The three-dimensional puzzle includes a plurality of blocks arranged in each of three-dimensional directions in a virtual three-dimensional space. Furthermore, a hint numeral indicating the number of blocks to be left in a block row is displayed as information being a hint for searching a block to be left from the block row, for example. When a deleting instruction is performed on a block by utilizing a touch panel, for example, it is then determined that whether or not the block is a block to be left. When it is determined that the block is not a block to be left, the block is erased. When it is determined that all the remaining blocks are blocks to be left, it is determined that the three-dimensional puzzle is solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignees: Nintendo Co., Ltd., Hal Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Mari Shirakawa, Yoshiki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9001192
    Abstract: A game device 10 displays an image on an upper LCD 22 capable of producing stereoscopic display using two images. Based on two captured images of a predetermined image-capture object captured respectively by two image-capturing devices, the game device 10 calculates a positional relationship between the predetermined image-capture object and each of the image-capturing devices. Then, the game device 10 determines a zero-parallax distance using at least one of the positional relationships so that it is a distance in accordance with a distance from the image-capturing device to the image-capture object, and determines display positions of the two captured images to be displayed on the upper LCD 22 in accordance with the zero-parallax distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: Nintendo Co., Ltd., Hal Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Ito, Yuki Nishimura