Patents Assigned to Nintendo Co., Ltd.
  • Information processing system, information processing apparatus, computer-readable storage medium having stored therein information processing program, and information processing method
    Patent number: 10981068
    Abstract: A plurality of game apparatuses function as a master, a client, and an audience. The master and the client register each other by performing therebetween an authentication process. The authentication process is not performed between the master and the audience. The audience receives a beacon from the master and registers the master in an own apparatus while the audience is not registered in the master. The master and the client execute a predetermined program, exchanging data by communicating with each other. The audience receives the data exchanged between the master and the client, and executes the predetermined program using the received data, thereby watches a game which is progressed between the master and the client, as a spectator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Mizuguchi, Tooru Ooe, Shoya Tanaka
  • Storage medium having stored therein information processing program, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method
    Patent number: 10981065
    Abstract: An example of an information processing apparatus places an object in a virtual space. The information processing apparatus counts, for at least one type of the object, a placement number of the objects placed in the virtual space. The information processing apparatus presents candidates of a clear condition including a condition relating to the object, on the basis of the counted placement number, in a selectable manner for a user. The clear condition is used for determining that a game using the virtual space has been cleared. The information processing apparatus sets a candidate selected by the user, as the clear condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yosuke Oshino, Fumiya Nakano
  • Electric conduction apparatus
    Patent number: 10978843
    Abstract: This electric conduction apparatus is an electric conduction apparatus that supports an electronic device having a predetermined surface provided with a connector insertion port and is capable of being electrically connected to the electronic device, the electric conduction apparatus including a housing having a front side and a rear side, a connector that protrudes from the housing and can be inserted into the connector insertion port, and a pivoting mechanism configured to pivot the connector about a first axis line located on the rear side relative to the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuya Okazaki, Shinji Hirose, Hiroki Ikuta
  • Apparatus holding structure
    Patent number: 10976781
    Abstract: A holding structure according to an exemplary embodiment includes a rotation axis, a stand body, and a clicker. The stand body is rotatable about the rotation axis. When the stand body is rotated about the rotation axis, an upper end portion of the stand body contacts with the clicker. When the stand body is further rotated from a position at which the stand body and the clicker contacts with each other, the stand body rotates beyond the clicker. Thus, the stand body enters an opened state and holds an orientation of an apparatus. When the upper end portion of the stand body rotates beyond the clicker, the clicker is restored from a deformed state to an initial state, and a clicking sound occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Koriyama
  • Game system, game apparatus, storage medium and game control method
    Patent number: 10967251
    Abstract: A game system that is a non-limiting example information processing system comprises a main body apparatus provided with a left controller and a right controller in an attachable and detachable manner. By operating an additional operation apparatus to which the right controller is attached, a user plays an individual game, and selects an individual game to be played in a menu image that displays a plurality of icons corresponding to a plural kinds of different games. In the menu image, a menu vehicle object related to a game vehicle object that is operated in the individual game is displayed as a designation image. The user selects an icon by moving the menu vehicle object in an operating method that is the same as an operating method for the game vehicle object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsubasa Sakaguchi
  • Storage medium, game system, game apparatus and game controlling method
    Patent number: 10967265
    Abstract: A non-limiting example game system comprises a main body apparatus, and a left controller and a right controller are attachably and detachably attached to the main body apparatus. Each of the left controller and the right controller is provided with a plurality of operation buttons, an analog stick and a vibrator. A player character is provided with a radar object, and a rod-like determination object having one end that is located at a center of the character object is rotated within a plane parallel to a horizontal plane in a virtual space. When the determination object touches an enemy character, the vibrator of the left controller or/and the right controller is caused to vibrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Nagaya, Koichi Kishi, Takeshi Ando
  • Brightness-compensating safe pixel art upscaler
    Patent number: 10957015
    Abstract: Low spatial frequencies of an original image and an upscaled filtered image are analyzed. Differences will be observed in the low frequency components of the two images in the general case since the pixel art upscaler filter as a side effect introduces low frequency changes. A modification to images produced by the PAU is applied to attempt to match the brightness of the original images in the low frequency spectrum. From a viewer perspective (e.g., based on typical blurring visual effects), the original image and the modified filtered image will look the same—demonstrating that there is no low frequency brightness creep or resulting increased photosensitivity concerns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sébastien Guido, Janos Boudet
  • Computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having stored therein information processing program, information processing system, information processing method, and information processing apparatus
    Patent number: 10950048
    Abstract: An image of a virtual three-dimensional space in which a three-dimensional object is positioned is displayed. A first straight line is calculated on the basis of predetermined two points in the three-dimensional object, and a second straight line orthogonal to the first straight line is further calculated. Then, either one of the first straight line and the second straight line is selected as a rotation axis on the basis of an input performed with the pointing device, and the three-dimensional object is rotated about the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naonori Ohnishi, Hiroaki Hiruma
  • Storage medium, game system, game apparatus and game controlling method
    Patent number: 10946289
    Abstract: A non-limiting example game system comprises a processor incorporated in a main body apparatus, and the processor displays, in a battle scene, a battle screen including a player character, an enemy character and a board face object on a display. The board face object having a circular board face that is formed with multiple partial objects that are sectioned by multiple concentric circles and multiple lines extended radially. A player makes the multiple partial objects move in a circumferential direction or a radial direction so as to change arrangement of multiple enemy characters placed on the multiple partial objects, thereby causing the player character to perform an attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kensuke Tanabe
  • Game system, game processing method, information processing apparatus, and storage medium having stored therein information processing program
    Patent number: 10946286
    Abstract: A non-limiting example game system includes a plurality of terminal apparatuses operated by a plurality of players, and connect to a network. The computer system creates a virtual lobby that allows up to a predetermined number of players to participate therein, and sets a player who operates one of the terminal apparatuses as a player who is virtually present in the lobby in response to a request from that terminal apparatus. The game system also automatically selects one from a plurality of games including at least games requiring different numbers of participant players, according to the number of players who are present in the lobby and are not playing a game and are ready to play, and automatically selects participant players in the selected game from the players ready to play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wataru Hinoshita, Haruna Sugano
  • Information processing system, information processing method, user terminal and storage medium
    Patent number: 10951684
    Abstract: A non-limiting example information processing system includes a plurality of user terminals, and a download task list for each user terminal is managed by a list server. Existence/non-existence of renewal of the download task list is managed by a revision server, and the user terminal inquires of the revision server the existence/non-existence of the renewal. If the download task list is renewed, the user terminal acquires the download task list from the list server, and acquires a content from a content server according to an acquired download task list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teruhiko Goda, Naoki Takeda, Eiji Tokunaga, Koichi Nakao
  • Information-processing device, information processing system, information-processing method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 10940394
    Abstract: In an exemplary game device, a first communication game unit enables a first user to play a game with a second user via near field communication. A second communication game unit enables the first user to play a game with a third user via Internet communication. A display control unit displays a screen showing information on the second user, the first user having played a game with the second user using the first communication game unit, and information on the third user, the first user having played a game with the third user using the second communication game unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinpei Kiwada, Xizhou Xu
  • Information processing system, information processing apparatus, server, storage medium having stored therein information processing program, and information processing method
    Patent number: 10943319
    Abstract: A ranking of each of a plurality of users is set, and based on a numerical value indicating the ranking, an indicator is calculated such that the smaller the numerical value, the greater a value of the indicator. Then, the indicator calculated for the user is displayed. The indicator is displayed such that the higher the ranking, the greater the value of the indicator. This can enhance the motivation of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Kawasaki, Takamitsu Akita, Masahiro Sakurai, Nobutaka Sakai, Yasuhito Kobayashi, Mitsuo Kashiwagi, Keita Noto
  • Information processing system, information processing method, information processing apparatus, and non-transitory storage medium storing information processing program for controlling progression of a game with at least one virtual area
    Patent number: 10926174
    Abstract: An example system including a plurality of terminals configured to be operated by respective users each belonging to one of a plurality of groups executes a game process involved in a game related to a virtual area in the plurality of terminals, respectively, updates area information about the virtual area for each group, based on the game process executed in the plurality of terminals, determines, for each of a plurality of periods of time, which group acquires the virtual area based on the updated area information for each group, and outputs a result of the game in which the plurality of groups compete against each other to acquire the virtual area after repeatedly performing the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Matsushita, Tetsuo Hatanaka, Yuji Ohashi, Kouhei Maeda
  • Techniques for displaying character play records on a game map
    Patent number: 10918955
    Abstract: A non-limiting example system includes a server, and data of results (play records) that a predetermined game is played in a plurality of game apparatuses independently are transmitted to the server. The server stores the play record for each player, and transmits the play records of respective players to a personal computer. For example, under instructions of a user, the personal computer displays, using the play records of respective players, states of player characters such as movement tracks of the player characters of respective players on a map while adjusting elapsed time from a play start.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuma Oiso
  • Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with executable information processing program stored thereon, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method
    Patent number: 10921955
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment provides a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable information processing program stored thereon. The executable information processing program causes a computer of an information processing apparatus having a storage that stores a plurality of contents to perform designating an amount of data, displaying on a display a plurality of pieces of content information representing contents as being aligned in accordance with a priority for each content, selecting at least one of the plurality of pieces of content information in response to an operation by a user, and performing a calculation based on the designated amount of data and an amount of data of a content corresponding to the selected content information. The step of displaying a plurality of pieces of content information includes showing a result of the calculation on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaaki Sugino
  • Game system with virtual camera adjustment based on video output connection status and system orientation, and counterpart storage medium having stored therein game program, game apparatus, and game processing method
    Patent number: 10918944
    Abstract: Regarding game processing, a case where a screen is closer to vertical than a first reference is set to a first mode, and a case where the screen is closer to horizontal than the reference is set to a second mode. Then, in the first mode, a virtual camera is set to a first line-of-sight direction, and a game image in which an information image is placed in a first direction is generated. In the second mode, the virtual camera is set to be further downward than the first line-of-sight direction, and a game image in which the plurality of information images are placed in different directions is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Suzuki, Miyuki Hirose, Misaki Hiraga, Yoshiaki Onishi, Atsushi Nakao, Nobuya Wada
  • Vibration control system, vibration control apparatus and vibration control method
    Patent number: 10912994
    Abstract: A non-limiting example game apparatus functions as a vibration control apparatus. When vibration data are simultaneously input from a plurality of programs during execution of the plurality of programs, the game apparatus drives a vibration motor incorporated in the game apparatus by preferentially using the vibration data from the program that is granted with a vibration control right. The vibration control right is authority of performing vibration control preferentially, and is basically granted to a program corresponding to an image being displayed forefront; however, when a plurality of images are displayed, the vibration control right is granted to a program having authority of acquiring an input from an input device (controller).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Yamashita, Takafumi Aoki
  • Home screen settings for information processing device and information processing system, and recording medium therefor
    Patent number: 10908773
    Abstract: An example system includes: an information processing device including a display processing unit performing processing of displaying on a display unit a basic screen containing a selection image and a background image, the selection image being constructed from one or a plurality of images used for receiving selection operation, the background image serving as a background of the selection image; and a background image transmission device transmitting the background image of the basic screen. The display processing unit of the information processing device automatically receives the background image transmitted by the background image transmission device and displays the received background image in the background of the selection image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Takiguchi, Hiroyuki Kono, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Takashi Hosoi
  • Controller for computer
    Patent number: D912153
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yui Ehara, Yuko Zenri, Junichiro Miyatake, Tetsuya Akama, Hitoshi Tsuchiya