Patents Assigned to Tacmi Co., Ltd.
  • Animation display apparatus, arcade game machine, control method and apparatus thereof, and storage medium
    Patent number: 7472910
    Abstract: The present invention enables relatively easy animation display without requiring a special resource, and facilitates easy generation of the animation. When an image to be displayed as animation is constructed with a background, leg, body and head, these images are distributed as a layer. For each layer, a timing schedule is set with attribute data which includes display update timing and display effects. According to the schedule, display for each layer is updated at the scheduled timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Aptex Kabushiki Kaisha, Tacmi Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Okada, Katsuhiko Kondo, Isao Maruoka, Akihiro Yokota