Abstract: An example computer-readable storage medium stores an information processing program, and this information processing program causes a computer of an information processing apparatus 10A to function as a close proximity communication unit 13 and an information processing unit 12. The close proximity communication unit 13 receives communication history data indicating a history of communication of application data by an information processing apparatus 10C by close proximity communication from the information processing apparatus 10C by close proximity communication. The information processing unit 12 performs predetermined information processing with the communication history data received by the close proximity communication unit 13 as a parameter.

Abstract: An image including at least a part of a virtual world is generated as a first display image, a first sound created in the virtual world is generated, and a second sound forming a part of the first sound is selected in accordance with a user operation. Then, control is performed such that the first display image is displayed on a first display apparatus. Control is performed such that the generated first sound is output from a first loudspeaker in synchronization with the first display image displayed on the first display apparatus. Control is performed such that the selected second sound is output from a second loudspeaker.

Abstract: An example information processing apparatus includes: an operation part; an attitude output part outputting, in time series, attitude data corresponding to attitude; an information storage part storing, in time series, information relevant to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part; a display processing part, in correspondence to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part, performing processing concerning display of a three-dimensional virtual space; an information acquiring part, from the information stored in time series by said information storage part, acquiring information corresponding to the time preceding by a given period the time that operation was performed on said operation part; and an information processing part, on the basis of the operation performed on said operation part and the information acquired by said information acquiring part, performing information processing.

Abstract: An information processing system 100 includes an information processing apparatus 10 and a data providing server 20 that are capable of communication with each other over an IP network 40. The information processing apparatus 10 includes a storage unit 11 storing an integrated application program which includes a plurality of optional application programs that are independent of each other and which provides a cooperation function for the plurality of optional application programs. The data providing server 20 includes a storage unit 21 storing content data that is to be used by the optional application program. The information processing apparatus 10 includes a communication unit 13 for acquiring the content data from the data providing server 20.

Abstract: An example computer-readable storage medium stores an information processing program that causes a computer of an information processing apparatus 10A to function as a data storage unit 11 storing at least one of first data that can be used by a charged application and second data that can be used by a preinstalled application, a close proximity communication unit 13 for transmitting/receiving at least one of the first data and the second data to/from another information processing apparatus 10C using wireless communication, and an information processing unit 12 for performing, in a case where the first data is received from the other information processing apparatus 10C, predetermined information processing of the charged application based on the first data, and for updating, in a case where the second data, and not the first data, is received from the other information processing apparatus 10C, the first data using the second data.

Abstract: An example computer-readable storage medium stores an information processing program, and this information processing program causes a computer of an information processing apparatus 10A to function as a close proximity communication unit 13 and an information processing unit 12. The close proximity communication unit 13 receives communication history data indicating a history of communication of application data by an information processing apparatus 10C by close proximity communication from the information processing apparatus 10C by close proximity communication. The information processing unit 12 performs predetermined information processing with the communication history data received by the close proximity communication unit 13 as a parameter.

Abstract: An image including at least a part of a virtual world is generated as a first display image, a first sound created in the virtual world is generated, and a second sound forming a part of the first sound is selected in accordance with a user operation. Then, control is performed such that the first display image is displayed on a first display apparatus. Control is performed such that the generated first sound is output from a first loudspeaker in synchronization with the first display image displayed on the first display apparatus. Control is performed such that the selected second sound is output from a second loudspeaker.

Abstract: Game images are displayed at least on a portable first display device and a second display device different from the first display device, respectively. A first game image of a game space seen form a first-person viewpoint of a player object positioned in the game space and a second game image of the game space seen from a fixed predetermined viewpoint are generated, and the first game image and the second game image are displayed on the first display device and the second display device, respectively.

Abstract: An example of a game apparatus includes a CPU, and the CPU displays a title screen on a monitor when starting a virtual game. When a predetermined operation is performed here, a main part is started, and a first game selected on a top menu is started. Here, prior to a start of the first game, a stable state of a controller with a gyro unit is confirmed. The processing for confirmation is also executed in a case that the title screen is being displayed as well. After the confirmation, when a state that the controller is left continues for a predetermined time or more, a second game different from the first game is started.

Abstract: An example information processing apparatus includes: an operation part; an attitude output part outputting, in time series, attitude data corresponding to attitude; an information storage part storing, in time series, information relevant to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part; a display processing part, in correspondence to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part, performing processing concerning display of a three-dimensional virtual space; an information acquiring part, from the information stored in time series by said information storage part, acquiring information corresponding to the time preceding by a given period the time that operation was performed on said operation part; and an information processing part, on the basis of the operation performed on said operation part and the information acquired by said information acquiring part, performing information processing.

Abstract: An example of a game apparatus includes a CPU, and the CPU displays a title screen on a monitor when starting a virtual game. When a predetermined operation is performed here, a main part is started, and a first game selected on a top menu is started. Here, prior to a start of the first game, a stable state of a controller with a gyro unit is confirmed. The processing for confirmation is also executed in a case that the title screen is being displayed as well. After the confirmation, when a state that the controller is left continues for a predetermined time or more, a second game different from the first game is started.

Abstract: A game apparatus includes a display and a touch panel provided thereon. A CPU core displays a game screen on the display. A user draw a circular arc path on the touch panel by continuously touching the touch panel with a stick or the like. In either case of continuous inputs so as to draw a clockwise circular arc path in a right-hander mode or continuous inputs so as to draw a counterclockwise circular arc path in a left-hander mode, it is concluded that the same input operations have been carried out. Accordingly, a user character is moved to the right in proportion to a predetermined angle in the right-hander mode, and the user character is moved to the left in proportion to the predetermined angle in the left-hander mode.

Abstract: A game apparatus includes a display and a touch panel provided thereon. A CPU core displays a game screen on the display. A user draw a circular arc path on the touch panel by continuously touching the touch panel with a stick or the like. In either case of continuous inputs so as to draw a clockwise circular arc path in a right-hander mode or continuous inputs so as to draw a counterclockwise circular arc path in a left-hander mode, it is concluded that the same input operations have been carried out. Accordingly, a user character is moved to the right in proportion to a predetermined angle in the right-hander mode, and the user character is moved to the left in proportion to the predetermined angle in the left-hander mode.

Abstract: A cluster controlling system transfers packages which have been operating on one computer to another computer when a fault or failure has occurred by monitoring and controlling the packages in the entire system. When the respective packages are started-up, cluster daemons on the respective computers monitor and control resources on the operating computers. The monitored and controlled data are stored in the respective computers as local data. A manager communicates with cluster daemons on the respective computers, and stores data in a global data memory to monitor and control the entire system. The manager is actually one of the packages operating in the cluster system. If a fault or failure occurs in the manager or in the computer running the manager, the manager is re-started on another computer by a cluster daemon.

Abstract: An idling speed control method which is adapted to detect by detecting means predetermined rotational angle positions of an internal combustion engine having supplementary air supply control means that regulates the quantity of supplementary air being supplied to the engine, and to control the ratio of operating duty of the supplementary air supply control means to an interval of time at which pulses of a signal indicative of the predetermined rotational angle positions are generated, in a feedback manner responsive to the difference between actual idling engine speed and desired idling speed. When an abnormality is detected in the detecting means, which includes a sensor for sensing the predetermined crank angle positions, a maximum quantity of supplementary air is supplied to the engine by operating the supplementary air quantity control means to its operating limit.

Abstract: A method for operating a closed loop air/fuel ratio control system of an internal combustion engine determining the quantity of fuel to be supplied to the engine in accordance with an output signal of an exhaust gas oxygen sensor placed in an exhaust system of the engine, comprising steps for initiating a supply of an electric current to the exhaust gas oxygen sensor immediately after an ignition switch is turned on and for discriminating the activation state of the oxygen sensor by comparing the level of a combined output voltage of the oxygen sensor with a predetermined reference voltage level, at a time when a predetermined time period has passed after the supply of the electric current to the oxygen sensor, whereby eliminating a mistake of judgment which might occur due to the delay characteristics of a controller unit which determines the operational sequence of closed loop air/fuel ratio control system.

Abstract: A fuel supply control method for electronically controlling the quantity of fuel being supplied to an internal combustion engine in synchronism with generation of pulses of a predetermined control signal, in response to a fuel increment gradually decreasing in value after termination of cranking of the engine. Immediately when the engine leaves a cranking state, an initial value of the fuel increment is set, which corresponds to a product obtained by multiplying the value of a fuel increasing coefficient decreasing in value as the engine temperature increases by the value of a coefficient being a function of the engine temperature. Subsequently, the thus set initial value of the fuel increment is decreased upon generation of each pulse of the above predetermined control signal until the thus decreased incremental value becomes equal to a value at which no substantial increase takes place in the fuel quantity being supplied to the engine.

Abstract: In a fuel injection control method in which the injector is activated for fuel injection dependent on the interrelation between pulses produced from a crank angle sensor and a timing sensor, all the injectors are activated by any timing pulse before the injector to be normally activated for the fuel injection is determined during start-up of an engine, so that start-up characteristics of the engine can be improved.