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  • Storage medium storing game program, game system, game apparatus, and game processing method
    Patent number: 12220638
    Abstract: In a first mode, an aiming direction in a virtual space is determined based on a second operation input, and a player character is caused to launch, in the aiming direction, an item that affects a field character disposed on a field in the virtual space, based on a third operation input. In a second mode, the aiming direction is determined, based on the second operation input, and the player character is caused to launch, in the aiming direction, a fighting character that fights, based on the third operation input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., THE POKÉMON COMPANY
    Inventor: Kazumasa Iwao
  • Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein game program, game system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method
    Patent number: 12246255
    Abstract: In an example of a game program, a ground boarding target object or an air boarding target object is selected by a selection operation, and a player character is caused to board the selected boarding target object. If the player character aboard the air boarding target object moves toward the ground, the player character is automatically changed to the state where the player character is aboard the ground boarding target object, and brought into the state where the player character can move on the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., THE POKÉMON COMPANY
    Inventor: Kazumasa Iwao
  • Information processing system, server, and information processing method for performing exchange between games
    Patent number: 12251636
    Abstract: An example of a server receives first event data from an information processing apparatus. The server stores therein event management data including event state information that indicates whether a second event has already occurred or has not yet occurred. When receiving a request from the information processing apparatus, the server transmits at least one piece of second event data to the information processing apparatus. The at least one piece of second event data includes second event data based on event management data in which the event state information indicates that the second event has already occurred and/or second event data to be transmitted when the second event data stored in the first storage area is insufficient. Upon receiving the third event data indicating that the second event has occurred, the server updates the event state information so as to indicate that the second event has already occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., THE POKÉMON COMPANY
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Miki, Noritaka Otsuka, Kazuto Shimizu, Kojiro Taguchi
  • Video game system, video game program, and video game device
    Publication number: 20070111802
    Abstract: A video game device 10 is capable of receiving both a first storage medium and a second storage medium at the same time. The video game device 10 performs a first game process using first save data. The video game device 10 performs a second game process using second save data. The video game device 10 overwrites the first save data based on the status of the second video game. The video game device 10 overwrites the second save data based on the status of the first video game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: Nintendo Co.,Ltd. The Pokemon Company and CHUNSOFT Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsunekazu Ishihara, Seiichiro Nagahata
  • STORAGE MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM, GAME SYSTEM, GAME APPARATUS, AND GAME PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20240367050
    Abstract: In a first mode, an aiming direction in a virtual space is determined based on a second operation input, and a player character is caused to launch, in the aiming direction, an item that affects a field character disposed on a field in the virtual space, based on a third operation input. In a second mode, the aiming direction is determined, based on the second operation input, and the player character is caused to launch, in the aiming direction, a fighting character that fights, based on the third operation input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicants: NINTENDO CO., LTD., The Pokémon Company
    Inventor: Kazumasa IWAO
  • STORAGE MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM, GAME SYSTEM, GAME APPARATUS, AND GAME PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20240278129
    Abstract: In a first mode, an aiming direction in a virtual space is determined based on a second operation input, and a player character is caused to launch, in the aiming direction, an item that affects a field character disposed on a field in the virtual space, based on a third operation input. In a second mode, the aiming direction is determined, based on the second operation input, and the player character is caused to launch, in the aiming direction, a fighting character that fights, based on the third operation input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicants: NINTENDO CO., LTD., The Pokémon Company
    Inventor: Kazumasa IWAO
  • Storage medium storing game program, game system, game apparatus, and game processing method
    Patent number: 12179111
    Abstract: In a first mode, an aiming direction in a virtual space is determined based on a second operation input, and a player character is caused to launch, in the aiming direction, an item that affects a field character disposed on a field in the virtual space, based on a third operation input. In a second mode, the aiming direction is determined, based on the second operation input, and the player character is caused to launch, in the aiming direction, a fighting character that fights, based on the third operation input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., THE POKÉMON COMPANY
    Inventor: Kazumasa Iwao
  • STORAGE MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM, GAME SYSTEM, GAME APPARATUS, AND GAME PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20230191255
    Abstract: In a first mode, an aiming direction in a virtual space is determined based on a second operation input, and a player character is caused to launch, in the aiming direction, an item that affects a field character disposed on a field in the virtual space, based on a third operation input. In a second mode, the aiming direction is determined, based on the second operation input, and the player character is caused to launch, in the aiming direction, a fighting character that fights, based on the third operation input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: Nintendo Co., Ltd., The Pokémon Company
    Inventor: Kazumasa IWAO
  • Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein game program, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method
    Patent number: 12157055
    Abstract: An example of an information processing system sets a room in a virtual space based on an operation input provided by a player and places an item object in the room. If an item object is placed in a room by the player, the information processing system increases the appearance rate of a character of a type relating to the placed item object in accordance with the type of the placed item object and causes a character to appear in the virtual space based on the increased appearance rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., THE POKÉMON COMPANY
    Inventors: Junichi Masuda, Yuichi Ueda
  • NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN GAME PROGRAM, GAME SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20230191254
    Abstract: In an example of a game program, a ground boarding target object or an air boarding target objects is selected by a selecttion operation, and a player character is caused to board the selected boarding target object. If the player character aboard the air boarding target object moves toward the ground player character automatically changed to the state where the player character is aboard the ground boarding target object, and brought into the state where the player character can move on the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: Nintendo Co., Ltd., The Pokémon Company
    Inventor: Kazumasa IWAO
  • NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN GAME PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20230055446
    Abstract: An example of an information processing system sets a room in a virtual space based on an operation input provided by a player and places an item object in the room. If an item object is placed in a room by the player, the information processing system increases the appearance rate of a character of a type relating to the placed item object in accordance with the type of the placed item object and causes a character to appear in the virtual space based on the increased appearance rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicants: Nintendo Co., Ltd., The Pokémon Company
    Inventors: Junichi MASUDA, Yuichi UEDA
  • NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN GAME PROGRAM, GAME SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20240286040
    Abstract: In an example of a game program, a ground boarding target object or an air boarding target object is selected by a selection operation, and a player character is caused to board the selected boarding target object. If the player character aboard the air boarding target object moves toward the ground, the player character is automatically changed to the state where the player character is aboard the ground boarding target object, and brought into the state where the player character can move on the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicants: NINTENDO CO., LTD., The Pokémon Company
    Inventor: Kazumasa IWAO
  • Game system, game processing method, storage medium having stored therein game program, game apparatus, and game controller
    Patent number: 11013984
    Abstract: Based on first data transmitted from a game controller, a game apparatus executes game processing for catching a predetermined game character and transmits, to the game controller, second data corresponding to the game character as a target to be caught. Based on the transmitted second data, the game controller outputs a sound corresponding to the caught game character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., THE POKÉMON COMPANY
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Maruyama, Hiroyuki Takeuchi, Hiroki Soji, Kohei Odanaka, Masaya Takei, Tsunekazu Ishihara, Satoshi Ogawa
  • STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND GAME PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20230057252
    Abstract: An example of an information processing system displays a character based on a character model of a first type in a first scene in the game, and based on a character model of a second type in a second scene. In a third scene, a wearable item is selected in response to a selection instruction. In the third scene, the character based on the character model of the first type having the appearance of wearing the selected wearable item is displayed, and the character based on the character model of the second type having the appearance of wearing the wearable item is displayed. When a confirm instruction is given, settings regarding the appearance of the character are changed so as to reflect the wearable item on the appearance of the character in the first scene and the second scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicants: Nintendo Co., Ltd., The Pokémon Company
    Inventors: Junichi MASUDA, Yuichi UEDA
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20140256430
    Abstract: An example system includes: a contactless communication unit for performing contactless communication with a data storage medium having a contactless communication function; a data acquiring unit for acquiring data stored in the data storage medium by the contactless communication unit; a display processing unit for displaying at least one content stored in a content storage unit and a content according to data acquired by the data acquiring unit on a display unit as selection objects; a selection accepting unit for accepting selection by a user for a content displayed by the display processing unit; and an information processing unit for performing information processing pertaining to a content, which is an object of selection accepted by the selection accepting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicants: Nintendo Co., Ltd., AMBRELLA Co., Ltd., The Pokémon Company
    Inventor: Norio MATSUMURA
  • Inserting game objects through contactless communication
    Patent number: 9582147
    Abstract: An example system includes: a contactless communication unit for performing contactless communication with a data storage medium having a contactless communication function; a data acquiring unit for acquiring data stored in the data storage medium by the contactless communication unit; a display processing unit for displaying at least one content stored in a content storage unit and a content according to data acquired by the data acquiring unit on a display unit as selection objects; a selection accepting unit for accepting selection by a user for a content displayed by the display processing unit; and an information processing unit for performing information processing pertaining to a content, which is an object of selection accepted by the selection accepting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., THE POKÉMON COMPANY, AMBRELLA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Norio Matsumura
  • STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20210387084
    Abstract: In a case where a second camera operation through a third input unit using an inertial sensor is performed while a pointer operation process based on a pointer operation through a first input unit or a camera operation process based on a first camera operation through a second input unit is performed, an absolute value of a quantity of change in a position or an image capturing direction of a virtual camera based on the second camera operation is reduced as compared with a case where the second camera operation is performed when neither of the pointer operation process based on the pointer operation and the camera operation process based on the first camera operation are performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicants: Nintendo Co., Ltd., The Pokémon Company
    Inventors: Kenichi NAKAGUCHI, Kazumasa KITADA
  • Storage medium, information processing apparatus, information processing system and game processing method
    Patent number: 12151163
    Abstract: An example of an information processing system displays a character based on a character model of a first type in a first scene in the game, and based on a character model of a second type in a second scene. In a third scene, a wearable item is selected in response to a selection instruction. In the third scene, the character based on the character model of the first type having the appearance of wearing the selected wearable item is displayed, and the character based on the character model of the second type having the appearance of wearing the wearable item is displayed. When a confirm instruction is given, settings regarding the appearance of the character are changed so as to reflect the wearable item on the appearance of the character in the first scene and the second scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., THE POKÉMON COMPANY
    Inventors: Junichi Masuda, Yuichi Ueda
  • STORAGE MEDIUM STORING GAME PROGRAM, GAME APPARATUS, GAME SYSTEM, AND GAME PROCESSING METHOD
    Publication number: 20230056381
    Abstract: When a first user interface is chosen according to a choice instruction based on an operation input, a two-dimensional user interface object indicating an arrangement range of decorative items is displayed, and decorative items are disposed at locations in the range designated according to an operation input. When a second user interface is chosen, a three-dimensional user interface object indicating an arrangement range of decorative items is displayed, and decorative items are disposed at locations in the range designated according to an operation input. Types and arrangement of the decorative items on the two-dimensional object, or types and arrangement of the decorative items on the three-dimensional object, are stored into a storage medium according to a determination instruction based on an operation input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicants: Nintendo Co., Ltd., The Pokémon Company
    Inventors: Junichi MASUDA, Yuichi UEDA
  • Storage medium storing game program, game apparatus, game system, and game processing method
    Patent number: 12151165
    Abstract: When a first user interface is chosen according to a choice instruction based on an operation input, a two-dimensional user interface object indicating an arrangement range of decorative items is displayed, and decorative items are disposed at locations in the range designated according to an operation input. When a second user interface is chosen, a three-dimensional user interface object indicating an arrangement range of decorative items is displayed, and decorative items are disposed at locations in the range designated according to an operation input. Types and arrangement of the decorative items on the two-dimensional object, or types and arrangement of the decorative items on the three-dimensional object, are stored into a storage medium according to a determination instruction based on an operation input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., THE POKEMON COMPANY
    Inventors: Junichi Masuda, Yuichi Ueda
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