Storage medium storing information processing program, information processing apparatus and information processing method

• US 10,406,435 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2018
• Issued: 09/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Ohsawa, Kazuyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Leiby, Christopher E
• Application Number:
  US16/136,472
• Publication Number:
  US 20190015746A1
• Time in Patent Office: 355 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/426 involving on-screen location information, e.g. screen coordinates of an area at which the player is aiming with a light gun
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/44 involving timing of operations, e.g. performing an action within a time slot
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/814 Musical performances, e.g. by evaluating the player's ability to follow a notation
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1075 using a touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/204 the platform being a handheld device
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8047 Music games
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A game apparatus includes two LCDs, and a game screen is displayed on one LCD, and a touch panel is set on the other LCD. A game screen for teaching an input timing and an input kind that are set in advance is displayed, and music for teaching the input timing is output. A player performs a touch-on operation, a touch-off operation, a flipping operation and a rubbing operation on the touch panel by viewing the game screen, and listening to the music. The input timing and input kind that are performed by the player and the input timing and the input kind that are set in advance are compared to thereby produce a situation corresponding to the comparison result.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an information processing program, the information processing program, when executed, causing one or more computer processors of an information processing apparatus configured to receive an input from a touch panel to perform operations comprising:

outputting an advance music and/or an image set indicating an exemplar input kind and an exemplar input timing of an input operation to be made by a user;

storing instructed coordinates received from the touch panel;

determining that an instructed input kind is a multi-movement input, conditioned on the instructed coordinates forming one touch input uninterrupted by a touch-off event that comprises first and second movements separated by a temporal break, the temporal break starting in response to the first movement having a first speed less than or equal to a threshold value greater than zero, the second movement having a second speed greater than or equal to the threshold value, the temporal break ending with second movement starting;

determining that an instructed input timing is a timing of the multi-movement input;

comparing the exemplar input kind and the exemplar input timing with the instructed input kind and the instructed input timing; and

executing predetermined processing according to the result of the comparing.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein a third movement different from the first and second movements occurs during the temporal break.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein a touch-on event unaccompanied by movement occurs during the temporal break.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the first movement and/or second movement correspond(s) to a rubbing operation.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the comparing includes detecting a degree of coincidence between the exemplar input kind and the exemplar input timing and the instructed input kind and the instructed input timing, and

the predetermined processing depends on the degree of coincidence.

6. An information processing method for use with an information processing apparatus comprising one or more computer processors and a touch panel configured to receive input, the method comprising:

outputting an advance music and/or an image set indicating an exemplar input kind and an exemplar input timing of an input operation to be made by a user;

storing instructed coordinates received from the touch panel;

determining that an instructed input kind is a multi-movement input, conditioned on the instructed coordinates forming one touch input uninterrupted by a touch-off event that comprises first and second movements separated by a temporal break, the temporal break starting in response to the first movement having a first speed less than or equal to a threshold value greater than zero, the second movement having a second speed greater than or equal to the threshold value, the temporal break ending with second movement starting;

determining that an instructed input timing is a timing of the multi-movement input;

comparing the exemplar input kind and the exemplar input timing with the instructed input kind and the instructed input timing; and

executing predetermined processing according to the result of the comparing.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein a third movement different from the first and second movements occurs during the temporal break.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein a touch-on event unaccompanied by movement occurs during the temporal break.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the first movement and/or second movement correspond(s) to a rubbing operation.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein:

the comparing includes detecting a degree of coincidence between the exemplar input kind and the exemplar input timing and the instructed input kind and the instructed input timing, and

the predetermined processing depends on the degree of coincidence.

11. An information processing system, comprising:

a touch panel configured to receive an input;

one or more computer processors configured to control the information processing system to at least;

output an advance music and/or an image set indicating an exemplar input kind and an exemplar input timing of an input operation to be made by a user;

store instructed coordinates received from the touch panel;

determine that an instructed input kind is a multi-movement input, conditioned on the instructed coordinates forming one touch input uninterrupted by a touch-off event that comprises first and second movements separated by a temporal break, the temporal break starting in response to the first movement having a first speed less than or equal to a threshold value greater than zero, the second movement having a second speed greater than or equal to the threshold value, the temporal break ending with second movement starting;

determine that an instructed input timing is a timing of the multi-movement input;

compare the exemplar input kind and the exemplar input timing with the instructed input kind and the instructed input timing; and

execute predetermined processing according to the result of the comparing.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein a third movement different from the first and second movements occurs during the temporal break.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein a touch-on event unaccompanied by movement occurs during the temporal break.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the first movement and/or second movement correspond(s) to a rubbing operation.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein:

the comparing includes detecting a degree of coincidence between the exemplar input kind and the exemplar input timing and the instructed input kind and the instructed input timing, and

the predetermined processing depends on the degree of coincidence.

16. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a touch panel configured to receive an input;

one or more computer processors configured to control the information processing apparatus to at least;

output an advance music and/or an image set indicating an exemplar input kind and an exemplar input timing of an input operation to be made by a user;

store instructed coordinates received from the touch panel;

determine that an instructed input kind is a multi-movement input, conditioned on the instructed coordinates forming one touch input uninterrupted by a touch-off event that comprises first and second movements separated by a temporal break, the temporal break starting in response to the first movement having a first speed less than or equal to a threshold value greater than zero, the second movement having a second speed greater than or equal to the threshold value, the temporal break ending with second movement starting;

determine that an instructed input timing is a timing of the multi-movement input;

compare the exemplar input kind and the exemplar input timing with the instructed input kind and the instructed input timing; and

execute predetermined processing according to the result of the comparing.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein a third movement different from the first and second movements occurs during the temporal break.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein a touch-on event unaccompanied by movement occurs during the temporal break.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the first movement and/or second movement correspond(s) to a rubbing operation.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein:

the comparing includes detecting a degree of coincidence between the exemplar input kind and the exemplar input timing and the instructed input kind and the instructed input timing, and

the predetermined processing depends on the degree of coincidence.