Game device, computer control method, and computer-readable information storage medium

• US 20050221892A1
• Filed: 03/24/2005
• Published: 10/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo, Inc. (Konami Holdings Corp.), Konami Corporation (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Takase, Yasumi
• Granted Patent: US 7,597,622 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/36
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/213 comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells A63F13/219, A63F13/655 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/655 by importing photos, e.g. of the player
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1012 involving biosensors worn by the player, e.g. for measuring heart beat, limb activity
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1093 using visible light
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6045 for mapping control signals received from the input arrangement into game commands
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/69 Involving elements of the real world in the game world, e.g. measurement in live races, real video
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/695 Imported photos, e.g. of the player

Abstract

A game device including a player image acquisition section 50 for receiving an image of a player from image capture means in charge of image capturing of the player, a game processing section 54 for executing various types of games, and in each of the games, outputting and displaying a game image as a combination result of the image of the player captured by the image capture means and a basic game image corresponding to the game, and a reference image generation section 58 for generating a plurality of reference game images by combining the image of the player captured by the image capture means and each of a plurality of reference basic game images corresponding to at least a part of the games, and outputting and displaying a reference image including the reference game images. With such a game device, the player is helped to understand play requirements relating to image capturing by the image capture means on a game basis.

Claims

1. A game device, comprising:

image capture means for capturing an image of a player;

game execution means for executing various types of games, and in each of the games, outputting and displaying a game image as a combination result of the image of the player captured by the image capture means and a basic game image corresponding to the game;

reference game image generation means for generating a plurality of reference game images by combining the image of the player captured by the image capture means and each of a plurality of reference basic game images corresponding to at least a part of the games; and

reference image output means for outputting and displaying a reference image including the reference game images.

2. The game device according to claim 1, further comprising

specification means for specifying one of the reference game images included in the reference image;

wherein

the game execution means executes one of the games corresponding to the specified reference game image.

3. The game device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein

the reference basic game image is generated based on the basic game image, and

the reference game image generation means includes reference basic game image storage means for storing the generated reference basic game images, and combines the image of the player and the reference basic game images stored in the reference basic game image storage means.

4. The game device according to claim 3, wherein

the game execution means includes means for sequentially generating the basic game image by two-dimensional or three-dimensional image processing, and

in the reference basic game image storage means, at least one of the basic game images that to be sequentially generated by the generation means is generated in advance, and stored as the reference basic game image.

5. The game device according to claim 1 to 4, wherein

the image capture means captures moving images of the player.

6. A computer control method, comprising the steps of:

capturing an image of a player;

executing a game selected from plural games, and in each of the games, outputting and displaying a game image as a combination result of the image of the player and a basic game image corresponding to the game;

generating a plurality of reference game images by combining the image of the player and each of a plurality of reference basic game images corresponding to at least a part of the games; and

outputting and displaying a reference image including the reference game images.

7. A computer-readable information storage medium storing a program for activating a computer, the program operating as:

game execution means for executing various types of games, and in each of the games, outputting and displaying a game image as a combination result of an image of a player captured by image capture means and a basic game image corresponding to the game;

reference game image generation means for generating a plurality of reference game images by combining the image of the player captured by the image capture means and each of a plurality of reference basic game images corresponding to at least a part of the games; and

reference image output means for outputting and displaying a reference image including the reference game images.