Storage medium storing program and information processing apparatus

• US 20060288004A1
• Filed: 04/06/2006
• Published: 12/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Toriyama, Kazuyoshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,577,149 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1075 using a touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/301 using an additional display connected to the game console, e.g. on the controller
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/33 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

Sentence data corresponding to headword data is retrieved from a data group including sentence data in the form of text data in accordance with a user'"'"'s operation, and is displayed as a sentence image on a display screen. The display screen can be edited in accordance with a coordinate point output from coordinate input means. An edited sentence image is transmitted to other apparatuses.

Claims

1. A storage medium storing a program which is executed by a computer of an apparatus which displays an image on a display screen and is operated by coordinate input means for outputting a coordinate point based on a predetermined coordinate system on the display screen, the program causing the computer to execute:

an input receiving step of receiving an input corresponding to a user'"'"'s operation;

a search step of determining headword data corresponding to the input received in the input receiving step and searching, for sentence data corresponding to the headword data, a data group including at least sentence data in the form of text data corresponding to a plurality of pieces of headword data;

a display control step of displaying, on the display screen, at least a portion of a sentence image based on the sentence data retrieved in the search step;

a coordinate detecting step of detecting a coordinate point output from the coordinate input means;

an editing step of editing the sentence image displayed by the display control step in accordance with the coordinate point detected by the coordinate detecting step; and

a transmitting step of transmitting the sentence image edited by the editing step, via communications means for transmitting data to another apparatus, to another apparatus.

2. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 1, wherein the display screen includes a first area and a second area, and in the second area, a screen coordinate point can be designated by the coordinate input means,

the display control step displays at least a portion of the sentence image based on the sentence data retrieved by the search step, on the first area,

the program causes the computer to further execute a copying step of copying and storing at least a portion of the sentence image displayed in the first area into a memory,

the display control step displays the sentence image copied by the copying step in the second area, and

the editing step edits the sentence image displayed in the second area in accordance with the coordinate point detected by the coordinate detecting step.

3. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 2, wherein the copying step includes:

a copy range setting step of setting a copy range within which the sentence image displayed in the first area is copied to the second area; and

a copy range moving step of moving the copy range in accordance with the input received by the input receiving step.

4. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 2, wherein the display screen further includes a third area which is different from the first area and the second area, and in which a screen coordinate point can be designated by the coordinate input means,

the program causes the computer to further execute:

a character recognizing step of recognizing a character input in the third area in accordance with a time-series coordinate point sequence connecting coordinate points detected by the coordinate detecting step in the third area; and

a headword data candidate setting step of setting a candidate for the headword data corresponding to the character recognized by the character recognizing step when the search step searches for sentence data,

after the sentence data is searched for by the search step, the editing step adds the character recognized by the character recognizing step to a predetermined position in the sentence image,

the display control step displays the headword data candidate set by the headword data candidate step in the second area when the search step searches for the sentence data corresponding to the character recognized by the character recognizing step, and

the display control step adds and displays the recognized character to the sentence image copied by the copying step at a predetermined position when the editing step edits the sentence image in accordance with the character recognized by the character recognizing step.

5. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 1, wherein the program causes the computer to further execute a communications status monitoring step of regularly monitoring a communications status between the apparatus and another apparatus via the communications means, and

when the communications status monitoring step detects occurrence of communications error between the apparatus and the other apparatus, the display control step displays information notifying of the occurrence of the communications error on the display screen.

6. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 1, wherein the program causes the computer to further execute an image adding step of, when the display control step displays at least a portion of the sentence image on the display screen, providing an area which the editing step cannot edit, adding an image indicating a production source of the sentence data to the sentence image, and displaying the image in the area in which the display screen cannot be edited.

7. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 1, the program causes the computer to further execute a production source data generating step of generating production source data indicating a production source of the sentence data, and

the transmitting step transmits the sentence image edited by the editing step together with the production source data, the sentence image being integrated with the production source data.

8. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 7, wherein the production source data generating step generates a production source image describing a name of the production source as the production source data, and

the transmitting step combines and transmits the sentence image edited by the editing step with the production source image.

9. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 1, wherein the program causes the computer to further execute:

a production source data generating step of generating a production source image describing a name of a production source of the sentence data; and

a production source image combining step of combining the production source image in a partial area of the sentence image based on the sentence data retrieved by the search step,

the display control step displays the sentence image combined by the production source image combining step on the display screen, and

the editing step edits the combined sentence image in accordance with the coordinate point detected by the coordinate detecting step, and does not edit an area in which the production source image is displayed.

10. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 1, wherein the program causes the computer to further execute a converting step of converting the sentence data in the form of text data retrieved by the search step into a sentence image in the form of image data to be displayed on the display screen, and

the display control step uses the sentence image in the form of image data converted by the converting step to display at least a portion of the sentence image on the display screen.

11. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 10, wherein the editing step includes overwriting and combining image data drawn based on the coordinate point detected by the coordinate detecting step onto the image data of the sentence image, and

the transmitting step transmits the image data of the sentence image combined by the editing step to another apparatus.

12. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 11, wherein the program causes the computer to further execute a drawing step of drawing a time-series coordinate point sequence connecting coordinate points detected by the coordinate detecting step, and

the editing step superposes and combines image data corresponding to the image drawn by the drawing step with the image data of the sentence image.

13. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 10, wherein the editing step includes:

superposing text data corresponding to the coordinate points detected by the coordinate detecting step onto the image data of the sentence image; and

converting the superposed text data into image data and combining the image data with the image data of the sentence data with timing of starting execution of the transmitting step,

the transmitting step transmits the image data of the sentence image combined by the editing step to another apparatus.

14. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 13, wherein the program causes the computer to further execute a character recognizing step of recognizing an input character in accordance with the time-series coordinate point sequence connecting the coordinate points detected by the coordinate detecting step, and

the editing step superposes text data corresponding to the character recognized by the character recognizing step onto the image data of the sentence image.

15. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 13, wherein the program causes the computer to further execute:

a character selecting step of selecting a character in accordance with the coordinate points detected by the coordinate detecting step; and

a character moving step of moving the character selected by the character selecting step in accordance with the coordinate points detected by the coordinate detecting step onto the sentence image displayed on the display screen,

the editing step superposes text data corresponding to the character moved onto the character image by the character moving step on the image data of the sentence image.

16. The storage medium storing the program according to claim 13, wherein the editing step includes deleting the text data superposed on the image data of the sentence data, in accordance with the coordinate points detected by the coordinate detecting step.

17. An information processing apparatus which displays an image on a display screen and is operated by coordinate input means for outputting a coordinate point based on a predetermined coordinate system on the display screen, the apparatus comprising:

input receiving means for receiving an input corresponding to a user'"'"'s operation;

search means for determining headword data corresponding to the input received in the input receiving means and searching, for sentence data corresponding to the headword data, a data group including at least sentence data in the form of text data corresponding to a plurality of pieces of headword data;

display control means for displaying, on the display screen, at least a portion of a sentence image based on the sentence data retrieved in the search means;

coordinate detecting means for detecting a coordinate point output from the coordinate input means;

editing means for editing the sentence image displayed by the display control means in accordance with the coordinate point detected by the coordinate detecting means; and

transmitting means for transmitting the sentence image edited by the editing means, via communications means for transmitting data to another apparatus, to another apparatus.

18. An information processing system including a plurality of information processing apparatuses which display an image on a display screen and are operated by coordinate input means for outputting a coordinate point based on a predetermined coordinate system on the display screen, wherein

each of the information processing apparatuses comprises:

coordinate detecting means for detecting a coordinate point output from the coordinate input means;

image generating means for generating an image in accordance with the coordinate point detected by the coordinate detecting means;

receiving means for receiving an image transmitted from another one of the information processing apparatuses;

first display control means for displaying the image received by the receiving means on the display screen;

first editing means for editing the image displayed by the first display control means in accordance with the coordinate point detected by the coordinate detecting means; and

transmitting means for transmitting the image generated by the image generating means or the image edited by the first editing means to another one of the information processing apparatuses,

at least one of the plurality of information processing apparatus further comprises;

input receiving means for receiving an input corresponding to a user'"'"'s operation;

search means for determining headword data corresponding to the input received in the input receiving means and searching, for sentence data corresponding to the headword data, a data group including at least sentence data in the form of text data corresponding to a plurality of pieces of headword data;

second display control means for displaying, on the display screen, at least a portion of a sentence image based on the sentence data retrieved in the search means; and

second editing means for editing the image displayed by the second display control means in accordance with the coordinate point detected by the coordinate detecting means, and

the image edited by the second editing means is transmitted via the transmitting means to another one of the information processing apparatuses.