Storage medium storing a training program, training apparatus and training control method

• US 20070146338A1
• Filed: 03/21/2006
• Published: 06/28/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Kiuchi, Toshikazu
• Application Number:
  US11/384,405
• Publication Number:
  US 20070146338A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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 13/26 having at least one additional display device, e.g. on the game controller or outside a game booth
• 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 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• 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 2300/6045 for mapping control signals received from the input arrangement into game commands
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8064 Quiz

Abstract

A game apparatus includes a first LCD and a second LCD, and a touch panel is provided on the second LCD. A question screen is displayed on the first LCD, and an operation screen for answering the question is displayed on the second LCD. On the question screen, a plurality of points are connected by a connecting line to display figures, characters, symbols (figure, etc). The operation screen displays a figure, etc. displayed on the question screen with a part of the connecting line thereof erased. A player performs an operation on a touch panel so as to display a figure, etc. the same as the figure, etc. displayed on the question screen. The player touches the touch panel to determine a drawing start point, the determination area of a point to be connected with thereto is set to become large while the determination area of the point not to be connected thereto is set to become small.

Claims

1. A storage medium storing a training program which makes a player instruct a plurality of objects displayed on a screen with a pointing device to thereby cause a computer to execute a process relating to the instructed objects,

said training program makes said computer function as

an input coordinates detecting means for detecting input coordinates on said screen instructed by said pointing device;

a start object determining means for determining one start object out of all the objects on the basis of the input coordinates detected by said input coordinates detecting means; and

a determination area setting means for setting a determination area corresponding to a next candidate object to be instructed next according to a predetermined condition stored in a storage means so as to become larger than a predetermined size when the start object is determined by said start object determining means.

2. A storage medium storing a training program according to claim 1, wherein

said determination area setting means sets a determination area corresponding to an object except for the next candidate object so as to become smaller than said predetermined size.

3. A storage medium storing a training program according to claim 1, wherein

said determination area setting means sets the determination areas corresponding to all the objects to the predetermined size when said next candidate object is not present.

4. A storage medium storing a training program according to claim 1, wherein

said predetermined size includes a display area of said object.

5. A storage medium storing a training program according to claim 1, wherein

said training program further causes said computer to function as an object-related processing means, when the start object is determined by said start object determining means, and then, the input coordinates detected by said input coordinates detecting means is included in any of said determination areas, for executing a process relating to said object corresponding to said determination area.

6. A storage medium storing a training program according to claim 1, wherein said predetermined condition is a group of the objects to be connected.

7. A storage medium storing a training program according to claim 6, wherein

said object-related processing means includes a true or false determining means, when said start object is determined, and then, said input coordinates is included in any of said determination areas, for determining whether an object corresponding to said determination area is said next candidate object or not, a connection information storage controlling means for storing in said storage means connection information indicating that said start object and said next candidate object are connected with each other when the object is determined to be the next candidate object by said true or false determining means, a connection determining means for determining whether or not all connection information as to the objects to be connected are stored by said connection information storage controlling means, and a purpose attainment determining means for determining that a purpose is attained when it is determined that all the connection information are stored in said storage means by said connection determining means.

8. A storage medium storing a training program according to claim 7, wherein

said purpose attainment determining means determines that said purpose is not attained when said true or false determining means determines that the object is not the next candidate object.

9. A storage medium storing a training program according to claim 7, wherein

said start object determining means determines said start object when said input coordinates detecting means detects a shift from a state in which the input coordinates is not detected to a state in which the input coordinates is detected, or when the true or false determining means determines that the object is the next candidate object.

10. A training apparatus which makes a player instruct a plurality of objects displayed on a screen with a pointing device to thereby cause a computer to execute a process relating to the instructed objects, comprising:

a input coordinates detecting means for detecting input coordinates on said screen to be instructed by said pointing device;

a start object determining means for determining one start object out of all the objects on the basis of the input coordinates detected by said input coordinates detecting means; and

a determination area setting means for setting a determination area corresponding to a next candidate object to be instructed next according to a predetermined condition stored in the storage means so as to become larger than a predetermined size when the start object is determined by said start object determining means.

11. A training control method which makes a player instruct a plurality of objects displayed on a screen with a pointing device to thereby cause a computer to execute a process relating to the instructed objects, includes following steps of

(a) detecting input coordinates on said screen to be instructed by said pointing device;

(b) determining one start object out of all the objects on the basis of the input coordinates detected by said step (a); and

(c) setting a determination area corresponding to a next candidate object to be instructed next according to a predetermined condition stored in the storage means so as to become larger than a predetermined size when the start object is determined by said step (b).