Display updating program and display updating apparatus

• US 20070288243A1
• Filed: 04/06/2007
• Published: 12/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Takahashi, Shinya, Suzuki, Toshiaki
• Granted Patent: US 8,342,849 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/276
• 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 13/42 by mapping the input signals into game commands, e.g. mapping the displacement of a stylus on a touch screen to the steering angle of a virtual vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/80 Special adaptations for executing a specific game genre or game mode
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1075 using a touch screen
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/06 Foreign languages with audible presentation of material to be studied G09B5/04

Abstract

A game machine has an LCD, a cross key, and a memory. The memory stores a plurality of words and a plurality of translations each corresponding to the plurality of words. A computer of the game machine displays at least one of the plurality of words on the LCD, and updatedly displays on the LCD a word which is being displayed on the LCD by being changed to another word in response to an operation of a certain push portion of a cross key. The translation of the word which is thus being displayed on the LCD is updatedly displayed in place of the word during a period from accepting an operation of another push portion of the cross key to cancelling the operation, and when the operation is cancelled, the word which was displayed on the LCD before the operation is displayed in place of the translation which is being displayed on the LCD.

Claims

1. A recording medium recording a display updating program of an information processor having a display for displaying information, an operator for accepting a direction instructing operation, and a memory storing a first information group formed by a plurality of data and a second information group formed by a plurality of data each corresponding to the plurality of data of the first information group, wherein

said display updating program causes a computer of said information processor to execute

a first display step for displaying at least one of said plurality of data of said first information group on said display,

a second display step for updatedly displaying on said display the data of said first information group which is being displayed on said display by said first display step by being changed to another data of said first information group in response to a first direction instructing operation indicative of a first direction by said operator, and

a third display step for updatedly displaying on said display the data of the second information group corresponding to the data of the first information group which is being displayed on said display by said first display step or said second display step in place of the data of said first information group during a period from accepting a second direction instructing operation indicative of a second direction by said operator to canceling said second direction instructing operation, and updatedly displaying on said display the data of said first information group which was displayed on said display before accepting said second direction instructing operation in place of the data of said second information group which is being displayed on said display when said second direction instructing operation is canceled.

2. A recording medium recording a display updating program according to claim 1, wherein

said data of the first information group is defined by a predetermined order,

said second display step updatedly displays on said display the data of said first information group which is being displayed on said display by said first display step by being changed to next data on the basis of said order in response to said first direction instructing operation, and

said display updating program further causes said computer to execute a fourth display step for updatedly displaying on said display the data of said first information group which is being displayed on said display by said first display step or said second display step by being changed to previous data on the basis of said order in response to a third direction instructing operation indicative of a third direction by said operator.

3. A recording medium recording a display updating program according to claim 2, wherein

said memory further stores a third information group formed by a plurality of data each corresponding to the plurality of data of said first information group, and

said display updating program causes said computer to execute a fourth display step to display the data of the third information group corresponding to the data of the first information group which is being displayed on said display when a fourth direction instructing operation indicative of a fourth direction is accepted by said operator.

4. A recording medium recording a display updating program according to claim 3, wherein

said second direction is a direction opposite to said first direction, said third direction is a direction vertical to said first direction, and said fourth direction is a direction opposite to said third direction.

5. A recording medium recording a display updating program according to claim 4, wherein

said operator includes a cross key having a first end portion and a second end portion arranged along said first direction and a third end portion and a fourth end portion arranged along said third direction, and

said first direction instructing operation is an operation of pushing said first end portion, said second direction instructing operation is an operation of pushing said second end portion, said third direction instructing operation is an operation of pushing said third end portion, and said fourth direction instructing operation is an operation of pushing said fourth end portion.

6. A recording medium recording a display updating program according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of data forming said first information group are a plurality of word data, and the plurality of data forming said second information group are a plurality of translation data each corresponding to said plurality of word data.

7. A recording medium recording a display updating program according to claim 6, wherein

the plurality of translation data forming said third information group are a plurality of dictionary data each corresponding to said plurality of word data.

8. A recording medium recording a display updating program according to claim 7, wherein

each of said plurality of word data is described by one of a first language and a second language, and each of said plurality of translation data is described by the other of said first language and said second language.

9. A recording medium recording a display updating program according to claim 8, wherein

said display updating program further causes said computer to execute a switching step for switching a description language of a word to be displayed by said first display step between said first language and said second language in response to a mode switching operation.

10. A recording medium recording a display updating program according to claim 1, wherein

said display updating program further causes said computer to execute an accepting step for accepting an input operation of inputting a set of a desired first information group and a desired second information group, and a storing step for storing the set of first information group and second information group accepted by said accepting step in said memory.

11. A recording medium recording a display updating program of an information processor having a display for displaying information, an operator for accepting an instruction operation, a memory storing first information and second information corresponding to said first information, wherein

said display updating program causes a computer of said information processor to execute

a mode setting step for setting any one of a first mode and a second mode,

a first display step for displaying said first information on said display when said first mode is set by said mode setting step,

a second display step for displaying said second information on said display when said second mode is set by said mode setting step,

a third display step for, when an instruction operation is accepted by said operator in a state that said first information is being displayed on said display by said first display step, displaying said second information on said display during a period from accepting said instruction operation to cancelling it, and

a fourth display step for, when an instruction operation is accepted by said operator in a state that said second information is being displayed on said display by said second display step, displaying said first information on said display during a period from accepting said instruction operation to cancelling it.

12. A display updating apparatus, comprising:

a display for displaying information;

an operator for accepting a direction instructing operation;

a memory for storing a first information group formed by a plurality of data, and a second information group formed by a plurality of data each corresponding to the plurality of data of the first information group;

a first display means for displaying at least one of said plurality of data of said first information group on said display;

a second display means for updatedly displaying on said display the data of said first information group which is being displayed on said display by said first display means by being changed to another data of said first information group in response to a first direction instructing operation indicative of a first direction by said operator, and

a third display means for updatedly displaying on said display the data of the second information group corresponding to the data of the first information group which is being displayed on said display by said first display means or said second display means in place of the data of said first information group only a period from accepting a second direction instructing operation indicative of a second direction by said operator to cancelling said second direction instructing operation, and updatedly displaying on said display the data of said first information group which was displayed on said display before accepting said second direction instructing operation in place of the data of said second information group which is being displayed on said display when said second direction instructing operation is canceled.

13. A display updating apparatus, comprising:

a display for displaying information;

an operator for accepting an instruction operation;

a memory for storing first information and second information corresponding to said first information;

a mode setting means for setting any one of a first mode and a second mode,

a first display means for displaying said first information on said display when said first mode is set by said mode setting means;

a second display means for displaying said second information on said display when said second mode is set by said mode setting means,

a third display means for, when an instruction operation is accepted by said operator in a state that said first information is being displayed on said display by said first display means, displaying said second information on said display during a period from accepting said instruction operation to cancelling it; and

a fourth display means for, when an instruction operation is accepted by said operator in a state that said second information is being displayed on said display by said second display means, displaying said first information on said display during a period from accepting said instruction operation to cancelling it.

14. A recording medium recording an information display program of an information processor having a display for displaying information, an operator for accepting a direction instructing operation, and a memory for storing a plurality of first information units and a plurality of second information units each corresponding to said plurality of first information units, wherein

said information display program causes a computer of said information processor to execute

a first display step for sequentially displaying said plurality of first information units on said display in response to a first direction instructing operation indicative of a first direction repeatedly accepted by said operator, and

a second display step for displaying a second information unit corresponding to the first information unit which is being displayed on said display in association with the display processing by said first display step only during a period from accepting a second direction instructing operation indicative of a second direction by said operator to cancelling said second direction instructing operation.