VIDEO GAME PROGRAM, VIDEO GAME DEVICE, AND VIDEO GAME CONTROL METHOD

• US 20080254898A1
• Filed: 06/16/2008
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Endo, Katsuyoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/139,946
• Publication Number:
  US 20080254898A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/43
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/211 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/428 involving motion or position input signals, e.g. signals representing the rotation of an input controller or a player's arm motions sensed by accelerometers or gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/573 using trajectories of game objects, e.g. of a golf ball according to the point of impact
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/812 Ball games, e.g. soccer or baseball
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/105 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1087 comprising photodetecting means, e.g. a camera
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6045 for mapping control signals received from the input arrangement into game commands
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8011 Ball

Abstract

In the present invention, the moving state data for setting a moving state of a moving object is recognized by a control unit. Acceleration data and time duration data, which are consecutively inputted into an input unit from a controller, are recognized by the control unit. Then, the position data of the controller is calculated by the control unit based on the acceleration data and the time duration data, both of which are recognized by the control unit. Then, displacement of the controller is calculated by the control unit based on the position data of the controller. Then, the moving state data is modified by the control unit depending on the displacement of the controller. Then, a moving state of the moving object is displayed on an image display unit with the image data corresponding to the moving object based on the modified moving state data.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium storing a computer program for a video game which a user plays by moving an input device, the computer program comprising:

code for recognizing moving state of the moving object;

code for recognizing acceleration of the input unit;

code for recognizing time duration of the acceleration;

code for calculating at least either a position of the input unit or an angle of the input unit based on the acceleration and the time duration;

code for calculating change of the position of the input unit on the basis of at least either the position or the angle of the input unit;

code for modifying the moving state to modified moving state on the basis of the change; and

code for displaying the moving object on the image display unit on the basis of the modified moving state.

2. The computer readable medium according to claim 1, the computer program further comprising

code for calculating speed of the moving object, and

code for modifying the speed of the moving object on the basis of the change of the position of the input device.

3. The computer readable medium according to claim 2, wherein

the code for modifying the speed of the moving object on the basis of the change of the position of the input device, includes code for modifying the speed of the moving object on the basis of vertical change of the position of the input device.

4. The computer readable medium according to claim 1, the computer program further comprising

code for modifying the change of the position of the moving object on the basis of change of the position of the input device.

5. The computer readable medium according to claim 4, wherein

the code for modifying the change of the position of the moving object on the basis of the position of the input device, includes code for modifying the change of the moving object on the basis of the change of the input device in a direction crossover to the vertical direction.

6. The computer readable medium according to claim 4, wherein

the code for modifying the change of the position of the moving object on the basis of the position of the input device, includes code for modifying the change of the moving object on the basis of the change of the input device in a rotational direction.

7. The computer readable medium according to claim 1, the computer program further comprising

code for judging whether or not a predetermined period of time is elapsed after the acceleration is recognized, and

wherein at least either the position of the input unit or the angle of the input unit is calculated on the basis of the acceleration and the time duration, if the predetermined period is elapsed.

8. A game device of a video game which a user plays by moving an input device, the game device comprising:

a moving state data recognizing unit configured to recognize moving state of the moving object;

an acceleration data recognizing unit configured to recognize acceleration of the input unit;

a time duration data recognizing unit configured to recognize time duration of the acceleration;

a position data calculating unit configured to calculate at least either a position of the input unit or an angle of the input unit based on the acceleration and the time duration;

a changing amount calculating unit configured to calculate change of the position of the input unit on the basis of at least either the position or the angle of the input unit;

a moving state data modifying unit configured to modify the moving state to modified moving state on the basis of the change; and

a moving object displaying unit configured to display the moving object on the image display unit on the basis of the modified moving state.

9. A method for controlling a video game which a user plays by moving an input device, the method comprising:

recognizing moving state of the moving object;

recognizing acceleration of the input unit;

recognizing time duration of the acceleration;

calculating at least either a position of the input unit or an angle of the input unit based on the acceleration and the time duration;

calculating change of the position of the input unit on the basis of at least either the position or the angle of the input unit;

modifying the moving state to modified moving state on the basis of the change; and

displaying the moving object on the image display unit on the basis of the modified moving state.