GAME MACHINE, GAME IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20090267943A1
• Filed: 08/10/2006
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Asami, Yuichi
• Application Number:
  US12/092,027
• Publication Number:
  US 20090267943A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/427
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/5258 by dynamically adapting the position of the virtual camera to keep a game object or game character in its viewing frustum, e.g. for tracking a character or a ball
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6661 for changing the position of the virtual camera
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6684 by dynamically adapting its position to keep a game object in its viewing frustrum, e.g. for tracking a character or a ball
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/20 Perspective computation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/003 Navigation within 3D models or images

Abstract

When a viewpoint moves in a game space, the movement of the viewpoint is reflected in a game screen image to thereby improve the realism. A game machine for producing a screen image on a real time basis, the screen image showing a picture obtained by viewing from a predetermined viewpoint defined in a game space in a predetermined viewing direction, and displaying the screen image on a real time basis comprises a viewpoint moving unit (64) for moving a position of the viewpoint in the game space, an oscillation parameter update unit (60) for changing a predetermined oscillation parameter according to movement of the viewpoint in the game space, and an oscillating unit (68) for oscillating the position of the viewpoint or the viewing direction in the game space according to the predetermined oscillation parameter.

Claims

1. A game machine for producing a screen image on a real time basis, the screen image showing a picture obtained by viewing from a predetermined viewpoint defined in a game space in a predetermined viewing direction, and displaying the screen image on a real time basis, comprising:

viewpoint moving means for moving a position of the viewpoint in the game space;

oscillation parameter update means for changing a predetermined oscillation parameter according to movement of the viewpoint in the game space; and

oscillating means for oscillating the position of the viewpoint or the viewing direction in the game space according to the predetermined oscillation parameter.

2. The game machine according to claim 1, wherein

a character object is placed in the position of the viewpoint in the game space, and

the viewpoint moving means causes the position of the viewpoint to move following the character object.

3. The game machine according to claim 2, wherein the oscillating means causes at least a part of the character object to further oscillate according to the predetermined oscillation parameter.

4. The game machine according to claim 1, wherein the oscillation parameter update means changes the predetermined oscillation parameter by a value according to a moving speed at which the viewpoint moves in the game space.

5. The game machine according to claim 1, wherein the oscillation parameter update means changes the predetermined oscillation parameter according to elapse of time.

8. The game machine according to claim 2, wherein the oscillation parameter update means changes the predetermined oscillation parameter by a value according to a moving speed at which the viewpoint moves in the game space.

9. The game machine according to claim 3, wherein the oscillation parameter update means changes the predetermined oscillation parameter by a value according to a moving speed at which the viewpoint moves in the game space.

6. A game machine image processing method for producing a screen image on a real time basis, the screen image showing a picture obtained by viewing from a predetermined viewpoint defined in a game space in a predetermined viewing direction, and displaying the screen image on a real time basis, comprising:

a viewpoint moving step of moving the position of the viewpoint in the game space;

an oscillation parameter update step of changing a predetermined oscillation parameter according to movement of the viewpoint in the game space; and

an oscillating step of oscillating the position of the viewpoint or the viewing direction in the game space according to the predetermined oscillation parameter.

7. An information storage medium recording a program for causing a computer to function as:

image processing means for producing a screen image on a real time basis, the screen image showing a picture obtained by viewing from a predetermined viewpoint defined in a game space in a predetermined viewing direction, and displaying the screen image on a real time basis;

viewpoint moving means for moving a position of the viewpoint in the game space;

oscillation parameter update means for changing a predetermined oscillation parameter according to movement of the viewpoint in the game space; and

oscillating means for oscillating the position of the viewpoint or the viewing direction in the game space according to the predetermined oscillation parameter.