STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20090278809A1
• Filed: 12/04/2008
• Published: 11/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: OHSAWA, Kazuyoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/328,279
• Publication Number:
  US 20090278809A1
• 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 13/426 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 13/44 involving timing of operations, e.g. performing an action within a time slot
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/814 Musical performances, e.g. by evaluating the player's ability to follow a notation
• 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 2300/8047 Music games
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A game apparatus includes two LCDs, and a game screen is displayed on one LCD, and a touch panel is set on the other LCD. A game screen for teaching an input timing and an input kind that are set in advance is displayed, and music for teaching the input timing is output. A player performs a touch-on operation, a touch-off operation, a flipping operation and a rubbing operation on the touch panel by viewing the game screen, and listening to the music. The input timing and input kind that are performed by the player and the input timing and the input kind that are set in advance are compared to thereby produce a situation corresponding to the comparison result.

Claims

1. A storage medium storing an information processing program, wherein

said information processing program causes a computer of an information processing apparatus capable of receiving an input from a pointing device to execute:

an instructed coordinate storing step for storing instructed coordinates instructed by said pointing device in a storing means;

an input deciding step for deciding an input timing and an input kind on the basis of the instructed coordinates stored in said instructed coordinate storing step;

an input comparing step for comparing an input timing and an input kind that are set in advance and the input timing and the input kind that are decided by said input deciding step; and

a process executing step for executing predetermined processing according to the comparison result by said input comparing step.

2. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein

said pointing device is a touch panel.

3. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 2, wherein

said input kind includes at least an input determined depending on a situation when a shift of a state as to whether or not said touch panel is touched occurs.

4. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 3, wherein

the input timing decided by said input deciding step includes at least a timing when the shift of the state as to whether or not said touch panel is touched occurs.

5. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 2, wherein

said information processing program further causes said computer to execute

a touch-on judging step for judging that a state in which said touch panel is not touched shifts to a state in which said touch panel is touched,

a touch-off judging step for judging that the state in which said touch panel is touched to the state in which said touch panel is not touched, and

said input deciding step for deciding that said input kind is a first kind in a case said touch-on judging step judges that the shift is made, and deciding said input kind is a second kind in a case that said touch-off judging step judges that the shift is made.

6. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 5, wherein

the input timing decided by said input deciding step is a timing when said touch-on judging step judges that the shift is made in a case that said input kind is the first kind, and is a timing when said touch-off judging step judges that the shift is made in a case that said input kind is the second kind.

7. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 6, wherein

said information processing program causes said computer to execute a movement amount calculating step for calculating a movement amount on said touch panel immediately before said touch-off judging step judges that the shift is made on the basis of the instructed coordinates stored by said instructed coordinate storing step when said touch-off judging step judges that the shift is made, and

said input deciding step for deciding that said input kind is said second kind in a case that the movement amount calculated by said movement amount calculating step is equal to or less than a predetermined value, and deciding that said input kind is the third kind in a case that the movement amount calculated by said movement amount calculating step is above the predetermined value.

8. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 7, wherein

the input timing decided by said input deciding step is a timing when said touch-on judging step judges that the shift is made in a case that said input kind is the said first kind, and a timing when said touch-off judging step judges that the shift is made in a case that said input kind is said second kind and said third kind.

9. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 2, wherein

said information processing program causes said computer to further execute a touch-off judging step for judging that said state in which said touch panel is touched shifts to the state in which said touch panel is not touched and

a movement amount calculating step for calculating a movement amount on said touch panel immediately before said touch-off judging step judges that the shift is made on the basis of the instructed coordinates stored by said instructed coordinate storing step when said touch-off judging step judges that the shift is made, and

said input deciding step for deciding that said input kind is said first kind in a case that the movement amount calculated by said movement amount calculating step is equal to or less than a predetermined value, and deciding that said input kind is the second kind in a case that the movement amount calculated by said movement amount calculating step is above the predetermined value.

10. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 9, wherein

the input timing decided by said input deciding step is a timing when said touch-off judging step judges that the shift is made with respect to said first kind and said second kind.

11. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein

said computer executes said input comparing step and said process executing step in a first task,

executes said instructed coordinate storing step and said input deciding step in a second task different from said first task, and

a processing cycle of said second task is set to be shorter than a processing cycle of said first task.

12. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein

said information processing program causes said computer to further execute

an input buffer storing step for storing the input timing and the input kind that are decided by said input deciding step in said storing means and

an input buffer erasing step for erasing the input timing and the input kind that are stored in said storing means after said input comparing step and said process executing step are executed, and

said input comparing step and said process executing step make all the input timings and all the input kinds that are stored in said storing means objects to be processed.

13. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein

said process executing step includes an evaluating step for evaluating the input depending on the comparison result by said input comparing step, and executes said predetermined processing depending on the evaluation by said evaluating step.

14. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein

said input comparing step includes a degree of coincidence detecting step for detecting a degree of coincidence between the input timing and the input kind that are set in advance and the input timing and the input kind that are decided by said input deciding step, and

said process executing step executes said predetermined processing depending on the degree of coincidence detected by said degree of coincidence detecting step.

15. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 14, wherein

said process executing step includes an evaluating step for evaluating said input depending on the result compared by said input comparing step, and executes said predetermined processing depending on the evaluation by said evaluating step.

16. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 15, wherein

as the degree of coincidence detected by said degree of coincidence detecting step is high, said evaluating step makes a high evaluation.

17. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 1, wherein

said information processing program causes said computer to further execute a teaching step for teaching the input timing and the input kind that are set in advance, and

said input comparing step compares the input timing and the input kind that are taught by said teaching step and the input timing and the input kind that are decided by said input deciding step.

18. A storage medium storing an information processing program according to claim 17, wherein

said teaching step teaches the input timing and the input kind that are set in advance by outputting at least one of a music and an image.

19. An information processing apparatus capable of receiving an input from a pointing device, comprising:

an instructed coordinate storing means for storing instructed coordinates instructed by said pointing device in a storing means;

an input deciding means for deciding an input timing and an input kind on the basis of the instructed coordinates stored in said instructed coordinate storing means;

an input comparing means for comparing an input timing and an input kind that are set in advance and the input timing and the input kind that are decided by said input deciding means; and

a process executing step for executing predetermined processing according to the comparison result by said input comparing means.

20. An information processing method of an information processing apparatus capable of receiving an input from a pointing device including a step of:

(a) storing instructed coordinates instructed by said pointing device in a storing means;

(b) deciding the input timing and the input kind on the basis of the instructed coordinates stored by said step (a);

(c) comparing an input timing and an input kind that are set in advance and the input timing and the input kind that are decided by said step (b); and

(d) executing predetermined processing according to the comparison result by said step (c).