GAME PROGRAM AND GAME APPARAUS

• US 20100009760A1
• Filed: 07/07/2009
• Published: 01/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Akasaka, Hideya, Takahashi, Yuki, Shimamura, Takayuki, Yamashita, Yoshikazu, Hiratake, Shinya, Dohta, Takuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,882,596 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/43
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/06 using player-operated means for controlling the position of a specific area display
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/20 Input arrangements for video game devices
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/211 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers or gyroscopes
• 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 13/428 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 13/803 Driving vehicles or craft, e.g. cars, airplanes, ships, robots or tanks
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1006 having additional degrees of freedom
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/105 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6045 for mapping control signals received from the input arrangement into game commands
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8017 Driving on land or water; Flying

Abstract

A game apparatus comprises an operation data acquiring means for acquiring operation data from a first input device including at least a first acceleration sensor and an angular velocity sensor and a second input device including at least a second acceleration sensor, and a game processing means for performing game processing on the basis of first acceleration data output from the first acceleration sensor, second acceleration data output from the second acceleration sensor, and angular velocity data from the angular velocity sensor, in the operation data.

Claims

1. A storage medium readable by a computer of a game apparatus, said storage medium stores a game program, said game program causes said computer to function as

an operation data acquiring means for acquiring operation data from a first input device including at least a first acceleration sensor and an angular velocity sensor, and a second input device including at least a second acceleration sensor;

and

a game processing means for performing game processing on the basis of at least first acceleration data in response to an output from said first acceleration sensor, second acceleration data in response to an output from said second acceleration sensor, and angular velocity data in response to an output from said angular velocity sensor in said operation data.

2. A storage medium according to claim 1, wherein said game processing means includes a first object controlling means for controlling a first controlling object within a game space on the basts of said first acceleration data and a second object controlling means for controlling a second controlling object within the game space on the basis of said second acceleration data.

3. A storage medium according to claim 1, wherein said game processing means includes a first object controlling means for controlling a first controlling object within a game space on the basis of both of said first acceleration data and said second acceleration data.

4. A storage medium according to claim 2, wherein said game processing means further includes an entire controlling means for controlling orientations or positions of said first controlling object and said second controlling object on the basis of said angular velocity data.

5. A storage medium according to claim 2, wherein said first object controlling means further controls an orientation or a position of said first controlling object on the basis of said angular velocity data.

6. A storage medium according to claim 2, wherein said first object controlling means performs a motion of moving said first controlling object within the game space, and further adds a rotation to the motion of said first controlling object on the basis of said angular velocity data.

7. A storage medium according to claim 2, wherein said first controlling object and said second controlling object each is a part of a player object within the game space, and said game processing means detects a rotation rotated about a predetermine axis of said first input device on the basis of said angular velocity data, and causes said player object to perform a specific action on the basis of the rotation.

8. A storage medium according to claim 3, wherein said first controlling object is a player object within the game space, and said game processing means detects a rotation rotated about a predetermine axis of said first input device on the basis of said angular velocity data, and causes said player object to perform a specific action on the basis of the rotation.

9. A game apparatus, comprising:

an operation data acquiring means for acquiring operation data from a first input device including at least a first acceleration sensor and an angular velocity sensor, and a second input device including at least a second acceleration sensor; and

a game processing means for performing game processing on the basis of at least first acceleration data in response to an output from said first acceleration sensor, second acceleration data in response to an output from said second acceleration sensor, and angular velocity data in response to an output from said angular velocity sensor in said operation data.