Game apparatus and storage medium storing game program

• US 20100041474A1
• Filed: 11/19/2008
• Published: 02/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Masao, Kawanobe, Naoya
• Granted Patent: US 8,016,671 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/30
• 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 13/426 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 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/63 by the player, e.g. authoring using a level editor
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1075 using a touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/301 using an additional display connected to the game console, e.g. on the controller

Abstract

A game apparatus includes two LCDs, and a touch panel is provided in relation to the one LCD. When an action game is started, a game screen is displayed on the other LCD, and a still image (capture screen) obtained by copying the game screen according to a capture operation by a player is displayed on the one LCD. When an enemy object on the capture screen is directed, stroked, and so forth by use of the touch panel, the enemy object on the game screen is frozen or erased.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:

a first display portion that displays a game image;

a second display portion;

an input device capable of pointing an arbitrary position on said second display portion;

image displaying programmed logic circuitry that displays the image being displayed on said first display portion in response to an operation by a user; and

image controlling programmed logic circuitry that controls a display of the image being displayed on said first display portion according to a position designated by said input device after said image was displayed on said second display portion.

2. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said image controlling programmed logic circuitry includes determining programmed logic circuitry that determines whether or not an object is being displayed at the position designated by said input device, and object controlling programmed logic circuitry that controls the display of the object being displayed when it is determined that the object is being displayed at said position by said determining programmed logic circuitry.

3. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an operating device by which the user can input at least one of a button operation and a direction designating operation, wherein

said image displaying programmed logic circuitry copies the image being displayed on said first display portion and displays the same according to an operation of said operating device by the user.

4. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image displayed on said first displayed portion is a moving image, and an image to be displayed on said second display portion is a captured image obtained by capturing said moving image being displayed on said first display portion in response to the operation by the user.

5. A storage medium storing an image processing program, said image processing program causes a computer of an image processing apparatus including a first display portion that displays a game image, a second display portion, and an input device capable of pointing an arbitrary position on said second display portion to function as:

image displaying programmed logic circuitry for displaying the image being displayed on said first display portion in response to an operation by a user; and

image controlling programmed logic circuitry for controlling a display of the image being displayed on said first display portion according to a position designated by said input device after said image was displayed on said second display portion.

6. A method for image processing through an image processing apparatus including a first display portion that displays a game image, a second display portion, and an input device capable of pointing an arbitrary position on said second display portion, said method comprising:

displaying the image being displayed on said first display portion in response to an operation by a user; and

controlling a display of the image being displayed on said first display portion according to a position designated by said input device after said image was displayed on said second display portion.