INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, COMPUTER TERMINAL, AND CHANGE METHOD

• US 20100088604A1
• Filed: 10/07/2009
• Published: 04/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. (BANDAI NAMCO Holdings Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Namco Bandai Games Inc.
• Inventors: KUROSAWA, KAORI, KOHARA, TAKASHI, MIURA, YOHEI
• Granted Patent: US 8,656,307 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/727
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• 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 13/5375 for graphically or textually suggesting an action, e.g. by displaying an arrow indicating a turn in a driving 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 2300/305 for providing a graphical or textual hint to the player
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/61 Score computation
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/638 according to the timing of operation or a time limit
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8047 Music games
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0016 Means for indicating which keys, frets or strings are to be actuated, e.g. using lights or leds
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/091 for performance evaluation, i.e. judging, grading or scoring the musical qualities or faithfulness of a performance, e.g. with respect to pitch, tempo or other timings of a reference performance
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/135 Musical aspects of games or videogames; Musical instrument-shaped game input interfaces game background music G10H2210/026; musical game scoring or performance evaluation G10H2210/091
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

A computer terminal changes the non-evaluation property of one of the reference timings to the evaluation property based on a result of the evaluation conducted by comparing one of the reference timings having the evaluation property with the timing of the input performed by the operator.

Claims

1. A computer-readable information storage medium storing a program that performs processing for reproducing music data and evaluating an input performed by an operator, the program causing a computer to function as:

a storage section that stores a plurality of reference timings having an evaluation property or a non-evaluation property for the music data;

an evaluation section that conducts an evaluation of the input performed by the operator by comparing one of the reference timings having the evaluation property with a timing of the input performed by the operator; and

a change section that changes the non-evaluation property of one of the reference timings to the evaluation property based on a result of the evaluation conducted by comparing one of the reference timings having the evaluation property with the timing of the input performed by the operator.

2. The information storage medium as defined in claim 1,

wherein the change section changes the non-evaluation property of one of the reference timings within a predetermined period to the evaluation property.

3. The information storage medium as defined in claim 1,

wherein the change section changes the non-evaluation property of a predetermined one of the reference timings to the evaluation property based on the result of the evaluation for the input performed by the operator.

4. The information storage medium as defined in claim 1,

a display control section that moves instruction marks respectively representing the reference timings having the evaluation property along a moving path toward a predetermined point on the moving path,

wherein the display control section moves one of the instruction marks representing one of the reference timings having the evaluation property that has been changed from the non-evaluation property radially from around the predetermined point and then along the moving path.

5. The information storage medium as defined in claim 1,

a display control section that moves instruction marks respectively representing the reference timings having the evaluation property along a moving path toward a predetermined point on the moving path,

wherein the display control section moves one of the instruction marks representing one of the reference timings having the evaluation property that has been changed from the non-evaluation property from around the predetermined point to a placement point on the moving path and then along the moving path, the placement point corresponding to the one of the instruction marks.

6. A computer terminal that reproduces music data and evaluates an input performed by an operator, the computer terminal comprising:

a storage section that stores a plurality of reference timings having an evaluation property or a non-evaluation property for the music data;

an evaluation section that conducts an evaluation of the input performed by the operator by comparing one of the reference timings having the evaluation property with a timing of the input performed by the operator; and

a change section that changes the non-evaluation property of one of the reference timings to the evaluation property based on a result of the evaluation conducted by comparing one of the reference timings having the evaluation property with the timing of the input performed by the operator.

7. A change method that is implemented by a computer terminal that reproduces music data, evaluates an input performed by an operator, and includes a processor, the method comprising:

storing a plurality of reference timings having an evaluation property or a non-evaluation property for the music data;

conducting an evaluation of the input performed by the operator by comparing one of the reference timings having the evaluation property with a timing of the input performed by the operator; and

changing the non-evaluation property of one of the reference timings to the evaluation property based on a result of the evaluation conducted by comparing one of the reference timings having the evaluation property with the timing of the input performed by the operator.