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

• US 20100283723A1
• Filed: 12/04/2009
• Published: 11/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: KONISHI, Yoshinori
• Granted Patent: US 9,833,705 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/214 for locating contacts on a surface, e.g. floor mats or touch pads
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/218 using pressure sensors, e.g. generating a signal proportional to the pressure applied by the player
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/235 using a wireless connection, e.g. infrared or piconet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/245 specially adapted to a particular type of game, e.g. steering wheels
• 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 13/65 automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/105 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1056 involving pressure sensitive buttons
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1068 being specially adapted to detect the point of contact of the player on a surface, e.g. floor mat, touch pad

Abstract

A game apparatus includes a CPU, the CPU judges a motion of a player on the basis of a cycle of a load value input from a load controller, and selectively displays an animation of a player object according to the motion. Furthermore, the CPU controls a moving amount or a moving velocity of the player object on the basis of the load value input from the load controller, and controls a moving direction of the player object according to a barycentric position of the player detected by the load controller.

Claims

1. A storage medium storing an information processing program, said information processing program causes a computer to execute:

a load value acquiring step for acquiring a load value indicating a load of a user on the basis of a signal from a load detecting apparatus,

a cycle judging step for judging a cycle of a load variation of said user on the basis of the load value acquired by said load value acquiring step, and

an information processing step for executing predetermined information processing on the basis of the cycle judged by said cycle judging step.

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

said information processing step executes at least first information processing or second information processing different from said first information processing on the basis of the cycle judged by said cycle judging step.

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

said information processing program causes a computer to further execute a condition determining step for determining whether or not the cycle judged by said cycle judging step satisfies a predetermined condition, and

said information processing step executes said first information processing when said condition determining step determines that said cycle satisfies the predetermined condition, and executes said second information processing when said condition determining step determines that said cycle does not satisfy the predetermined condition.

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

said condition determining step determines whether or not a frequency of the cycle judged by said cycle judging step is equal to or more than a first predetermined value, and

said information processing step executes said second information processing when said condition determining step determines that said frequency is equal to or more than the first predetermined value.

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

said cycle judging step judges said cycle on the basis of a frequency spectrum of the load variation of said user,

said condition determining step determines whether or not the frequency of the cycle judged by said cycle judging step is a second predetermined value and a power spectrum of a frequency larger than said frequency is equal to or more than a maximum value of a spectrum noise, and

said information processing step executes said second information processing when said condition determining step determines that said frequency is a second predetermined value, and a power spectrum of a frequency larger than said frequency is equal to or more than a maximum value of a spectrum noise.

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

said information processing program causes a computer to further execute a movement controlling step for controlling a magnitude of at least a moving distance or a moving velocity of an object displayed on a display screen on the basis of the load value acquired by said load value acquiring step.

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

said movement controlling step increases the moving distance or the moving velocity of said object as an amplitude of the variation of the load value acquired by said load value acquiring step is large.

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

said movement controlling step increases the moving distance or the moving velocity of said object when the load value acquired by said load acquiring step is less than a predetermined value.

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

said movement controlling step increases the moving distance or the moving velocity of said object when the cycle of the variation of the load value acquired by said load acquiring step is long.

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

said information processing program causes a computer to further execute a barycentric position detecting step for detecting a barycentric position of said user on a two-dimensional plane on the basis of a signal from said load detecting apparatus, and

said movement controlling step controls a moving direction of said object on the basis of the barycentric position detected by said barycentric position detecting step.

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

said object moves in the virtual space, and

said movement controlling step decides the moving direction of said object according to different deciding method between when said object moves to a predetermined direction and when said object moves to a direction other than the direction.

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

said movement controlling step decides a first moving direction as a moving direction of said object on the basis of the barycentric position detected by said barycentric position detecting step in a case that said object moves to said predetermined direction, and decides a second moving direction as a moving direction of said object on the basis of the barycentric position detected by said barycentric position detecting step in a case that said object moves to the direction other than said predetermined direction.

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

said information processing step changes at least a display manner of the object displayed on the display screen on the basis of the cycle judged by said cycle judging step.

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

said object is a moving image object, and

said information processing step displays said moving image object on said display screen by a different animation on the basis of the cycle judged by said cycle judging step.

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

said information processing step changes an updating velocity of an animation frame on the basis of the cycle judged by said cycle judging step and a frame number of the animation frame constructing of said animation.

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

said information processing program causes a computer to further execute a ratio calculating step for calculating a ratio of the load value acquired by said load value acquiring step to a body weight value of said user, and

said cycle judging step judges a cycle as to the variation of the ratio calculated by said ratio calculating step.

17. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a load value acquiring means for acquiring a load value indicating a load of a user on the basis of a signal from a load detecting apparatus,

a cycle judging means for judging a cycle of a load variation of said user on the basis of the load value acquired by said load value acquiring means, and

an information processing means for executing predetermined information processing on the basis of the cycle judged by said cycle judging means.

18. An information processing method of an information processing apparatus including following steps of:

(a) acquiring a load value indicating a load of a user on the basis of a signal from a load detecting apparatus,

(b) judging a cycle of a load variation of said user on the basis of the load value acquired by step (a), and

(c) executing predetermined information processing on the basis of the cycle judged by said step (b).