GAME DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR

• US 20110159938A1
• Filed: 07/06/2009
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Umeda, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 8,602,858 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/7
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0012 Comparing movements or motion sequences with a registered reference
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0068 Comparison to target or threshold, previous performance or not real time comparison to other individuals
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0096 using performance related parameters for controlling electronic or video games or avatars
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/17 Counting, e.g. counting periodical movements, revolutions or cycles, or including further data processing to determine distances or speed
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2244/22 Dancing
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0006 Computerised comparison for qualitative assessment of motion sequences or the course of a movement
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0619 Displays, user interfaces and indicating devices, specially adapted for sport equipment, e.g. display mounted on treadmills
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0622 Visual, audio or audio-visual systems for entertaining, instructing or motivating the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/44 involving timing of operations, e.g. performing an action within a time slot
• 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 2300/1068 being specially adapted to detect the point of contact of the player on a surface, e.g. floor mat, touch pad
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8047 Music games

Abstract

A game device causes a display device to display an image in which plural marks correlated with step panels to be stepped on by a player move to reach a base line, and the game device, when a step panel is stepped on, classifies the degree of accuracy of this operation as one of plural classes based on a time at which a mark corresponding to this step panel reaches the base line, a time at which this step panel was stepped on, and plural thresholds. The game device counts the number of accurate operations, to cause the display device to display the number in a color corresponding to the lowest accurate operation class corresponding to the counted accurate operations.

Claims

1. A game device comprising:

at least one operation device operated by a player;

an operation instructor for instructing the player to perform consecutive individual standard operations;

an evaluator for classifying a degree of accuracy of each operation by the player as one of plural classes based on a time difference between a time at which each of the standard operations should be performed and a time at which the operation device was operated, the plural classes including plural accurate operation classes and at least one inaccurate operation class;

a consecutive accurate operation number counter for counting a consecutive number of accurate operations, by the player, classified by the evaluator as belonging to one of the accurate operation classes;

a lowest class accurate operation identifier for identifying, from among accurate operation classes corresponding to plural accurate operations counted by the consecutive accurate operation number counter, a lowest accurate operation class by the player; and

an accurate operation number display instructor for causing a display device to display the number counted by the consecutive accurate operation number counter in a color corresponding to the lowest accurate operation class identified by the lowest class accurate operation identifier.

2. A game device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage device having stored therein correspondence relationships between classes for the degree of accuracy to be classified by the evaluator and colors to be displayed on the display device; and

an evaluation message display instructor for causing the display device to display an evaluation message indicating a class classified by the evaluator every time the evaluator classifies the degree of accuracy for each operation as one of the plural classes,

wherein the evaluation message display instructor causes the display device to display the evaluation message in a color corresponding to the class classified by the evaluator in accordance with the correspondence relationships stored in the storage device, and

wherein the accurate operation number display instructor causes the display device to display the number counted by the consecutive accurate operation number counter in a color corresponding to the lowest accurate operation class in accordance with the correspondence relationships stored in the storage device.

3. A computer program for causing a computer having at least one operation device operated by a player to function as:

an operation instructor for instructing the player to perform consecutive individual standard operations;

an evaluator for classifying a degree of accuracy of each operation by the player as one of plural classes based on a time difference between a time at which each of the standard operations should be performed and a time at which the operation device was operated, the plural classes including plural accurate operation classes and at least one inaccurate operation class;

a consecutive accurate operation number counter for counting a consecutive number of accurate operations, by the player, classified by the evaluator as belonging to one of the accurate operation classes;

a lowest class accurate operation identifier for identifying, from among accurate operation classes corresponding to plural accurate operations counted by the consecutive accurate operation number counter, a lowest accurate operation class by the player; and

an accurate operation number display instructor for causing a display device to display the number counted by the consecutive accurate operation number counter in a color corresponding to the lowest accurate operation class identified by the lowest class accurate operation identifier.

4. A computer-readable recording medium having stored thereon the computer program of claim 3.