DATA GENERATION DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR A DATA GENERATION DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20120108305A1
• Filed: 10/28/2011
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: AKIYAMA, Masato, SUZUKI, Kidai
• Application Number:
  US13/283,994
• Publication Number:
  US 20120108305A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/7
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/213 comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells A63F13/219, A63F13/655 take precedence
• 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 13/44 involving timing of operations, e.g. performing an action within a time slot
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/67 adaptively or by learning from player actions, e.g. skill level adjustment or by storing successful combat sequences for re-use
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/814 Musical performances, e.g. by evaluating the player's ability to follow a notation
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1087 comprising photodetecting means, e.g. a camera
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6009 for importing or creating game content, e.g. authoring tools during game development, adapting content to different platforms, use of a scripting language to create content
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6027 using adaptive systems learning from user actions, e.g. for skill level adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/638 according to the timing of operation or a time limit
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/66 for rendering three dimensional images
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8047 Music games

Abstract

A data generation device includes: a display unit for displaying a setting screen for generating reference data; a specification receiving unit for receiving a specification of a time point within the reproduction period of the music track data through the setting screen; a display control unit for displaying an exemplary model image for showing the exemplary model posture of the player at the specified time point on the setting screen based on an exemplary model data; and a reference data generating unit for generating the reference data based on the specified time point and a position of the body part within the exemplary model posture of the player at the specified time point.

Claims

1. A data generation device for generating reference data used in a game for evaluating an action of a player performed within a reproduction period of music track data based on the reference data obtained by associating information relating to a reference time point set within the reproduction period of the music track data and information relating to a reference position in which a body part of the player is to be placed at the reference time point, the data generation device comprising:

exemplary model data acquiring means for acquiring exemplary model data from means for storing the exemplary model data, the exemplary model data relating to an exemplary model posture of the player at each time point within the reproduction period of the music track data;

display means for displaying a setting screen for generating the reference data;

specification receiving means for receiving a specification of a time point within the reproduction period of the music track data through the setting screen;

display control means for displaying an exemplary model image for showing the exemplary model posture of the player at the specified time point on the setting screen based on the exemplary model data; and

reference data generating means for generating the reference data based on the specified time point and a position of the body part within the exemplary model posture of the player at the specified time point.

2. The data generation device according to claim 1, further comprising:

means for reproducing the music track data; and

means for stopping reproduction of the music track data when a predetermined reproduction stopping operation is performed, wherein;

the display control means changes, in a case where the music track data is being reproduced, the exemplary model posture shown by the exemplary model image on the setting screen so as to be synchronized with the reproduction of the music track data;

the display control means displays, in a case where the reproduction of the music track data is stopped, the exemplary model image at a time point at which the reproduction of the music track data is stopped on the setting screen; and

the specification receiving means acquires one of a time point earlier than the time point at which the reproduction of the music track data is stopped and a time point later than the time point at which the reproduction of the music track data is stopped as the specified time point based on a predetermined time point specifying operation.

3. The data generation device according to claim 1, further comprising means for reproducing the music track data in a case where a predetermined setting content confirmation operation is performed on the setting screen after the reference data is generated by the reference data generating means,

wherein the display control means comprises means for changing the exemplary model posture shown by the exemplary model image on the setting screen in synchronization with reproduction of the music track data in a case where the predetermined setting content confirmation operation is performed after the reference data is generated by the reference data generating means, and showing the reference time point and the reference position based on the reference data in synchronization with the reproduction of the music track data.

4. The data generation device according to claim 1, wherein:

the display control means displays a time axis of the reproduction period of the music track data on the setting screen; and

the specification receiving means receives the specification of the time point within the reproduction period of the music track data based on the time axis displayed on the setting screen.

5. The data generation device according to claim 4, wherein:

the display control means sets a plurality of areas corresponding to a plurality of body parts of the player so as to extend in a direction of the time axis displayed on the setting screen in parallel with one another in a direction perpendicular to the time axis;

the specification receiving means receives a specification of a position within any one of the plurality of areas set on the setting screen; and

the reference data generating means generates the reference data based on the time point corresponding to the specified position within the any one of the plurality of areas and the position of the body part corresponding to the specified position within the any one of the plurality of areas.

6. The data generation device according to claim 4, wherein:

the time axis indicates the reproduction period of the music track data for each of predetermined beats of the music track data; and

the specification receiving means receives the specification of the time point within the reproduction period of the music track data for each of the predetermined beats.

7. A control method for a data generation device for generating reference data used in a game for evaluating an action of a player performed within a reproduction period of music track data based on the reference data obtained by associating information relating to a reference time point set within the reproduction period of the music track data and information relating to a reference position in which a body part of the player is to be placed at the reference time point, the control method comprising:

an exemplary model data acquiring step of acquiring exemplary model data from means for storing the exemplary model data, the exemplary model data relating to an exemplary model posture of the player at each time point within the reproduction period of the music track data;

a display step of displaying a setting screen for generating the reference data;

a specification receiving step of receiving a specification of a time point within the reproduction period of the music track data through the setting screen;

a display control step of displaying an exemplary model image for showing the exemplary model posture of the player at the specified time point on the setting screen based on the exemplary model data; and

a reference data generating step of generating the reference data based on the specified time point and a position of the body part within the exemplary model posture of the player at the specified time point.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium having recorded thereon a program for causing a computer to function as a data generation device for generating reference data used in a game for evaluating an action of a player performed within a reproduction period of music track data based on the reference data obtained by associating information relating to a reference time point set within the reproduction period of the music track data and information relating to a reference position in which a body part of the player is to be placed at the reference time point, the data generation device comprising:

exemplary model data acquiring means for acquiring exemplary model data from means for storing the exemplary model data, the exemplary model data relating to an exemplary model posture of the player at each time point within the reproduction period of the music track data;

display means for displaying a setting screen for generating the reference data;

specification receiving means for receiving a specification of a time point within the reproduction period of the music track data through the setting screen;

display control means for displaying an exemplary model image for showing the exemplary model posture of the player at the specified time point on the setting screen based on the exemplary model data; and

reference data generating means for generating the reference data based on the specified time point and a position of the body part within the exemplary model posture of the player at the specified time point.