VIDEO GAME PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO GAME PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20120322557A1
• Filed: 06/12/2012
• Published: 12/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: TANZAWA, Yuichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,558,797 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/37
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• 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 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/95 Storage media specially adapted for storing game information, e.g. video game cartridges
• 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 video game processing apparatus for controlling progress of a video game by displaying an object on a display screen of a display device is provided. The video game processing apparatus includes a plurality of touch panels respectively provided on a plurality of surfaces of all of surfaces on a housing of the video game processing apparatus. The video game processing apparatus receives a touch operation for any one of the plurality of touch panels, and determines which surface of the housing contains the touch panel for which the touch operation is received. The video game processing apparatus carries out a predetermined representation against the object displayed on the display screen from a side of the determined surface. The predetermined representation includes a representation indicating an attack against the object from the side of the determined surface.

Claims

1. A video game processing apparatus for controlling progress of a video game by displaying an object on a display screen of a display device, the video game processing apparatus comprising:

a plurality of touch panels respectively provided on a plurality of surfaces of all of surfaces on a housing of the video game processing apparatus;

a touch operation receiver for receiving a touch operation for each of the plurality of touch panels;

a touch surface determiner for determining which surface of the housing contains the touch panel for which the touch operation receiver receives the touch operation; and

a representation executor for carrying out a predetermined representation against the object displayed on the display screen from a side of the surface determined by the touch surface determiner on the display screen.

2. The video game processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a touch operation requester for requesting a player to carry out a touch operation to any one touch panel of the plurality of touch panels; and

a correspondence determiner for determining whether the surface in which the touch panel for which the touch operation is requested by the touch operation requester is provided corresponds with the surface determined by the touch surface determiner or not,

wherein the representation executor carries out the predetermined representation in a case where the correspondence determiner determines that the surfaces correspond with each other.

3. The video game processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined representation includes a representation indicating an attack against the object from the side of the surface determined by the touch surface determiner on the display screen.

4. The video game processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the touch panels are provided in at least two surfaces of a front surface, a back surface, a right side surface, a left side surface, an upper surface and a lower surface of the housing.

5. A video game processing program product for causing a video game processing apparatus to control an operation of the video game processing apparatus, the video game processing apparatus controlling progress of a video game by displaying an object on a display screen of a display device, the video game processing program product causing the video game processing apparatus to execute:

receiving a touch operation for a plurality of touch panels, the plurality of touch panels being respectively provided on a plurality of surfaces of all of surfaces of a housing of the video game processing apparatus;

determining which surface of the housing contains the touch panel for which the touch operation is received in the receiving the touch operation; and

carrying out a predetermined representation against the object displayed on the display screen from a side of the surface determined in the determining which surface of the housing on the display screen.