RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20130314399A1
• Filed: 01/04/2013
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Abe, Goro, Hosokawa, Takehiko
• Granted Patent: US 9,047,697 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/211 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers or gyroscopes
• 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 2300/1006 having additional degrees of freedom
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/105 using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6045 for mapping control signals received from the input arrangement into game commands
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/005 General purpose rendering architectures

Abstract

An example information processing apparatus includes: an operation part; an attitude output part outputting, in time series, attitude data corresponding to attitude; an information storage part storing, in time series, information relevant to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part; a display processing part, in correspondence to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part, performing processing concerning display of a three-dimensional virtual space; an information acquiring part, from the information stored in time series by said information storage part, acquiring information corresponding to the time preceding by a given period the time that operation was performed on said operation part; and an information processing part, on the basis of the operation performed on said operation part and the information acquired by said information acquiring part, performing information processing.

Claims

1. A non-transitory recording medium storing an information processing program causing

an information processing apparatus provided with an operation part and with an attitude output part outputting, in time series, attitude data corresponding to attitude, to operate as:

an information storage part storing, in time series, information relevant to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part;

a display processing part, in correspondence to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part, performing processing concerning display of a three-dimensional virtual space;

an information acquiring part, from the information stored in time series by said information storage part, acquiring information corresponding to the time preceding by a given period the time that given operation was performed on said operation part; and

an information processing part, on the basis of the operation performed on said operation part and the information acquired by said information acquiring part, performing information processing.

2. The recording medium according to claim 1, causing said information processing apparatus to operate as an attitude calculating part, in correspondence to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part, calculating said attitude, wherein

said information storage part stores the attitude calculated by said attitude calculating part.

3. The recording medium according to claim 2, wherein said information processing part, on the basis of the attitude acquired by said information acquiring part and corresponding to the time preceding by said given period, performs processing concerning the three-dimensional virtual space at the time that said given operation was performed.

4. The recording medium according to claim 2, causing said information processing apparatus to operate as an average calculating part calculating an average of the plural pieces of attitude calculated in time series by said attitude calculating part, wherein

said information storage part stores the average of the attitude calculated by said average calculating part.

5. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein when given operation has been performed on said operation part, on the basis of the information acquired by said information acquiring part, said information processing part performs processing of generating a two-dimensional image from said three-dimensional virtual space.

6. The recording medium according to claim 1, causing said information processing apparatus to operate as a generating part, in correspondence to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part, generating a two-dimensional image from said three-dimensional virtual space, wherein

said information storage part stores in time series the two-dimensional image generated by said generating part.

7. The recording medium according to claim 6, wherein said information acquiring part, when given operation has been performed on said operation part, acquires a two-dimensional image corresponding to the time preceding by said given time, and

said information processing part performs information processing concerning the two-dimensional image acquired by said information acquiring part.

8. The recording medium according to claim 6, causing said information processing apparatus to operate as:

an attitude calculating part, in correspondence to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part, calculating said attitude; and

an average calculating part calculating an average of the plural pieces of attitude calculated in time series by said attitude calculating part, wherein

said generating part, in correspondence to the average of the attitude calculated by said average calculating part, generates a two-dimensional image.

9. An information processing apparatus provided with an operation part and with an attitude output part outputting, in time series, attitude data corresponding to attitude, said apparatus comprising:

an information storage part storing, in time series, information relevant to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part;

a display processing part, in correspondence to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part, performing processing concerning display of a three-dimensional virtual space;

an information acquiring part, from the information stored in time series by said information storage part, acquiring information corresponding to the time preceding by a given period the time that operation was performed on said operation part; and

an information processing part, on the basis of the operation performed on said operation part and the information acquired by said information acquiring part, performing information processing.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said attitude output part outputs an angular velocity measured by a gyro sensor.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said attitude output part outputs an acceleration measured by an acceleration sensor.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said operation part and said attitude output part are provided in one housing.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising a display part provided in said housing, wherein

said display processing part displays a three-dimensional virtual space on said display part.

14. An information processing system provided with an operation part and with an attitude output part outputting, in time series, attitude data corresponding to attitude, said system comprising:

an information storage part storing, in time series, information relevant to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part;

a display processing part, in correspondence to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part, performing processing concerning display of a three-dimensional virtual space;

an information acquiring part, from the information stored in time series by said information storage part, acquiring information corresponding to the time preceding by a given period the time that operation was performed on said operation part; and

an information processing part, on the basis of the operation performed on said operation part and the information acquired by said information acquiring part, performing information processing.

15. An information processing method of performing information processing by using an information processing apparatus provided with an operation part and with an attitude output part outputting, in time series, attitude data corresponding to attitude, said method comprising:

an information storage step of storing, in time series, information relevant to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part;

a display processing step of, in correspondence to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part, performing processing concerning display of a three-dimensional virtual space;

an information acquiring step of, from the information stored in time series at said information storage step, acquiring information corresponding to the time preceding by a given period the time that operation was performed on said operation part; and

an information processing step of, on the basis of the operation performed on said operation part and the information acquired at said information acquiring step, performing information processing.