INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS

• US 20140242912A1
• Filed: 08/27/2013
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: IMAMURA, Rina
• Application Number:
  US14/010,974
• Publication Number:
  US 20140242912A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

Predetermined data is transmitted from a first information processing apparatus to an unspecified number of or a plurality of other information processing apparatuses. A second information processing apparatus is capable of detecting a motion applied to the second information processing apparatus itself. When application of the predetermined motion is detected, the second information processing apparatus executes a response process to the predetermined data received from the first information processing apparatus. Thereafter, predetermined processing such as a process for establishing wireless connection is executed between the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus.

Claims

1. An information processing system in which a plurality of information processing apparatuses each including a communicator capable of performing short-range wireless communication directly perform transmission/reception of data with each other via the short-range wireless communication,

the information processing system comprising a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus,

the first information processing apparatus including:

a transmitter configured to transmit predetermined data to an unspecified number of or a plurality of the other information processing apparatuses by using the communicator; and

a first process executor configured to execute predetermined information processing,

the second information processing apparatus including;

a receiver capable of receiving the predetermined data transmitted from the transmitter, by using the communicator;

a motion detector configured to detect a motion applied to the second information processing apparatus;

a second process executor configured to execute predetermined information processing; and

a response process section configured to execute a response process to the predetermined data received from the first information processing apparatus when application of a predetermined motion to the second information processing apparatus is detected by the motion detector,

each of the first process executor and the second process executor executing the predetermined information processing with the other process executor after the response process is completed.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein

the first information processing apparatus further includes the motion detector, and

the transmitter transmits the predetermined data when application of the predetermined motion to the first information processing apparatus is detected by the motion detector of the first information processing apparatus.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined information processing executed between the first process executor and the second process executor is a process for establishing connection of the short-range wireless communication.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein

the first information processing apparatus further includes the motion detector, and

in the information processing system, when the predetermined motion is being detected in both the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus, a process for establishing connection of the short-range wireless communication is executed between the first process executor and the second process executor.

5. The information processing system according to claim 4, wherein the motion detector detects, as the predetermined motion, a motion of a player shaking the information processing apparatus.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein if the predetermined motion is being detected when the receiver receives the predetermined data transmitted from the transmitter, the response process section executes the response process to the predetermined data.

7. The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising a third information processing apparatus capable of executing the same function as that of the first information processing apparatus, wherein

the predetermined information processing is executed among the first information processing apparatus, the second information processing apparatus, and the third information processing apparatus.

8. The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising a fourth information processing apparatus capable of executing the same function as that of the second information processing apparatus, wherein

the predetermined information processing is executed among the first information processing apparatus, the second information processing apparatus, and the fourth information processing apparatus.

9. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein when application of the predetermined motion to the second information processing apparatus is detected by the motion detector, the response process section continues to execute the response process to the predetermined data for a predetermined period of time, regardless of presence/absence of later detection of the predetermined motion.

10. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein when the predetermined motion applied to the second information processing apparatus meets a predetermined condition, the response process section repeatedly executes the response process to the predetermined data, regardless of presence/absence of later detection of the predetermined motion.

11. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein

the first information processing apparatus further includes the motion detector,

the transmitter transmits data for scanning another information processing apparatus when application of the predetermined motion to the first information processing apparatus is detected by the motion detector of the first information processing apparatus, and

the response process section responds to the scanning when application of the predetermined motion is detected by the motion detector of the second information processing apparatus.

12. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein

the first information processing apparatus further includes the motion detector,

the transmitter transmits, to another information processing apparatus, data representing a connection request when application of the predetermined motion to the first information processing apparatus is detected by the motion detector of the first information processing apparatus, and

the response process section responds to the connection request when application of the predetermined motion is detected by the motion detector of the second information processing apparatus.

13. The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising a fifth information processing apparatus capable of executing the same function as that of the first information processing apparatus, wherein

the second information processing apparatus further includes a notifier configured to execute a process for prompting a player of the second information processing apparatus to make the predetermined motion,

the receiver continues a process of receiving the predetermined data even after predetermined processing is started between the first process executor and the second process executor,

the notifier executes the process for prompting to make the predetermined motion when the receiver receives the predetermined data from the fifth information processing apparatus after the predetermined processing is started between the first process executor and the second process executor, and

in the information processing system, when the predetermined motion is detected, the predetermined information processing is executed among the first information processing apparatus, the second information processing apparatus, and the fifth information processing apparatus.

14. A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having stored therein an information processing program executed by a computer of each information processing apparatus of an information processing system which includes at least a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus each including a communicator capable of performing short-range wireless communication and in which transmission/reception of data is performed directly between the information processing apparatuses using the short-range wireless communication, the information processing program causing the computer to operate as:

a transmitter configured to transmit predetermined data from the first information processing apparatus to an unspecified number of or a plurality of the other information processing apparatuses by using the communicator;

a first process executor configured to execute predetermined information processing in the first information processing apparatus;

a receiver configured to receive the predetermined data transmitted from the transmitter, by using the communicator in the second information processing apparatus;

a motion detector configured to detect a motion applied to the second information processing apparatus, by using a predetermined motion sensor;

a second process executor configured to execute predetermined information processing in the second information processing apparatus; and

a response process section configured to execute a response process to the predetermined data received from the first information processing apparatus when application of a predetermined motion to the second information processing apparatus is detected,

each of the first process executor and the second process executor executing the predetermined information processing with the process executor in the other information processing apparatus after the response process is completed.

15. An information processing method for controlling an information processing system which includes at least a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus each including a communicator capable of performing short-range wireless communication and in which transmission/reception of data is performed directly between the information processing apparatuses using the short-range wireless communication, the information processing method comprising the steps of:

the first information processing apparatus transmitting predetermined data to an unspecified number of or a plurality of the other information processing apparatuses by using the communicator;

the first information processing apparatus executing predetermined information processing;

the second information processing apparatus receiving the predetermined data transmitted in the transmitting step, by using the communicator;

the second information processing apparatus detecting a motion applied to the second information processing apparatus itself, by using a predetermined motion sensor;

the second information processing apparatus executing predetermined information processing; and

executing a response process to the predetermined data received from the first information processing apparatus when application of a predetermined motion to the second information processing apparatus is detected,

in each of the executing step of the first information processing apparatus and the executing step of the second information processing apparatus, the predetermined information processing is executed with the other information processing apparatus after the response process is completed.