Method for displaying a reproduced image of a game

• US 6,398,647 B1
• Filed: 04/06/1999
• Issued: 06/04/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sega Enterprises LTD. (SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sega Enterprises LTD. (SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc.)
• Inventors: Hirai, Susumu, Sugahara, Masaru
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MOSSER, KATHLEEN MICHELE
• Application Number:
  US09/194,786
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• Field of Search: 463/1-7, 463/31, 463/34, 463/36, 463/24, 463/29, 345/473, 345/474, 345/958, 345/959
• US Class Current: 463/31
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/497 Partially or entirely replaying previous game actions
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/53 involving additional visual information provided to the game scene, e.g. by overlay to simulate a head-up display [HUD] or displaying a laser sight in a shooting game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/812 Ball games, e.g. soccer or baseball
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/88 Mini-games executed independently while main games are being loaded
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1062 being specially adapted to a type of game, e.g. steering wheel
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/303 for displaying additional data, e.g. simulating a Head Up Display
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/307 for displaying an additional window with a view from the top of the game field, e.g. radar screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6036 for offering a minigame in combination with a main game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/634 for replaying partially or entirely the game actions since the beginning of the game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/636 involving process of starting or resuming a game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/64 for computing dynamical parameters of game objects, e.g. motion determination or computation of frictional forces for a virtual car
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8011 Ball

Abstract

When a replay condition is established in advance of a game, a reproduced image which replays a specific scene in the advance of the game is displayed. In displaying the reproduced image, a parameter in the specific scene in the advance of the game is corrected for replay, and the specific scene is reproduced based on the corrected parameter. When the game display is resumed, a stored parameter is read. Suitable replay images can be displayed.

Claims

1. A game image display method for displaying an image to relay a specific scene in an advancing game, comprising:

receiving an input from a game player;

displaying a game image;

correcting a parameter of a motion of a mobile object on a specific scene of said image, the specific scene including a scene on which it is judged that a first object impinges on a second object; and

reproducing the specific scene based on the corrected parameter such that a position of the first object agrees with a position of the second object on said scene.

2. A game image display method according to claim 1, further comprising:

replaying said image in slow motion on the specific scene.

3. A game image display method according to claim 2, wherein said acts of judging and reproducing further comprise:

judging on the specific scene that the first objects impinges on the second object when a distance between the first and the second objects is within a prescribed range; and

changing a positional parameter of the first object and/or the second object so that a position of the first object agrees with a position of the second object in the reproduced display on the specific scene.

4. A game display method according to claim 1, wherein on the specific scene a first object impinges on a second object further comprising:

judging on the specific scene that the first object impinges on the second object when a distance between the first and the second objects is within a prescribed range; and

changing a positional parameter of the first object and/or the second object so that a position of the first object agrees with a position of the second object in the reproduced display on the specific scene.

5. A storage medium storing a program for executing an image replay method, said method comprising:

receiving an input from a game player;

displaying a game image;

correcting a parameter of a motion of a mobile object on a specific scene of said image, the specific scene including a scene on which it is judged that a first object impinges on a second object; and

reproducing the specific scene based on the corrected parameter such that a position of the first object agrees with a position of the second object on said scene.

6. A storage medium according to claim 5 wherein said method further comprises:

replaying said image in slow motion on the specific scene.

7. A storage medium according to claim 5 wherein said method further comprises:

judging on the specific scene that the first object impinges on the second object when a distance between the first and the second objects is within a prescribed range; and

changing a positional parameter of the first object and/or the second object so that a position of the first object agrees with a position of the second object in the reproduced display on the specific scene.