Game system with musical waveform storage

• US 6,527,639 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2000
• Issued: 03/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Konami Corporation
• Inventors: Suzuki, Hideyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): ONEILL, MICHAEL W
• Application Number:
  US09/740,197
• Publication Number:
  US 20010007829A1
• Time in Patent Office: 806 Days
• Field of Search: 463/35, 463/30, 463/43, 463/44, 273/148.B, 434/307, 434/308, 381/17, 381/18, 846/09--14
• US Class Current: 463/35
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/54 involving acoustic signals, e.g. for simulating revolutions per minute [RPM] dependent engine sounds in a driving game or reverberation against a virtual wall
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6063 for sound processing
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 15/04 Sound-producing devices G10K15/02 takes precedence

Abstract

A game system includes: a waveform data storage device for storing waveform data of waveform pattern indicating tone varying in time-series; a game controller for executing a game based on a game program and for repeatedly reading out the waveform data from the waveform data storage device and outputting the read-out waveform data; and a music reproducing device for reproducing the waveform data outputted by the game controller as music. The game controller including a waveform data switching device for reading out, every time a predetermined time period passes, a waveform data having a different waveform pattern from the waveform data storage device, instead of the waveform data read out immediately before the predetermined time period passes.

Claims

1. A game system comprising:

a waveform data storage device for storing waveform data of waveform pattern indicating tone varying in time-series;

a game controller for executing a game based on a game program and for repeatedly reading out the waveform data from the waveform data storage device and outputting the read-out waveform data; and

a music reproducing device for reproducing the waveform data outputted by the game controller as music,

wherein the game controller comprising a waveform data switching device for reading out, every time a predetermined time period passes, a waveform data having a different waveform pattern from the waveform data storage device, instead of the waveform data read out immediately before the predetermined time period passes.

2. A game system according to claim 1, wherein the waveform switching device reads out the waveform data from the waveform data storage device such that tone of music to be reproduced continuously changes.

3. A game system according to claim 1, wherein the waveform data switching device reads out the waveform data from the waveform data storage device such that the waveform pattern continuously changes.

4. A game system according to claim 1, wherein the game system is a small-size portable game system.

5. A computer readable storage medium carrying a game program which executes a game and repeatedly reads out waveform data of waveform pattern indicating tone varying in time-series, the program controls a game apparatus to perform as a means for reading out, every time a predetermined time period passes, a waveform data having a different waveform pattern, instead of the waveform data read out immediately before the predetermined time period passes.