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Character image display control method and apparatus, and storage medium therefor

  • US 6,798,426 B1
  • Filed: 04/06/1999
  • Issued: 09/28/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/07/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In an apparatus which displays a character image with expression on a display unit and performs a subsequent display process after receiving a command input from a player in response to an input selection request with respect to the character image being displayed, a display control method comprising the steps of:

  • counting, upon every occurrence of the input selection request, an elapsed time after the occurrence of the input selection request in a state invisible to the player; and

    changing, unless the command input is given by the player until a time point when said elapsed time reaches the end of an idle time associated with said character image, the expression of said character image being displayed on the display unit, and repeating the input selection request with the changed expression of said character image.

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