Recording medium, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method

• US 9,047,697 B2
• Filed: 01/04/2013
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Abe, Goro, Hosokawa, Takehiko
• Primary Examiner(s): BROOME, SAID A
• Application Number:
  US13/734,401
• Publication Number:
  US 20130314399A1
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 detector outputting, in time series, attitude data corresponding to attitude, to:

store information relevant to the attitude data outputted by said attitude detector into a storage;

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

detect an operation performed on said operation part an operation time;

acquire information from the storage corresponding to information stored at a given time, which precedes the operation time; and

perform information processing based on the detected operation and the acquired information corresponding to the given time, which precedes the operation time, but not based on information from the storage corresponding to the operation time.

2. The recording medium according to claim 1, causing said information processing apparatus to further:

calculate said attitude in time series in correspondence to the attitude data outputted by said attitude detector; and

store the calculated attitude into the storage.

3. The recording medium according to claim 2, wherein the performed information processing is concerning the three-dimensional virtual space at the time when said given operation was performed.

4. The recording medium according to claim 2, causing said information processing apparatus to further:

calculate an average of the plural pieces of calculated attitude; and

store the calculated average of the attitude into the storage.

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

6. The recording medium according to claim 1, causing said information processing apparatus to further:

generate a two-dimensional image from said three-dimensional virtual space in time series, in correspondence to the attitude data outputted by said attitude detector; and

store the generated two-dimensional image into the storage in time series.

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

the performed information processing is based on the acquired two-dimensional image at the given time.

16. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the performed processing is based on the detected operation and the acquired information corresponding to the given time, which precedes the operation time, but not based on information from the storage corresponding to the operation time, or information stored between the given time and the operation time.

8. 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 attitude calculating part, in correspondence to the attitude data outputted by said attitude output part, calculating said attitude;

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

a generating part, in correspondence to the average of the attitude calculated by said average calculating part, generating a two-dimensional image from said three-dimensional virtual space;

an information storage part storing, in time series, the two-dimensional image generate by said generating 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.

9. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an operation part;

an attitude detector outputting, in time series, attitude data corresponding to attitude; and

at least one processor that is coupled to the operation part and the attitude detector, the at least one processor configured to;

store information relevant to the attitude data outputted by said attitude detector into a storage;

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

detect an operation performed on said operation part at an operation time;

acquire information from the storage, corresponding to information stored at a given time, which precedes the operation time; and

perform information processing based on the detected operation and the acquired information corresponding to the given time, which precedes the operation time, but not based on information from the storage corresponding to the operation time.

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

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

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

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

display a three-dimensional virtual space on said display.

14. An information processing system provided with a processor, a storage, an operation part and an attitude detector outputting attitude data corresponding to attitude in time series, the processor is configured to:

store information relevant to the attitude data outputted by said attitude detector into the storage;

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

detect an operation performed on said operation part at an operation time;

acquire information corresponding to information stored at a given time, which precedes the operation time; and

perform information processing based on the detected operation and the acquired information corresponding to the given time, which precedes the operation time, but not based on information from the storage corresponding to the operation time.

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

storing information relevant to the attitude data outputted by said attitude detector into a storage;

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

detecting an operation performed on said operation part at an operation time;

acquiring information from the storage corresponding to the information stored at a given time, which precedes the operation time; and

performing information processing, on the basis of the detected operation and the acquired information corresponding to the given time, which precedes the operation time, but not based on information from the storage corresponding to the operation time.