Storage medium storing load detecting program and load detecting apparatus

• US 20090094442A1
• Filed: 09/08/2008
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Okamoto, Motoi, Kasamatsu, Shigehiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,905,844 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 712/225
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/214 for locating contacts on a surface, e.g. floor mats or touch pads
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/218 using pressure sensors, e.g. generating a signal proportional to the pressure applied by the player
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/24 Constructional details thereof, e.g. game controllers with detachable joystick handles
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/42 by mapping the input signals into game commands, e.g. mapping the displacement of a stylus on a touch screen to the steering angle of a virtual vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/44 involving timing of operations, e.g. performing an action within a time slot
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/525 Changing parameters of virtual cameras
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/5375 for graphically or textually suggesting an action, e.g. by displaying an arrow indicating a turn in a driving game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/65 automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1043 being characterized by constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1068 being specially adapted to detect the point of contact of the player on a surface, e.g. floor mat, touch pad
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/305 for providing a graphical or textual hint to the player
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6045 for mapping control signals received from the input arrangement into game commands
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/638 according to the timing of operation or a time limit
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6661 for changing the position of the virtual camera
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/69 Involving elements of the real world in the game world, e.g. measurement in live races, real video

Abstract

A load detecting apparatus includes a load controller, and judges a motion of a player on the basis of detected load values. Judgment timing for a motion of putting the feet on and down from the controller is decided on the basis of an elapsed time from an instruction of a motion. In a case that a step-up-and-down exercise is performed, a judgment timing of a motion for bringing about a state both of the feet are put down on a ground at a fourth step is decided on the basis of a judgment timing of a motion of putting a third step down.

Claims

1. A storage medium storing a load detecting program to be executed by a computer of a load detecting apparatus having a support board allowing a player to put the feet on, wherein

said load detecting program causes said computer to execute:

a load value detecting step for detecting a load value put on said support board;

a motion instructing step for instructing said player to perform a first motion;

an elapsed time counting step for counting an elapsed time from when said motion instructing step gives an instruction of said first motion;

a judgment timing deciding step for deciding whether or not a first motion judgment timing has come on the basis of said elapsed time, and

a first motion determining step for determining whether or not said first motion is performed on the basis of the load value detected by said load value detecting step when said judgment timing deciding step decides said judgment timing has come.

2. A storage medium storing a load detecting program according to claim 1, wherein said load detecting program causes said computer to further execute a load determining step for determining whether or not the load value detected by said load value detecting step becomes a predetermined state,

said motion instructing step instructs said player to perform a second motion,

said elapsed time counting step counts an elapsed time from when said instruction of the second motion is given, and

said judgment timing deciding step decides that said first motion judgment timing has come when the elapsed time from the instruction of said first motion reaches the elapsed time from when the instruction of said second motion is given to when said load determining step determines that the load value becomes the predetermined state.

3. A storage medium storing a load detecting program according to claim 2, wherein

said judgment timing deciding step decides that said first motion judgment timing has come in a case that said load determining step does not determine that the load value becomes the predetermined state from the instruction of said second motion, when the elapsed time from the instruction of said first motion becomes a predetermined time.

4. A storage medium storing a load detecting program according to claim 2, wherein

said first motion is a motion, from a state that one foot of said player is put on said support board and the other foot is put on a ground, of putting said one foot down from said support board, and said second motion is a motion of putting only one foot down from said support board from a state that said player rides on said support board.

5. A storage medium storing a load detecting program according to claim 1, wherein said load detecting program causes said computer to further execute a notifying step for notifying the player that said first motion is performed when said first motion determining step determines that said first motion is performed.

6. A load detecting apparatus having a support board allowing a player to put the feet on, comprising:

a load value detecting means for detecting a load value put on said support board;

a motion instructing means for instructing said player to perform a first motion;

an elapsed time counting means for counting an elapsed time from when said motion instructing means gives an instruction of said first motion;

a judgment timing deciding means for deciding whether or not a first motion judgment timing has come on the basis of said elapsed time; and

a first motion determining means for determining whether or not said first motion is performed on the basis of the load value detected by said load value detecting means when said judgment timing deciding means decides said judgment timing has come.