STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN GAME PROGRAM, GAME APPARATUS, GAME SYSTEM, AND GAME PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20140206445A1
• Filed: 06/06/2013
• Published: 07/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: ABE, Goro
• Granted Patent: US 9,174,135 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/31
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/26 having at least one additional display device, e.g. on the game controller or outside a game booth
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/5252 using two or more virtual cameras concurrently or sequentially, e.g. automatically switching between fixed virtual cameras when a character changes room or displaying a rear-mirror view in a car-driving game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8011 Ball

Abstract

An input is acquired, and in accordance with the input, a sequence of game processing from beginning a predetermined game to obtaining a result of the game is performed. Then, a game image corresponding to the game processing from the beginning of the game to a state of the game still in progress is displayed on the portable display apparatus. A game image corresponding to at least part of the game processing from the beginning of the game to the state of the game still in progress is redisplayed on another display apparatus, and thereafter, a game image corresponding to the game processing until the obtaining of the result of the game is displayed on the other display apparatus.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a game program to be executed by a computer of an apparatus for causing an image to be displayed on each of a portable display apparatus and another display apparatus, the game program causing the computer to execute:

acquiring an input;

performing, in accordance with the input, a sequence of game processing from beginning a predetermined game to obtaining a result of the game;

displaying on the portable display apparatus a game image corresponding to the game processing from the beginning of the game to a state of the game still in progress; and

redisplaying on the other display apparatus a game image corresponding to at least part of the game processing from the beginning of the game to the state of the game still in progress, and thereafter displaying on the other display apparatus a game image corresponding to the game processing until the obtaining of the result of the game.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein the game program according to claim 1, wherein

in the display on the other display apparatus, after the game image corresponding to the game processing from the beginning of the game to the state of the game still in progress is displayed in the display on the portable display apparatus, the game image corresponding to the at least part of the game processing from the beginning of the game to the state of the game still in progress is redisplayed on the other display apparatus.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein the game program according to claim 1, wherein

in the display on the portable display apparatus, after the game image corresponding to the game processing from the beginning of the game to the state of the game still in progress is displayed, a visibility of an image to be displayed on the portable display apparatus is reduced.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein the game program according to claim 3, wherein

in the display on the portable display apparatus, the visibility of the image to be displayed on the portable display apparatus is reduced by reducing a brightness of the image.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein the game program according to claim 3, wherein

in the display on the portable display apparatus, the visibility of the image to be displayed on the portable display apparatus is reduced by hiding the image.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein the game program according to claim 1, wherein

in the display on the portable display apparatus, after the game image corresponding to the game processing from the beginning of the game to the state of the game still in progress is displayed, a stopped image is displayed on the portable display apparatus, the stopped image obtained by stopping progression of the game at the time of the state of the game still in progress.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein the game program according to claim 1, wherein

in the performance of the sequence of the game processing, the sequence of the game processing is performed in accordance with the input acquired from the beginning of the game to a predetermined time before the result of the game is obtained;

and

in the display on the portable display apparatus, a game image corresponding to the game processing from the beginning of the game to the predetermined time is displayed on the portable display apparatus.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein the game program according to claim 1, wherein

in the display on the other display apparatus, a game image is displayed on the other display apparatus, the game image obtained by viewing a virtual world from a direction different from a direction from which the game image displayed in the display on the portable display apparatus is viewed.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein the game program according to claim 1, wherein

in the display on the other display apparatus, while the game image corresponding to the game processing from the beginning of the game to the state of the game still in progress is displayed in the display on the portable display apparatus, a game image is displayed on the other display apparatus, the game image including a location where the result of the game is represented.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein the game program according to claim 8, wherein

in the display on the portable display apparatus, a game image is displayed on the portable display apparatus, the game image obtained by changing a viewpoint of the game image with a direction of a line of sight of the game image fixed until the state of the game still in progress.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein the game program according to claim 1, wherein

the other display apparatus is a stationary display apparatus.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein the game program according to claim 1, wherein

in the acquisition of the input, an input using the portable display apparatus is acquired.

13. A game apparatus for causing an image to be displayed on each of a portable display apparatus and another display apparatus, the game apparatus comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire an input;

a game processing unit configured to perform, in accordance with the input, a sequence of game processing from beginning a predetermined game to obtaining a result of the game;

a first game image display control unit configured to display on the portable display apparatus a game image corresponding to the game processing from the beginning of the game to a state of the game still in progress; and

a second game image display control unit configured to redisplay on the other display apparatus a game image corresponding to at least part of the game processing from the beginning of the game to the state of the game still in progress, and thereafter displaying on the other display apparatus a game image corresponding to the game processing until the obtaining of the result of the game.

14. A game system, including a plurality of apparatuses configured to communicate with each other, for causing an image to be displayed on each of a portable display apparatus and another display apparatus, the game system comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire an input;

a game processing unit configured to perform, in accordance with the input, a sequence of game processing from beginning a predetermined game to obtaining a result of the game;

a first game image display control unit configured to display on the portable display apparatus a game image corresponding to the game processing from the beginning of the game to a state of the game still in progress; and

a second game image display control unit configured to redisplay on the other display apparatus a game image corresponding to at least part of the game processing from the beginning of the game to the state of the game still in progress, and thereafter displaying on the other display apparatus a game image corresponding to the game processing until the obtaining of the result of the game.

15. A game processing method to be executed by a processor or a cooperation of a plurality of processors, the processor and the plurality of processors contained in a system including at least one apparatus for causing an image to be displayed on each of a portable display apparatus and another display apparatus, the game processing method comprising:

acquiring an input;

performing, in accordance with the input, a sequence of game processing from beginning a predetermined game to obtaining a result of the game;

displaying on the portable display apparatus a game image corresponding to the game processing from the beginning of the game to a state of the game still in progress; and

redisplaying on the other display apparatus a game image corresponding to at least part of the game processing from the beginning of the game to the state of the game still in progress, and thereafter displaying on the other display apparatus a game image corresponding to the game processing until the obtaining of the result of the game.