US 10,441,890 B2 · Game apparatus

Abstract

A game apparatus is provided which has a convenience where another function, such as photo taken by a camera, can be used while playing a game by causing a game program and another program to work together. The game apparatus increases interest of the game by relating a result of execution of the other program to the contents of the game. For example, when a camera icon displayed on a display is selected by an operation of a touch panel, a program for controlling a camera function launches, and an image can be captured at an arbitrary timing. The captured image is converted according to a predetermined condition. The converted image is displayed on a display screen and image data is stored in a flash memory.

Claims6

Dependent claims

An apparatus, comprising:

a camera function;
a memory that stores a first program and a second program;
a central processor that:
identifies a predetermined area from first image data, which is obtained by using the camera function, by executing the second program while the first program is being executed;
and
generates second image data which is changed from an image included in the identified predetermined area to a predetermined image;
and
a graphics processor that displays the second image data on a display screen,
wherein the second image data is displayed on the display screen by the graphics processor in response to an object, for browsing the second image data, being selected by a user while the first program is being executed.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/026,679Filed 3 Jul 2018 · continuation

Priority

JP 2012-00813618 Jan 2012

Published

US 2018/0318717 A18 Nov 2018

Granted

15 Oct 2019

Term ends

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Classification15 codes

A63F 13/77
Game security or game management aspects: involving data related to game devices or game servers, e.g. configuration data, software version or…
A63F 13/00
Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or
A63F 13/52
Controlling the output signals based on the game progress: involving aspects of the displayed game scene
A63F 13/53
Controlling the output signals based on the game progress: involving additional visual information provided to the game scene, e.g. by overlay to…

Family

Application13/688,506Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Nov 2012

Application15/615,008Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Jun 2017

US 9,700,800 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Jul 2017

US 2018/0318717 A1Pre-grant publication · published 8 Nov 2018

US 10,039,986 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2013/0184074 A1Published application

US 2017/0266561 A1Published application

US 10,441,890 B2This patent

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