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US 11,278,793 B2Granted
Game console
AssigneeNintendo Co., Ltd.
InventorsHiroshi Yoshino, Keizo Ohta, Yoshitaka Yasumoto, Kenji Nishida, Kenichi Sugino, Masato Ibuki
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Abstract
A portable, handheld game console includes a main body incorporating a touch-sensitive display screen and a variety of input devices. The input devices can include shoulder buttons located on a peripheral side surface of the main body, as well as input devices located on the main body adjacent the touch-sensitive display screen.
Claims29
A handheld electronic gaming device, comprising:
- a housing having an opening for accommodating a touch-sensitive display screen such that front surfaces of the housing and the display screen are substantially parallel with one another when the display screen is held in the opening, the display screen being controllable by image processing circuitry to cause three-dimensional images to be displayed thereon;
- a protrusion running along at least left and right edges of the opening and extending outwardly from the front surface of the housing in a direction opposite a depth of the opening;
- a directional input to the left of the opening;
- a cross-shaped arrangement of four input buttons to the right of the opening, wherein the directional input and the cross-shaped arrangement of four input buttons are arranged substantially symmetrically with respect to the opening;
- first and second game function buttons horizontally in line with one another, the first and second game function buttons having a combined user-operable surface area smaller than that of the cross-shaped arrangement of four input buttons;
- a left shoulder button and a right shoulder button that are symmetrical with respect to the housing, the left and right shoulder buttons protruding outwardly from the housing and generally following contours at upper front corners thereof;
- a power port on a side edge surface of the housing, the side edge surface being substantially perpendicular to the front surface of the housing;
- at least one speaker port located towards at least one of the left and right sides of the opening;
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- at least one status indicator located on the front surface of the housing towards a peripheral edge thereof.
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A handheld electronic gaming device, comprising:
- a housing having a central area for accommodating a touch-sensitive display screen such that front surfaces of the housing and the display screen are substantially parallel with one another when the display screen is accommodated in the housing in the central area;
- a protrusion running along at least left and right edges, and top and bottom edge portions, of the central area and extending outwardly from the front surface of the housing in a direction opposite a depth of the central area;
- a directional input to the left of the central area;
- a cross-shaped arrangement of four input buttons to the right of the central area, wherein the directional input and the cross-shaped arrangement of four input buttons are arranged substantially symmetrically with respect to the central area;
- first and second game function buttons horizontally in line with one another, the first and second game function buttons having a combined user-operable surface area smaller than that of the cross-shaped arrangement of four input buttons;
- a left shoulder button and a right shoulder button that are symmetrical with respect to the housing;
- a power port on a side edge surface of the housing, the side edge surface being substantially perpendicular to the front surface of the housing;
- at least one speaker port located towards at least one of the left and right sides of the central area;
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- at least one status indicator located on the front surface of the housing towards a peripheral edge thereof,
- wherein the at least one speaker port, the directional input, and the cross-shaped arrangement of four input buttons are located such that when the user holds the gaming device with both hands in order to operate the directional input and the cross-shaped arrangement of four input buttons, the user's hands are not positioned in front of the at least one speaker port.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.