US 11,766,611 B2Granted

Game device having improved slide-operation-driven user interface

AssigneeGREE, Inc.

InventorsJunko Yamanokuchi, Masato Nozaki

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Abstract

Provided are a program, a control method, and an information processing apparatus which may provide an improved user interface on which a user may easily and efficiently execute various processes on a game content. The information processing apparatus may be caused to execute a game content specifying step of specifying a selected game content on the basis of first input operation data from an operation unit, a step of retrieving information from a storage unit, a step of specifying a direction from a start point to an end point of a second input operation on the basis of second input operation data from an operation unit, and an execution step of executing one process associated with the direction from the start point to the end point of the second input operation in the information from the storage unit on the selected game content.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising program code that, when executed, causes an information processing apparatus including a display unit configured to display a game content, a storage unit configured to store information comprising an association of a process executable on the game content and a particular direction, and an operation unit to execute steps of:

storing, in a storing step, in the storage unit, the association of the process executable on the game content and the particular direction;
following the storing step, receiving, on the operation unit, a first input operation of a user comprising a selection of a game content;
following the first input operation of the user, receiving, on the operation unit, a second input operation of the user including a start point and an end point other than the start point;
determining, based on a position of the start point and a position of the end point, a user input vector between the start point and the end point;
determining, with the operation unit, whether or not to execute the process executable on the game content and the particular direction based on a step of determining whether the user input vector exceeds a trigger threshold, wherein the step of determining whether the user input vector exceeds the trigger threshold comprises at least one of:
determining an angle between the user input vector and the particular direction and determining whether the angle is smaller than a predetermined angle, and determining a length of the user input vector that extends in the particular direction and determining whether the length is larger than a predetermined length;
when the trigger threshold is determined not to have been exceeded by the user input vector, canceling execution of the process executable on the game content;
and
when execution of the process executable on the game content is not canceled, executing the process executable on the game content.

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A control method for a game configured to be executed by an information processing apparatus including a display unit configured to display a game content, a storage unit configured to store information comprising an association of a process executable on the game content and a particular direction, and an operation unit, wherein the control method comprises steps of:

storing, in a storing step, in the storage unit, the association of the process executable on the game content and the particular direction;
following the storing step, receiving, on the operation unit, a first input operation of a user comprising a selection of a game content;
following the first input operation of the user, receiving, on the operation unit, a second input operation of the user including a start point and an end point other than the start point;
determining, based on a position of the start point and a position of the end point, a user input vector between the start point and the end point;
determining, with the operation unit, whether or not to execute the process executable on the game content and the particular direction based on a step of determining whether the user input vector exceeds a trigger threshold, wherein the step of determining whether the user input vector exceeds the trigger threshold comprises at least one of:
determining an angle between the user input vector and the particular direction and determining whether the angle is smaller than a predetermined angle, and determining a length of the user input vector that extends in the particular direction and determining whether the length is larger than a predetermined length;
when the trigger threshold is determined not to have been exceeded by the user input vector, canceling execution of the process executable on the game content;
and
when execution of the process executable on the game content is not canceled, executing the process executable on the game content.

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An information processing apparatus including a display unit configured to display a game content, a storage unit configured to store information comprising an association of a process executable on the game content and a particular direction, and an operation unit, said information processing apparatus configured to execute steps of:

storing, in a storing step, in the storage unit, the association of the process executable on the game content and the particular direction;
following the storing step, receiving, on the operation unit, a first input operation of a user comprising a selection of a game content;
following the first input operation of the user, receiving, on the operation unit, a second input operation of the user including a start point and an end point other than the start point;
determining, based on a position of the start point and a position of the end point, a user input vector between the start point and the end point;
determining, with the operation unit, whether or not to execute the process executable on the game content and the particular direction based on a step of determining whether the user input vector exceeds a trigger threshold, wherein the step of determining whether the user input vector exceeds the trigger threshold comprises at least one of:
determining an angle between the user input vector and the particular direction and determining whether the angle is smaller than a predetermined angle, and determining a length of the user input vector that extends in the particular direction and determining whether the length is larger than a predetermined length;
when the trigger threshold is determined not to have been exceeded by the user input vector, canceling execution of the process executable on the game content;
and
when execution of the process executable on the game content is not canceled, executing the process executable on the game content.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/569,123Filed 5 Jan 2022 · continuation
Priority: JP 2016-19422130 Sep 2016
Published: US 2022/0126204 A128 Apr 2022
Granted: 26 Sep 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

A63F 13/40
Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions: processing input control signals of video game…
A63F 13/25
Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions: output arrangements for video game devices
A63F 13/426
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…:…
A63F 13/52
Controlling the output signals based on the game progress: involving aspects of the displayed game scene

Family

Application15/714,103Parent of this continuation · filed 25 Sep 2017
US 10,391,398 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 25 Sep 2017
Application16/506,169Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Jul 2019
US 2022/0126204 A1Pre-grant publication · published 28 Apr 2022
US 11,253,780 B2Parent of this continuation
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US 2018/0093180 A1Published application
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