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US 6,585,594 B2Granted
Storage medium storing display control program, entertainment apparatus, and display control program
AssigneeSony Computer Entertainment Inc.
InventorsMitsuhiro Togo, Kazuhito Miyaki
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Abstract
Displaying of display data generated by an application onto a display device can immediately be customized. A display control section 803 treats game field data passed from a game processing section 802 as texture data, and deforms the data in accordance with a registered value on a management TB 804 and a player's instruction input via a manipulation receiving section 801. Then, the display control section 803 outputs the data onto a display device. When the player's instruction is not input, the data is deformed on the basis of only the registered value on the management TB 804 and the date is output onto the display device.
Claims8
A storage medium storing a display control program for controlling displaying of display data passed from an application program running on a computer,
- wherein said display control program is read and executed by said computer to build the following means on said computer:
- first means for receiving an assignment of a deformation ratio of an image represented by said display data from a manipulator via a manipulation device;
- and
- second means for processing said display data in accordance with the deformation ratio assigned by said first means and for displaying the display data onto a display screen of said display device;
- wherein said first means receives an assignment of the deformation ratio relating to a ratio of the lengths of right/left sides of the image represented by said display data and a magnification of the lengths of upper/lower sides of the image, or relating to a ratio of the lengths of the upper/lower sides of the image and a magnification of the lengths of the right/left sides of the image, as the assignment of the deformation ratio of the image represented by said display data, and
- said second means treats said display data as texture data, deforms the ratio of the lengths of right/left sides of the image represented by the display data and the magnification of the lengths of upper/lower sides of the image, or deforms the ratio of the lengths of the upper/lower sides of the image and the magnification of the lengths of the right/left sides of the image, in accordance with the deformation ratio assigned by said first means, and displays the display data onto the display screen of said display device.
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An entertainment apparatus for displaying display data onto a display device, comprising:
- assignment receiving means for receiving an assignment of a deformation ratio of an image represented by said display data from a manipulator via a manipulation device;
- and
- display control means for processing said display data in accordance with the deformation ratio assigned by said assignment receiving means and for displaying the display data onto a display screen of the display device;
- wherein said entertainment apparatus changes a game image to be displayed on said display device in accordance with selection contents by the manipulator received via said manipulation device,
- said assignment receiving means receives an assignment of a deformation ratio relating to a ratio of the lengths of right/left sides of said game image and a magnification of the lengths of upper/lower sides of the game image, or relating to a ratio of the lengths of the upper/lower sides of the game image and a magnification of the lengths of the right/left sides of the game image, as the assignment of the deformation ratio of the image represented by said display data, and
- said display control means treats said display data as texture data, deforms the ratio of the lengths of right/left sides of said game image and the magnification of the lengths of upper/lower sides of said game image, or deforms the ratio of the lengths of the upper/lower sides of said game image and the magnification of the lengths of the right/left sides of said game image, in accordance with the deformation ratio assigned by said assignment receiving means, and displays the display data onto the display screen of said display device.
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A display control program for controlling displaying of display data passed from an application program running on a computer,
- wherein said display control program is stored in a storage device, and is read and executed by the computer to build the following means on said computer:
- first means for receiving an assignment of a deformation ratio of an image represented by said display data from a manipulator via a manipulation device;
- and
- second means for processing said display data in accordance with the deformation ratio assigned by said first means and for displaying the display data onto a display screen of said display device;
- wherein said first means receives the assignment of a deformation ratio relating to a ratio of the lengths of right/left sides of the image represented by said display data and a magnification of the lengths of upper/lower sides of the image, or relating to a ratio of the lengths of the upper/lower sides of the image and a magnification of the lengths of the right/left sides of the image, as the assignment of the deformation ratio of the image represented by said display data, and
- said second means treats said display data as texture data, deforms the ratio of the lengths of right/left sides of the image represented by said display data and the magnification of the lengths of upper/lower sides of the image, or deforms the ratio of the lengths of the upper/lower sides of the image and the magnification of the lengths of the right/left sides of the image, in accordance with the deformation ratio assigned by said first means, and displays the display data onto the display screen of said display device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.