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US 7,140,962 B2Granted
Video game apparatus, image processing method and program
AssigneeKonami Corporation
InventorsNobuya Okuda, Masayuki Ohashi, Shigenobu Matsuyama
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AssigneeKonami Corporation
InventorsNobuya Okuda, Masayuki Ohashi, Shigenobu Matsuyama
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It is an object of the present invention to increase the game operability, and to increase the feeling of pressure and feeling of actual presence on the scene, by making it possible to display partial enlarged images of the scope displays or each of a plurality of players in a manner that allows mutual influence on the screen on which the game images are displayed. The apparatus of the present invention is a video game apparatus in which the game is caused to proceed by shooting with four imitation guns 30 from the front surface of a display part 11 on which game images are displayed; in this apparatus, respective enlarged images are created and displayed from an infrared camera 40 that can detect in a discriminating manner respective light spots on the screen from the laser light emitters 32 of the respective imitation guns 30, and positional data of the images displayed in regions that include the light spots corresponding to partial regions that include the respective light spots on the screen of the display part 11.
A video game apparatus which displays game images on a monitor screen and allows play by a plurality of players, said video game apparatus comprising:
A recording medium which stores a program which is installed in a computer that is connected to a monitor and a plurality of operating input devices, and which is used to realize a game apparatus that displays game images on the screen of said monitor, and that allows play by a plurality of players via said operating input devices, wherein said plurality of operating input devices are caused to function as position designating means that respectively designate desired positions on said game images, and said computer is caused to function as position detection means that detect said positions designated by each of said operating input devices, and as enlarged image display means that produce enlarged images corresponding to enlarged images of images in specified regions including said positions detected by said position detection means, and that display said enlarged images in accordance with the mutual relationships of said respective positions so that said designated positions within the screen of said monitor are included.
An image processing method which displays game images on a monitor screen, the method comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.