Loading patent…
AssigneeNintendo Co., Ltd.
InventorsRyuichi Nakada, Takeshi Ando, Masayuki Taira
Estimating the term…
A game apparatus includes a camera cartridge, and detects a plurality of feature points from a facial image of a user photographed by the camera cartridge. The game apparatus calculates areas of black eye regions of a left eye and a right eye by utilizing the plurality of feature points. Then, the game apparatus detects whether or not any one of the left eye and the right eye is closed on the basis of the calculated areas. The game apparatus executes game processing according to the detection result.
A non-transitory storage medium storing an information processing program executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus having a photographing element, and capturing a facial image of a user by said photographing element,
An information processing apparatus having a photographing element, and capturing a facial image of a user by said photographing element, said information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor configured to:
An information processing method of an information processing apparatus having a photographing element and capturing a facial image of a user by said photographing element, said information processing method comprising:
A game system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
Drawings are temporarily unavailable. Open the PDF at USPTO
From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.
Characterised by their sensors, purposes or types: comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells
Automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition: by importing photos, e.g. of the player
Eye characteristics, e.g. of the iris: preprocessing; Feature extraction
Comprising photodetecting means, e.g. a camera: using visible light
About 3 years 8 months of term left · ends 29 Jun 2030 (estimated)
The disclosure of Japanese Patent Application No. 2007-164483 is incorporated herein by reference.
1. Field of the Technology
The technology presented herein relates to a storage medium storing an information processing program, an information processing apparatus and an information processing method. More specifically, the present technology relates to a storage medium storing an information processing program, an information processing apparatus and an information processing method having a photographing means, and acquiring a facial image of a user by the photographing means.
FIG. 1 is an illustrative view showing one embodiment of a game apparatus;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electric configuration of the game apparatus shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an illustrative view showing an example of use of the game apparatus shown in FIG. 1;
Referring to FIG. 1, a game apparatus 10 of one embodiment includes a first liquid crystal display (LCD) 12 and a second LCD 14. The LCD 12 and the LCD 14 are provided on a housing 16 so as to be arranged in predetermined positions. In this embodiment, the housing 16 comprises an upper housing 16a and a lower housing 16b, and the LCD 12 is provided on the upper housing 16a while the LCD 14 is provided on the lower housing 16b. Accordingly, the LCD 12 and the LCD 14 are closely arranged so as to be longitudinally (vertically) parallel with each other.
In addition, although an LCD is utilized as a display in this embodiment, an EL (Electronic Luminescence) display, a plasmatic display, etc. may be used in place of the LCD.
As can be understood from FIG. 1, the upper housing 16a has a plane shape little larger than a plane shape of the LCD 12, and has an opening formed so as to expose a display surface of the LCD 12 from one main surface thereof. On the other hand, the lower housing 16b has a plane shape horizontally longer than the upper housing 16a, and has an opening formed so as to expose a display surface of the LCD 14 at an approximately center of the horizontal direction. Also, on the lower housing 16b, a power switch 18 is provided at the left of the LCD 14.