# US 9,751,013 B2 · Storage medium, information processing system, and information processing method for adjusting images based on movement information

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- Number: US 9,751,013 B2
- Document ID: US9751013B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 12/827,172
- Filed: 2010-06-30
- Published: 2011-07-14
- Granted: 2017-09-05
- Earliest claimed: 2010-01-08
- Assignees: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Kazuhiro Yoshikawa; Hitoshi Yamagami; Toshio Noguchi
- Inventors: Kazuhiro Yoshikawa; Hitoshi Yamagami; Toshio Noguchi
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9751013B2

## CPC

- A63F 13/428: involving motion or position input signals, e.g. signals representing the rotation of an input controller or a player's arm motions sensed by accelerometers or gyroscopes
- A63F 13/5255: according to dedicated instructions from a player, e.g. using a secondary joystick to rotate the camera around a player's character
- G09G 5/391: Resolution modifying circuits, e.g. variable screen formats
- A63F 13/211: using inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers or gyroscopes
- A63F 13/44: involving timing of operations, e.g. performing an action within a time slot
- A63F 13/5375: for graphically or textually suggesting an action, e.g. by displaying an arrow indicating a turn in a driving game
- A63F 13/837: Shooting of targets
- A63F 2300/306: for displaying a marker associated to an object or location in the game field
- A63F 2300/6045: for mapping control signals received from the input arrangement into game commands
- A63F 2300/6676: by dedicated player input
- G06F 3/016: {Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user}
- G06F 3/0346: with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a three-dimensional [3D] space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
- G06F 3/038: Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
- G06F 2203/04806: Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
- G09G 2320/0261: in the context of movement of objects on the screen or movement of the observer relative to the screen
- G09G 2354/00: Aspects of interface with display user
- A63F: CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00)
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

## Abstract

First, movement information that allows calculation of a movement of a first input device is sequentially obtained. During a time period in which at least one operation key is in a predetermined input state, a display image is enlarged or reduced in accordance with a change of the movement information. When it is determined that the predetermined input state is canceled, the enlarged or reduced display image is caused to return to its original magnification and an action of at least one first object in the display image is controlled.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an information processing program to be executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus that comprises a first input device having at least one operation key, the information processing program comprising instructions that cause the computer to:
display an image on a display device at a first magnification;
determine an input state of the at least one operation key;
obtain movement information of the first input device;
enlarge or reduce the displayed image from the first magnification to a second magnification that is different from the first magnification in accordance with a change of the obtained movement information during a time period in which the at least one operation key is determined to be in a predetermined input state;
cause the enlarged or reduced displayed image that is being displayed at the second magnification to return to the first magnification in accordance with cancelation of the predetermined input state of the at least one operation key;
measure the time period in which the at least one operation key is determined to continuously be in the predetermined input state;
determine whether or not the time period is equal to or greater than a first threshold value, and
when it is determined that the predetermined input state is canceled and when it is determined that the time period is equal to or greater than the first threshold value, cause the enlarged or reduced displayed image to return to the first magnification and
control an action of at least one first object that is included in the displayed image.

### Claim 2

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an information processing program to be executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus that comprises a first input device having at least one operation key, the information processing program comprising instructions that cause the computer to:
display an image on a display device at a first magnification;
determine an input state of the at least one operation key;
obtain movement information of the first input device;
enlarge or reduce the displayed image from the first magnification to a second magnification that is different from the first magnification in accordance with a change of the obtained movement information during a time period in which the at least one operation key is determined to be in a predetermined input state;
cause the enlarged or reduced displayed image that is being displayed at the second magnification to return to the first magnification in accordance with cancelation of the predetermined input state of the at least one operation key;
control an action of at least one first object that is included in the displayed image; and
measure the time period in which the at least one operation key is determined to continuously be in the predetermined input state, the displayed image is enlarged or reduced to the second magnification at a rate in accordance with the time period.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the information processing program further causes the computer to:
calculate, based on the movement information, a moving amount at least in a predetermined direction of a movement of the first input device since a time point when the at least one operation key has entered the predetermined input state, the time period has an upper limit value, the upper limit value is determined so as to increase in accordance with an increase of the moving amount, and
when the time period exceeds the upper limit value, the time period is set at the upper limit value.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein when the moving amount is reduced and the time period has exceeded the upper limit value corresponding to the reduced moving amount, the time period is set at the upper limit value corresponding to the reduced moving amount.

### Claim 5 (depends on 2)

The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the information processing program further causes the computer to:
determine, based on the time period, a moving speed of the at least one first object, and
control, at the moving speed, a movement of the at least one first object.

### Claim 6

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an information processing program to be executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus that comprises a first input device having at least one operation key, the information processing program comprising instructions that cause the computer to:
display an image on a display device at a first magnification;
determine an input state of the at least one operation key;
obtain movement information of the first input device;
enlarge or reduce the displayed image from the first magnification to a second magnification that is different from the first magnification in accordance with a change of the obtained movement information during a time period in which the at least one operation key is determined to be in a predetermined input state;
cause the enlarged or reduced displayed image that is being displayed at the second magnification to return to the first magnification in accordance with cancelation of the predetermined input state of the at least one operation key;
calculate, based on the movement information, a moving amount at least in a predetermined direction of a movement of the first input device since a time point when the at least one operation key has entered the predetermined input state;
determine whether or not the moving amount is equal to or greater than a second threshold value, and
when it is determined that the predetermined input state is canceled and when it is determined that the moving amount is equal to or greater than the second threshold value, cause the enlarged or reduced displayed image to return to the first magnification and
control an action of at least one first object that is included in the displayed image.

### Claim 7

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an information processing program to be executed by a processing system of a game apparatus that comprises a first input device having at least one operation key and that
generates a game image, the information processing program including instructions that are, when executed by the processing system, configured to cause the game apparatus to: display the game image at a first magnification; determine an input state of the at least one operation key; obtain movement information of the first input device;
enlarge or reduce the game image from the first magnification to a second and different magnification in accordance with a change of the movement information during a time period in which the at least one operation key is determined to be in a predetermined input state;
cause the enlarged or reduced game image that is displayed at the second magnification to return to the first magnification of the game image in accordance with cancelation of the predetermined input state of the at least one operation key;
control a shooting of at least one arrow object in the game image;
measure the time period in which the at least one operation key is determined to continuously be in a predetermined input state; and
determine whether or not the time period is equal to or greater than a first threshold value, and
cause the enlarged or reduced game image to return to the first magnification of in accordance with determination that the predetermined input state is canceled and when the time period is equal to or greater than the first threshold value.