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2002-09-18

2010-06-15

Vo, Peter DungBa (Department: 3714)

Amusement devices: games

Including means for processing electronic data

In a race game

C463S023000, C463S030000, C463S032000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07736220

ABSTRACT:
An object of the present invention is to impose a penalty on a player, without causing a sudden deceleration, when a moving body moving on a course formed in a virtual space contacts a sidewall at the edge of the course. To achieve this object, assume that a vehicle running on a course formed in a virtual space has contacted a sidewall at point A which corresponds to the 0thframe. Whereupon, at point B which corresponds to the 1stframe, an amount, Rf, is subtracted from vehicle speed V, and from the 2ndframe until point C which corresponds to the 60tthframe, processing to subtract RSd from vehicle speed V is successively performed.

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