Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Plural display systems – Remotely located
Patent
1999-02-17
2000-11-14
Hjerpe, Richard A.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Plural display systems
Remotely located
345 1, 345508, 345511, 463 43, G09G 500
Patent
active
061476633
ABSTRACT:
A video game/communications system permits users to actively participate in video game play or to use other data processing/communication services. A master host computer stores video games and other application programs. Those programs are provided to an array of video graphic processing systems in response to user selections from a user terminal. Each user terminal device is coupled to a display and to a game controller. Each video graphics processing system includes (1) a memory system for storing a video graphics program and (2) a processor that executes the video graphics program and receives information generated during an interactive video graphics display session. A halt controller halts the video graphics program being executed in the video graphics processor at a first point in a video graphics program where a first command is received. In response thereafter to a second command, the halt controller resumes execution of the video graphics program at the first point.
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Braun Russell G.
McCarten David J.
Nishizawa Kenji
Ravanpey Ramin
Smith Darren C.
Hjerpe Richard A.
Nintendo of America Inc.
Tran Henry N
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