Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Reexamination Certificate
2005-09-16
2010-10-26
McClellan, James S (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
C463S031000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07819748
ABSTRACT:
A display section12covered with a touch panel13displays a character image C on a display screen. Structure data of a character in which a plurality of bones B are joined together with joints J, and polygon data Po for each portion of the character C corresponding to each bone B, are stored. The character image is displayed on the display screen based on the structure data, the polygon data Po, and a position of the character C. Position data corresponding to touch operation input data is calculated, and an angle of a joint J of the character C corresponding to the position data is changed. Thereafter, the character C is drawn and displayed on the display screen while changing a portion whose joint angle is changed, in real time, in accordance with the angle.
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McClellan James S
Nintendo Co. Ltd.
Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
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