Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Perceptible output or display
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-28
2006-02-28
Harrison, Jessica J. (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Perceptible output or display
C463S033000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07004838
ABSTRACT:
A game device, which monitors with a virtual camera a picture of a game being proceeded in a virtual space by a first object controlled by a player and a second object controlled by a computer or an opponent and displays a picture on the screen of a monitor, includes a camera position switch ordering unit for issuing switching orders to switch the position of the virtual camera to a first position which shows the front of the first object and to a second position which shows the front of the first object from the rear of the first object, and a symbol displaying unit for displaying a symbol representing the second object on the monitor screen in correspondence with the switching order to switch the position of the virtual camera to the first position upon the second object existing behind the first object.
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Hayashida Yasuhiro
Ueno Atsushi
Yasuda Taishi
Harrison Jessica J.
Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
Keating & Bennett LLP
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