Game device, computer control method, and computer-readable...

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2005-03-24

2009-10-06

Hotaling, John M (Department: 3714)

Amusement devices: games

Including means for processing electronic data

Perceptible output or display

C463S030000, C463S043000, C463S032000, C463S031000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07597622

ABSTRACT:
A game device including a player image acquisition section50for receiving an image of a player from image capture means in charge of image capturing of the player, a game processing section54for executing various types of games, and in each of the games, outputting and displaying a game image as a combination result of the image of the player captured by the image capture means and a basic game image corresponding to the game, and a reference image generation section58for generating a plurality of reference game images by combining the image of the player captured by the image capture means and each of a plurality of reference basic game images corresponding to at least a part of the games, and outputting and displaying a reference image including the reference game images. With such a game device, the player is helped to understand play requirements relating to image capturing by the image capture means on a game basis.

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