Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Reexamination Certificate
2006-04-24
2010-11-16
Vo, Peter DungBa (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
C348S158000, C463S003000, C463S031000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07833100
ABSTRACT:
A video game device displays a reference image (an image of a fishing rod54) at a predetermined position on the screen of a display device. The video game device displays a pointer image (a cursor55) at a position on the screen being pointed at by a control device. The pointer image is erased when the pointer image reaches within a predetermined area defined based on the position of the reference image. The video game device controls the controlled object to act according to a position of a marker object in a captured image based on control data, after the pointer image reaches inside the predetermined area defined based on the position of the reference image.
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Ahmed Masud
Nintendo Co. Ltd.
Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
Vo Peter DungBa
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