Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka

Isao Akada

Hiroshi Tanibuchi

Naoki Nishikawa

Koji Toyohara

Kenji Fujioka

Katsuyoshi Endo

Naoya Tanabe

Kazuo Iwasaki

An image display control program for displaying a plurality of objects on a display unit from a plurality of angles is disclosed, the image display control program causing a video game device to perform as an operation reception unit which receives operations from an operator via an operation unit, a camera viewpoint movement unit that causes a camera viewpoint to move, in accordance with the operations received by the operation reception unit, with respect to a reference point that is a point on a straight line linking a first object and a second object among the plurality of objects, and a camera image display control unit that causes at least one of the images of the first and second objects to be displayed on a display unit from the camera viewpoint that was moved by means of the camera viewpoint movement unit.

Image display control program, image display control method, and video game device

A manual controller of a video game system has a plurality of control switches for controlling the motion of an image displayed on a display screen, and an analog joystick for designating a point in a given area on the displayed image. When the analog joystick is operated by the game player of the video game system, it is tilted to a position in a desired direction in a two-dimensional plane, and outputs a positional signal depending on the tilted position thereof. A coordinate transforming unit converts first and second two-dimensional coordinates of the tilted position respectively into third and fourth two-dimensional coordinates of an image position with respect to a predetermined reference position on the displayed image, with a first conversion constant for converting the first coordinate into the third coordinate and a second conversion constant, which is different from the first conversion constant, for converting the second coordinate into the fourth coordinate.

Apparatus for and method of designating a point on displayed image, and

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Kobe, Japan

Isao Akada