Dwango Co., Ltd.

Earthbeat, Inc.

Jfe Steel Corporation

Kazuya Asano

Kouichi Nakamura

Yoshinari Hashimoto

Hiroto Tamura

Shigeo Okajima

Yoshitsugu Iijima

Tomoyoshi Ogasahara

Kazuro Tsuda

Shuji Kuyama

Toyokazu Tsugehara

An input interface system for a game wherein the game progresses in the virtual world based on points that are applied corresponding to the distance of travel of a user in the real world, and event processes that are generated accompanying travel of the user are carried out sequentially, comprising: inputting means for receiving an input of a user operation in respect to a virtual object that appears in an event process, and event execution processing means for progressing the game by defining that an event process has been performed when a user operation is inputted correctly into the inputting means, wherein: the user operation is a path inputting operation wherein a path is drawn on a touch screen, and the event execution processing means perform an event process based on the shape of the path that was drawn in the path inputting operation and on the relative positioning with a virtual object

Input interface system and location-based game system

To eliminate or simplify routine operations in event processes for battles and the like that occur during a game, without negatively affecting the enjoyability of the game. In the course of advancing a game by sequentially performing repeatedly-occurring routine event processes, an individual input step for accepting individual inputs of user operations for each of a plurality of objects to be processed appearing in a routine event process, and a batch operation input step for accepting a single batch completion operation for processing the plurality of objects to be processed in a batch are executed. When all of the plurality of objects to be processed have been processed by a batch operation input unit, the event process is considered as having been performed and the game is advanced. The batch completion operation is an action such as tilting or shaking an information processing terminal or inputting noise via wind pressure.

Input interface program, system, and input interface control method

A virtual map displaying system for a location-based game wherein the game is progressed in a virtual world through the linking to the position of a user in the real world, comprising: a real map storing portion for storing real map information that includes geographical information in the real world and text information relating to the geographical information; a virtual display data generating portion for generating and displaying virtual display data by superimposing, on the real map information, virtual objects relating to virtual geographical information corresponding to the geographical information in the real world in accordance with the progress of the game; and a related information displaying portion for displaying on a block, so as to be visually recognizable, text information that relates to geographical information that corresponds to a display location of a virtual object.

Virtual map display system, program, and method

An object control system in a location-based game, in which a character in a virtual world is linked with and moved along with a movement of a user in a real world, is provided with: a location information acquiring unit which detects a current location and displacement in the real world of the user; a virtual display data generating unit which selects a boundary line on real map information so as to be an area and a shape according to the current location of the user in the real world and information density on the real map information corresponding to the current location, and generates a virtual fantasy block that partially covers the real map; and a synthesis processing unit which superimposes and displays the fantasy block generated by the virtual display data generating unit on the real map information.

Object control system in location-based game, program and method

The present invention is provided with: a virtual display data generating unit which generates fantasy blocks according the progress of a game accompanied by the movement of a user; a synthesis processing unit which superimposes the generated fantasy blocks on a real map and displays the superimposed result; and a status display unit which displays a change in status of a virtual object, wherein the status display unit groups the fantasy blocks for each prescribed attribute, and displays, for each group, the proportion of the number of blocks for which the statuses have changed, in each group.

Interface system, program and control method for location game

An augmented reality displaying system for displaying a virtual object through compositing on an image taken of the real world, comprising: a camera for capturing an image of the real world; a location information acquiring portion for acquiring, as location information, the coordinates and orientation at the instant of imaging by the camera; an image analyzing portion for analyzing, as depth information, the relative distances to imaging subjects for individual pixels that structure the real world image that has been captured; a virtual display data generating portion for generating virtual display data, on real map information that includes geographical information in the real world, based on the location information acquired by the location information acquiring portion; and a compositing processing portion for displaying the virtual display data, generated by the virtual display data generating portion, superimposed on an image captured by the camera in accordance with the depth information.

Augmented reality display system, program, and method

A material-property-value estimating method of estimating a material-property-value of a target steel-strip product manufactured via at least one of a reheating process, a rolling process, and a cooling process, which are performed while a target material is being conveyed along a conveyance route, the material-property-value estimating method includes an estimating step of estimating a material-property-value of each of meshes dividing the target steel-strip product based on a measured value that has been measured once or more by a measuring device installed on the conveyance route, the measured value including at least a temperature of the target material; and a chemical composition per component of the target steel-strip product.

Material property value estimating method, material property value estimating device, and steel-strip manufacturing method

To improve the user friendliness of switching a map display between the real world and a virtual world while also improving the entertainment value of the game and avoiding the danger arising from using a smartphone while walking. There are provided: a game progress processing unit that progresses a game; a real map storage unit that stores real map information about the real world; a virtual map information generation unit that generates virtual map information including coordination information for an object in virtual geographical information corresponding to geographical information in the real map information; a position information acquisition unit that acquires a user's current position in the real world; a real display data generation unit that generates real display data indicating the user's current position in the user's real map information; a virtual display data generation unit that generates virtual display data in which a character is represented in the virtual map information corresponding to the user's current position on the basis of the user's current position acquired by the position information acquisition unit; and a display control unit that displays the real display data and the virtual display data.

Game system and game program

Game image processing system and program

To improve the user friendliness of switching a map display between the real world and a virtual world while also improving the entertainment value of the game and avoiding the danger arising from using a smartphone while walking. There are provided: a game progress processing unit that progresses a game; a real map storage unit that stores real map information about the real world; a virtual map information generation unit that generates virtual map information including coordination information for an object in virtual geographical information; a position information acquisition unit that acquires a user's current position; a real display data generation unit that generates real display data; a virtual display data generation unit that generates virtual display data in which a character is represented in the virtual map information corresponding to the user's current position on the basis of the user's current position acquired by the position information acquisition unit; a display control unit that displays the real display data and the virtual display data; a moving path recording unit that stores a moving path; and a trail display unit that displays the moving path as a trajectory in the real map information or the virtual map information.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuya Asano