Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Keizo Ohta

Kenta Sato

Kenji Nishida

Yoshitaka Yasumoto

Hiroshi Yoshino

Masato Ibuki

Kenichi Sugino

Jun Ito

Teruki Murakawa

Kazuhiro Musa

Soichi Yamamoto

Toshiaki Suzuki

Satoshi Nishiumi

Kazuo Koshima

Yugo Hayashi

Ichiro Suzuki

Kentaro Nishimura

Yosuke Hatayama

Steven Rabin

Hideya Akasaka

Kazuya Sumaki

Toshikazu Tomizawa

Masayasu Nakata

Noriyuki Niwa

Shigeru Miyamoto

Akio Ikeda

Takayuki Shimamura

Takao Sawano

Takuhiro Dohta

Hitoshi Yamazaki

Ryuji Umezu

Yuki Takahashi

Fumiya Suto

Yutaka Iijima

Masashi Shiomi

A portable, handheld game console includes a main body incorporating a touch-sensitive display screen and a variety of input devices. The input devices can include shoulder buttons located on a peripheral side surface of the main body, as well as input devices located on the main body adjacent the touch-sensitive display screen.

Game console

A passive walking apparatus () according to one embodiment includes a hip portion (), a first leg (), a second leg (), and a crank mechanism () including a first-leg-side crank portion (), a second-leg-side crank portion (), a crankshaft (), a first-leg-side connection portion (), and a second-leg-side connection portion (). When the first leg () moves rearward from the front relatively to the hip portion () as being in contact with a walking surface (GR), the first-leg-side connection portion () has the first-leg-side crank portion () pivot, the first-leg-side crank portion () has the second-leg-side crank portion () pivot around the crankshaft (), and the second-leg-side crank portion () moves the second leg () forward from the rear relatively to the hip portion () with the second-leg-side connection portion () being interposed.

Passive walking apparatus and passive walking module

A display control program includes virtual camera setting instructions for setting respective positions and directions of a right virtual camera and a left virtual camera within a prescribed virtual space used for virtual photographing in the virtual space, and view volume setting instructions for setting respective view volumes of the right virtual camera and the left virtual camera. The view volume setting instructions are adapted to set the view volumes such that both of the view volume of the right virtual camera and the view volume of the left virtual camera include a display target region, which is a region in the virtual space at least to be displayed on a display, and the view volume of at least one virtual camera extends asymmetrically with respect to a line extending from the position of one virtual camera in the camera direction, toward a side where the other virtual camera is present.

Storage medium storing display control program, information processing system, and storage medium storing program utilized for controlling stereoscopic display

An example game system includes a controller device, and a game process section for performing a game process based on an operation on the controller device. The controller device includes a plurality of direction input sections, a sensor section for obtaining a physical quantity used for calculating an attitude of the controller device, and a display section for displaying a game image. The game process section first calculates the attitude of the controller device based on the physical quantity obtained by the sensor section. Then, the game process section controls an attitude of a virtual camera in a virtual space based on the attitude of the controller device, and controls a position of the virtual camera based on an input on the direction input section. A game image to be displayed on the display section is generated based on the position and the attitude of the virtual camera.

Game system, game device, storage medium storing game program, and game process method

An example position calculation system calculates a position in a three-dimensional virtual space based on an operation on a controller device. In the position calculation system, the position in the virtual space is calculated based on an attitude of the controller device and an input position on a predetermined input surface of the controller device. More specifically, the position calculation system may calculate, as the position in the virtual space, a position on a surface which is determined in accordance with the attitude of the controller device in the virtual space, based on the input position.

Position calculation system, position calculation device, storage medium storing position calculation program, and position calculation method

A non-limiting example information processing apparatus includes an operating device including an analog stick that also functions as a depressible push button. Processing circuitry of the apparatus is configured to receive inclination information indicative of an inclination of a stick portion of the analog stick; use the received inclination information as an input for a first information processing operation; receive depression information indicative of a depressing of the stick portion of the analog stick; use the received depression information as an input for a second information processing operation different from the first information processing operation; and invalidate received depression information when inclination information indicative of inclination greater than a predetermined inclination is currently received.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, storage medium and information processing method

An example image processing system and method uses a control device including a movement detector. Gesture inputs corresponding to a gesture made by moving the control device are used for animation. An animation begins based on at least one gesture input received prior to completion of the gesture and the animation is modified based on at least one gesture input received after the beginning of the animation.

Systems and methods for control device including a movement detector

A touch panel detects a point in one of a plurality of unit areas at which an input was made, the unit areas being arranged in a matrix in an instruction plane. A game apparatus repeatedly acquires detection coordinates for locating a unit area detected by a pointing device. Also, the game apparatus repeatedly calculates, in response to the acquisition of the detection coordinates, detailed coordinates by which a point can be represented with accuracy in more detail than by the detection coordinates. The detailed coordinates indicate a point in the direction of a unit area indicated by previously acquired detection coordinates, as viewed from a predetermined reference point within a unit area indicated by currently acquired detection coordinates.

Storage medium having information processing program stored therein, information processing device, and coordinate calculation method

A coordinate calculation apparatus calculates a coordinate point representing a position on a display screen based on an orientation of an input device. The coordinate calculation apparatus includes direction acquisition means, orientation calculation means, first coordinate calculation means, and correction means. The direction acquisition means acquires information representing a direction of the input device viewed from a predetermined position in a predetermined space. The orientation calculation means calculates the orientation of the input device in the predetermined space. The first coordinate calculation means calculates a first coordinate point for determining the position on the display screen based on the orientation of the input device. The correction means corrects the first coordinate point such that the first coordinate point calculated when the input device is directed in a predetermined direction takes a predetermined reference value.

Coordinate calculation apparatus and storage medium having coordinate calculation program stored therein

An example device includes a touchscreen and a processing system in communication with the touchscreen. The processing system is configured to perform operations including detecting a touch-on position on the touchscreen, setting a reference position based on the touch-on position, continuously detecting subsequent touch positions on the touchscreen after detecting the touch-on, and continuously performing operations based on one or both of a direction and a distance from the reference position to the subsequent touch positions.

Storage medium having game program stored thereon, game apparatus and input device

An image display apparatus includes a stereoscopic image display apparatus configured to display a stereoscopically visible image, and a planar image display apparatus configured to display a planar image. An adjustment section of the image display apparatus adjusts relative positions, relative sizes, and relative rotations of a left-eye image taken by a left-eye image imaging section and a right-eye image taken by a right-eye image imaging section. The adjusted left-eye image and the adjusted right-eye image are viewed by the left eye and the right eye of the user, respectively, thereby displaying the stereoscopic image on the stereoscopic image display apparatus. The adjusted left-eye image and the adjusted right-eye image are made semi-transparent and superimposed one on the other, and thus a resulting superimposed planar image is displayed on the planar image display apparatus.

Computer-readable storage medium having stored therein display control program, display control apparatus, display control system, and display control method

An exemplary display system includes: a first display device; a second display device; and a display control unit that controls one of the first display device and the second display device to display a map image corresponding to a given position, and controls the other of the first display device and the second display device to display a partial image which is a part of a panoramic image corresponding to the position.

Displaying system, display controller, storage medium and method

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Kyoto, Japan

Keizo Ohta