Namco Limited

Namco Bandai Games, Ltd.

Koji Kawashima

Shinichiro Aiki

Masayuki Kikuchi

Sunao Haga

Kazuya Kuwasawa

A position detection system includes: a scan beam illumination section which causes a first-direction line-shaped scan beam that is parallel to the X-axis to scan in the Y-axis direction at a predetermined scanning speed, then causes a second-direction line-shaped scan beam that is parallel to the Y-axis to scan in the X-axis direction at a predetermined scanning speed; a light-receiving section which detects the timings at which the first and second-direction line-shaped scan beams pass through a pointing position on a screen; and a position calculation section which calculates the pointing position by a pointing device on the screen, based on the time from the start of scanning of the first-direction line-shaped scan beam until the passage thereof through the pointing position is detected and the time from the start of scanning of the second-direction line-shaped scan beam until the passage thereof through the pointing position is detected.

Position detection system, game system, and control method for position detection system

To provide a game system which can lighten the burden imposed on a player and even the third person can enjoy, when a gun shooting game is played using a rifle equipped with a scope, a proximity sensor section ( ) is provided on a gun device , for changing an image from a long-distance image to a short-distance image, using an image changing section ( ) when it is judged that the player has come close to the proximity sensor section ( ) and looks into the scope section ( ), to thereby display the short-distance image on the display section ( ).

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