Nikon Corporation

Konami Co., Ltd.

Konami Corporation

Konami Sports Life Corporation

Motoki Toyama

Nobuhiro Fujinawa

Takashi Kuriyama

Masakazu Sekiguchi

Setsu Mitsuhashi

Masami Takemoto

Hiroto Nagamine

Hirofumi Nagao

Takeshi Tsuji

Katsunori Okita

Toru Okubo

Kojiro Minami

Toru Takeda

Tomoya Yamano

Tadasu Kitae

Eita Kada

Masato Nagatomi

Shigehito Mukasa

Naonobu Kaneiso

Takuya Nakano

Amika Harada

Naoyuki Wakiyama

An electronic device includes: a communication unit that performs communication with an external device; and a control unit that issues a command to the external device via the communication unit, on the basis of at least one of capacity of the external device, and capacity of the electronic device.

Electronic device, imaging device, image reproduction method, image reproduction program, recording medium with image reproduction program recorded thereupon, and image reproduction device

A training apparatus is disclosed which allows a trainee to attain a sense of accomplishment by continuing an exercise until a target is reached, without undue strain. A torque motor applies a load to a handle bar, which is driven by the exercise of a trainee. If the movement of the trainee who moves the handle bar is about to stop, then the load is gradually reduced. If the handle bar once again begins to move due to a load reduction, then it is inferred that the trainee has resumed the exercise, and the load at that time is maintained until, for example, the direction of motion of the handle bar changes. By gradually reducing the load at the fatigue limit of the trainee, it is possible to promote the resumption and the continuance of the exercise.

Training apparatus

Training apparatus includes: a base stand which has slide shafts that are provided side by side and extend in the right-and-left directions; a slide base portion which can slide along this slide shaft; a foot stand which is provided over the slide base portion so as to be turned; a connection mechanism portion which is formed by a rod and its support portion that engages a substantially-middle proper part of the base stand in the right-and-left directions and the foot stand, so that the sliding position and the turning angle of the foot stand can be correlated; and a spring which gives the slide base portion the force by which the slide base portion moves toward a substantially-middle position of the base stand in the right-and-left directions. Thereby, a sliding exercise and a twisting exercise can be taken together, and the body trunk can be effectively trained.

Training equipment

A running machine is provided with an exercise monitoring unit for turning a running belt on which a user runs by means of a motor and monitoring a running state of the user based on a driven state of the running belt The running machine a includes a monitor for displaying images at its front side. The running machine is also provided with an image instructing unit for displaying an image of a virtual image including a running road on the monitor with the position of a virtual camera, which is changed based on the driven state of the running belt, as a viewpoint, a game executing unit for displaying obstacle characters to appear on the running road in accordance with a specified rule, a direction changing unit for receiving an instruction to change the running direction on the running road in response to an operation made by the user doing the running exercise, and a game evaluating unit for evaluating an other athletic ability of the user based on how properly he instructed to change the running direction to avoid virtual collisions with the obstacle characters.

Exercise assistance controlling method and exercise assisting apparatus

A drum rhythm game apparatus and a guitar rhythm game apparatus each includes a staging operating unit. Playing progression information, which includes sector numbers, is transferred between the drum rhythm game apparatus and the guitar rhythm game apparatus, thereby enabling staging operation to be implemented from each of the staging operating units while synchronizing the visual staging instructions provided to players of the game for the background music piece to be played at both the drum rhythm game apparatus and the guitar rhythm game apparatus. This allows the game to be played in a state closer to reality in which multiple players each have staging operating units as different instrument, such as with an actual band, making the game more enjoyable.

Music game system, staging instructions synchronizing control method for same, and readable recording medium recorded with staging instructions synchronizing control program for same

A song accompaniment system includes a karaoke machine and a simulated guitar machine, and the karaoke machine downloads accompanying music in the form of MIDI data from a source data storage. Of the MIDI data downloaded from the source data storage, a simulative instrument part of the accompanying music is transferred to the simulated guitar machine. In the simulated guitar machine, an allocation processor allocates individual sounds of the simulative instrument part to three scroll bars in a guidance picture which is presented on a monitor of the simulated guitar machine, and operating timing for producing the individual sounds is indicated by note marks which are scrolled along the scroll bars. When a player plays a simulated guitar, tone waveforms contained in the MIDI data received from the source data storage are modulated and an audio signal thus generated is output from speakers. If the simulated guitar is correctly operated, the accompanying music is reproduced in proper fashion.

Song accompaniment system

Sound generation control and instruction operation evaluation is performed by sound group selection and a sound generation instruction, with a mimic guitar having selection buttons for selecting one of a plurality of sound groups bearing a series of sounds, and a picking blade for instructing the generation of a sound. The rhythm-matching game can be enjoyed relatively easily in a manner closer to a realistic state of playing an instrument.

Rhythm game apparatus, rhythm game method, computer-readable storage medium and instrumental device

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Tokyo, Japan

Motoki Toyama