Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Ninetendo Co., Ltd.

Satoshi Nishiumi

Kazuo Koshima

Shigeru Miyamoto

Toyofumi Takahashi

Masahiro Otake

Yasunari Nishida

Genyo Takeda

Takumi Kawagoe

Shuhei Kato

Takao Shimizu

Ko Shiota

Michitaka Miyoshi

Nobuyuki Nonaka

Atsushi Watanabe

Takuo Mukai

Munehito Oira

Dan Shimizu

Takayuki Hashida

Keizo Ohta

Toshiaki Suzuki

Satoshi Yamato

Mitsunori Yamada

Kumiko Kitagawa

Hitoshi Yamamoto

Hirokazu Tanaka

Takashi Otsuki

Takashi Ohno

Takuji Hotta

Noriaki Teramoto

Kazuhiro Fujiwara

Munchito Oira

Christopher Timothy John Stamper

Timothy David Joseph Stamper

Mark Alexis Edmonds

Russell William Irwin

Beau Ner Chesluk

Makoto Kimizuka

Toshiyuki Nakamura

An advantageous set of external interfaces for home video game platform provide modularity and expandability while maintaining and preserving the proprietary nature of the platform. A disk drive interface provides flexible communications with an internal disk drive. Various serial bus interfaces provide expandability and interconnectability with a variety of internal and external devices including, for example, flash memory, broadband adapters, modems, and various other devices. A 4-port game controller interface provides serial interconnectability with handheld game controllers and various other input/output device. Power supply, digital and analog audio/video connections, and parallel memory expansion connections are also provided.

External interfaces for a 3D graphics system

A game machine is provided with a controller control circuit including a data transfer control circuit. When the data in a first external RAM attached to a first controller is transferred to a second external RAM attached to a second controller, the data transfer control circuit transmits a predetermined command to the first controller. The data stored in the first external RAM is memorize through a data transfer control circuit. The data transfer control circuit then transmits a predetermined command to the second controller. In response thereto, the data stored in the internal RAM is transmitted to the second controller to be stored in the second external RAM.

Video game system with data transmitting/receiving controller

An operating device is connected to an image processing apparatus that generates image data to be displayed on a display according to a program. The operating device supplies a signal for providing variation to the image data to be generated by the image processing apparatus. A joystick includes a lever and a disc interlocked therewith so that the rotation of the disc is detected by a photo-interrupter. The pulse from the photo-interrupter is counted by a counter, which counter is reset depending upon a reset signal. The reset signal is supplied to the counter when three of buttons are simultaneously depressed, or when a power supply is turned on, or otherwise from a CPU of the image processing apparatus.

Operating device and image processing system using same

Three-dimensional image display game system and method for use with a display for displaying an object in a three-dimensional space, including an operation controlling device including an operating member having a base end rotatably supported and a free end operable by an operator. The operation controlling device includes an inclination amount data output detector which detects an inclination amount of the operating member to output inclination amount data. The system further includes direction determining circuitry operable to determine a direction that corresponds to an inclination direction of the operating member based on the inclination amount data, and moving object direction determining circuitry which determines a moving direction of the object in three-dimensional space based upon the direction determined by the direction determining circuitry and a point of view angle at which the object is being viewed by the operator in three-dimensional space. A direction in which the operating member must be moved to cause forward movement of the object is offset from a forward direction of the operation controlling device by an angle corresponding to the point of view angle.

User controlled graphics object movement based on a amount of joystick angular rotation and point of view angle

A video game system includes a video game machine, a memory medium and a controller. A CPU included in the video game machine detects a vibration generating condition that a player object comes into collision or contact with an enemy object or a stationary object. If the vibration generating condition is detected, the CPU drives a vibration source included in the controller, thereby generating vibration on the controller.

Video game system

A peripheral device is provided for connection to a home video game system having a recess formed in an external surface thereof. The peripheral device includes an electrical component, an electrical connector coupled to the electrical component for connecting to a connector of the home video game system, and a housing. The housing of the peripheral device is configured so that when the peripheral device is inserted in the recess of the home video game system, it is substantially flush with the external surface of the home video game system. In this way, the footprint of the video game system can remain the same, even if peripheral devices are added.

Peripheral devices for a video game system

User controlled graphics object movement based on amount of joystick angular rotation and point of view angle

A video/computer game machine maps external images onto animated game players in a game program. An image of a person's face may be mapped onto the head of an animated game player. The person may then play the game using the animated game player having a face that appears to be that of the person. Similarly, images of other persons can be mapped on other animated game players that appear in the video game program. Improved realism of video games is obtained by enabling individuals to create animated game players that have features, e.g., a facial image, of the individual or that were selected and imported by the individual.

System and method for automatically editing captured images for inclusion into 3D video game play

A three-dimension image processing apparatus includes a CPU. When the CPU detects by collision determination that another object, e.g., a wall, is existent between an operable object and a camera, it calculates such a moving angle of the camera that an eye of the camera to the operable object is not obstructed by the other object. The camera is moved in accordance with the moving angle to a position where the operable object and the other object existing in a photographed three-dimensional space are displayed on a display.

Three-dimensional image processing apparatus

A video game system includes hand-held player controllers operable by players to generate video game control signals, each hand-held player controller having a selectively driven vibration source arranged to generate vibrations for vibrating a housing thereof. A video game program executing system executes a video game program. The video game program executing system includes controller connectors which, in use, connect to the hand-held player controllers and a controller control circuit including a transmission circuit which transmits data to hand-held player controllers connected to the controller connectors. The video game program executed by the video game program executing system includes video game instructions, the video game instructions including at least one instruction for causing the video game program executing system to transmit command data via the transmission circuit to drive the vibration source of one or more of the hand-held player controllers so as to generate vibrations for vibrating the housings thereof.

Video game system providing physical sensation

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Kyoto, Japan

Satoshi Nishiumi