Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Enterprises

Sega Enterprises, Ltd.

Taishi Yasuda

Yasuhiro Hayashida

Takeshi Yamazaki

Atsushi Ueno

Takayuki Yokoyama

Toshiyuki Maeda

Masayoshi Yamada

Masayuki Ao

Mitsuru Kawamura

Ichiro Kawaoka

Ryuji Ochi

Hisaki Nimiya

Katsu Oshida

A game device, which monitors with a virtual camera a picture of a game being proceeded in a virtual space by a first object controlled by a player and a second object controlled by a computer or an opponent and displays a picture on the screen of a monitor, includes a camera position switch ordering unit for issuing switching orders to switch the position of the virtual camera to a first position which shows the front of the first object and to a second position which shows the front of the first object from the rear of the first object, and a symbol displaying unit for displaying a symbol representing the second object on the monitor screen in correspondence with the switching order to switch the position of the virtual camera to the first position upon the second object existing behind the first object.

Game device

Image processing device, image processing method, game device, and craft simulator

When a car turns, a visual point position CP and a sight line direction T are moved (from CP&prime; to CP and from T&prime; to T) in accordance with a turning angle of the car, and a displacement u of the visual point position (CP&Prime;) is made different from a displacement v of the sight line direction (T&Prime;). A ratio of the visual point position displacement u to the sight line direction displacement v is about 1:5.

Picture generating apparatus

A picture processing apparatus having a shape memory with shape data of an object previously stored therein, a processor to set a coordinate value of an object in a three-dimensional virtual space of the basis of the shape date stored in the shape memory, a transformation device to receive the coordinate value set by the processor and transform the coordinate value into a visual field coordinate system based on a specified visual point, and a visual point setting device to move the visual point position from a predetermined standard position for a predetermined base object as defined in the three-dimensional virtual space on the basis of data of the base object as well as changes in the situation caused by the movement of the base object, and for sending a new position after the movement to the transformation device.

Image processing

A small screen which enables a player to easily grasp the situation of a game field as well as the positional relationship between the game objects is displayed on a game screen in a game device. A game device which displays on a monitor screen a picture of a game being proceeded in a virtual space by a first object controlled by a player and a second object controlled by a computer comprises a supplementary screen forming means (S ) for forming on the monitor screen a small screen showing the surrounding condition with the first object in the center, a distance calculating means (S ) for calculating the distance between the first object and the second object in the virtual space, and a display magnification setting means (S ) for setting the display magnification on the small screen in correspondence with the distance between the above objects.

Game device and image displaying method which displays a game proceeding in virtual space, and computer-readable recording medium

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Tokyo, Japan

Taishi Yasuda