Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Tatsuro Ota

Takeshi Hayakawa

Kenta Motokura

Yusuke Kitazono

An example video game system includes user controls and memory for storing a video game program. A processing system including at least one processor executes the video game program to provide a three-dimensional (3D) virtual game world including a player character. The processing system periodically stores in the memory ghost data for the player character as the player character moves in the 3D virtual game world, based on inputs to the user controls, during a first game play session. The processing system generates a ghost character during a second game play session whose movement in the 3D virtual game world is based on the ghost data stored in the memory. The ghost character appears in the second game play session at a time subsequent to the beginning of the second game play session.

Video game system, apparatus and method

An augmented reality technique is implemented by, for example, an information processing apparatus which is configured to function and operate as an image acquiring unit that acquires an image of a real space captured by an imaging device, a feature detection unit that detects one or more features from the captured image, an image generating unit that generates an image of a virtual space and places a virtual object made to correspond to the detected feature at a position in the virtual space based on the position of the detected feature in the acquired real space image, and a display control unit that causes an image to be displayed on a display device such that a user sees the virtual space image superimposed upon the acquired real space image. In one example operation implementation, when a first feature and a second feature are detected together in a captured real space image, the image generating unit determines a first virtual object corresponding to a combination of the first feature and the second feature and places the first virtual object at a position in the virtual space based on a position of the second feature in the acquired real space image.

System,method,apparatus and computer readable non-transitory storage medium storing information processing program for providing an augmented reality technique

A computer is caused to execute: acquisition of a captured image captured by an imaging device; display of an image including the captured image on a display device; and detection from the captured image, of a feature in a real space captured in the captured image, using an image for detection of the feature. In a case where the captured image acquired in the acquisition of the image captured is a reversed image, the feature is detected by performing a reverse comparison process involving: comparing the captured image with a reversed image of the image for detection; or comparing an image obtained by further reversing the captured image, with the image for detection.

Computer-readable recording medium recording program for image processing, information processing apparatus, information processing system, and image processing method

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Tatsuro Ota