Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Tetsuji Yamamoto

Kenji Sawaguchi

Yuji Shinkai

Koji Tada

Isamu Hamada

It is intended to display, in a 3D-CG animation, a high-quality background image that is free of distortion due to a pan of a viewing camera. Pre-rendering images of three-dimensional background scenes are mapped over the inside surfaces of respective virtual spheres and , and viewing cameras and are defined at the centers of the respective virtual spheres and . When a three-dimensional model of a movable object such as a character model enters one of the virtual spheres, a region clipped by the pyramidal visual field of the viewing camera located at the center of the virtual sphere is projected onto a display screen.

Entertainment apparatus, image generation method, and storage medium

An entertainment apparatus has a manual controller for entering control information, a main memory for loading therein a program and information for use by the program, a CPU for performing processing according to the program based on control information entered by the manual controller, a GTE and a GPU for generating at least image information based on the processing performed by the CPU, and a display monitor for displaying image information generated by the GTE and the GPU. A method of adding information for use by a program run on the entertainment apparatus has the step of adding additional information by loading the additional information via a memory card or a portable information terminal into the main memory of the entertainment apparatus. The method allows game characters, backgrounds, etc. that can be used by a game program, for example, to be increased in number or added to permit the user to enjoy a game that is rich in variety even if the game program is of existing nature.

Method of and system for adding information and recording medium

A portable information terminal can effectively utilize game results and is arranged to be multifunctional. When result information is transmitted from a terminal to another terminal, the destination terminal adds the transmitted result information to result information which has already been held thereby. The items of result information are sorted in the order of scores, and score data are updated. Of the updated result information, the result information having the same identification number as the identification number of the terminal is displayed on a display unit of the terminal.

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Tetsuji Yamamoto