Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Tsutomu Kaneshige

Kiyoshi Mizuki

Yoshitaka Ajioka

Yasushi Ebisawa

Kenji Yamamoto

Takeshi Shimada

Takayuki Shimamura

Takao Sawano

Yusuke Shibata

A computer generating a three-dimensional space and the images to be shown on a display: sets a first angle of view of the virtual camera; displays the image in accordance with the first angle of view; detects a position on the displayed image pointed to by the input device; calculates a straight line passing through the detected position and the virtual camera in the three-dimensional space; identifies an object intersecting the straight line; automatically sets a second angle of view of the virtual camera to zoom in and display the identified object, and displays the identified object using the display device from the perspective of the second angle of view.

Storage medium storing game program and game apparatus

A game system includes a game apparatus and a controller. For example, whether an operation of waving the controller has been performed is determined based on at least one of a pointed position on a display screen by the controller and acceleration. A wind object is generated and moved in virtual game space according to the waving operation. When it is determined that the wind object has collided with a windmill object disposed in the virtual game space, the windmill object is influenced by the wind and its rotation speed is changed.

An example method of installing an application onto an apparatus involves displaying an application menu screen comprising a fixed number of menu item display locations, at least one of the menu item display locations displaying a first menu item for an non-installed application. An announcement screen is displayed in response to selection of the first menu item for the non-installed application, the announcement screen comprising a selection item configured to initiate a downloading operation for the non-installed application. The downloading operation is initiated in response to selection of the selection item. The application can be installed/non-installed separately from other applications.

System and method for installing software applications

A healthcare professional terminalcreates a question message based on an input operation of a healthcare professional, and transmits the question message to a game apparatus. The game apparatuscreates, based on an input operation of a healthcare recipient, an answer message including an answer to a question contained in the question message received from the healthcare professional terminal, and transmits the answer message to the healthcare professional terminaltogether with automatically obtained biological information (weight data, exercise time data, and step count data) of the healthcare recipient.

Biological information management system

Storage medium storing input processing program and input processing apparatus

In the present invention, a strike determination range is set for an object in a game space. A straight line passing through coordinates in a three-dimensional space corresponding to coordinates on a touch panel input by a player, where a virtual camera is placed at the origin, is calculated. It is determined whether or not the straight line strikes an object in the game space. If the straight line strikes an object, the object is zoomed in and displayed.

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Kyoto, Japan

Tsutomu Kaneshige