Fujitsu Corporation

Yasushi Kitagawa

Misao Kikuchi

Hisayoshi Hayasaka

Tadayuki Tahara

Kiyotaka Yago

Yoshinori Saito

Kenji Noma

Kunimasa Imasono

Kenji Kawasaki

Makiko Furuno

Masura Watanabe

Makoto Urano

Shuji Oba

A communication terminal receives character-based information from a host machine via a communication line. The terminal includes a menu identifying section for identifying menu information from a menu picture received from the host machine, and a menu information storing section for extracting individual informations from the menu information identified by the menu identifying section. The individual informations are selectable using input admissible commands, respectively, and the menu information storing section temporarily stores the individual informations and the corresponding input admissible commands. The terminal further includes a display output control section for outputting at least the individual informations in a manner to match a display fashion of a display unit, and a selecting section for selecting one of the individual informations displayed on the display unit by the display output control section. The terminal further includes a command transmission control section for reading out the command, which corresponds to the individual information selected by the selecting section, from the menu information storing section. The command transmission control section transmits the read-out command to the host machine.

Communication terminal and its display control system

A communication terminal receives character-based information from a host machine via a communication line. The terminal includes a menu identifying section for identifying menu information from a menu picture received from the host machine, and a menu information storing section for extracting individual information from the menu information identified by the menu identifying section. The individual items on the menu are selectable using input admissible commands, respectively, and the menu information storing section temporarily stores the individual items and the corresponding input admissible commands. The terminal further includes a display output control section for outputting at least the individual information in a manner to match a display fashion of a display unit, and a selecting section for selecting one of the individual information displayed on the display unit by the display output control section. The terminal further includes a command transmission control section for reading out the command, which corresponds to the individual item selected by the selecting section, from the menu information storing section. The command transmission control section transmits the read-out command to the host machine.

A network service system capable of providing economical services comprises a plurality of host computers connected to a network for providing services through the network and an information processing terminal connected to the network. The information processing terminal identifies a service identifier, provided in a storage medium for network service, for identifying a type of a network service when the storage medium is attached, connects the line to the host computer which corresponds to the identified service identifier and receives the network service from the line-connected host computer.

Game machine having a communication terminal for playing games over a

After an opponent is determined by a search made in a communication character service, there may be effected transition to an action game service under control of the host computer, or a fight may be performed between terminal apparatuses that directly communicate with each other with temporary disconnection to the host computer. By preparing morphing intermediate moving images, the transition from communication character service to the action game service can be effected without causing an incongruous feeling.

Network game system having communication characters for conversation

Network service system and communication unit for game machine and game

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Kawasaki, Japan

Yasushi Kitagawa