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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2018
Applicant:
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NINTENDO CO., LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/50 (2011.01); G06T 15/40 (2011.01); G06T 15/20 (2011.01); A63F 13/52 (2014.01); A63F 13/42 (2014.01); A63F 13/577 (2014.01); A63F 13/92 (2014.01); A63F 13/58 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/503 (2013.01); A63F 13/42 (2014.09); A63F 13/52 (2014.09); A63F 13/577 (2014.09); G06T 15/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/405 (2013.01); A63F 13/58 (2014.09); A63F 13/92 (2014.09); A63F 2300/64 (2013.01); A63F 2300/6653 (2013.01); G06T 2210/21 (2013.01); G06T 2210/62 (2013.01);
Abstract
A non-limiting example game apparatus includes a display device, and a game screen is displayed on the display device. For example, a player character, a non-player character, a background object, etc. are displayed in the game screen. When finishing the drawing of a game image corresponding to the game screen, the smallest value of a Z value is acquired from a Z buffer. If the smallest value is less than a predetermined threshold value, when drawing a game image of a next frame, a target object that is near to a virtual camera is detected, and transparency of the target object that is nearer than a predetermined criterion is made to be increased.