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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:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Konami Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63E 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63E 1/300 ;
Abstract
A game control method of the invention provides an effective card in a card game, according to a speed of player's card drawing operation. Firstly, the operation is detected and a speed of the operation is calculated. Then, the speed is compared with a predetermined speed such as a previous average speed to determine the difference. On the other hand, an appearance card table defines types of cards to be provided for each game situation and the difference. The method determines a card to be supplied to the player in response to the operation, by referring to the table according to the game situation and the difference.