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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2001
Satoru Ouchi, Yokohama, JP;
Satoru Ouchi, Yokohama, JP;
Namco Bandai Games Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A game apparatus, a storage medium, a transmission medium and a program correspond to a normal screen and a wide screen. An image generation unitcomprises a wide image data generation unit, an image data conversion unitand a rendering unit. At first, the wide image data generation unitgenerates image data viewed from a predetermined viewpoint in an object space, as image data corresponding to the wide screen. Then, the image data conversion unitperforms a processing of generating image data corresponding to the normal screen, on the basis of generated wide image data. The rendering unitperforms a rendering processing to the generated wide image data or the generated normal image data, and finally generates an image displayed on a display unit