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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2003
Nobuya Okuda, Kobe, JP;
Masayuki Ohashi, Kobe, JP;
Shigenobu Matsuyama, Kobe, JP;
Konami Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to increase the game operability, and to increase the feeling of pressure and feeling of actual presence on the scene, by making it possible to display partial enlarged images of the scope displays or each of a plurality of players in a manner that allows mutual influence on the screen on which the game images are displayed. The apparatus of the present invention is a video game apparatus in which the game is caused to proceed by shooting with four imitation gunsfrom the front surface of a display parton which game images are displayed; in this apparatus, respective enlarged images are created and displayed from an infrared camerathat can detect in a discriminating manner respective light spots on the screen from the laser light emittersof the respective imitation guns, and positional data of the images displayed in regions that include the light spots corresponding to partial regions that include the respective light spots on the screen of the display part