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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2005
Mitsuharu Saikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Ogasawara, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotsugu Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuo Shinyu, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Sugimori, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuharu Saikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Ogasawara, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotsugu Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuo Shinyu, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Sugimori, Tokyo, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Enterprises, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides an image processing unit for a shooting game in which suitable images can be displayed according to a given situation, and in which more exciting and easy-to-manipulate images are displayed. Coordinate values for objects in three-dimensional virtual space are established on the basis of prerecorded object shape data, view point positions are established on the basis of distances xand xfrom predetermined objects defined in three-dimensional virtual space (for example, the positions are lower when the distance is shorter, and higher when the distance is longer), the coordinate values established as described above are received, and the coordinate values are converted to a visual field coordinate system as seen from the view points established in the manner described above.