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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:
Aug. 25, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2005
Applicants:
Shigeru Miyamoto, Kyoto, JP;
Hirohito Yoshimoto, Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Shigeru Miyamoto, Kyoto, JP;
Hirohito Yoshimoto, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The player gives a change in the input through a touch operation to a character pattern Pdisplayed on a second display screencovered by a touch panel. The character pattern Pis associated with a player character Pdisplayed on a first display screen, and is displayed on a larger scale than the player character P. The player character Pis moved according to the change in the input. Thus, a video game is provided that is played on a dual-screen video game device with a novel operation in which the player can accurately specify an intended position.