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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2007
Toyokazu Nonaka, Kyoto, JP;
Toshiharu Izuno, Kyoto, JP;
Kentaro Nishimura, Kyoto, JP;
Kenta Tanaka, Kyoto, JP;
Norihito Ito, Kyoto, JP;
Masayuki Okada, Kyoto, JP;
Toyokazu Nonaka, Kyoto, JP;
Toshiharu Izuno, Kyoto, JP;
Kentaro Nishimura, Kyoto, JP;
Kenta Tanaka, Kyoto, JP;
Norihito Ito, Kyoto, JP;
Masayuki Okada, Kyoto, JP;
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A housing of a game controller is capable of being held with one hand of a player. A direction instruction section is provided in the housing for performing a direction instruction input. Movement detection means is means for detecting movement of the housing. Movement direction control means of a game apparatus is means for determining a movement direction of an object, which appears in a virtual game world, in accordance with an operation of the direction instruction section. Posture control means is means for determining a posture of the object in the virtual game world in accordance with detection by the movement detection means.