| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| D402285 |
Display panel with a computer generated icon |
December 8, 1998 |
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| D402282 |
Display panel with a computer generated icon |
December 8, 1998 |
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| D401949 |
Photographic image seal making machine |
December 1, 1998 |
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| D399881 |
Game machine |
October 20, 1998 |
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| D396888 |
Game machine |
August 11, 1998 |
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| D396068 |
Optical beam gun for a game machine |
July 14, 1998 |
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| D396067 |
Game machine |
July 14, 1998 |
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| D392689 |
Game machine |
March 24, 1998 |
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| D392688 |
Game machine |
March 24, 1998 |
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| D389216 |
Display device |
January 13, 1998 |
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| D388835 |
Operating apparatus for a racing game machine |
January 6, 1998 |
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| D387094 |
Operating apparatus for a game machine |
December 2, 1997 |
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| D386543 |
Optical beam gun for a game machine |
November 18, 1997 |
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| D385586 |
Optical beam gun for a game machine |
October 28, 1997 |
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| D384982 |
Game cabinet |
October 14, 1997 |
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| D384705 |
Operating apparatus for a game machine |
October 7, 1997 |
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| D383185 |
Amusement game machine |
September 2, 1997 |
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| 7001280 |
Method of switching background images in accordance with movement of characters, storage medium |
February 21, 2006 |
| On displaying, in a video game device, an image of a player character and images of non-player characters, together with one type of background image from at least two or more switchable types of background images, the background images are changed from one to another only while the |
| 6769689 |
Turn-table adapter capable of being attached to a game device and portable game device using the |
August 3, 2004 |
| A game device is a turn-table adapter having a clip mountable on a case, a shaft passing through one arm of the clip, an operation disk coaxially provided to the shaft at one end thereof, and a press-in disk coaxially provided to the shaft at another end thereof. Another arm of the clip |
| 6758756 |
Method of controlling video game, video game device, and medium recording video game program |
July 6, 2004 |
| The present invention relates to a method for controlling a novel video game in which dancing is used as a factor in the behavior of a character, a machine for the video game, and a medium in which a program for the video game is recorded, and makes it possible to dance characters 611 an |
| 6758753 |
Input apparatus for game systems |
July 6, 2004 |
| There is provided an input apparatus for game systems, which are simplified in construction. The input apparatus has a base (21) having a plurality of panel-attaching sections (26), a plurality of foot panels (50) arranged respectively at a plurality of panel-attaching sections (26), and |
| 6757644 |
Image displaying method, device, and computer-readable storage medium |
June 29, 2004 |
| In an image display method used in a game device to display a fluid which is virtually caused along a three-dimensional surface, the three-dimensional surface is mapped onto a flat plane on which a flow of the fluid is calculated to obtain calculation results. The calculation results |
| 6755745 |
Display control with fewer amounts of data in game system |
June 29, 2004 |
| By using a unique display control technique, game images are provided, in which characters can be displayed in different poses with a limited-capacity memory area. Both image data corresponding to each of a plurality of blocks obtained by dividing a character to be displayed in a gam |
| 6702676 |
Message-creating game machine and message-creating method therefor |
March 9, 2004 |
| A message-creating game machine includes at least one storage unit among a first storage unit for storing a plurality of images displaying character strings constituting sentences, a second storage unit for storing a plurality of images displaying character strings constituting words, an |
| 6676523 |
Control method of video game, video game apparatus, and computer readable medium with video game |
January 13, 2004 |
| A video game with a main game process and a subsequent ending process including, if an interrupt request of a game character calling to a player character occurs, acquiring a progress of game at that time, and acquiring the voice message data of calling in accordance with an emotional va |
| 6676514 |
Game system |
January 13, 2004 |
| A game system which is capable of ensuring continuity of a game is provided. A game system for paying for recreation value according to progress of a game, has a magnetic information reading device for reading information in an attachable/detachable recording medium, an SRAM for stor |
| 6666764 |
Method of controlling a character in a video game |
December 23, 2003 |
| A method and a video game device are provided which are capable of controlling enemy characters who are originally programmed to attack a main character, to injure each other for a predetermined time period when a user instructs a predetermined action to the main character. The prede |
| 6659873 |
Game system, game device capable of being used in the game system, and computer-readable memory |
December 9, 2003 |
| Data link-up between multiple game devices can be more flexibly achieved. A game system (1) comprises a game device for business (2) and a game device for use at home (3), which execute games in accordance with predetermined programs, it being possible to exchange information between the |
| 6657627 |
Video simulation system for calculating distance between characters and applying polygon to poly |
December 2, 2003 |
| The distance between a moving character and a fixed character which are displayed in a pseudo-three-dimensional space on a display monitor screen is calculated by identifying one of polygons which make up the fixed character and which contains a point of planar coordinates representing |
| 6645067 |
Music staging device apparatus, music staging game method, and readable storage medium |
November 11, 2003 |
| A CPU controls a graphic controller based on control programs within a main RAM to extract a series of rhythm sound data for each of multiple mimic percussion instruments from a graphic RAM and correlates these in a time-axial direction for display on a monitor, instruction and display o |
| 6609979 |
Performance appraisal and practice game system and computer-readable storage medium storing a pr |
August 26, 2003 |
| A game system comprises a storage device which stores data for reproducing music and data which define a performing procedure corresponding to the music, an operation input device for receiving an operation of a player, a reproduction device for reproducing the music based on the data fo |
| 6607446 |
Music game system, game control method for the game system, and computer-readable memory medium |
August 19, 2003 |
| Disclosed is a music game system in which the attraction of a game is increased by effectively using limited music data. The music game system comprises an input device 4 for outputting signals in correspondence with the operation states of push-switches 5; a ROM 30a in which are stored |
| 6606104 |
Video game device, guide display method for video game and readable storage medium storing guide |
August 12, 2003 |
| A video game device in which a competition is developed between a main character and an enemy character by giving instructions to move the main character operated by an operation unit in a game space displayed on a display screen. The video game device comprises: a character processing |
| 6599195 |
Background sound switching apparatus, background-sound switching method, readable recording medi |
July 29, 2003 |
| A background-sound switching method and apparatus is provided for switching of background-music data. A partitioning code represents an end position of a phrase of background sounds outputted through a speaker. A switching instruction device outputs a switching-instruction signal which c |
| 6595850 |
Video game machine, video-game display control method, and computer-readable recording medium co |
July 22, 2003 |
| A video game machine includes a display unit for displaying a game screen based on a video game in which a leading character fights to attack enemy characters, a display control unit for displaying the leading character and enemy characters on the game screen, an operation unit for outpu |
| 6589117 |
Fishing game system and input device therefor |
July 8, 2003 |
| A fishing game system is designed to sufficiently reproduce a feeling of actual fishing with a simple mechanism. A fishing game system includes a display device for displaying an image, an input device from which a signal is outputted in response to operation by a player, and a game |
| 6585600 |
Competitive video game device, a competition video game executing method and a readable storage |
July 1, 2003 |
| A competition video game device for displaying a plurality of simulated games played between an own team and an enemy team on a display means by causing n (.gtoreq.1) player characters to participate and play in the games, comprises a first storage means for storing m (>n) player |
| 6582309 |
Game system and computer-readable recording medium |
June 24, 2003 |
| A game system has a display monitor for displaying a game image, a plurality of control buttons manually operable by a game player, and a memory for storing data representing timings to operate the control buttons, respectively. The game system has a control operation indicating func |
| 6561901 |
Game system and computer readable storage medium carrying game program |
May 13, 2003 |
| A game system includes: a manipulating unit to be manipulated by a player; a storage unit for storing program and data required to execute a game; an executing unit for executing the game based on a manipulation of the manipulating unit and storage contents in the storage unit; an in |
| 6554711 |
Music game machine with interactive second game device |
April 29, 2003 |
| In a musical game system, there is a corresponding relationship between a game executed in a main body game device and a game executed in a portable game device functioning as an auxiliary memory apparatus of the main body game device. Data for music reproduction for reproducing a plural |
| 6544122 |
Background-sound control system for a video game apparatus |
April 8, 2003 |
| A background-sound control apparatus, a background-sound control method, readable recording medium containing a background-sound control program, and a video game apparatus improve effectiveness of background-sound data provided over a predetermined number of channels. When background so |
| 6539266 |
Computer system, method of executing computer program, and computer program storage medium |
March 25, 2003 |
| A computer system for detecting alteration of programs in which a plurality of check program portions are read from a storage medium which carries computer programs including the check program portions. Each check program portion is executed to detect alteration of at least one other che |
| 6520858 |
Video game apparatus, character-behavior-instructing method in video game, and machine-readable- |
February 18, 2003 |
| A video game apparatus, method and medium increases simulation realism of a jump action by using an operation stick bendable from its upright position. A controller-operation detection unit detects values of the x-coordinate and the y-coordinate which correspond to a bend direction and |
| 6500065 |
Image displaying method, device, storage medium, and game machine for basketball based game with |
December 31, 2002 |
| In a game device for use in displaying an image on a display device to play a video basketball game in response to an operation of a user, a shot image which takes a shot at a goal by a character is displayed on the display device while manipulation timing of the user is monitored to |
| 6483520 |
Image creating method and apparatus, recording medium for recording image creating program, and |
November 19, 2002 |
| In an image creating apparatus, a liquid-object model is realistically represented by using a simple liquid-object model consisting of a plurality of polygons. A ROM stores wave-swell polygon data and texture data representing the swell of waves. The swell of a wave is formed of N li |
| 6471584 |
Simulation game machine |
October 29, 2002 |
| A simulation game machine relatively moves a virtual character displayed on a monitor in a game space in accordance with control by a player using an operation unit. The simulation game machine includes a pair of dummy skis, jump switches for instructing the character to initiate jumping |
| 6468161 |
Video game device and method of displaying images of game, and storage medium storing programs f |
October 22, 2002 |
| The video game device which may display 2D images and pseudo 3D images without need to rewrite data in a frame buffer for a long time in a game. The frame buffer includes a display area storing images directly transferred to the monitor and a non-display area storing images used to p |
| 6462720 |
Light-emitting display device, target game apparatus using light-emitting display device, displa |
October 8, 2002 |
| There is provided a light-emitting display device which is resistive to shock and vibration and a display switching method comprising: a forward transparent plate 322a having a light scattering portion for a predetermined design pattern relative to a surface direction thereof, a back |
| 6461239 |
Music action game machine, performance operation instructing system for music action game and st |
October 8, 2002 |
| The music action game machine comprises: a main body; an operation input device disposed on a front side of the main body so as to be adjacent to hands of a player facing the front side of the main body, the operation input device having a plurality of operation members; a storage device |
| 6450888 |
Game system and program |
September 17, 2002 |
| Disclosed is a game system which matches a player's tastes. In a game system operating in time with music, it is possible to select an edit mode for editing timing data which define timings of operations. In the edit mode, an edit window having a predetermined display range is displayed |
