Nintendo Patente

An information processing system includes a first information processing device including a mouse and a second information processing device. The first information processing device performs a first set of operations including periodically acquiring a differential movement amount from its own mouse, accumulating the acquired differential movement amount to calculate an accumulated movement amount, and transmitting the accumulated movement amount to the second information processing device. The second information processing device performs a second set of operations including receiving the accumulated movement amount transmitted from the first information processing device, calculating a differential movement amount from the received accumulated movement amount and the previously received accumulated movement amount, and executing an application program that uses the differential movement amount of the mouse of the first information processing device.

A player object (100) is controlled based on mouse operation acquired from a mouse (16d, 15d), and a non-player object (200) is controlled based on an amount of movement, in an input state, of a virtual mouse (51, 61) that moves continuously moves in the input state or a non-input state within a virtual range (50, 60).

The technology described relates to systems and methods that, at least, generate an input feed containing a plurality of input data, where the input data includes at least inertial sensing data generated by the inertial sensing circuitry, integrate the input feed into an encoder state and push the encoder state to a state buffer, and obtain feedback information based on a communication state between the first device and the second device. A decoder side may decode the payload data to generate output data, and utilize the output data (e.g., for game processing).

A computer-implemented method includes performing game operations. The game operations include: acquiring a captured moving image based on a camera moving image captured by a camera; with respect to a plurality of first areas arranged side by side in an image of the captured moving image, executing one or more games, each of which changes game states of a plurality of players respectively corresponding to the plurality of first areas, based on at least a part of a body of a respective user included in each of the plurality of first areas; and executing a preparation process before execution of the one or more games. The preparation process includes: displaying a preparation image in which a plurality of guide images respectively indicating a plurality of second areas arranged side by side and respectively corresponding to the plurality of first areas are arranged on a displayed camera moving image based on the captured moving image; and determining that at least a part of the body of the respective user is included in each of the plurality of second areas.

A controller (200) includes a vibration device configured to reproducing audio frequencies, an input device, one or more processors, and one or more memories. The one or more memories store first data and instructions that cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include determining whether a specified operation has been received by the input device, and performing, in response to the determining, a first control by driving the vibration device to output sound using the first data.

A vibration control system (10) is provided that includes a vibration device capable of reproducing audio frequencies. Identification information and sound data associated with the identification information are preset in a memory. In response to a sound event generated by an application program, a preset playback instruction specifying the identification information is performed. Sound data is read based on the identification information to control the vibration device using control data.

A vibration control system (10) includes a vibration device configured to reproduce audio frequencies, one or more processors, and one or more memories. The one or more memories store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: issuing a streaming playback instruction by sequentially specifying PCM data of a specified sampling rate; and controlling the vibration device using the sequentially acquired PCM data in response to the streaming playback instruction.

An information processing apparatus (100) comprises one or more processors (102) and one or more memories storing instructions that cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: joining a session in which one or more distribution images based on an image of a running game application can be distributed; displaying a session image comprising at least one of the one or more distribution images distributed in the session, wherein one or more of the distribution images included in the session image are displayed in at least one of a first state and a second state, respectively; and displaying a first image comprising at least an image indicating a further information processing apparatus displaying, in the second state, at least one of the distribution images distributed by another information processing apparatus joining the session.

A game apparatus of the present disclosure is a game apparatus connected by wire or wirelessly to a controller to which an audio output device is connectable, the game apparatus performing game processing in response to an input signal from the controller. The game apparatus comprises: an audio signal output circuit that outputs an audio signal, and a connection state detector that detects a connection state between the controller and the audio output device. The audio signal output circuit is configured to restrict an output of the audio signal when the connection state detector detects that a connection between the controller and the audio output device is disconnected while the audio signal is being output, and remove the restriction on the output of the audio signal when a predetermined condition is satisfied.

A game system is capable of executing a multi-player game. A host apparatus selectively starts a stored game program, receives operation data from a guest apparatus, acquires own operation data, generates a game image by executing the game program using the own operation data and the operation data from the guest apparatus, displays the game image on a display, and transmits the game image to the guest apparatus. The guest apparatus transmits the operation data to the host apparatus, receives the game image from the host apparatus, and displays the game image on a display. The game program includes, for each game program, as a command for generating the game image, an instruction for generating a game image that is common to the host apparatus and the guest apparatus and/or an instruction for generating game images respectively for the host apparatus and the guest apparatus.

A vibration control system (10) generates vibration instruction data (114) comprising amplitude instruction data instructing a vibration amplitude of a vibration motor (206), based on occurrence of a vibration event, the vibration motor being controlled using a control amplitude. The system (10) determines at least one of whether an amplitude instructed by previous amplitude instruction data is zero or substantially zero, or whether a previous control amplitude is zero or substantially zero. The amplitude instructed by the amplitude instruction data is increased based on the determining.

A computer-implemented method includes: acquiring a video image captured by a camera; moving a pointer corresponding to each of a plurality of controllers based on an input to each of the plurality of controllers; setting a position of the pointer corresponding to each controller; progressing a game in which a player corresponding to each of the plurality of controllers participates; and displaying, at a position corresponding to each player in an image of the game, a second video image of each player generated from the video image based on the set position of the pointer corresponding to each controller.

An example of an information processing system includes a communication terminal apparatus communicable with a server, and a first external storage medium detachably attached to the communication terminal apparatus. The communication terminal apparatus includes at least one memory, a slot that detachably receives a first external storage medium, and at least one processor that determines whether the first storage medium is attached. The communication terminal apparatus: receives the first data from the first external storage medium attached to the slot; acquires, from the server, the first application corresponding to the first data and stores the first application in the memory, in response to determining that the first external storage medium is attached to the slot; and executes the first application stored in the memory, in response to determining that the first external storage medium is attached to the slot.

An information processing apparatus (100) comprises one or more processors (102) and one or more memories (108). The apparatus executes a chat application (114) generating a first display image comprising a game application image generated by a first game application and at least one distribution camera image distributed in a participating session. The apparatus causes the first game application to obtain the at least one distribution camera image based on a first request issued by the first game application during execution of the chat application. Furthermore, the apparatus causes the chat application to generate a second display image comprising the game application image generated by the first game application and not comprising the at least one distribution camera image.

An information processing apparatus (100) capable of executing a game application (180), comprising: one or more processors (102); and one or more memories (108) storing instructions that cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: executing the game application as a first game application; participating in a session in which a first image of the game application and a second image of the game application are distributed, the second image having a higher quality than the first image; displaying at least one of the first image or the second image distributed by another information processing apparatus; and restricting the other information processing apparatus from displaying the first image of the first game application or displaying the second image of the first game application, based on a first request by the first game application.

A vibration module includes a substantially rectangular case and a core. The core is disposed inside the case and performs linear reciprocating vibration. The case is provided with a recess at at least one of four corners of the rectangle.

A computer-implemented method includes obtaining from a running game application, designation information that indicates one or more camera image display modes among a plurality of camera image display modes different in degree of visibility of surroundings of a face of a person located within a field of view of a camera, performing selection processing based on the designation information for selecting one camera image display mode, and causing the running game application to obtain camera image data corresponding to the selected camera image display mode.

A computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a main body apparatus configured to wirelessly communicate with one or more external apparatuses in accordance with BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) and to hold in advance a list comprising a plurality of GATT (Generic Attribute Profile) databases, first information from a first external apparatus that has not communicated with the main body apparatus, identifying, at the main body apparatus, a GATT database corresponding to the first information from the plurality of GATT databases based on the first information, and wirelessly communicating, at the main body apparatus, with the first external apparatus based on the identified GATT database.

An example game controller is removably attachable to a main unit having a main unit-side slide member and configured to execute a game process. The game controller having a front surface and at least first and second side surfaces relative to the front surface. The game controller includes a controller-side slide member. The controller-side slide member protrudes from the second side surface and is configured for slidably engaging with the main unit-side slide member in a slide direction. The controller-side slide member includes a lower surface and an upper surface. The lower surface extends from the first end to the second end of the controller-side slide member in a direction substantially perpendicular to the slide direction. The game controller includes a first operation control. The first operation control is provided on the lower surface.

A communication system includes a first electronic device configured to connect through a wired connection to another electronic device and a second electronic device configured to connect through a wired connection to the first electronic device. The first electronic device includes a determination unit configured to obtain a potential produced when the first electronic device is connected through the wired connection to the another electronic device and to determine a type of the another electronic device based on the obtained potential, a processing unit configured to prepare data including device information of the first electronic device based on determination that the another electronic device is the second electronic device and a request from the second electronic device, and a communication unit configured to start communication with the second electronic device after preparation of the data is completed and to allow the second electronic device to obtain the device information of the first electronic device. The second electronic device is configured to perform processing based on the device information of the first electronic device.

An electronic device configured to connect through a wired connection to each of a plurality of other different electronic devices is provided. The electronic device includes a control unit, an obtaining unit configured to obtain a potential produced upon wired connection to at least one of the other electronic devices, and two first terminals configured to electrically be connected to two respective terminals of a plurality of terminals provided at the at least one of the other electronic devices. The control unit is configured to transmit or receive a signal adapted to communication via I2C through the two first terminals when the obtained potential has a first value, to transmit or receive a signal adapted to communication via UART through the two first terminals when the obtained potential has a second value, and to transmit or receive a signal adapted to communication via SPI through the two first terminals when the obtained potential has a third value.

Power supply device is connectable to first gaming device and second gaming device to feed power to connection device, connection device being first gaming device or second gaming device connected to power supply device. Power supply device includes communication controller configured to transmit and receive data to and from connection device, determiner configured to determine whether connection device is first gaming device or second gaming device based on data received by communication controller from connection device, and storage storing first identifier corresponding to first gaming device and second identifier corresponding to second gaming device. Communication controller transmits first identifier or second identifier to connection device based on determination result obtained by determiner.

A controller is provided to improve keytop operability. The controller includes a first wall, a second wall facing the first wall, a keytop pivotally located in a space between the first wall and the second wall, and an elastic member disposed between the keytop and the first wall. The keytop includes a shaft extending toward the first wall, and an extension at an end of the shaft. The extension has a maximum width greater than a maximum width of the shaft when viewed in a thickness direction of the first wall. The first wall or the second wall includes a restricting portion having an opening with a minimum width greater than the maximum width of the shaft and less than the maximum width of the extension. The restricting portion receives the shaft in the opening and positions the extension between the opening and the first wall to regulate pivoting of the keytop.

Based on first input data corresponding to an operation on an operation portion of an input device and second input data corresponding to a mouse sensor, a first response having a first data structure including first data based on the first input data and a second response having a second data structure including second data based on the first input data and third data based on the second input data are made in response to a first request and a second request from an application.

A computer is caused to: acquire first data based on a two-dimensional operation position of a stick of an input device including a mouse sensor at a bottom portion thereof, the stick being provided at a side portion connected to the bottom portion; and make a first response including second data generated based on the first data, in response to a first request from an application being executed. The second data indicates a value that (i) has a greater absolute value as a two-dimensional operation position of the stick becomes farther from an initial position of the stick, (ii) indicates a negative value when the two-dimensional operation position of the stick is within a first range, and (iii) indicates a positive value when the two-dimensional operation position of the stick is within a second range on the opposite side of the first range across the initial position.

An information processing system comprises: one or more processors; and one or more memories storing instructions that cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: determining a plurality of games, comprising a first game, based on first data associated with a user; acquiring a video associated respectively with each of the plurality of games; determining a first recommendation reason for recommending the first game, based on data associated with the first game and second data associated with the user; and generating a first image comprising the acquired video associated with the first game and the first recommendation reason; generating a second image comprising an item for acquiring the first game based on user input.

In an example where a processing unit configured to generate image data performs processing in connection with a plurality of applications, there is room for improvement in how the processing unit is to be used. When a first processing unit performs first application processing and second application processing, a second processing unit performs processing for generating, based on the first application processing, second image data at a second resolution lower than a first resolution in a second time period within a unit time period, the second time period being shorter than a first time period, and performs processing for generating, based on the second application processing, third image data in a third time period within the unit time period, the third time period being different from the second time period. An output unit outputs an output image to a display, the output image including a second area where the second image data is shown and a third area where the third image data is shown, the second area being smaller than a first area and the third area being different from the second area.

A controller includes a housing including an opening, and an operation member, a part of which is exposed through the opening. The operation member includes a key top exposed through the opening and operated by a user, a shaft portion extending downward from the key top, and a protruding portion protruding from the shaft portion. Further, in the housing, a pedestal with which the protruding portion of the operation member comes into contact when the operation member is tilted is provided. The tilt of the operation member is limited by the protruding portion coming into contact with the pedestal.

A symbol sequence is entropy-encoded using a table of symbol occurrences, and an integer value f is used to encode the table of symbol occurrences. The integer value f is used to adaptively decode the table of symbol occurrences, including (i) decoding each entry of a cumulative table of symbol occurrences by successively subdividing decoding ranges of the cumulative table of symbol occurrences at their respective middle indexes and, for each decoding range: calculating, from decoded entries of the cumulative table of symbol occurrences, an entry at a first index + f mod (an entry at a last index - the entry at the first index + 1) to decode an entry at the respective middle index of the decoding range, and calculating f div (the entry at the last index - the entry at the first index + 1) to update f; (ii) calculating the table of symbol occurrences from the decoded entries of the cumulative table of symbol occurrences; and applying the decoded table of symbol occurrences to entropy-decode the received encoded symbol sequence.

In a first mode, a virtual object is controlled based on an output of a mouse sensor (24, 44). In a second mode, a virtual object is controlled based on an output of an inertial sensor (83, 84, 96, 97). In a third mode, a virtual object is controlled based on an output of a directional operation portion (22, 42). When the mode is the first mode, the mode is shifted to the second mode, based on at least a first condition being satisfied, and the mode is shifted to the third mode, based on at least a second condition being satisfied.

In a second mode in which a position of a virtual object (250) is determined based on output of an inertial sensor (83, 84, 96, 97), based on a correspondence relationship in which the virtual object (250) is located at a predetermined position within a display range when a controller (3, 4) is in a reference orientation, the position of the virtual object is determined in accordance with an orientation of the controller. When a first orientation of the controller when switching from a first mode, in which the position of the virtual object is determined based on output of a mouse sensor, to the second mode satisfies a first condition, the reference orientation is updated to an orientation allowing a position of the virtual object corresponding to the first orientation to be within the display range.

From a first controller held by a right hand of a user and having a first mouse sensor, first data including first mouse sensor data based on an output of the first mouse sensor is acquired. From a second controller held by a left hand of the user and having a second mouse sensor, second mouse sensor data based on an output of the second mouse sensor is acquired. A first virtual object is moved based on the first mouse sensor data. A second virtual object is moved based on the second mouse sensor data. At least one of the first and second virtual objects is moved to a position in which the first virtual object is located to the right of the second virtual object, thereby forming a first positional relationship, based on at least one of the first data or the second data.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions that, when executed by one or more processor of an information processing apparatus, cause the information processing apparatus to perform operations comprising: generating, as a content image, an image of a portion of the content including a plurality of elements that overlaps the display region; moving a reference point based on a user's operation input; moving the display region relative to the content based on a position of the reference point within a control region; moving the control region relative to the content based on a position of the reference point; and determining, among the plurality of elements, an element that has come into a predetermined positional relationship with the reference point as a selection target; wherein the operation of generating the content image further comprises generating the content image in which the selection-target element is visually recognizable as selected.

A stick portion is tilted with respect to a stick module housing. The stick portion includes a user-operable portion located at least partially outside an outer edge of an upper surface of the stick module housing when viewed in a third direction. A housing includes a first hole through which a stick module passes, the first hole being larger than the user-operable portion in a second direction. A cover closes a part of the first hole. When viewed in a first direction, at least a part of the cover is located between an edge of the first hole and the stick module housing. The cover is immovable relatively to the stick module housing. When viewed in the third direction, an upper surface of the user-operable portion covers the entire stick portion.

An information processing system updates, based on game processing, voxel data in which at least a density and a material are set, and a display mesh is generated and updated based on the density and the material included in the voxel data. A virtual space including the display mesh is rendered based on vertex coordinates of the display mesh and a texture corresponding to the material of the display mesh. When an event occurs based on game processing, the information processing system generates a first voxel update range in a virtual space, and performs update to, in the voxel data, reduce the density of each of voxels corresponding to the first voxel update range in the virtual space, and change the material of each of voxels corresponding to a second voxel update range having a size that encompasses the first voxel update range.

An information processing system that can appropriately execute application-related processing and system processing is provided. The information processing system includes an application execution unit 13 that executes an application program, an image generation unit 14 that generates images, and an image output unit 15 that outputs images generated by the image generation unit 14 to an LCD screen 17. The image generation unit 14 sequentially executes system processing and application-related processing, which includes application rendering processing based on the execution results by the application execution unit 13, within a unit period. The information processing system interrupts the application-related processing based on the fact that the second processing has not been completed within the unit period, the information processing system executes the system processing and the continuation of the interrupted application-related processing sequentially within the next unit period. The image output unit 15 outputs the image to the liquid crystal display without waiting for the unit period to expire, based on the completion of the system processing and the application-related processing.

Based on output of a mouse sensor (24, 44) of an input device (3, 4), a first state where an opening (23, 43) of the mouse sensor is closed is determined. A second state where a bottom portion of the input device is facing downward and a third state where the input device is stationary around an axis parallel to the bottom portion are determined based on output of an inertial sensor (83, 84, 96, 97) of the input device. When at least the first to third states are determined, a displayed virtual object is controlled based on the output of the mouse sensor.

A method to be performed in an information processing system including an interface to and from which a device configured to output or input a signal of at least one of a sound or video images is connectable and disconnectable, is provided. The method includes setting as a priority group, based on a user operation, one group including a plurality of devices to be connected through a wire to the information processing system, and selecting an input/output device configured to output or input the signal from among one or more devices connected to the information processing system. The selecting the input/output device includes selecting, when the one or more devices connected through the wire to the information processing system include one or more devices in the priority group, at least one of the one or more devices in the priority group as the input/output device.

A server generates challenge data by generating falsification verification data of first data, using a server key, based on a predetermined algorithm, and transmits the first data and the challenge data to a client. The client receives the first data and the challenge data, generates response data from the received challenge data using a response key in the client, and transmits the received first data and the response data to the server. The server receives the transmitted first data and response data and reproduces challenge data by generating the falsification verification data using the server key, based on the predetermined algorithm. Then, the server verifies the received response data using the reproduced challenge data and a response key set in the server, and if a verification result is positive, the server notifies a positive authentication result.

A server issues challenge data and transmits the challenge data to a client. The client stores pre-calculated data that is a result obtained by executing at least a part of calculation for setting a response key on the server side, sets a response key on the client side without using the pre-calculated data, generates response data from the challenge data received from the server, based on the response key, and transmits the generated response data and the stored pre-calculated data to the server. The server receives the response data and the pre-calculated data, sets the response key on the server side, based on the pre-calculated data, verifies the response received from the client, based on the issued challenge data and the set response key, and notifies the client of a result based on the verification.