Patent ID: 6154197
Filing Date: 2000-11-28
Classification: A63F,G05G,G06F

Abstract:
A virtual image generation method for generating virtual images of movable objects that move in virtual space, comprising the steps of:acquiring, from each of a plurality of input devices which are movable in a plurality of predetermined directions that coincide with an operator's instinctive sense, operational direction signals from the respective input devices which correspond to control attitude,reading out, from memory means for storing predetermined various behaviors of said movable objects which have been coincided with combinations of operational direction signals of the input devices that can be simultaneously output by said plurality of input devices, behaviors of said movable objects in accordance with the signal combinations that have been acquired from said plurality of input devices, wherein at least one behavior which moves in a different direction than that of the synthesis of the operational directions, included in the assigned combination, is stored as said various behavior;controlling the behaviors of said movable objects in accordance with the behaviors of said movable objects which have been so read out; andgenerating virtual images that reflect the result of control of the behaviors of said movable objects, wherein said memory means stores behaviors of said movable objects in the horizontal plane in said virtual space which have been associated with combinations of the signals that can be output by said plurality of input devices, as well as behaviors of said movable objects in the perpendicular direction.