Patent ID: 6980207
Filing Date: 2005-12-27
Classification: A63F,G06T

Abstract:
1. An image processing device for displaying on a screen an image of a first object moving within a virtual space seen from a virtual viewpoint of a second object operated by a player, comprising: storage means for storing motion patterns of said first object; means for calculating a distance between said first object and said second object and computing a synthetic vector by adding to a speed vector of said first object a vector calculated by multiplying a coefficient corresponding to said distance with an inverse vector of a speed vector of said second object, wherein said coefficient has a magnitude that is in inverse proportion to said distance; and image generating means for reading transition patterns from said storage means and generating images of the speed vector of said first object as said synthetic vector, wherein a magnitude of said synthetic vector is influenced by the speed vector of said second object in inverse proportion to the distance.