US Patent 7922582 Hand-held game apparatus and game program

Patent 7922582 was granted and assigned to Nintendo on April, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent

Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Nintendo

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7922582

Date of Patent

April 12, 2011

Patent Application Number

12127923

Date Filed

May 28, 2008

Patent Primary Examiner

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David L Lewis

Patent abstract

A hand-held game apparatus and a game program allow a user to play a game while going back and forth between a narrow-range map and a broad-range map. The player can manipulate a touch panel mounted on a display for displaying the broad-range map. If the player manipulates the touch panel to point to a coordinate position on the broad-range map, thus designating coordinates for a narrow-range map to display, an image of the narrow-range map, which is changed as desired, is displayed. If the player indicates a moving direction on the broad-range map, to designate a scroll direction, the displayed broad-range map is moved (scrolled).