JP2004520903A5

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Publication number: JP2004520903A5
Application number: JP2002562441A
Authority: JP
Filing date: 2002-02-06
Publication date: 2006-01-05

Claims

Receiving a location choice from the player at an identifiable time;
Inserting simulated environmental conditions for the selected location into the virtual world in response to real world information associated with the selected location from times other than the identified time;
Generating a simulated environmental condition for the game in response to the inserted simulated environmental condition, and simulating a real world environment in the virtual world represented in the game.

Receiving a location selection from the player;
Inserting into the virtual world simulated environmental conditions for a selected location in response to real world information associated with a location other than the selected location;
Generating a simulated environmental condition for the game in response to the inserted simulated environmental condition, and simulating a real world environment in a virtual world represented in the game.

Receiving a location choice from the player at an identifiable time;
Inserting simulated environmental conditions for the selected location into the virtual world in response to real-world information associated with the selected location and the location other than the identified time;
Generating a simulated environmental condition for the game in response to the inserted simulated environmental condition, and simulating a real world environment in a virtual world represented in the game.

Receiving a location selection from the player;
Determining whether real world environmental condition information is associated with the selected location;
In response to determining whether real world environmental condition information is associated with the selected location, the real world to generate a simulated environmental condition in the virtual world for the selected location. Applying the environmental condition information. A method for simulating a real world environment in a virtual world represented in a game.

In response to determining whether real world environmental condition information does not exist at the selected location, the location enclosed by the selected location is analyzed, and the enclosed location is determined to be a real world environmental condition. The method of claim 4, further comprising determining whether it is associated with information.

Determining the geographical location of the game unit controlled by the player;
Applying the current real world data to simulate a portion of the game experience in response to current real world data available for the location of the game unit;
In response to current real world data not available for the location of the game unit, the current associated with a location near the location of the game unit to simulate a portion of the game experience Inserting real-world data based on real-world data; and a method for integrating real-world data into a gaming experience.

The method of claim 6, wherein the game experience is a flight simulation game, the game unit is an aircraft simulation, and the real-world data includes weather data or traffic data.

The game experience is a flight simulation game, the game unit is an aircraft simulation, the real world data includes weather data, and the method includes:
The method of claim 6, further comprising generating a simulated weather condition for the location based on real world data regarding other weather conditions for the location.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the simulated weather condition is icing and the generation of icing conditions is determined based on real world data regarding temperature and precipitation.

The game experience is a flight simulation game, the game unit is an aircraft simulation, the real world data includes surrounding aircraft data, and the method includes:
The method of claim 6, further comprising generating a representation of the real world aircraft for display as part of a game experience based on real world data identifying the real world aircraft.

The method of claim 10, further comprising selecting to display real world aircraft located within a predetermined radius of the location of the aircraft simulation.

Receiving from the player a location selection for a game unit controlled by the player at an identifiable time;
Generating a representation of a game unit for display in the game in response to a real-world unit associated with a location near a selected location of the game unit controlled by the player at the identified time. A method for simulating a real-world environment in a virtual world represented in a game.

The game is a flight simulation game, the game unit is an aircraft, and generating the representation is associated with a location near the selected location of the aircraft controlled by the player at the identified time. 13. The method of claim 12, comprising generating a representation of an aircraft for display in the game in response to a real aircraft.

The method of claim 13, wherein the representation of the aircraft corresponding to the real aircraft is displayed at a location corresponding to a location where the real aircraft is located in the real world.

The method of claim 14, wherein the location of the representation is updated to account for changes in the position of the real aircraft.

Determining whether there is new data regarding the location of the actual aircraft whose representation is displayed in the game;
15. The method of claim 14, further comprising: updating the location of the representation in response to the new data in response to whether there is new data regarding the location of the aircraft.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising inserting a new location for the representation of the aircraft based on the latest data about the aircraft in response to determining that there is no new data regarding the location of the aircraft. The method described.

The method of claim 17 , wherein the latest data includes speed and heading information of the real aircraft.

A game unit corresponding to a real world unit moves away from the game unit controlled by the player in response to the player's game unit moving within a predetermined radius of the game unit corresponding to the real world unit. The method of claim 14, wherein the method moves.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein an empty traffic controller process maintains information about a player's aircraft and the location of the real world aircraft and alerts the player about movement of the real world aircraft.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the empty traffic controller sends an audio message to the player regarding real-world movement to emulate radio traffic experienced by a real-world pilot.

A system for integrating real-world data into a game,
A real-world data manager for requesting a selected group of real-world data from a comprehensive real-world database for use in the game;
A database of real-world data, connected to a real-world data manager to store selected groupings of data related to real-world events,
To receive a request for inserted data from the real-world data data manager, retrieve selected data from the real-world data database, and generate inserted game data to be used in the execution of the game A system for integrating real-world data into a game, comprising: a real-world data manager; and a real-world data insertion engine connected to the real-world data database.

23. The game is a flight simulation game, the real world data is weather data, and the insertion engine is a weather engine for inserting weather data to be displayed during execution of the game. The device described in 1.

23. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the weather engine simulates weather conditions based on an analysis of other real world weather conditions.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the weather engine simulates icing conditions based on analysis of temperature and precipitation data.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the weather engine updates icing conditions in response to a player using a de-icing application in the game.

23. The game is a flight simulation game, the real world data is traffic data, and the insertion engine inserts traffic data to display other aircraft during execution of the game. The device described in 1.

A computer readable medium for integrating real world data into a game,
The computer readable medium is on a processor,
Display the game unit corresponding to the player's input at an identifiable time,
Retrieve real-world data about the location of real-world units at a time close to the identified time at which the player's input is received,
A computer readable medium for integrating real world data into a game, storing instructions for displaying representations of real world units in response to the retrieved data in the game.

The computer readable medium is on a processor,
Lets you determine if real-world data exists in the currently displayed real-world unit for the selected time,
In response to determining that real world data does not exist at the selected time, causing the real world unit to be inserted at the location;
29. The computer readable medium of claim 28, further comprising instructions for displaying the real world unit at the inserted location.

30. The computer read-out of claim 29, wherein the game is a flight simulation game, the game unit is an aircraft, and the instructions cause a processor to insert into a real-world aircraft position based on heading and speed information. Possible medium.

A computer-readable medium for integrating real-world data into a game, the computer-readable medium displaying a game unit corresponding to a player's input at an identifiable time;
Causing real-world data regarding environmental conditions to be retrieved at a time close to the identified time at which the player's input is received;
A computer readable medium for integrating real world data into a game, storing instructions for displaying an expression of environmental conditions in the game in response to the data retrieved in the game.

Instructions that cause the processor to retrieve real-world data about environmental conditions are
Let's retrieve the weather data about the location corresponding to the location of the game unit,
32. The computer readable medium of claim 31, further displaying a representation of environmental conditions based on the retrieved data.

The instructions are sent to the processor,
Determine whether weather data is present at the game unit location;
In response to determining that no weather data exists, let the surroundings be analyzed until real-world weather data is found,
33. The computer readable medium of claim 32, wherein a representation of environmental conditions for the location of the game unit in the game is inserted from the real world found weather data.