Nintendo and Hal Laboratory Assigned Patent

Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan, and Hal Laboratory, Inc., Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (9,473,699) developed by Suzuki, Toshiaki, Kyoto, Japan, and Abe, Takuya, Tokyo, Japan, for a “storage medium storing information processing program, information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “From a panorama moving image storage unit storing a panorama moving image, a panorama moving image is read and sequentially acquired. A display range, of the acquired panorama moving image, which is to be displayed on a display device is set in accordance with an operation made by a user. A sound to be output in synchronization with display of the image on the display device is generated based on the display range. Control of sequentially displaying the display range of the acquired panorama moving image on the display device is performed. Control of outputting the generated sound from the speaker in synchronization with the display of the image on the display device is performed.“

The patent application was filed on April 17, 2013 (13/864,681).