Even though these patent applications have just been published in the West, they are based on Japanese applications filed with the Japan Patent office in September 2014, so the are not exactly "fresh". Nevertheless, as the capabilities of Nintendo's next systems are still unknown, it doesn't hurt to see what they've been up to.


- Like in the past, the assignee/applicant for the two of the three patent applications is not Nintendo but some of the inventors.

- 1st patent application was published on March 3rd while the other two today.

- 1st one explains how objects/user's hand gets detected, while the other two seem to expand on the concept.

- 3rd one is basically the same as the 2nd one - just emphasizes on the fact that gestures/distance can trigger vibration and sound output.

- It doesn't have to mean something, but I find it interesting that this is the second time we see Nintendo looking for alternatives to external inputs - remember their other patent application featuring outward-facing linear image sensors?

Summary:
- Infrared camera and distance sensor
- Gesture recognition
- Distance measuring
- One example includes projector and GPS receiver

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2016/0063711.html

Filed: 07/15/2015
Published: 03/03/2016

Title:
NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM ENCODED WITH COMPUTER READABLE IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
Abstract:
A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable image processing program is provided. The image processing program causes a computer to perform functionality including obtaining an infrared image of a subject and determining a position of the subject included in the infrared image based on brightness and a size of a prescribed region of the subject within the infrared image.

“Luigi’s Mansion 3 is planned to be Nintendo’s impressive visual launch title. The goal I’ve been told, was when the team at Next Level and EAD Tokyo 2 saw the American commercial for Luigi’s Mansion 2 (aka Dark Moon) their goal was to create something that visually stunning for NX and according to sources they have come “damn close to it” with one saying “it’s going to cause arguments on the internet whether it’s a bullsh*t or not despite us developers knowing you can achieve something like on the current hardware specs”. The game uses a lot of advance lighting techniques to create this “living 3d cartoon movie” look with insanely detailed shadows and transparencies. It also shows off the haptic analog sticks, which will resist when trying to capture ghosts. An AR multiplayer mode is also planned to be in the final version of the game.”

Слух, но приятный: Luigi Mansion 3 - cтартовый проект для NX:

http://dualpixels.com/2016/03/14/rumor-lui...ndo-nx-details/

Хотелось бы Animal Crossing и 3D Марио, но и Луиджи неплохо.

Miitomo наконец-то вышел:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHoJH7SrB24

https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/miitomo/id1...16197?l=en&mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...m.nintendo.zaaa

Вот этого на старте категорически НЕ надо.
Ни марио, ни ТЕМ БОЛЕЕ Энимала и Покемонов.
На старте нужна мультиплатформа, подростковые стандартные франшизы (спортсимы, КОД, Батла, NFS и игры от Юби) + пара японских топовых игр (Скваря, Текмо, Намко, Конами (хех)) + топовый мультиплеерный релиз от самой Нинтендо + топовый имиджевый релиз + крепкий релиз "типичной нинтендо игры".

Мне достаточно того, что в плане мощности она будет аналогична ПС4 или мощнее. Ну а экзы завезут))

Так не факт же. Или где то уже точно писали или заявляли? Там же вроде вообще непонятно ничего - может и планшет завезут.

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