AN IMAGE PROCESSOR, A GAME MACHINE USING THE IMAGE PROCESSOR, A METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING AND A MEDIUM

摘要

This invention was devised in order to create a favourable playing environment in a video game by automatically providing an optimum viewpoint without placing a burden on the player. In an image processing method whereby images, wherein the figure of a character and the figure of a peripheral landscape set in a virtual spatial coordinates system are viewed from a prescribed viewpoint, are generated, and image display signals corresponding to these images are output, there are provided: a viewpoint calculating step S1 for determining a second point on said peripheral landscape which is at a prescribed horizontal distance from a first point previously set inside the character; a line of sight calculating step S2 for determining the line of sight by linking the first point and the second point by means of a straight line; a viewpoint calculating step S3, for setting as the viewpoint a point on the line of sight which is at a prescribed distance from the first point; and a drawing step S4 for obtaining an image viewed from this viewpoint. IMAGE