Patents by Inventor Eiji Takuma

Eiji Takuma has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20070270074
    Abstract: A robot toy comprises a first light source emitting light of at least two colors simultaneously or individually, five or more second light sources arranged around the first light source, a memory for storing at least two types of emotion parameters constituting emotion, and a control means for increasing/decreasing the value of emotion parameters based on an external operation input. The control means controls the first and second light sources to emit light in an emission pattern corresponding to a combination of the values of emotion parameters, thus realizing an inexpensive robot toy capable of effectively representing emotion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Inventors: Yuichi AOCHI, Wakana YAMANA, Eiji TAKUMA, Yoshiyuki ENDO, Fujio NOBATA
  • Patent number: 6484942
    Abstract: Reading sections (21a, 21b) wherein disks (10a, 10b) bearing barcodes are installed, are provided, and code sensors (23a, 23b) for reading out these barcodes are provided in the reading sections (21a, 21b). When a player rotates a disk (10a, 10b) installed on a turntable (22a, 22b), the barcode is read out by the code sensors (23a, 23b), and parameters are set respectively on the basis of this barcode. Thereafter, if the player rotates the disk (10a, 10b) while simultaneously operating the buttons (25a-27a, 25b-27b), this combination is input as a command, and the game is developed accordingly. Thereby, it is possible to provide an information storage medium, information reproduction device, game machine, and information reproduction method, whereby code, such as barcode, or the like, can be used effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Sega Enterprises Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Yokoyama, Eiji Takuma, Takashi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 5805120
    Abstract: A head-up display apparatus includes a display device for displaying various items of information and a combiner provided in front of an eye of a viewer in a visual field of the viewer, which combiner allows an outside image lying in the visual field to be passed through it and which reflects an image displayed by the display device so that the outside image passed (transmitted) through the combiner and the displayed image reflected thereby are integrated in the same visual field of the viewer, the combiner being configured to be of a substantially spherical shape with a concave surface facing the viewer, and the display device being provided in such a position that a display can be directly observable from the outside through the combiner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamada, Eiji Takuma
  • Patent number: 5092808
    Abstract: There is disclosed an action toy system comprising a base, an air blower, and unit toys connected with holes formed in the surface of the base. The blower blows air into the unit toys through the base and the holes to cause the toys to perform action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1992
    Assignee: Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Takasaka, Eiji Takuma, Hirotsugu Tomizawa