Patents by Inventor Hideto Yuzawa

Hideto Yuzawa 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: 20160144282
    Abstract: An exemplary posted information sharing system includes: a game processing unit configured to execute a multiplayer game application through a plurality of users each using a terminal; a group formation unit configured to form a playgroup for playing the game application, wherein the game processing unit includes: a group formation request unit configured to output, to the group formation unit, a playgroup formation request that specifies a group, according to input of the terminals, wherein the group formation unit is configured to form the users of terminals that specify the same group into a playgroup, based on the specified group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MIZUKI, Hideki KONNO, Hideto YUZAWA, Shunsaku KATO
  • Patent number: 9283483
    Abstract: An exemplary posted information sharing system includes: a game processing unit configured to execute a multiplayer game application through a plurality of users each using a terminal; a group formation unit configured to form a playgroup for playing the game application, wherein the game processing unit includes: a group formation request unit configured to output, to the group formation unit, a playgroup formation request that specifies a group, according to input of the terminals, wherein the group formation unit is configured to form the users of terminals that specify the same group into a playgroup, based on the specified group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Mizuki, Hideki Konno, Hideto Yuzawa, Shunsaku Kato
  • Patent number: 9239998
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an analysis unit, a gathering place determination unit, and a correction unit. The analysis unit analyzes an action history including at least a position of a subject, in accordance with action information obtained by detecting an action of the subject. The gathering place determination unit determines a position of a gathering place where plural subjects including the subject are together, in accordance with position information indicating the position of the subject which is included in the action information. The correction unit corrects position information about the subject, in accordance with the position of the gathering place determined by the gathering place determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideto Yuzawa, Toshiroh Shimada, Tomoyuki Shoya
  • Publication number: 20160006834
    Abstract: An exemplary posted information sharing system includes: an information-processing system; and a server, wherein the information-processing device includes an executing unit that executes an application program, and an accessing unit that accesses an item of posted information depending on the application program that is being executed or whose execution is suspended, the posted information being stored on the server, and the server includes a providing unit that provides access to the posted information by the information-processing device, in response to a request from the accessing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MIZUKI, Hideto YUZAWA, Shunsaku KATO
  • Publication number: 20150330780
    Abstract: A location determination processing device includes: an accepting section as defined herein; an atmospheric pressure information accepting section as defined herein; a computation result accepting section as defined herein; an identification result accepting section as defined herein; a detection result accepting section as defined herein; a determination result accepting section as defined herein; a correcting section as defined herein; and an outputting section as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Hideto YUZAWA, Takayuki TAKEUCHI, Masahiro SATO, Akira ICHIBOSHI, Jiro MATSUDA, Shinobu OZEKI
  • Patent number: 9185187
    Abstract: An exemplary posted information sharing system includes: an information-processing system; and a server, wherein the information-processing device includes an executing unit that executes an application program, and an accessing unit that accesses an item of posted information depending on the application program that is being executed or whose execution is suspended, the posted information being stored on the server, and the server includes a providing unit that provides access to the posted information by the information-processing device, in response to a request from the accessing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Mizuki, Hideto Yuzawa, Shunsaku Kato
  • Publication number: 20150249700
    Abstract: An exemplary posted information sharing system includes: an information-processing system; and a server, wherein the information-processing device includes an executing unit that executes an application program, and an accessing unit that accesses an item of posted information depending on the application program that is being executed or whose execution is suspended, the posted information being stored on the server, and the server includes a providing unit that provides access to the posted information by the information-processing device, in response to a request from the accessing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MIZUKI, Hideto YUZAWA, Shunsaku KATO
  • Publication number: 20150005065
    Abstract: An example information-processing system includes: at least one processor; and an input device configured to receive an input operation performed by a user directed to posting information displayed by a display. The at least one processor is configured to: display first information that is displayed by executing an application on the display, and the posting information that is posted using a posting information sharing service, and that is associated with the application; and reflect the input operation received by the input device in the posting information sharing service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MIZUKI, Hideto YUZAWA, Shunsaku KATO, Ryota OIWA
  • Publication number: 20140379802
    Abstract: An example information-processing system includes: at least one processor configured to: display posting information relevant to an application on a display, which information is shared by plural users; and execute, in response to a predetermined input operation performed by a user while the posting information is displayed on the display, the application based on additional information indicative of an execution condition of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MIZUKI, Hideto YUZAWA, Shunsaku KATO, Ryota OIWA
  • Publication number: 20140359100
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit, a first acceptance unit, a second acceptance unit, a measurement unit, a third acceptance unit, and a restriction unit. The determination unit determines whether information necessary for a meeting is to be downloaded. The first acceptance unit accepts first electric energy information indicating electric energy necessary to download the information. The second acceptance unit accepts second electric energy information indicating electric energy necessary to present the information in the meeting. The measurement unit measures remaining electric energy. The third acceptance unit accepts a result of subtraction of the electric energy indicated by the first electric energy information and the electric energy indicated by the second electric energy from the remaining electric energy. The restriction unit imposes, on the basis of the subtraction result, a restriction on a function in a first time period and in a second time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki TAKEUCHI, Hideto YUZAWA, Masahiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20140357252
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a determining unit, and a transmission controller. The receiving unit receives a notification to inquire about a state of a user of the information processing apparatus, which is portable, from a different information processing apparatus. If the notification is received by the receiving unit, the determining unit determines whether communication from the other information processing apparatus is acceptable in the state of the user. If the determination unit determines that the communication from the other information processing apparatus is not acceptable in the state of the user, the transmission controller controls transmission so as not to transmit the state of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideto YUZAWA, Takayuki TAKEUCHI, Masahiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20140349749
    Abstract: An example information processing system includes a display controller configured to display a screen that includes a plurality of subjects and at least one content generated by a user, the at least one content satisfying a predetermined timing condition for each subject in a display, at least one content for a subject being included in a plurality of contents posted with regard to the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi NOGAMI, Kiyoshi MIZUKI, Kouichi KAWAMOTO, Ryota OIWA, Ichiro SUZUKI, Wataru TANAKA, Hideto YUZAWA, Shunsaku KATO
  • Publication number: 20140330912
    Abstract: An example of an information sharing system includes at least one processor configured to: accept posting information on a content posted by each of a plurality of users; display the accepted posting information on a first screen; and display, on a second screen, the posting information, which is to be displayed on the first screen and which is posted by one of the plurality of users whose status satisfies a condition on usage of the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MIZUKI, Hideto YUZAWA, Ryota OIWA
  • Publication number: 20140039827
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes calculating a variance of acceleration in individual sections obtained by dividing, by a first predetermined time interval, acceleration information for multiple axis directions detected from a subject whose action is to be determined; extracting, as a first candidate region, a section with the largest variance of acceleration from among the sections; calculating a variance of acceleration in individual sections obtained by shifting the first candidate region forward and backward by a second predetermined time interval; selecting, as a second candidate region, a section with the largest variance of acceleration from among the first candidate region and the sections obtained by shifting the first candidate region forward and backward; calculating a feature value for the second candidate region; and determining the action of the subject based on the feature value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hideto YUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20130325925
    Abstract: An exemplary posted information sharing system includes: an information-processing system; and a server, wherein the information-processing device includes an executing unit that executes an application program, and an accessing unit that accesses an item of posted information depending on the application program that is being executed or whose execution is suspended, the posted information being stored on the server, and the server includes a providing unit that provides access to the posted information by the information-processing device, in response to a request from the accessing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MIZUKI, Hideto YUZAWA, Shunsaku KATO
  • Publication number: 20130325999
    Abstract: An exemplary information-processing system includes: a storage unit configured to store identification information of one or more other users; an execution unit configured to execute at least one of a plurality of programs including a first program for accessing an information sharing service and a second program that differs from the first program; a first registration unit configured to register, in the storage unit, identification information of another user, through execution of the first program by the execution unit; and a second registration unit configured to register, in the storage unit, identification information of another user, through execution of the second program by the execution unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MIZUKI, Hideto YUZAWA, Shunsaku KATO
  • Publication number: 20130324258
    Abstract: An exemplary game system including a plurality of terminal devices and a predetermined server, the plurality of terminal devices being respectively used by a user, the game system includes: a display control unit configured to performs processing for drawing a virtual space image which is an image representing a virtual space, and processing for compositing at least the posted information input by another user that is stored in the posted information storage unit, in the virtual space image in association with the virtual game character that is indicated by the identification information associated with the posted information, and presenting the composite image to the user in each terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MIZUKI, Hideto YUZAWA, Shunsaku KATO
  • Publication number: 20130326011
    Abstract: An exemplary posted information sharing system includes: an information-processing system; and a server, wherein the information-processing device includes an executing unit that executes an application program, and an accessing unit that accesses an item of posted information depending on the application program that is being executed or whose execution is suspended, the posted information being stored on the server, and the server includes a providing unit that provides access to the posted information by the information-processing device, in response to a request from the accessing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MIZUKI, Hideto YUZAWA, Shunsaku KATO
  • Publication number: 20130325958
    Abstract: An exemplary information-processing device includes: a first receiving unit that receives handwritten data input via an input device as posted information, the handwritten data showing an handwritten image; and a posting unit that posts the posted information received by the first receiving unit to a service that is provided to one or more communities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MIZUKI, Kouichi KAWAMOTO, Hideto YUZAWA, Shunsaku KATO, Yasumasa NAKAI
  • Publication number: 20130325909
    Abstract: An exemplary server device includes: a storage unit configured to store a database containing information relating to at least one community corresponding to an application program for each of a plurality of application programs; a first receiving unit configured to receive program identification information identifying an application program; an inquiring unit configured to transmit, if a community corresponding to the application program identified by the program identification information received by the first receiving unit is not recorded in the database, an inquiry relating to the application program identified by the program identification information to another device; a second receiving unit configured to receive a response to the inquiry; and a recording unit configured to record into the database information relating to the community corresponding to the application program identified by the program identification information, based on the response received by the second receiving unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi MIZUKI, Hideto YUZAWA, Shunsaku KATO