Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Yamazaki

Hitoshi Yamazaki 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).

  • Patent number: 9582169
    Abstract: A position of first cursor changes according to a position of thumb. A position of second cursor changes according to a visual line of a user. If a position of first cursor remains unchanged over a predetermined time period, the position of first cursor is fixed. If a distance between first cursor and second cursor has become longer, image G1 on display other than first cursor or second cursor is enlarged. If a distance between first cursor and second cursor has become shorter, image G1 on display other than first cursor or second cursor is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamazaki, Haruhiko Sugisaki, Seiji Shiraishi, Daisuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9411418
    Abstract: Information-processing device detects a visual line of a user, and displays cursor at the position viewed by the user. If the user touches a display area of an image using his/her finger while cursor is close to an edge of the display area, the position touched by the finger is recorded. When the user moves the finger, a scrolling speed is determined according to a distance the finger is moved and the image is scrolled in the direction of cursor. In a case where the position viewed by the user and a scrolling direction change, and where a line of a scrolling direction before the change crosses a line of a scrolling direction after the change, the scrolling direction changes while the scrolling speed is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Seiji Shiraishi, Haruhiko Sugisaki, Hitoshi Yamazaki, Daisuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9289680
    Abstract: A game controller includes at least four load sensors for detecting a load applied on a support board on which player's legs are ridden, and the game controller transmits a load value detected as manipulation data by the four load sensors to a game machine. The game machine determines a necessary quantity of load values, and the game machine computes the necessary quantity of load values based on the detected load value from the game controller. Then, game processing is performed based on the necessary quantity of computed load values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamazaki, Takao Sawano, Tadashi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20150369622
    Abstract: The terminal holding device includes an attaching unit to be attached to a vehicle, a holding unit which removably holds a terminal device in such a manner that a display unit of the terminal device is exposed and which includes a contact surface to be contact with the terminal device, an acceleration sensor which detects acceleration in a direction from a side of the contact surface to a side opposite to the contact surface, and a supplying unit which supplies a detection signal of the acceleration sensor to the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Yusuke IMASAKA, Kenji NAKAMURA, Hideaki TAKAHASHI, Yoshiaki TSUCHIDA, Hitoshi YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 9140719
    Abstract: The terminal holding device includes an attaching unit to be attached to a vehicle, a holding unit which removably holds a terminal device in such a manner that a display unit of the terminal device is exposed and which includes a contact surface to be contact with the terminal device, an acceleration sensor which detects acceleration in a direction from a side of the contact surface to a side opposite to the contact surface, and a supplying unit which supplies a detection signal of the acceleration sensor to the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Imasaka, Kenji Nakamura, Hideaki Takahashi, Yoshiaki Tsuchida, Hitoshi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20150185833
    Abstract: Information-processing device detects a visual line of a user, and displays cursor at the position viewed by the user. If the user touches a display area of an image using his/her finger while cursor is close to an edge of the display area, the position touched by the finger is recorded. When the user moves the finger, a scrolling speed is determined according to a distance the finger is moved and the image is scrolled in the direction of cursor. In a case where the position viewed by the user and a scrolling direction change, and where a line of a scrolling direction before the change crosses a line of a scrolling direction after the change, the scrolling direction changes while the scrolling speed is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Seiji Shiraishi, Haruhiko Sugisaki, Hitoshi Yamazaki, Daisuke Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9064296
    Abstract: A terminal device is mounted on and used in a movable body such as a vehicle. The terminal device includes an image capturing unit, an image generating unit and a display unit. The image generating unit corrects the captured image captured by the image capturing unit based on the deviation of the image capturing direction of the image capturing unit with respect to the traveling direction of the movable body, and generates a display image. Thus, based on the deviation angle of the image capturing direction with respect to the traveling direction of the movable body, the captured image can be appropriately corrected to generate the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamazaki, Kenji Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20150106769
    Abstract: A position of first cursor changes according to a position of thumb. A position of second cursor changes according to a visual line of a user. If a position of first cursor remains unchanged over a predetermined time period, the position of first cursor is fixed. If a distance between first cursor and second cursor has become longer, image G1 on display other than first cursor or second cursor is enlarged. If a distance between first cursor and second cursor has become shorter, image G1 on display other than first cursor or second cursor is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamazaki, Haruhiko Sugisaki, Seiji Shiraishi, Daisuke Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140375556
    Abstract: A plurality of positional information transmitters, each of which transmits positional information to which a plurality of unit spaces are each uniquely assigned, are disposed on a ceiling. A mobile terminal receives the positional information transmitted from each of the positional information transmitters and changes a terminal-side image in accordance with the received positional information. Furthermore, the mobile terminal transmits to a server current positional information and operation information indicating an instruction inputted by a user. The server changes, in accordance with the current positional information and the operation information received by the mobile terminal, a floor image displayed on a plurality of floor displays disposed on a floor. Thus, it becomes possible to provide a highly interesting and novel position detecting system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Shigeru MIYAMOTO, Takao SAWANO, Hitoshi YAMAZAKI, Shinya KAWADA
  • Publication number: 20140340584
    Abstract: A game apparatus is capable of controlling infrared radiation emitters for radiating infrared light. The game apparatus executes game processing using imaging information on the infrared light obtained from an input device. The input device takes an image of the infrared light radiated by the infrared radiation emitters, and also receives an input from a user. The game apparatus comprises pattern storage means; selection means; and radiation control means. The pattern storage means stores at least one signal pattern of an infrared signal usable by a control target device. The selection means selects at least one of the at least one signal pattern stored by the pattern storage means, using the input received by the input device. The radiation control means causes the infrared radiation emitters to output an infrared signal of the signal pattern selected by the selection means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Takao Sawano, Hitoshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8887547
    Abstract: A game controller including multiple sensors for detecting a pressure load of a user for use as an input device of a game apparatus. The game controller includes a load platform adapted to receive the pressure load of the user; a plurality of load sensors arranged in the load platform for detecting the pressure load of the user, each load sensor generating an independent detected load signal; and a connector to operationally connect the plurality of load sensors to the game apparatus for transmitting a transmission signal to the game apparatus to facilitate gameplay. The transmission signal includes the independent detected load signal of at least one load sensor such that the transmission signal includes at least one independent detected load signal corresponding to at least one load sensor of the plurality of load sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamazaki, Takeshi Nagareda, Masahiko Umekawa, Ryuji Ichikawa, Takeshi Mori, Kazuhiro Takeda
  • Patent number: 8858336
    Abstract: A game apparatus is capable of controlling infrared radiation emitters for radiating infrared light. The game apparatus executes game processing using imaging information on the infrared light obtained from an input device. The input device takes an image of the infrared light radiated by the infrared radiation emitters, and also receives an input from a user. The game apparatus comprises pattern storage means; selection means; and radiation control means. The pattern storage means stores at least one signal pattern of an infrared signal usable by a control target device. The selection means selects at least one of the at least one signal pattern stored by the pattern storage means, using the input received by the input device. The radiation control means causes the infrared radiation emitters to output an infrared signal of the signal pattern selected by the selection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Sawano, Hitoshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8854279
    Abstract: A plurality of positional information transmitters 100, each of which transmits positional information to which a plurality of unit spaces are each uniquely assigned, are disposed on a ceiling. A mobile terminal 10 receives the positional information transmitted from each of the positional information transmitters 100 and changes a terminal-side image in accordance with the received positional information. Furthermore, the mobile terminal 10 transmits to a server 300 current positional information and operation information indicating an instruction inputted by a user. The server 300 changes, in accordance with the current positional information and the operation information received by the mobile terminal 10, a floor image displayed on a plurality of floor displays 200 disposed on a floor. Thus, it becomes possible to provide a highly interesting and novel position detecting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Miyamoto, Takao Sawano, Hitoshi Yamazaki, Shinya Kawada
  • Patent number: 8817399
    Abstract: This lens barrel includes a lens-receiving surface that extends in an intersection direction intersecting the central axis; a side frame portion that is arranged further outward than the lens-receiving surface in the intersection direction and that protrudes in the direction of the central axis from the lens-receiving surface; and a plurality of caulking portions that are formed at a tip portion of the side frame portion in the protruding direction and are deformed by external pressure to caulk and fix a lens between the caulking portions and the lens-receiving surface. The lens-receiving surface is formed so as to be axisymmetrical to the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Suigetsu, Hitoshi Yamazaki, Mitsuhiro Iwase
  • Publication number: 20140171203
    Abstract: A game apparatus is capable of controlling infrared radiation emitters for radiating infrared light. The game apparatus executes game processing using imaging information on the infrared light obtained from an input device. The input device takes an image of the infrared light radiated by the infrared radiation emitters, and also receives an input from a user. The game apparatus comprises pattern storage means; selection means; and radiation control means. The pattern storage means stores at least one signal pattern of an infrared signal usable by a control target device. The selection means selects at least one of the at least one signal pattern stored by the pattern storage means, using the input received by the input device. The radiation control means causes the infrared radiation emitters to output an infrared signal of the signal pattern selected by the selection means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Sawano, Hitoshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8740705
    Abstract: A game controller includes at least four load sensors for detecting a load applied on a support board on which player's legs are ridden, and the game controller transmits a load value detected as manipulation data by the four load sensors to a game machine. The game machine determines a necessary quantity of load values, and the game machine computes the necessary quantity of load values based on the detected load value from the game controller. Then, game processing is performed based on the necessary quantity of computed load values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamazaki, Takao Sawano, Tadashi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 8715074
    Abstract: An example game apparatus generates and outputs a predetermined test image to a television. A terminal device has its image pickup section acquire a pickup image of a screen of the television, and transmits the pickup image acquired by the image pickup section to the game apparatus. The game apparatus determines whether or not the pickup image includes the test image. When the pickup image is determined to include the test image, an image delay time is calculated on the basis of the time of the determination, the time of the output of the test image by the game apparatus, and a processing time between the acquisition of the pickup image and the determination. The game apparatus uses the image delay time to achieve synchronization between the terminal device and the television and also between image display and sound output of the television.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimamura, Keizo Ohta, Hitoshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8696462
    Abstract: A game apparatus is capable of controlling infrared radiation emitters for radiating infrared light. The game apparatus executes game processing using imaging information on the infrared light obtained from an input device. The input device takes an image of the infrared light radiated by the infrared radiation emitters, and also receives an input from a user. The game apparatus comprises pattern storage means; selection means; and radiation control means. The pattern storage means stores at least one signal pattern of an infrared signal usable by a control target device. The selection means selects at least one of the at least one signal pattern stored by the pattern storage means, using the input received by the input device. The radiation control means causes the infrared radiation emitters to output an infrared signal of the signal pattern selected by the selection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Sawano, Hitoshi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20140031124
    Abstract: A game controller includes at least four load sensors for detecting a load applied on a support board on which player's legs are ridden, and the game controller transmits a load value detected as manipulation data by the four load sensors to a game machine. The game machine determines a necessary quantity of load values, and the game machine computes the necessary quantity of load values based on the detected load value from the game controller. Then, game processing is performed based on the necessary quantity of computed load values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi YAMAZAKI, Takao Sawano, Tadashi Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 8574080
    Abstract: A game controller includes at least four load sensors for detecting a load applied on a support board on which player's legs are ridden, and the game controller transmits a load value detected as manipulation data by the four load sensors to a game machine. The game machine determines a necessary quantity of load values, and the game machine computes the necessary quantity of load values based on the detected load value from the game controller. Then, game processing is performed based on the necessary quantity of computed load values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamazaki, Takao Sawano, Tadashi Sugiyama