Patents by Inventor Kenkichi Shimooka

Kenkichi Shimooka 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: 6524186
    Abstract: An entertainment system and a recording medium on which a system is recorded that makes it possible for a character in a game space to handle an object so that a player can make with respect to an operation device of the entertainment system a movement that is related to the actual way an object is handled. A game is played in the entertainment system in accordance with this program. Commands by a player are input from an input operation system. Mounted in an optical disk device built into an optical disk controller of the entertainment system is a CD-ROM on which is recorded a program by which, using his fingers, the player moves operation parts of the input operation device with movements which are related to the way in which objects are actually handled by characters in a game space, thereby analogously moving the object of the character in the game space in two directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Susumu Takatsuka, Kenkichi Shimooka, Yuji Yamada
  • Publication number: 20020068628
    Abstract: An entertainment system and a recording medium on which a system is recorded that makes it possible for a character in a game space to handle an object so that a player can make with respect to an operation device of the entertainment system a movement that is related to the actual way an object is handled. A game is played in the entertainment system in accordance with this program. Commands by a player are input from an input operation system. Mounted in an optical disk device built into an optical disk controller of the entertainment system is a CD-ROM on which is recorded a program by which, using his fingers, the player moves operation parts of the input operation device with movements which are related to the way in which objects are actually handled by characters in a game space, thereby analogously moving the object of the character in the game space in two directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: SUSUMU TAKATSUKA, KENKICHI SHIMOOKA, YUJI YAMADA