Patents by Inventor Masaru Yamanaka

Masaru Yamanaka 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: 20240178669
    Abstract: A vehicle allocation information output apparatus relates to a vehicle capable of supplying electric power to an electric power supply destination, and outputs vehicle allocation information being information relating to the vehicle to be allocated to the electric power supply destination, the apparatus retrieving a route from a current location of the vehicle to the electric power supply destination, calculating a suppliable electric power amount of the vehicle on arrival at the electric power supply destination for the route being retrieved, and outputting information relating to a vehicle allocation pattern in which a consumption electric power amount is minimized as the vehicle allocation information, the vehicle allocation pattern being a vehicle allocation pattern in which a total amount of the suppliable electric power amount of the vehicle to be allocated is equal to or greater than a required electric power amount being required at the electric power supply destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Iwasaki, Masaru Yanai, Kosei Kobayashi, Hideki Muramatsu, Motoharu Ohtake, Noritsugu Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 5265888
    Abstract: A player initially sets the degree of difficulty of a display type game, and if desired, more than one player may participate with each player selecting an associated level of difficulty. First and second objects having different shapes, e.g. capsules and viruses, and different characteristics, e.g. different colors or shadings, are displayed in a predefined display area. First objects are generated based on random number data stored in a ROM and displayed as "falling" in a vertical direction across the predefined display area. Coordinate positions of the first objects on the display are changed by a player operating a controller. Second objects are displayed at arbitrary positions in the display area based on random number data. If a prescribed number of at least a portion of first objects and/or second objects having the same type characteristics are detected as being continuously aligned in a vertical or lateral direction, those continuously aligned objects are erased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Yamamoto, Takahiro Harada, Masaru Yamanaka
  • Patent number: RE36675
    Abstract: A player initially sets the degree of difficulty of a display type game, and if desired, more than one player may participate with each player selecting an associated level of difficulty. First and second objects having different shapes, e.g. capsules and viruses, and different characteristics, e.g. different colors or shadings, are displayed in a predefined display area. First objects are generated based on random number data stored in a ROM and displayed as "falling" in a vertical direction across the predefined display area. Coordinate positions of the first objects on the display are changed by a player operating a controller. Second objects are displayed at arbitrary positions in the display area based on random number data. If a prescribed number of at least a portion of first objects and/or second objects having the same type characteristics are detected as being continuously aligned in a vertical or lateral direction, those continuously aligned objects are erased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Yamamoto, Takahiro Harada, Masaru Yamanaka