Patents by Inventor Takaya Yamane

Takaya Yamane 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: 9630094
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable music game program, the music game program causing the one or more processors to perform including a communication unit configured to obtain from another game device through communication, data relating to operation input to another game device, a presentation data generation unit configured to generate presentation data in accordance with the operation input to the game device, an estimated presentation data generation unit configured to estimate, based on data relating to the operation input to another game device for a first portion of the music data obtained through the communication unit, presentation in accordance with the operation input to another game device for a second portion of the music data and generate estimated presentation data representing the presentation, and a game processing unit configured to perform the game process based on the presentation data and the estimated presentation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takaya Yamane
  • Patent number: 8860847
    Abstract: In an exemplary capturing apparatus, a first captured image captured by a capturing section is acquired. Then, it is determined whether or not a face image is included in the first captured image. When it is determined that a face image is included, any one type of image processing is selected from a plurality of types of image processing including a type of image processing using the face image, and the selected type of image processing is performed on the first captured image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Akifusa, Naoko Mori, Misuzu Yoshida, Asako Kagita, Takaya Yamane
  • Publication number: 20140221096
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium encoded with a computer readable music game program, the music game program causing the one or more processors to perform including a communication unit configured to obtain from another game device through communication, data relating to operation input to another game device, a presentation data generation unit configured to generate presentation data in accordance with the operation input to the game device, an estimated presentation data generation unit configured to estimate, based on data relating to the operation input to another game device for a first portion of the music data obtained through the communication unit, presentation in accordance with the operation input to another game device for a second portion of the music data and generate estimated presentation data representing the presentation, and a game processing unit configured to perform the game process based on the presentation data and the estimated presentation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takaya YAMANE
  • Patent number: 8648924
    Abstract: In an exemplary capturing apparatus, a captured image is acquired in real time. A first face area is detected from a plurality of face areas included in the captured image thus acquired, and a first face image corresponding to the first face area is acquired. Then, a face combination image is generated by replacing at least a part of a second face area with the first face image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Akifusa, Naoko Mori, Misuzu Yoshida, Asako Kagita, Takaya Yamane
  • Publication number: 20120075496
    Abstract: In an exemplary capturing apparatus, a captured image is acquired in real time. A first face area is detected from a plurality of face areas included in the captured image thus acquired, and a first face image corresponding to the first face area is acquired. Then, a face combination image is generated by replacing at least a part of a second face area with the first face image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke AKIFUSA, Naoko Mori, Misuzu Yoshida, Asako Kagita, Takaya Yamane
  • Publication number: 20120075503
    Abstract: In an exemplary capturing apparatus, a first captured image captured by a capturing section is acquired. Then, it is determined whether or not a face image is included in the first captured image. When it is determined that a face image is included, any one type of image processing is selected from a plurality of types of image processing including a type of image processing using the face image, and the selected type of image processing is performed on the first captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Akifusa, Naoko Mori, Misuzu Yoshida, Asako Kagita, Takaya Yamane
  • Patent number: 7847754
    Abstract: The program of the present invention is an image processing program for causing a computer to display images using a plurality of display devices, wherein the image processing program causes the computer to perform the steps of: (a) dividing a virtual space into a plurality of areas; (b) associating display device selection information with each of the plurality of areas for selecting on which of the plurality of display devices an image is to be displayed; (c) judging in which of the plurality of areas a mobile object existing in the virtual space is positioned; (d) acquiring the display device selection information associated with the area in which the mobile object is positioned; and (e) displaying the mobile object in a display device corresponding to the display device selection information acquired at step (d) among the plurality of display devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega
    Inventors: Akinori Nishiyama, Yukihiro Higashi, Takaya Yamane, Masato Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20070252779
    Abstract: The program of the present invention is an image processing program for causing a computer to display images using a plurality of display devices, wherein the image processing program causes the computer to perform the steps of: (a) dividing a virtual space into a plurality of areas; (b) associating display device selection information with each of the plurality of areas for selecting on which of the plurality of display devices an image is to be displayed; (c) judging in which of the plurality of areas a mobile object existing in the virtual space is positioned; (d) acquiring the display device selection information associated with the area in which the mobile object is positioned; and (e) displaying the mobile object in a display device corresponding to the display device selection information acquired at step (d) among the plurality of display devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Inventors: Akinori Nishiyama, Yukihiro Higashi, Takaya Yamane, Masato Shimizu