Patents Assigned to Bandai Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 9256070
    Abstract: An image display device includes a transparent plate which may be disposed in an inclined manner with respect to a display section of a portable terminal provided with the display section. A display displayed on the display section may be reflected on the transparent plate. A space behind the transparent plate may be viewed through the transparent plate and, at the same time, an image on the display section of the portable terminal may also be viewed while being reflected on the transparent plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: BANDAI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyuma Mihara
  • Publication number: 20150321109
    Abstract: A model includes arm parts each including a rotational shaft portion, and a body part including a shaft supporting portion and being connected to and rotatable relative to the arm part. The arm part includes a projecting portion. The body part includes a recessed portion into which the projecting portion is fitted when the rotational shaft portion is inserted into the shaft supporting portion. The rotational shaft portion and the shaft supporting portion include respective locking members that are engageable with each other and limit the movement of the rotational shaft portion in an axial direction within a range between a first position where the projecting portion is fitted in the recessed portion and a second position where the projecting portion is out of the recessed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: BANDAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Fukuchi, Yuki Sato, Yasuhiro Ishikawa, Yukihide Ide
  • Patent number: 9176704
    Abstract: A controller performs image recognition of the design of at least part of a picture obtained by capturing, by an image capturing unit, an image of a character(s) printed on or attached to a character item, generates an augmented reality image by combining a stagecraft image, prepared in association with each of image-recognized designs, with a subject image of a person wearing or having the character item, and displays the augmented reality image on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: BANDAI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsutaka Inoue
  • Publication number: 20150147935
    Abstract: A battling mobile toy has a toy body, a travelling unit provided in the toy body, and a figure body mounted on top of the toy body. A front portion of the toy body is provided with a slope and a thrusting portion. The slope slopes downward to the front. The thrusting portion is provided in a front portion of the slope, and is tapered downward to the front. The thrusting portion is thrust between another mobile toy and a travel surface to flip the other mobile toy over. A lower portion of the toy body is provided with a gap into which the thrusting portion of the other mobile toy is thrust from the side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Bandai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Satou, Yoshitake Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20150036222
    Abstract: An image display device includes a transparent plate which may be disposed in an inclined manner with respect to a display section of a portable terminal provided with the display section. A display displayed on the display section may be reflected on the transparent plate. A space behind the transparent plate may be viewed through the transparent plate and, at the same time, an image on the display section of the portable terminal may also be viewed while being reflected on the transparent plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: BANDAI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyuma MIHARA
  • Publication number: 20150001286
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an information bearing medium and an information reading unit. The information bearing medium has a two-dimensional array of unit data zones. Marks are provided on some of the unit data zones so as to form a digital code. Mark patterns of any two Y-directional adjacent unit data zone strings based on the arrangement of marks in an X-direction differ from each other. The information reading unit generates a data string on the basis of a unit signal formed from a plurality of signals output from a group of detection units that detect the marks in synchronization and recognizes the digital code of the information bearing medium on the basis of a group of the data strings sequentially obtained from the array of the unit data zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: BANDAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Matsui, Shinnosuke Terai, Hirotaka Hatayama, Haruhisa Saito
  • Patent number: 8831996
    Abstract: In computer and video games in which a character is managed by registering an ID assigned to an object, objects corresponding to the same player can be duplicately registered, and a bonus that increases the ability of the player corresponding to the duplicately registered object is granted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignees: Bandai Co., Ltd., Namco Bandai Games Inc.
    Inventors: Taira Nakamura, Osamu Sarudate, Daisuke Masui, Tsukasa Oikawa
  • Patent number: 8801489
    Abstract: A toy vehicle transformable between first and second forms includes an undercarriage, a top member having first and second surfaces serving as upper surfaces of the vehicle in the first and second forms, respectively, a front member rotatably connected to the front end portion of the top member, where the front member has first and second surfaces serving as front surfaces of the vehicle in the first and second forms, respectively, and a connector that connects the rear end portion of the top member to the undercarriage and that includes a separation rotation shaft for supporting the top member for rotation in a direction in which the top member moves away from the undercarriage and a turnover rotation shaft for supporting the top member for rotation in a direction in which the top member is turned over.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Bandai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Koshida, Akane Miyata, Yumi Kanaoka, Ayumi Hasegawa, Naohiro Yoshino, Takayuki Shinoda
  • Patent number: D710462
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Bandai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoto Nishizawa, Osamu Abe, Akira Onodera
  • Patent number: D710463
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Bandai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamichi Murayama, Masahiro Ueda, Takahito Omori, Sojiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: D721405
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Bandai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoto Nishizawa, Sojiro Tanaka, Akira Onodera
  • Patent number: D721768
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Bandai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Hara, Takamichi Murayama, Kengo Nakanishi, Takaaki Utsunomiya, Takashi Kunita
  • Patent number: D721770
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Bandai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoto Nishizawa, Sojiro Tanaka, Akira Onodera
  • Patent number: D721771
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Bandai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taku Nakano, Masayuki Endo, Takaaki Utsunomiya, Yoshihiro Takagi
  • Patent number: D722653
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Bandai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoto Nishizawa, Osamu Abe, Akira Onodera
  • Patent number: D722655
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Bandai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoto Nishizawa, Sojiro Tanaka, Akira Onodera
  • Patent number: D722656
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Bandai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoto Nishizawa, Sojiro Tanaka, Akira Onodera
  • Patent number: D723107
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Bandai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoto Nishizawa, Sojiro Tanaka, Akira Onodera
  • Patent number: D723634
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Bandai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taku Nakano, Hirotaka Hatayama, Takaaki Utsunomiya, Osamu Abe
  • Patent number: D746385
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: BANDAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoto Nishizawa, Sojiro Tanaka, Akira Onodera