Patents Assigned to LIVE2D INC.
  • Publication number: 20260148443
    Abstract: A method edits illustration data having a layer structure in which image elements for forming an image of an illustration are separated into a plurality of layers. The method obtains the illustration data, sets a target region inside the illustration data, selects two or more target layers from among the plurality of layers, and for the target layers, generates image elements in the target region based on image elements outside the target region. The generation includes generating the image elements in the target region as a reference image based on an integrated image integrating image elements in the target layers, and for each of the target layers, generating the image element in the target region corresponding to the target layer based on the reference image and the image element outside the target region in the target layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2025
    Publication date: May 28, 2026
    Applicant: Live2D Inc.
    Inventor: Keiichi SAWADA
  • Patent number: 12499506
    Abstract: An inference model construction method obtains a distribution of control points pertaining to a reference state and a distribution of the control points pertaining to a defined state with respect to a defined representation model. The method extracts a first feature value based on the distribution of the control points pertaining to the reference state. The method machine-learns the distribution of the control points pertaining to the defined state while using, as a label, the first feature value, and constructs an inference model based on a result of the leaning performed with respect to a plurality of the defined representation models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: Live2D Inc.
    Inventor: Keiichi Sawada
  • Publication number: 20250342625
    Abstract: A method obtains textures indicating a common texture expression, the textures including a reference texture having a reference length, and each of the textures having a different length. The method selects at least one of the textures depending on a length of a line segment, and draws the line segment by arranging the selected at least one texture. If the length of the line segment is changed, a second texture corresponding to the changed length is selected instead of a first texture selected before the change, and in a case where the second texture is a texture having a length that is a predetermined integer multiple of the reference length, a group of the reference textures including the same number of reference textures as the predetermined integer is selected instead of the second texture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2025
    Publication date: November 6, 2025
    Applicant: Live2D Inc.
    Inventor: Tetsuya NAKAJO
  • Publication number: 20250336109
    Abstract: A method obtains, for a reference texture having a reference length and a predetermined width, distribution information regarding a distribution state of elements that form a texture expression in the reference texture, determines a plurality of types of output length that is different from the reference length, determines arrangement positions of the elements in the texture having each types of output length based on the distribution information; and outputs the textures having the plurality of types of output length and the predetermined width by arranging the elements at the determined arrangement positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2025
    Publication date: October 30, 2025
    Applicant: Live2D Inc.
    Inventor: Tetsuya NAKAJO
  • Publication number: 20230237611
    Abstract: An inference model construction method obtains a distribution of control points pertaining to a reference state and a distribution of the control points pertaining to a defined state with respect to a defined representation model. The method extracts a first feature value based on the distribution of the control points pertaining to the reference state. The method machine-learns the distribution of the control points pertaining to the defined state while using, as a label, the first feature value, and constructs an inference model based on a result of the leaning performed with respect to a plurality of the defined representation models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: Live2D Inc.
    Inventor: Keiichi SAWADA
  • Patent number: 10748328
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires information representing an angle concerning a view direction for each of a first view direction, a second view direction, and a third view direction and an output view direction. The apparatus derives the influence degree of the rendering representation of the target object concerning each of the first view direction, the second view direction, and the third view direction to the rendering representation of the target object concerning the output view direction based on a curve determined in advance as a reference of rotation of the target object, for which a point on a line corresponding to the angle concerning the view direction is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Live2D Inc.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Nakajo
  • Patent number: 10417811
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates rendered images associated with 3D representations of an object indicated by image groups each including a plurality of parts of 2D images by using the image group to perform at least one of movement and deformation of each part included in the image groups. At this time, the apparatus sequentially decides rendering directions in which the object is rendered in the rendered images, and determines a moving direction determined by transition of the sequentially decided rendering directions. The apparatus differentiates the rendering direction, in which at least some parts of the image groups used to generate the rendered images are changed to different parts, in accordance with the determined moving direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Live2D Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nakajo, Masayuki Todate
  • Patent number: 10366529
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates rendered images associated with 3D representations of an object indicated by image groups each including a plurality of parts of 2D images by using the image group to perform at least one of movement and deformation of each part included in the image groups. At this time, the apparatus sequentially decides rendering directions in which the object is rendered in the rendered images, and determines a moving direction determined by transition of the sequentially decided rendering directions. The apparatus differentiates the rendering direction, in which at least some parts of the image groups used to generate the rendered images are changed to different parts, in accordance with the determined moving direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Live2D Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nakajo, Masayuki Todate
  • Patent number: 10297036
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus acquires a 2D image as a definition target of depth information, and accepts, for the acquired 2D image, an input of point information for designating two points on the image and an input of line segment information indicating a first line segment as a standard of a depth. The apparatus sets, for a point on a second line segment connecting the two points on the 2D image indicated by the point information, depth information based on the first line segment indicated by the line segment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Live2D Inc.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Nakajo
  • Patent number: 10235785
    Abstract: A storage (240) of an image processing device (100) stores a background image (2410) and a first image (2420) and a second image (2430) that are foreground images with respect to the background image (2410), and a first basic mask image (the first basic mask image (2450) formed from pixels having a pixel value of ‘1’ indicating opacity and pixels having a pixel value of ‘0’ indicating transparence. An acquirer (250) acquires each of these images. An image generator (220) generates a first intermediate image by compositing the first image (2420) onto the background image (2410) only in pixels that are in the same positions as the pixels in the first basic mask image (2450) having the pixel value of ‘1’. The image generator (220) then generates a first composite image by overwriting the second image (2430) onto the first intermediate image only in the pixels that are in the same positions as the pixels in the first basic mask image (2450) having the pixel value of ‘1’.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: LIVE2D INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nakajo, Masayuki Todate
  • Patent number: 9928664
    Abstract: An acquirer (231) of an image processing device (100) acquires first connection information set between a first part displayed on a display (30) and glue from a glue setting table (214) of a memory (210). The acquirer (231) acquires second connection information set between a second part displayed on the display (30) and the glue from glue setting table (214) of the memory (210). A controller (232) connects together the first part and the second part displayed on the display (30) based on the first connection information and the second connection information acquired by the acquirer (231). A display controller (230) displays the first part and the second part connected together on the display (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: LIVE2D INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nakajo, Masayuki Todate