Patents by Inventor Akira Imagawa

Akira Imagawa 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: 8345001
    Abstract: A technique is provided related to an input interface wherein entertainment is enhanced by an information processing system that includes means for producing a computer image that prompts a player to virtually touch a plurality of touch points; means for accepting input of a video image of the player captured by image pickup means; display control means for causing a display device to display and superimpose the video image and the computer image on each other; means for analyzing the video image during display of the computer image to detect virtual touches of any of the plurality of touch points; and means for executing predetermined processing when the detecting means detects virtual touches that are performed on a predetermined number of touch points in a predetermined order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Masami Yamamoto, Nobuhito Kuramochi, Akira Imagawa
  • Publication number: 20090174652
    Abstract: A technique is provided related to an input interface wherein entertainment is enhanced by an information processing system that includes means for producing a computer image that prompts a player to virtually touch a plurality of touch points; means for accepting input of a video image of the player captured by image pickup means; display control means for causing a display device to display and superimpose the video image and the computer image on each other; means for analyzing the video image during display of the computer image to detect virtual touches of any of the plurality of touch points; and means for executing predetermined processing when the detecting means detects virtual touches that are performed on a predetermined number of touch points in a predetermined order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Masami Yamamoto, Nobuhiko Kuramochi, Akira Imagawa
  • Patent number: 7186060
    Abstract: In lining work in which a lining pipe R formed by spirally winding a strip-like member 500 consisting of an elongated sheet-form body is left in place inside a tubular culvert P, and a new lining pipe is additionally formed in front of this lining pipe that has been left in place, a lining apparatus S which has a flexible forming frame 1 consisting of link bodies is used. The strip-like member 500 is wound around the forming frame 1 by means of a joining mechanism part 7 attached to the forming frame 1, and a lining pipe R is formed while being forcibly folded inward utilizing the flexibility of the forming frame 1; at the same time, a back-filling material is injected into the inward-folded part. The inward-folded part later returns to its original state. Alternatively, the diameter of a small-diameter lining pipe R formed by winding around the forming frame 201 or 401 is expanded, and lining is performed with the back-filling material injected during this diameter expansion process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignees: Adachi Construction Industry Co. Ltd., Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiki Akimoto, Hamao Yamashiro, Hiroshi Sugahara, Yuzo Yokoyama, Akira Imagawa, Naoki Kitahashi, Yasushi Kitayama