Patents by Inventor Akira Yamaoka
Akira Yamaoka 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).
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Patent number: 8251811Abstract: A game machine includes playing content of a player in a game play part, in which the player operates an operation target, to be reflected in an action of the operation target in a video image. Reproduction data is recorded for reproducing a scene of the operation target moving in a game space according to the operation of the player. Base video image data is stored for reproducing a base video image representing a scene of a predetermined region of the game space. A video image is displayed based on a base video image and a reproduced video image such that a time of displaying a predetermined scene of the base video image and a time of displaying a scene of the operation target moving in the predetermined region in the reproduced video image based on the reproduction data are synchronized.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2006Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Yamaoka, Akihiro Imamura
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Publication number: 20100120537Abstract: In a game device (200), a storage unit (201) stores information indicating a position, a posture and an orientation of a character object to serve as a model, breathing instruction information specifying a time period in which a player should exhale, and a position of a detecting unit (203) detecting a sound production of the player. A deriving unit (204) derives a time period in which the player is taking a breath from a sound production detected by the detecting unit (203). A scoring unit (205) compares the breathing instruction information stored in the storage unit (201) with a time period derived by the deriving unit (204), and gives scores the breathing of the player based on a degree of agreement therebetween. An output unit (206) outputs a result of scoring by the scoring unit (205). A display unit (202) displays an image containing the scoring result and the character object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Yamaoka, Takahide Murakami
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Publication number: 20090280895Abstract: A game machine is provided which enables playing content of a player in a game play part, in which the player operates an operation target, to be reflected in an action of the operation target appearing in a video image displayed in a video image watching part. A replay data recording unit (90) records reproduction data for reproducing a scene of the operation target moving in a game space according to the operation of the player. A base video image data storage unit (92) stores base video image data for reproducing a base video image representing a scene of a predetermined region of the game space. A video image screen display controlling unit (94) causes a video image, which is based on a base video image and a reproduced video image, to be displayed such that a time of displaying a predetermined scene of the base video image and a time of displaying a scene of the operation target moving in the predetermined region in the reproduced video image which is based on the reproduction data are synchronized.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2006Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Akira Yamaoka, Akihiro Imamura
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Patent number: 6718790Abstract: A cooling device is constructed by a water impermeable member defining a water passage, the water impermeable member being provided with a vapor permeable member which is permeable to water vapor and impermeable to water, and has the form of a mesh and made of a material having water repellency. The cooling device has a long-life operation while preventing wear-out of the vapor permeable member. Further, optimally setting the size of an opening of the mesh member enables to securely dissipate water vapor outside of the cooling device through the vapor permeable member while efficiently suppressing water leak.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2002Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignees: Sanko Service Co. Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuo Moriguchi, Akira Yamaoka
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Publication number: 20030033826Abstract: A cooling device is constructed by a water impermeable member defining a water passage, the water impermeable member being provided with a vapor permeable member which is permeable to water vapor and impermeable to water, and has the form of a mesh and made of a material having water repellency. The cooling device has a long-life operation while preventing wear-out of the vapor permeable member. Further, optimally setting the size of an opening of the mesh member enables to securely dissipate water vapor outside of the cooling device through the vapor permeable member while efficiently suppressing water leak.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2002Publication date: February 20, 2003Inventors: Tetsuo Moriguchi, Akira Yamaoka
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Patent number: 5792508Abstract: A material for treatment of periodontal disease which is comprised of cementum of a human or other animals combined with a bioabsorbable material.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 1996Date of Patent: August 11, 1998Assignee: Kanebo Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Kitamura, Kazuaki Nishimura, Mitsuru Nishigaki, Akira Yamaoka, Etsuo Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 5772439Abstract: The hybrid dental implant of this invention has cementum particle on a surface of a dental implant substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1996Date of Patent: June 30, 1998Assignee: Kanebo LimitedInventors: Akira Yamaoka, Kazuaki Nishimura, Tomomi Nakanishi, Naho Michie
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Patent number: 5745373Abstract: A logic circuit generating method and apparatus generating logic circuits of a circuit system by minimizing the fan-out count of cells or cell macros constituting information specific to the circuit system. According to the method, a Boolean expression and the polarities of its input/output variables are input from a design master file of the apparatus. The Boolean expression is then transformed into a two-branch tree composed of nodes represented by the logical operators of that expression. In the two-branch tree, the nodes representing a parent and a child logical operator are converted into a single node, whereby a multiple-branch tree is generated. That is, a plurality of gates are connected to a single net, or signal line. A cell library is referenced so that cells are assigned initially to the multiple-branch tree thus obtained. The initial cell assignment is performed preferentially starting from the cell whose fan-out count is the largest.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1995Date of Patent: April 28, 1998Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroo Watai, Akira Yamaoka, Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Hiromoto Sakaki
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Patent number: 5490259Abstract: Under such a condition between outputs of AND circuits for outputting All "0" when one of zero detecting circuits of two register identifiers within an instruction register detects "0", instead of a content of a general-purpose register designated by these identifiers, and also a carry derived from a page offset corresponding to an intermediate result of an address adder, when a page address portion of a logical address is known before this logical address is defined, selecting circuits are controlled, and then the address controller is bypassed to retrieve a translation look-aside buffer, thereby defining a real address. In case that the page address portion of the logical address register is identical to the page address portion of the base register, the translation look-aside buffer is previously retrieved in accordance with either the content of the index register, or the content of the base register so that the real address can be defined.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1993Date of Patent: February 6, 1996Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Microcomputer System Ltd.Inventors: Tohru Hiraoka, Hiromichi Kainoh, Akira Yamaoka
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Patent number: 5341484Abstract: A virtual machine system in which a plurality of operating systems (OS's) can run on one computer including a physical main storage (physical MS), and at least one physical extended storage (physical ES), each operating system (OS) of the OS's having a virtual MS on the physical MS and at least one virtual ES on the at least one physical ES.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1990Date of Patent: August 23, 1994Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shunji Tanaka, Akira Yamaoka, Hidenori Umeno, Masatoshi Haraguchi, Kiyoshi Ogawa, Keiji Saijo, Katsumi Takeda
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Patent number: 5214759Abstract: In a memory device shared among processors, a communication buffer having a size requested by the processing program of the origin of sending is dynamically secured. After the communication buffer has been secured, the send program writes a message to be conveyed to the receive program into the above described communication buffer and asks the send OS to perform sending. The send OS sends a communication ID having "1" set in the bit position corresponding to the receive program. On the basis of the above described bit position, the receive OS specifies a receive program and informs the receive program of that fact. The receive program reads a message from the communication buffer. Communication between the send program and the receive program is thus realized. A send instruction and a receive instruction respectively for exclusive use of sending and reading out a communication ID are prepared beforehand.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1990Date of Patent: May 25, 1993Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akira Yamaoka, Kenichi Wada
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Patent number: 5201040Abstract: A data processing system which has a plurality of sets of sub-systems, with each set including: a plurality of processors; a main storage; and a controller for controlling the transfer between at least each of the processors and the main storage. A shared storage apparatus is shared between the sub-systems to store exclusive control information, information on the processor-to-processor communications and an instruction to be transferred between the main storages and the shared storage apparatus when the information is accessed by each sub-system. The instruction designates a main storage address, a transfer data length and specified information on accessing the location of the shared storage apparatus and is decoded by the processors to that the main storage address is transferred to the main storage, whereas the specified information such as a data identifier and a relative address is transferred to the shared storage apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1988Date of Patent: April 6, 1993Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Wada, Akira Yamaoka
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Patent number: 4954947Abstract: An instruction processor effecting operations for register operands and for processing branch instructions to perform address calculations for branch destination instructions, comprising general-purpose registers storing data including results of operations of said instruction processor, address adders calculating the address of branch destination instructions by using data read out from the general-purpose register and an ALU performing arithmetical or logical operations on the data read out from the general-purpose register in the decode cycle of the instructions. The result of the arithmetical or logical operation is inputted into the address adder but not from the general-purpose register, in the case where the result of the arithmetical or logical operation is utilized for address calculation in the execution of a succeeding instruction.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1989Date of Patent: September 4, 1990Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazunori Kuriyama, Kenichi Wada, Akira Yamaoka
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Patent number: 4924377Abstract: Address calculation adders and a buffer storages are each independently provided for each operand of an instruction requiring two or more operands. In the translation instruction processing, the address calculations and operand fetch operations on the first and second operands are substantially asynchronously conducted. Consequently, the overhead that takes place one every n second operand fetch operations can be removed by independently and asynchronously performing the address calculations and operand fetch operations by use of a plurality of address adders. Moreover, the circuit for separating and obtaining a byte from the operand buffer can be dispensed with by adopting an operation procedure in which a byte of the first operand is fetched and is stored in temporary store means that supplies the address adder the data stored therein.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1984Date of Patent: May 8, 1990Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazunori Kuriyama, Kenichi Wada, Akira Yamaoka
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Patent number: 4916606Abstract: A data processing apparatus of processing first instruction of a type in which the result of operation of the first instruction is stored in at least one storage location designated by operands of the first instruction and second instruction of a type which succeeds to the first instruction and makes use of the result of operation of the first instruction as operand data. The apparatus comprises an OSC control circuit for detecting whether at least a part of the result of operation of the first instruction is to be used or not as the operand data for the second instruction, and an arithmetic unit for allowing the result of operation of the first instruction to be directly used as the operand data for the second instruction when the OSC control circuit detects the given condition is fulfilled.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1987Date of Patent: April 10, 1990Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akira Yamaoka, Kenichi Wada, Kazunori Kuriyama, Yooichi Shintani
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Patent number: 4858105Abstract: A pipelined data processor comprises a circuit for storing two instructions in a pair of instruction registers, a circuit for detecting whether those instructions are a combination of an instruction requesting the use of an operation unit and an instruction requesting the use of another resource, and a circuit to control the execution of the instructions when the decision of the detection circuit is affirmative such that those instructions are executed by the operation unit and the resource in a plurality of stages.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1987Date of Patent: August 15, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazunori Kuriyama, Yooichi Shintani, Akira Yamaoka, Tohru Shonai, Eiki Kamada, Kiyoshi Inoue
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Patent number: 4758949Abstract: An information processing apparatus having a buffer register for pre-fetching a plurality of instructions and executing one instruction after another by reading them from the buffer registers, is provided with a first instruction decode start determination unit for register type instructions and a second instruction decode start determination unit for non-register type instructions, provided separately from the first unit, whereby 0.5 cycle after a register type instruction starts being decoded, or 1 cycle after a non-register type instruction starts being decoded, the next instruction starts to be decoded. By decoding a register type instruction at high speed, it becomes possible to execute a branch instruction at high speed.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1986Date of Patent: July 19, 1988Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Wada, Kazunori Kuriyama, Akira Yamaoka
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Patent number: 4745569Abstract: A decimal multiplier device including a register A storing the multiplier, a register B storing the multiplicand, a shifter for outputting the output of the register A as it is or after having been shifted, based on a first signal, a gate for outputting the output of the register B or "0", based on a second signal, an adder/subtractor for adding the output of the shifter and that of the gate and storing the result thus obtained in the register A, and a decoder for receiving the value of a selected digit of the content of the register A and controlling the gate and the shifter by generating the first signal and the second signal based on the received value so that the multiplicand B is added n times, n corresponding to the received value, to the content of the register A or substracted (10-n) times therefrom. The register A, the shifter and the adder/subtractor form a single loop. Decimal multiplication is performed by controlling the shifter, when signals pass through the loop repeatedly.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1984Date of Patent: May 17, 1988Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akira Yamaoka, Kenichi Wada, Kazunori Kuriyama
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Patent number: 4739470Abstract: A data processing system for executing an instruction in a plurality of stages in a pipeline mode comprises a main operation unit capable of executing all instructions to be executed in the data processing system, a pre-operation unit capable of executing instructions which occurs at a high frequency and can be executed with a small number of circuit components, general purpose registers for storing operation results of the instructions, and a control unit for controlling the writing of the operation results by the main operation unit and the pre-operation unit into the general purpose registers.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 1983Date of Patent: April 19, 1988Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Wada, Yooichi Shintani, Tsuguo Shimizu, Akira Yamaoka
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Patent number: 4692891Abstract: This invention employs a construction in which subtraction processing and digit shift processing in decimal division are carried out in parallel with each other to shorten the time required for decimal division.A dividend is stored in a register B and a divisor, in a register C. A selector 6 selects register B when the result of subtraction by an adder/subtracter 1 is positive or zero, and selects register A at other times. Both adder/subtracter 1 and a shifter 2 receive the signal from the selector 6 in the same way, and execute the subtraction processing and the shift processing, respectively. The results of these processings are stored in the registers B and A', respectively.The division time can be shortened because the adder/subtracter 1 and the shifter 2 can be actuated simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1984Date of Patent: September 8, 1987Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akira Yamaoka, Kenichi Wada, Kazunori Kuriyama