Patents by Inventor Hiroki Shimomura

Hiroki Shimomura 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).

  • Publication number: 20240106985
    Abstract: A video distribution server, video distribution method, and recording medium which receives moving images from an originating terminal and distributes these moving images to a viewer terminal implements a questionnaire within the broadcast on the basis of commands from the originating terminal and provides the same questionnaire to a Web server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo KAWAKAMI, Hiroki SHIMOMURA, Takashi KOJIMA
  • Patent number: 11871154
    Abstract: This video distribution server which receives moving images from an originating terminal and distributes these moving images to a viewer terminal implements a questionnaire within the broadcast on the basis of commands from the originating terminal and provides the same questionnaire to a Web server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO CO., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Hiroki Shimomura, Takashi Kojima
  • Publication number: 20220375358
    Abstract: A class system for taking a class conducted in an immersive virtual space by connecting a communication class server and a student terminal. The communication class server includes a delivery unit that delivers, to the student terminal, a class content for viewing a class being conducted in the virtual space, and a transmission unit that transmits, to the student terminal, a display signal, a non-display signal, an operation permission signal, and an operation prohibition signal respectively set according to the progress of the class. The student terminal includes a VR function unit that disposes, in the virtual space, an avatar of a student that uses the student terminal and controls the avatar, receives the class content, and displays the class content from the avatar's point of view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki SHIMOMURA, Emiko YOSHIHARA, Satoshi IGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220343783
    Abstract: A content control system with at least one processor. The at least one processor specifies a motion of a target virtual object in a virtual space showing a class scene, determines a language expression corresponding to the specified motion with reference to a storage unit that stores a language expression rule, and outputs expression data corresponding to the determined language expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki SHIMOMURA, Emiko YOSHIHARA, Satoshi IGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220086396
    Abstract: This video distribution server which receives moving images from an originating terminal and distributes these moving images to a viewer terminal implements a questionnaire within the broadcast on the basis of commands from the originating terminal and provides the same questionnaire to a Web server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo KAWAKAMI, Hiroki SHIMOMURA, Takashi KOJIMA
  • Patent number: 11190736
    Abstract: This video distribution server which receives moving images from an originating terminal and distributes these moving images to a viewer terminal implements a questionnaire within the broadcast on the basis of commands from the originating terminal and provides the same questionnaire to a Web server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Hiroki Shimomura, Takashi Kojima
  • Patent number: 11023119
    Abstract: The present invention provides: an application program which assists with an intuitive understanding of the position of each page of a slide on a time axis; a terminal device controlling method; a terminal device; and a server. The application program of the terminal device, which plays a slide and an audio synchronized with the slide, makes a computer of the terminal device 3 function as a display control unit 32 which displays an interface 100 provided with a first interface 123 that represents a playback position of the audio and a second interface 135 that represents a playback position of each page of the slide, and function as a play control unit 32 which plays the slide and audio at designated playback position, wherein when a playback position of one among the first interface 123 and the second interface 135 is designated, the display control unit 32 makes a playback position of the other correspond to the designated playback position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: DWANGO, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki Shimomura
  • Publication number: 20200159398
    Abstract: The present invention provides: an application program which assists with an intuitive understanding of the position of each page of a slide on a time axis; a terminal device controlling method; a terminal device; and a server. The application program of the terminal device, which plays a slide and an audio synchronized with the slide, makes a computer of the terminal device 3 function as a display control unit 32 which displays an interface 100 provided with a first interface 123 that represents a playback position of the audio and a second interface 135 that represents a playback position of each page of the slide, and function as a play control unit 32 which plays the slide and audio at designated playback position, wherein when a playback position of one among the first interface 123 and the second interface 135 is designated, the display control unit 32 makes a playback position of the other correspond to the designated playback position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: DWANGO, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki SHIMOMURA
  • Publication number: 20200053319
    Abstract: This video distribution server which receives moving images from an originating terminal and distributes these moving images to a viewer terminal implements a questionnaire within the broadcast on the basis of commands from the originating terminal and provides the same questionnaire to a Web server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo KAWAKAMI, Hiroki SHIMOMURA, Takashi KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20040184591
    Abstract: A communication apparatus of the present invention has a first storing unit for storing information detected by a caller information detector, a caller identifying unit for identifying a calling place of a caller based on the information stored in the first storing unit, a second storing unit for storing information of the calling place identified by the caller identifying unit, a third storing unit for storing predetermined information, and a controller for controlling a display unit to display combined information of the calling place information stored in the second storing unit and the predetermined information stored in the third storing unit. The communication apparatus has a controller for extracting voice data selected by a voice data selecting unit and controlling the voice converting unit to output a voice signal, when the plurality of voice data correspond to the caller information detected by the caller information detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroki Shimomura, Katsuyuki Kajiwara, Sadaka Mitsuo, Michiaki Tanaka, Yuji Hirai, Yoshihiro Ishimura, Yutaka Ikeda
  • Patent number: 5349634
    Abstract: A facsimile apparatus includes a facsimile communication section for executing facsimile communication, a calling tone signal detecting section for detecting a first signal in a frequency band corresponding to a frequency band of a calling tone signal, a speech signal detecting section for detecting a second signal in a frequency band outside the frequency band of the calling tone signal, and a control section for starting and activating the facsimile communication section to execute the facsimile communication when the calling tone signal detecting section detects the first signal but the speech signal detecting section does not detect the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroki Shimomura
  • Patent number: D855069
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: DWANGO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Shimomura
  • Patent number: D886851
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: DWANGO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Shimomura