Patents by Inventor Hiroki SOJI

Hiroki SOJI 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: 12349211
    Abstract: A communication system includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The second terminal includes a storage in which first information brought in correspondence for each application executed in the first terminal is stored as pair information and a transmitter that transmits, in response to a request from an application executed in the first terminal, second information based on the first information stored in the storage and brought in correspondence with the application executed in the first terminal. The first terminal includes a determination unit that determines processing involved with data communication with the second terminal based on a result of comparison between third information brought in correspondence with a running application on the first terminal and the second information received from the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Soji, Hiroyuki Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 12282300
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes sound selection means for selecting a sound to be outputted from a sound candidate group, sound output means for outputting the selected sound when an output condition is satisfied, sleep state estimation means for estimating a sleep state of a user based on a result of measurement by a sensor that measures body motion of the user, hours-of-sleep calculation means for calculating hours of sleep of the user based on the estimated sleep state of the user, and addition means for adding a new sound to the sound candidate group based on the calculated hours of sleep of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Soji, Hirosuke Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 12154422
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus outputs a sound when an output condition is satisfied, and receives designation information from another information processing apparatus that executes a game application. Output of the sound includes output of a first sound as the sound when timing when the output condition is satisfied is not in a time range based on the designation information and output of a second sound different from the first sound as the sound when the timing when the output condition is satisfied is in the time range based on the designation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Soji, Hirosuke Kinoshita, Tatsuya Fukui
  • Publication number: 20230085095
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes sound selection means for selecting a sound to be outputted from a sound candidate group, sound output means for outputting the selected sound when an output condition is satisfied, sleep state estimation means for estimating a sleep state of a user based on a result of measurement by a sensor that measures body motion of the user, hours-of-sleep calculation means for calculating hours of sleep of the user based on the estimated sleep state of the user, and addition means for adding a new sound to the sound candidate group based on the calculated hours of sleep of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki SOJI, Hirosuke KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20230024418
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus outputs a sound when an output condition is satisfied, and receives designation information from another information processing apparatus that executes a game application. Output of the sound includes output of a first sound as the sound when timing when the output condition is satisfied is not in a time range based on the designation information and output of a second sound different from the first sound as the sound when the timing when the output condition is satisfied is in the time range based on the designation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki SOJI, Hirosuke KINOSHITA, Tatsuya FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20230011478
    Abstract: A communication system includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The second terminal includes a storage in which first information brought in correspondence for each application executed in the first terminal is stored as pair information and a transmitter that transmits, in response to a request from an application executed in the first terminal, second information based on the first information stored in the storage and brought in correspondence with the application executed in the first terminal. The first terminal includes a determination unit that determines processing involved with data communication with the second terminal based on a result of comparison between third information brought in correspondence with a running application on the first terminal and the second information received from the second terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki SOJI, Hiroyuki TAKEUCHI
  • Patent number: 11013984
    Abstract: Based on first data transmitted from a game controller, a game apparatus executes game processing for catching a predetermined game character and transmits, to the game controller, second data corresponding to the game character as a target to be caught. Based on the transmitted second data, the game controller outputs a sound corresponding to the caught game character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., THE POKÉMON COMPANY
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Maruyama, Hiroyuki Takeuchi, Hiroki Soji, Kohei Odanaka, Masaya Takei, Tsunekazu Ishihara, Satoshi Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20200114253
    Abstract: Based on first data transmitted from a game controller, a game apparatus executes game processing for catching a predetermined game character and transmits, to the game controller, second data corresponding to the game character as a target to be caught. Based on the transmitted second data, the game controller outputs a sound corresponding to the caught game character.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro MARUYAMA, Hiroyuki TAKEUCHI, Hiroki SOJI, Kohei ODANAKA, Masaya TAKEI, Tsunekazu ISHIHARA, Satoshi OGAWA
  • Patent number: 10440149
    Abstract: An example communication system includes a mobile terminal and a BLE terminal. The mobile terminal and the BLE terminal establish a connection therebetween and perform communication with each other at a predetermined time interval. The mobile terminal transmits representation data to the BLE terminal, and the BLE terminal performs a first representation on the basis of the representation data. After the first representation ends, when a button operation is performed in the BLE terminal, operation result information indicating the button operation is accumulated in the BLE terminal. The accumulated operation result information is transmitted from the BLE terminal to the mobile terminal at a timing at which communication between the mobile terminal and the BLE terminal is performed next. The mobile terminal performs, for example, a game process on the basis of the operation result information from the BLE terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Soji, Hiroyuki Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20170187828
    Abstract: An example communication system includes a mobile terminal and a BLE terminal. The mobile terminal and the BLE terminal establish a connection therebetween and perform communication with each other at a predetermined time interval. The mobile terminal transmits representation data to the BLE terminal, and the BLE terminal performs a first representation on the basis of the representation data. After the first representation ends, when a button operation is performed in the BLE terminal, operation result information indicating the button operation is accumulated in the BLE terminal. The accumulated operation result information is transmitted from the BLE terminal to the mobile terminal at a timing at which communication between the mobile terminal and the BLE terminal is performed next. The mobile terminal performs, for example, a game process on the basis of the operation result information from the BLE terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Hiroki SOJI, Hiroyuki TAKEUCHI