Patents by Inventor Isao Akada

Isao Akada 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: 7545374
    Abstract: An image display control program for displaying a plurality of objects on a display unit from a plurality of angles is disclosed, the image display control program causing a video game device to perform as an operation reception unit which receives operations from an operator via an operation unit, a camera viewpoint movement unit that causes a camera viewpoint to move, in accordance with the operations received by the operation reception unit, with respect to a reference point that is a point on a straight line linking a first object and a second object among the plurality of objects, and a camera image display control unit that causes at least one of the images of the first and second objects to be displayed on a display unit from the camera viewpoint that was moved by means of the camera viewpoint movement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Akada, Naoya Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20060250398
    Abstract: An image display control program for displaying a plurality of objects on a display unit from a plurality of angles is disclosed, the image display control program causing a video game device to perform as an operation reception unit means which receives operations from an operator via an operation unit, a camera viewpoint movement unit that causes a camera viewpoint to move, in accordance with the operations received by the operation reception unit, with respect to a reference point that is a point on a straight line linking a first object and a second object among the plurality of objects, and a camera image display control unit that causes at least one of the images of the first and second objects to be displayed on a display unit from the camera viewpoint that was moved by means of the camera viewpoint movement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2003
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Applicant: KONAMI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Akada, Naoya Tanabe
  • Patent number: 6120374
    Abstract: A manual controller of a video game system has a plurality of control switches for controlling the motion of an image displayed on a display screen, and an analog joystick for designating a point in a given area on the displayed image. When the analog joystick is operated by the game player of the video game system, it is tilted to a position in a desired direction in a two-dimensional plane, and outputs a positional signal depending on the tilted position thereof. A coordinate transforming unit converts first and second two-dimensional coordinates of the tilted position respectively into third and fourth two-dimensional coordinates of an image position with respect to a predetermined reference position on the displayed image, with a first conversion constant for converting the first coordinate into the third coordinate and a second conversion constant, which is different from the first conversion constant, for converting the second coordinate into the fourth coordinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Konami Computer Entertainment Osaka
    Inventors: Isao Akada, Koji Toyohara, Kazuo Iwasaki, Katsuyoshi Endo, Naoki Nishikawa, Kenji Fujioka, Hiroshi Tanibuchi