Patents by Inventor Kazuhide Nakazawa

Kazuhide Nakazawa 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: 8292736
    Abstract: A game device allowing a player to enjoy the process of acquiring information on an input procedure of operation data corresponding to a predetermined event is provided. A game device including a controller allowing input of operation data comprises judgment means for judging whether or not an operation data sequence input with the controller matches a predetermined operation data sequence, event triggering means for triggering a predetermined event (special technique or the like) corresponding to the predetermined operation data sequence in accordance with a result of judgment by the judgment means, operation guidance means for displaying on a guidance screen (FIG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Kato, Kazuhide Nakazawa, Masato Akiyama
  • Patent number: 7645192
    Abstract: The present invention provides a game device with which a moving direction and an attack direction of a game character can be easily inputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2010
    Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Nakazawa, Yuki Mizuochi
  • Publication number: 20080248870
    Abstract: A game device allowing a player to enjoy the process of acquiring information on an input procedure of operation data corresponding to a predetermined event is provided. A game device including a controller allowing input of operation data comprises judgment means for judging whether or not an operation data sequence input with the controller matches a predetermined operation data sequence, event triggering means for triggering a predetermined event (special technique or the like) corresponding to the predetermined operation data sequence in accordance with a result of judgment by the judgment means, operation guidance means for displaying on a guidance screen (FIG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Kato, Kazuhide Nakazawa, Masato Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20060073898
    Abstract: The present invention provides a game device with which a moving direction and an attack direction of a game character can be easily inputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2003
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Kazuhide Nakazawa, Yuki Mizuochi
  • Patent number: 6317130
    Abstract: Enabling an animation character object, which is pictorially deformed by computer graphics techniques to visually represent human body or animal or the like in the form of a caricature or model, to offer precise and more natural motions at its selected constituent portions that have inherently no joints and no bones by giving thereto joints and skeletons. To this end, apparatus and method for generating skeleton-based animation images in accordance with the principles of the invention include solving means as follows. A face section of a cubic character object is provided with auxiliary skeletons as vertically coupled together. Skeletons are provided which extend from respective endpoints of such auxiliary skeletons and are coupled defining an umbrella shape as a whole. These skeletons are associated with models each consisting of an ensemble of polygons for rendering the character deformable by changing rotation amount of each skeleton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Konami Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Ishikawa, Kazunori Haruyama, Kazuhide Nakazawa