Patents by Inventor Kazumasa IWAO

Kazumasa IWAO 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: 20230191254
    Abstract: In an example of a game program, a ground boarding target object or an air boarding target objects is selected by a selecttion operation, and a player character is caused to board the selected boarding target object. If the player character aboard the air boarding target object moves toward the ground player character automatically changed to the state where the player character is aboard the ground boarding target object, and brought into the state where the player character can move on the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: Nintendo Co., Ltd., The Pokémon Company
    Inventor: Kazumasa IWAO
  • Publication number: 20230191255
    Abstract: In a first mode, an aiming direction in a virtual space is determined based on a second operation input, and a player character is caused to launch, in the aiming direction, an item that affects a field character disposed on a field in the virtual space, based on a third operation input. In a second mode, the aiming direction is determined, based on the second operation input, and the player character is caused to launch, in the aiming direction, a fighting character that fights, based on the third operation input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: Nintendo Co., Ltd., The Pokémon Company
    Inventor: Kazumasa IWAO
  • Patent number: 11533407
    Abstract: A service provision system includes an extraction unit that extracts an associated service corresponding to a user of a service provision apparatus from plural services of the service provision apparatus, a storage control unit that stores, in a storage unit, identification information for identifying a transmitter which is carried by the user and which transmits a wireless signal and information regarding the associated service while associating the identification information and the information regarding the associated service with each other, an obtaining unit that obtains the identification information included in the wireless signal transmitted without requiring the user to perform an operation, and a display control unit that receives, from the storage control unit, the associated service corresponding to the identification information obtained by the obtaining unit and that displays the associated service on a display unit of the service provision apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa Iwao
  • Patent number: 11336775
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process utilizing location information. The process includes a first control process and a second control process. The first control process includes, in response to receiving of a radio signal used for short-range wireless communication from a transmitter, temporarily activating a location information detector that detects location information, and causing the location information detector to detect the location information. The second control process includes transmitting the location information detected by the location information detector to a server that provides a service utilizing the location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa Iwao
  • Publication number: 20200053240
    Abstract: A service provision system includes an extraction unit that extracts an associated service corresponding to a user of a service provision apparatus from plural services of the service provision apparatus, a storage control unit that stores, in a storage unit, identification information for identifying a transmitter which is carried by the user and which transmits a wireless signal and information regarding the associated service while associating the identification information and the information regarding the associated service with each other, an obtaining unit that obtains the identification information included in the wireless signal transmitted without requiring the user to perform an operation, and a display control unit that receives, from the storage control unit, the associated service corresponding to the identification information obtained by the obtaining unit and that displays the associated service on a display unit of the service provision apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazumasa IWAO
  • Publication number: 20200036841
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute a process utilizing location information. The process includes a first control process and a second control process. The first control process includes, in response to receiving of a radio signal used for short-range wireless communication from a transmitter, temporarily activating a location information detector that detects location information, and causing the location information detector to detect the location information. The second control process includes transmitting the location information detected by the location information detector to a server that provides a service utilizing the location information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazumasa IWAO