Patents by Inventor Kazunari Tsukamoto

Kazunari Tsukamoto 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: 6270413
    Abstract: In a match game, game characters to be operated by game players are displayed on divided ones of a display screen at a prescribed point of time in the match game so that the respective game players make respective inputs. When the input operations of the game players are completed, motions of the game characters based on the inputs by the game players are displayed on the rejoined display screen. In a match game players can intuitionally decide operations they will make. The display method for game displays can make displays which are indicative enough to know situations of a match game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimi Aikawa, Kazunari Tsukamoto, Hirokuni Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 6200138
    Abstract: A game display method displays a driving game which permits characters to be present in a city and can prevent cruel images of collisions with characters. Characters in a dangerous area are intentionally moved away from a motorbike B. Those H1, H2 of the characters behind the motorbike B as viewed in a moving direction of the motorbike B are intentionally moved away from a current position 01 of the motorbike B, a position of the center of the motorbike B. Those H3, H4, H5 of the characters in front of the motorbike B as viewed in the moving direction of the motorbike B are intentionally moved toward the back of the motorbike B, i.e., directions normal to a straight line interconnecting the position 01 of the center of the motorbike B and the characters H3, H4, H5. The characters H3, H4, who are forward left of the motorbike B, are moved left, and the character Hr, who is forward right, is moved right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ando, Kazunari Tsukamoto, Toshiya Yamaguchi, Tomoya Takasugi, Masaaki Ito, Toshikazu Goi