Patents by Inventor Kentaro Nishimura
Kentaro Nishimura 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).
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Publication number: 20240004070Abstract: A TOF optical rangefinder 200 calculates a distance to an object based on the time of flight measured based on a sum of voltage pulses output from a plurality of photon-counting light receiving elements 3, where the optical rangefinder 200 is configured to generate a histogram showing a distribution frequency of the times of flight, as calculated by a time-of-flight measurement circuit for repeated emission of measurement light at predetermined periods, over respective regions on a time axis divided into a plurality of regions at predetermined time intervals, calculate a representative value of the times of flight for the object from the times of flight distributed over the regions where the histogram frequency reaches a predetermined histogram threshold, and correct the representative value of the times of flight based on a frequency-error characteristic obtained by a histogram generation circuit with intensity of the reflected light varied in advance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: HOKUYO AUTOMATIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Keisuke INOUE, Kentaro NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 11786814Abstract: A method for providing a game in which a plurality of missions is presented to a user device each time a certain period has elapsed from a server having a storage unit for storing user information relating to a plurality of users, includes the steps of generating a plurality of different missions for each of the plurality of users based on the user information stored in the storage unit, presenting a list of the generated missions for each of the users on the user device, and presenting an operational element for updating a mission included in the presented list to another mission regardless of the elapse of the period in accordance with the progress of presented missions.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: GREE, INC.Inventor: Kentaro Nishimura
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Publication number: 20220219080Abstract: A method for providing a game in which a plurality of missions is presented to a user device each time a certain period has elapsed from a server having a storage unit for storing user information relating to a plurality of users, includes the steps of generating a plurality of different missions for each of the plurality of users based on the user information stored in the storage unit, presenting a list of the generated missions for each of the users on the user device, and presenting an operational element for updating a mission included in the presented list to another mission regardless of the elapse of the period in accordance with the progress of presented missions.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: GREE, INC.Inventor: Kentaro NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 11318380Abstract: A method for providing a game in which a plurality of missions is presented to a user device each time a certain period has elapsed from a server having a storage unit for storing user information relating to a plurality of users, includes the steps of generating a plurality of different missions for each of the plurality of users based on the user information stored in the storage unit, presenting a list of the generated missions for each of the users on the user device, and presenting an operational element for updating a mission included in the presented list to another mission regardless of the elapse of the period in accordance with the progress of presented missions.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventor: Kentaro Nishimura
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Patent number: 10982715Abstract: The rotary table device includes a base, a motor, a rotary drive shaft and a cross-roller bearing. An outer ring is rotationally driven through engagement of a pinion gear formed at a shaft end of the rotary rive shaft with a rack gear formed on the outer ring and transmission of a rotary drive force from the rotary drive shaft to the outer ring. The outer ring is formed in a hollow cylindrical shape covering a side of an inner ring, includes a table capable of mounting an external member on one side of the hollow cylindrical shape, and is integrated with the rack gear formed over an entire circumference of the other side thereof. With such a configuration, a rotary table device that can realize reduction in height, size and weight can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Iizumi, Takahiro Mochizuki, Toshiyuki Mukaiyama, Kentaro Nishimura
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Publication number: 20200289924Abstract: A method for providing a game in which a plurality of missions is presented to a user device each time a certain period has elapsed from a server having a storage unit for storing user information relating to a plurality of users, includes the steps of generating a plurality of different missions for each of the plurality of users based on the user information stored in the storage unit, presenting a list of the generated missions for each of the users on the user device, and presenting an operational element for updating a mission included in the presented list to another mission regardless of the elapse of the period in accordance with the progress of presented missions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: Gree, Inc.Inventor: Kentaro NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 10709976Abstract: A method for providing a game in which a plurality of missions is presented to a user device each time a certain period has elapsed from a server having a storage unit for storing user information relating to a plurality of users, includes the steps of generating a plurality of different missions for each of the plurality of users based on the user information stored in the storage unit, presenting a list of the generated missions for each of the users on the user device, and presenting an operational element for updating a mission included in the presented list to another mission regardless of the elapse of the period in accordance with the progress of presented missions.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventor: Kentaro Nishimura
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Patent number: 10525345Abstract: A forward direction line is set on a course, in a virtual game world, on which a player object is allowed to move. An advancing direction at a current position of the player object is determined based on the forward direction line. The advancing direction is determined as a direction in which the player object advances so as to control a movement of a player character in accordance with an acceleration instruction, and a leftward-rightward movement instruction from a player. Consequently, it is possible to assist the player in controlling a direction in which an object operated by the player moves.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiji Akahori, Shingo Miyata, Toshiharu Izuno, Takuji Hotta, Kentaro Nishimura
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Publication number: 20190099670Abstract: A forward direction line is set on a course, in a virtual game world, on which a player object is allowed to move. An advancing direction at a current position of the player object is determined based on the forward direction line. The advancing direction is determined as a direction in which the player object advances so as to control a movement of a player character in accordance with an acceleration instruction, and a leftward-rightward movement instruction from a player. Consequently, it is possible to assist the player in controlling a direction in which an object operated by the player moves.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Eiji AKAHORI, Shingo MIYATA, Toshiharu IZUNO, Takuji HOTTA, Kentaro NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20190009173Abstract: A method for providing a game in which a plurality of missions is presented to a user device each time a certain period has elapsed from a server having a storage unit for storing user information relating to a plurality of users, includes the steps of generating a plurality of different missions for each of the plurality of users based on the user information stored in the storage unit, presenting a list of the generated missions for each of the users on the user device, and presenting an operational element for updating a mission included in the presented list to another mission regardless of the elapse of the period in accordance with the progress of presented missions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventor: Kentaro Nishimura
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Publication number: 20180355917Abstract: The rotary table device includes a base, a motor, a rotary drive shaft and a cross-roller bearing. An outer ring is rotationally driven through engagement of a pinion gear formed at a shaft end of the rotary rive shaft with a rack gear formed on the outer ring and transmission of a rotary drive force from the rotary drive shaft to the outer ring. The outer ring is formed in a hollow cylindrical shape covering a side of an inner ring, includes a table capable of mounting an external member on one side of the hollow cylindrical shape, and is integrated with the rack gear formed over an entire circumference of the other side thereof. With such a configuration, a rotary table device that can realize reduction in height, size and weight can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2016Publication date: December 13, 2018Applicant: THK CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Iizumi, Takahiro Mochizuki, Toshiyuki Mukaiyama, Kentaro Nishimura
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Patent number: 10092837Abstract: A forward direction line is set on a course, in a virtual game world, on which a player object is allowed to move. An advancing direction at a current position of the player object is determined based on the forward direction line. The advancing direction is determined as a direction in which the player object advances so as to control a movement of a player character in accordance with an acceleration instruction, and a leftward-rightward movement instruction from a player. Consequently, it is possible to assist the player in controlling a direction in which an object operated by the player moves.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiji Akahori, Shingo Miyata, Toshiharu Izuno, Takuji Hotta, Kentaro Nishimura
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Patent number: 10086281Abstract: A method for providing a game in which a plurality of missions is presented to a user device each time a certain period has elapsed from a server having a storage unit for storing user information relating to a plurality of users, includes the steps of generating a plurality of different missions for each of the plurality of users based on the user information stored in the storage unit, presenting a list of the generated missions for each of the users on the user device, and presenting an operational element for updating a mission included in the presented list to another mission regardless of the elapse of the period in accordance with the progress of presented missions.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: GREE, INC.Inventor: Kentaro Nishimura
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Patent number: 9901814Abstract: A housing of a game controller is capable of being held with one hand of a player. A direction instruction section is provided in the housing for performing a direction instruction input. Movement detection means is means for detecting movement of the housing. Movement direction control means of a game apparatus is means for determining a movement direction of an object, which appears in a virtual game world, in accordance with an operation of the direction instruction section. Posture control means is means for determining a posture of the object in the virtual game world in accordance with detection by the movement detection means.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2007Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyokazu Nonaka, Toshiharu Izuno, Kentaro Nishimura, Kenta Tanaka, Norihito Ito, Masayuki Okada
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Publication number: 20170348597Abstract: A method for providing a game in which a plurality of missions is presented to a user device each time a certain period has elapsed from a server having a storage unit for storing user information relating to a plurality of users, includes the steps of generating a plurality of different missions for each of the plurality of users based on the user information stored in the storage unit, presenting a list of the generated missions for each of the users on the user device, and presenting an operational element for updating a mission included in the presented list to another mission regardless of the elapse of the period in accordance with the progress of presented missions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2017Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicant: Gree, Inc.Inventor: Kentaro Nishimura
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Patent number: 9770656Abstract: A method for providing a game in which a plurality of missions is presented to a user device each time a certain period has elapsed from a server having a storage unit for storing user information relating to a plurality of users, includes the steps of generating a plurality of different missions for each of the plurality of users based on the user information stored in the storage unit, presenting a list of the generated missions for each of the users on the user device, and presenting an operational element for updating a mission included in the presented list to another mission regardless of the elapse of the period in accordance with the progress of presented missions.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: GREE, INC.Inventor: Kentaro Nishimura
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Publication number: 20170087463Abstract: A forward direction line is set on a course, in a virtual game world, on which a player object is allowed to move. An advancing direction at a current position of the player object is determined based on the forward direction line. The advancing direction is determined as a direction in which the player object advances so as to control a movement of a player character in accordance with an acceleration instruction, and a leftward-rightward movement instruction from a player. Consequently, it is possible to assist the player in controlling a direction in which an object operated by the player moves.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Eiji AKAHORI, Shingo MIYATA, Toshiharu IZUNO, Takuji HOTTA, Kentaro NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 9550123Abstract: A forward direction line is set on a course, in a virtual game world, on which a player object is allowed to move. An advancing direction at a current position of the player object is determined based on the forward direction line. The advancing direction is determined as a direction in which the player object advances so as to control a movement of a player character in accordance with an acceleration instruction, and a leftward-rightward movement instruction from a player. Consequently, it is possible to assist the player in controlling a direction in which an object operated by the player moves.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2007Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Eiji Akahori, Shingo Miyata, Toshiharu Izuno, Takuji Hotta, Kentaro Nishimura
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Patent number: 9477902Abstract: A game apparatus includes a CPU, and in a mode of examining a flower based on an imaged image, the CPU activates two outward cameras to allow a user to image a flower. The CPU obtains color information, shape information and a size of the imaged flower from the imaged image. A shape category is obtained from the shape information, and with the shape category, data for search included in a database for search is filtered. Then, by comparing color information, shape information, and the size of the imaged flower with the data for search to be used, a score of a degree of approximation of the color information and scores of the degree of matching of the shape information and size, etc. are obtained. Then, images of flowers as candidates are presented in the descending order of the score (similarity level).Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Kira, Kentaro Nishimura, Shinya Saito, Ken-ichi Minegishi, Takamitsu Tsuji, Naoshi Suzue
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Patent number: 9423286Abstract: Provided is a apparatus for sensing a liquid level reliably based solely on an analog process even if a liquid held in a container boils, causing the liquid level to fall.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kentaro Nishimura, Katsumoto Nagase, Fujio Shiraishi, Yuka Takada