Patents by Inventor Kouji Aoyama

Kouji Aoyama 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: 8471850
    Abstract: The present application generates an image in which a contour line is drawn about a tuned object A in a virtual three-dimensional space when a part of the tuned object A is overlapped by another tuned object B that is located at a position closer to a virtual screen. When a line width of the tuned object A is greater than a line width of the tuned object B, the line width of a part of the tuned object A that is overlapped with the tuned object B is set as the line width of the tuned object B. On the other hand, when the line width of the tuned object A is less than the line width of the tuned object B, the line width of the part of the tuned object A that is overlapped is set as the original line width of the tuned object A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
    Inventors: Masakazu Furuhashi, Kouji Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20120235997
    Abstract: The present application generates an image in which a contour line is drawn about a tuned object A in a virtual three-dimensional space when a part of the tuned object A is overlapped by another tuned object B that is located at a position closer to a virtual screen. When a line width of the tuned object A is greater than a line width of the tuned object B, the line width of a part of the tuned object A that is overlapped with the tuned object B is set as the line width of the tuned object B. On the other hand, when the line width of the tuned object A is less than the line width of the tuned object B, the line width of the part of the tuned object A that is overlapped is set as the original line width of the tuned object A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (also trading as SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
    Inventors: Masakazu FURUHASHI, Kouji AOYAMA
  • Patent number: 8237707
    Abstract: The present application generates an image in which a contour line is drawn about a tuned object A in a virtual three-dimensional space when a part of the tuned object A is overlapped by another tuned object B that is located at a position closer to a virtual screen. When a line width of the tuned object A is greater than a line width of the tuned object B, the line width of a part of the tuned object A that is overlapped with the tuned object B is set as the line width of the tuned object B. On the other hand, when the line width of the tuned object A is less than the line width of the tuned object B, the line width of the part of the tuned object A that is overlapped is set as the original line width of the tuned object A.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
    Inventors: Masakazu Furuhashi, Kouji Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20090027387
    Abstract: The object is for drawing a contour line of an overlapped part from which a feeling of strangeness is not acquired in a case where a plurality of tuned objects are overlapped with one another in an image generated by a perspective transformation process. A tuned object A (a line width of the contour line is “3”) is overlapped with a tuned object B (a line width of the contour line of “1”) located in a position closer to a virtual screen than the tuned object A. Each pixel included in the tuned object A is set as a target pixel, and a pixel located in a position shifted from the target pixel by the line width is set as a determination pixel. When depth data and line width data of the determination pixel is smaller than those of the target pixel, the line width data of the target pixel is reset to the line width data of the determination pixel, and a pixel located in a position shifted from the target pixel by the reset line width is reset as the determination pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (also trading as SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
    Inventors: Masakazu FURUHASHI, Kouji AOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20090006381
    Abstract: A systematic problem search unit searches information about a systematic problem that is a common problem to a plurality of projects, using a conditional expression for searching the information about the systematic problem based on one of or a plurality of a count by which the information about the systematic problem is stored in the retrospect storage unit, a count by which a trial improvement plan linked to the systematic problem is stored in the retrospect storage unit, and information indicating whether the stored improvement plan is stored in the retrospect storage unit, as a conditional expression indicating a condition for extracting the information about the systematic problem. a systematic problem output unit outputs a search result in the systematic problem search procedure to each of or one of a predetermined storage unit and a predetermined output unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kouji Aoyama, Noriyuki Kobayashi, Takanori Ukai, Jun Arima
  • Patent number: 7398185
    Abstract: A system recognizes an occurrence of offline action when a state in which a person-to-be-recorded does not perform a computer operation continues for or longer than a predetermined time. Then, action related information such as action schedule information about a person-to-be-recorded, movement position information indicating the position of a person-to-be-recorded, immobile target position information indicating the position of an immobile target such as a building, a point on a map, etc., position-action correspondence associating the immobile target position information with the content of offline action, etc. is acquired. According to the information, the content of the offline action is estimated. When a next computer operation is detected, the estimated content is displayed for confirmation by the person-to-be-recorded. The system accepts and records the input of supplement, amend, approve, etc. from the person-to-be-recorded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kouji Aoyama, Akihiko Obata, Hiroaki Harada
  • Publication number: 20080091486
    Abstract: A computer program, method, and apparatus serving as a tool for analyzing teamwork activities performed by a group of workers at a particular workplace during a particular time period, based on actual work log records of individual workers. In response to a teamwork analysis request specifying a group of workers, a teamwork finder extracts two workers' individual work log records having overlapping work periods. If their other data fields coincide at least in part, the teamwork finder finds the extracted log records to be of a teamwork activity. A teamwork log generator produces teamwork log records from the individual work log records identified as being of teamwork activities. The produced teamwork log records are then stored in a teamwork log database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kouji Aoyama, Hiroaki Harada
  • Publication number: 20080091450
    Abstract: In a display area of a display, a KPT screen in which a theme area, a keep area (Keep), a problem area (Problem), and a try area (Try) are disposed is displayed. When a click of the area is detected, a new generation menu of an article corresponding to the area is displayed so as to enable an editing operation of new generation of an article by menu selection. When a click of an article display which is displayed in a tag image in the problem area is detected, new generation menus of articles of the other areas are displayed in addition to a correction menu and a deletion menu of the specified article, so as to enable new generation of an article of another area, for example, the try area in association with the clicked article display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Jun Arima, Takanori Ugai, Kouji Aoyama, Noriyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20080077421
    Abstract: A policy management program, a policy management apparatus and a policy management method can evaluate policies. A policy management program causes a computer to manage the policies in a project by causing the computer to execute a policy registration step that registers policy information including the contents of policies, a first evaluation step that acquires case information satisfying the predetermined first requirement from the case information including the contents of the utilized policies registered in advance and computationally determines an evaluation value for each of the policies registered in the policy registration step according to the case information and a display step that displays the policy information of the one or more than one policies showing an evaluation value satisfying the predetermined second requirement as computed in the first evaluation step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Noriyuki Kobayashi, Jun Arima, Takanori Ugai, Kouji Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20080028362
    Abstract: This invention is to automatically carry out the retracement of the knowledge. Therefore, this method is executed by a computer having a retracement data storage storing a target type of a past project, data concerning a scale of the past project, a specific phase of the past project, data concerning a problem in the specific phase of the past project, and data concerning an action against a problem in the specific phase of the past project.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventors: Takanori Ugai, Kouji Aoyama, Jun Arima, Noriyuki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070219752
    Abstract: A system recognizes an occurrence of offline action when a state in which a person-to-be-recorded does not perform a computer operation continues for or longer than a predetermined time. Then, action related information such as action schedule information about a person-to-be-recorded, movement position information indicating the position of a person-to-be-recorded, immobile target position information indicating the position of an immobile target such as a building, a point on a map, etc., position-action correspondence associating the immobile target position information with the content of offline action, etc. is acquired. According to the information, the content of the offline action is estimated. When a next computer operation is detected, the estimated content is displayed for confirmation by the person-to-be-recorded. The system accepts and records the input of supplement, amend, approve, etc. from the person-to-be-recorded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Kouji Aoyama, Akihiko Obata, Hiroaki Harada