Patents by Inventor Kouki Koiwa

Kouki Koiwa 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).

  • Communication game system, communication game method, and storage medium
    Patent number: 7004839
    Abstract: A communication game system for a competitive communicative driving game. Preliminary races are actually conducted for each client system in a single-vehicle driving style in accordance with operations by players, and qualifiers who are highly ranked according to their finishing times are selected (S1 to S10). The final races (S12) are set for the qualifiers. Also in the final races, the final races are actually conducted for each client in a single-vehicle driving style in accordance with operations by the players, and the driving data is then transmitted to the server (S11 to S14). The server processes the driving data obtained from each client and returns the processing results to each client (S14). After the network is disconnected, the processing results are reproduced and displayed as replay images at each client (S15 and S16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega
    Inventors: Yu Suzuki, Kouki Koiwa, Hideki Tanaka, Takehiko Usui
  • Communication game system, commuincation game method, and storage medium
    Publication number: 20030050118
    Abstract: A communication game system for a competitive communicative driving game. Preliminary races are actually conducted for each client system in a single-vehicle driving style in accordance with operations by players, and qualifiers who are highly ranked according to their finishing times are selected (S1 to S10). The final races (S12) are set for the qualifiers. Also in the final races, the final races are actually conducted for each client in a single-vehicle driving style in accordance with operations by the players, and the driving data is then transmitted to the server (S11 to S14). The server processes the driving data obtained from each client and returns the processing results to each client (S14). After the network is disconnected, the processing results are reproduced and displayed as replay images at each client (S15 and S16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventors: Yu Suzuki, Kouki Koiwa, Hideki Tanaka, Takehiko Usui