Patents by Inventor Makoto YONEZU

Makoto YONEZU 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: 11244499
    Abstract: An example information processing apparatus stores part shape data indicating shapes of a plurality of kinds of terrain parts forming a terrain in a virtual space, and part arrangement data indicating an arrangement of the terrain parts in the virtual space. The information processing apparatus displaces each of the vertices of the disposed terrain parts, depending on the position of the vertex in the virtual space. The information processing apparatus renders an image of the virtual space including the terrain formed of the displaced terrain parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Yonezu
  • Patent number: 11219829
    Abstract: An example image processing apparatus disposes a virtual camera and a terrain object in a virtual space, and generates grass objects at a predetermined region located with reference to a land horizon that is a boundary between the terrain object and a background as viewed from the virtual camera. A player character is displayed at a position closer to the virtual camera, and the grass objects are generated in the predetermined region located with reference to the land horizon. Therefore, the terrain can be represented to look real, and the player character can be more easily seen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Yonezu, Koji Takahashi, Jun Takamura
  • Patent number: 11185779
    Abstract: An example image processing apparatus disposes a virtual camera and a terrain object in a virtual space, and generates grass objects at a predetermined region located with reference to a land horizon that is a boundary between the terrain object and a background as viewed from the virtual camera. A player character is displayed at a position closer to the virtual camera, and the grass objects are generated in the predetermined region located with reference to the land horizon. Therefore, the terrain can be represented to look real, and the player character can be more easily seen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Yonezu, Koji Takahashi, Jun Takamura
  • Patent number: 11117050
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium according to the present disclosure is a storage medium storing therein a program that is readable by a computer of an information processing apparatus, the program that is configured to cause the computer to function as: a first object display unit configured to display a player object in a first display mode in a first game space; a first object control unit configured to perform three-dimensional control for causing the player object displayed in the first display mode to perform three-dimensional movement in the first game space based on an operation performed by a user; an option generation unit configured to generate an image for allowing the user to, from among options respectively corresponding to a plurality of second game spaces, select one of the second game spaces as a selected game space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Yonezu
  • Publication number: 20200353354
    Abstract: A non-transitory storage medium according to the present disclosure is a storage medium storing therein a program that is readable by a computer of an information processing apparatus, the program that is configured to cause the computer to function as: a first object display unit configured to display a player object in a first display mode in a first game space; a first object control unit configured to perform three-dimensional control for causing the player object displayed in the first display mode to perform three-dimensional movement in the first game space based on an operation performed by a user; an option generation unit configured to generate an image for allowing the user to, from among options respectively corresponding to a plurality of second game spaces, select one of the second game spaces as a selected game space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventor: Makoto YONEZU
  • Publication number: 20200298117
    Abstract: An example image processing apparatus disposes a virtual camera and a terrain object in a virtual space, and generates grass objects at a predetermined region located with reference to a land horizon that is a boundary between the terrain object and a background as viewed from the virtual camera. A player character is displayed at a position closer to the virtual camera, and the grass objects are generated in the predetermined region located with reference to the land horizon. Therefore, the terrain can be represented to look real, and the player character can be more easily seen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Makoto YONEZU, Koji TAKAHASHI, Jun TAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200151945
    Abstract: An example information processing apparatus stores part shape data indicating shapes of a plurality of kinds of terrain parts forming a terrain in a virtual space, and part arrangement data indicating an arrangement of the terrain parts in the virtual space. The information processing apparatus displaces each of the vertices of the disposed terrain parts, depending on the position of the vertex in the virtual space. The information processing apparatus renders an image of the virtual space including the terrain formed of the displaced terrain parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventor: Makoto YONEZU
  • Patent number: 9019265
    Abstract: A parallax with which a virtual world is stereoscopically displayed is set, and in accordance with the parallax, a level of blurring with which the virtual world is stereoscopically displayed is set. Then, a stereoscopic image in which the virtual world is stereoscopically displayed is generated on the basis of the parallax by blurring at least part of the virtual world in accordance with the level of blurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Yonezu
  • Publication number: 20130215105
    Abstract: A parallax with which a virtual world is stereoscopically displayed is set, and in accordance with the parallax, a level of blurring with which the virtual world is stereoscopically displayed is set. Then, a stereoscopic image in which the virtual world is stereoscopically displayed is generated on the basis of the parallax by blurring at least part of the virtual world in accordance with the level of blurring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto YONEZU
  • Publication number: 20130210520
    Abstract: An example of a game system generates a stereoscopic image for stereoscopic display. The game system places a plate-like first model in a virtual space, the plate-like first model representing a part of a single object that appears in the virtual space. Further, the game system places a plate-like second model behind the first model, the plate-like second model representing at least a part of the object other than the part represented by the first model. The game system generates a stereoscopic image representing the virtual space so as to view the first model and the second model in a superimposed manner from in front of the first and second models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto YONEZU