Patents by Inventor Masaki Higuchi
Masaki Higuchi 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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Patent number: 11966052Abstract: An alert system includes a display device, a display control unit, and a target recognition unit. The display control unit: when the number of targets recognized by the target recognition unit is equal to or more than an upper limit number, sets a display range of a surrounding icon as a whole circular area; and in a state where the number of targets is equal to or more than the upper limit number and the display range of the surrounding icon is set as the whole circular area, when the number of targets increases, reduces the size of the surrounding icon.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaki Maruyama, Minoru Higuchi, Yuya Kishimoto, Toshiaki Seo, Masuhito Tanaka, Kazuki Takano, Hidehiro Takeda, Misaki Koseki
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Patent number: 11933022Abstract: A tractor includes a working motor, a work machine including a roller configured to rotate by an output from the working motor, a support mechanism configured to support the work machine such that a working posture and a retracting posture are achievable, and a control device. The control device executes: an adherence amount acquisition process of acquiring an estimated adherence amount as an estimated value for the amount of mud attached to the roller; and a mud removal process of, when the estimated adherence amount is equal to or more than a determination adherence amount, removing the mud from the roller by driving the working motor in a state where the work machine takes the retracting posture.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki Sugo, Masaki Numakura, Makoto Hirai, Taiga Higuchi, Tomohiro Sato, Hiroyuki Azuma
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Patent number: 11175797Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring menu display instructions from a user, and generating and outputting the operating system menu screens for display.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaki Higuchi, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 11090556Abstract: There are provided an entertainment device, a display control method, a program, and an information storage medium for enabling command information arranged on a screen to be less of a nuisance for the user than before. A voice receiving section (56) receives a voice. When the voice represents prescribed information, a command information arranging section (68) arranges command information at a position on a screen in accordance with display content of the screen, the command information being indicative of a command and causing execution of a process corresponding to the command upon receipt of the voice represented by the information.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Keigo Tamura, Tomoki Takaichi, Masaki Higuchi, Toshimasa Aoki, Ikuo Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20200349637Abstract: A purchase type determining unit 244 determines whether content is rental content, which has a valid time limit for enjoying, from purchasing type information included in the license information. An icon image processing unit 352 disposes an icon image of the content in a menu screen. In case the content is determined to be rental content by the purchase type determining unit 244, a rental mark disposing unit 356 disposes a rental mark indicating that associated content is rental content near the icon image of the content or disposes the rental mark so as to overlap with the icon image of the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Masaki Higuchi, Hirofumi Shimada, Syunichi Souma, Kiyobumi Matsunaga, Yuichiro To
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Publication number: 20200278777Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring menu display instructions from a user, and generating and outputting the operating system menu screens for display.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaki Higuchi, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 10748208Abstract: A purchase type determining unit 244 determines whether content is rental content, which has a valid time limit for enjoying, from purchasing type information included in the license information. An icon image processing unit 352 disposes an icon image of the content in a menu screen. In case the content is determined to be rental content by the purchase type determining unit 244, a rental mark disposing unit 356 disposes a rental mark indicating that associated content is rental content near the icon image of the content or disposes the rental mark so as to overlap with the icon image of the content.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Masaki Higuchi, Hirofumi Shimada, Syunichi Souma, Kiyobumi Matsunaga, Yuichiro To
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Patent number: 10691305Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring menu display instructions from a user, and generating and outputting the operating system menu screens for display.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaki Higuchi, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 10394444Abstract: An information processing device having a novel interface for allowing a user to change the reproducing position of a video is provided. The information processing device is connected with a touch sensor (16), receives a drag operation performed by the user in a predetermined direction on the touch sensor (16), changes steplessly the reproducing position of the video in accordance with the amount of the drag operation, and starts to reproduce the video from the changed reproducing position.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Masaki Higuchi, Toru Ogiso, Norihiro Nagai
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Publication number: 20190114042Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring menu display instructions from a user, and generating and outputting the operating system menu screens for display.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaki Higuchi, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 10185470Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring menu display instructions from a user, and generating and outputting the operating system menu screens for display.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaki Higuchi, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 9976432Abstract: Provided is a radial vane with which manufacturing is possible with superior economy, without incurring a cut loss associated with vane separation in a weld part of a thread bundle. With a longitudinal intermediate part of a contiguous bundle of threads being a fold-over part, both end parts of the fold-over part of the thread bundle are opened into radial shapes and superpositioned, leaving a space in the center part of the fold-over part, a ring-shaped fold-over part (12) is formed within the circumference of the space in the center part thereof. The outer part of the ring-shaped fold-over part (12) is welded in a ring shape, forming a ring-shaped core part (13). A through hole (11) is formed in the inner side of the fold-over part (12), and radial vane parts (14) are formed in which a plurality of thread materials (21) extend outward from the core part (13) toward the outer circumference side from all regions of the circumference direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: STB HIGUCHI CO., LTD.Inventors: Izumi Higuchi, Yasushi Ueba, Hideaki Nishimura, Masaki Higuchi
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Patent number: 9669314Abstract: A mode setting unit sets either a first mode or a second mode. When the first mode is set, the item information acquiring unit acquires item acquisition information stored in an external server via a communication unit. On the other hand, when the second mode is set, the item information acquiring unit acquires the item acquisition information from a storage. A display processing unit displays on a display unit an item acquisition status using the item acquisition information acquired by the item information acquiring unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2012Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Akitsugu Tsuchiya, Nobukazu Koyama, Masaki Higuchi
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Patent number: 9519412Abstract: A display control apparatus includes: a voice message acceptance block configured to accept a voice message; an option identification block configured to identify, from among a plurality of options related with information indicative of voice messages, in accordance with acceptance of a voice message by the voice message acceptance block, an option of attention that is an option related with information indicative of the accepted voice message and an alternative option other than this option of attention identified on the basis of the information indicative of this voice message or this option of attention; and a display control block configured to display information indicative that the option of attention is in a selected state and information indicative of a voice message by which the option identification block identifies the alternative option as the option of attention in accordance with the acceptance by the voice message acceptance block.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Keigo Tamura, Masaki Higuchi, Tomoki Takaichi, Toshimasa Aoki
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Publication number: 20160299644Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for acquiring menu display instructions from a user, and generating and outputting the operating system menu screens for display.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaki Higuchi, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu
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Publication number: 20160291860Abstract: An information processing device having a novel interface for allowing a user to change the reproducing position of a video is provided. The information processing device is connected with a touch sensor (16), receives a drag operation performed by the user in a predetermined direction on the touch sensor (16), changes steplessly the reproducing position of the video in accordance with the amount of the drag operation, and starts to reproduce the video from the changed reproducing position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2014Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Masaki HIGUCHI, Toru OGISO, Norihiro NAGAI
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Publication number: 20160271490Abstract: There are provided an entertainment device, a display control method, a program, and an information storage medium for enabling command information arranged on a screen to be less of a nuisance for the user than before. A voice receiving section (56) receives a voice. When the voice represents prescribed information, a command information arranging section (68) arranges command information at a position on a screen in accordance with display content of the screen, the command information being indicative of a command and causing execution of a process corresponding to the command upon receipt of the voice represented by the information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2014Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Keigo TAMURA, Tomoki TAKAICHI, Masaki HIGUCHI, Toshimasa AOKI, Ikuo KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 9440150Abstract: A game device includes: a first requirement achievement determining unit operative to determine whether or not a requirement of gameplay predefined in a game is achieved based on a progress status of the game; a second requirement achievement determining unit operative to determine whether or not a result of determination by the first requirement achievement determining unit meets a predetermined condition; a display processing unit operative to display information related to the requirement of gameplay determined by the first requirement achievement determining unit as being achieved, and information related to the predetermined condition determined by the second requirement achievement determining unit as being met, where the first requirement achievement determining unit is implemented by game software and the second requirement achievement determining unit is implemented by system software.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nobukazu Koyama, William Parks, Yasutaka Miwa, Masaharu Sakai, Shinichi Tanaka, Masaki Higuchi
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Patent number: 9389752Abstract: An instruction acquisition unit acquires a menu display instruction in a menu screen display device. When the menu display instruction is acquired while a game program is running, a menu-screen generating unit displays, by a function of a system, on a television set a second system menu screen in which an end icon for terminating the running game program is inserted in between a plurality of content icons that are arranged in a line in a first system menu screen and displayed. The instruction acquisition unit acquires the selection of the displayed end icon from a user. When the selection of the end icon is acquired, a menu screen constituting unit terminates the running game program and displays on the television set a first system menu screen by deleting the end icon from the second system menu screen.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2009Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaki Higuchi, Shigeru Enomoto, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Shuji Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 9251764Abstract: A display format identification unit identifies a display format defined in a plurality of items of image data associated with each other. A message communication unit communicates a message corresponding to the identified display format when an image generation unit generates a display image in a display format different from the identified display format. A communication storage unit stores a record indicating that the message communication unit communicates a message. If the communication storage unit stores the record indicating that the message was communicated, the message communication unit does not communicate a message again.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masaki Higuchi, Masaki Takahashi, Fumiaki Hisamatsu, Masaki Takase