Patents by Inventor Masashi Watanabe

Masashi Watanabe 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: 11772001
    Abstract: A game processing device changes a movement direction of a moving object from a first direction, which is a movement direction of the moving object, to a second direction based on an operation direction of the controller if an operation of the controller in a direction that is different from the first direction is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Masashi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230304912
    Abstract: A crimping determination device according to an embodiment includes a dropping unit, an image acquisition unit, and a control unit. The dropping unit drops a test solution to a wire harness. The wire harness includes a crimped portion in which an electric wire is crimped by a crimping terminal, a first electric wire portion in which the electric wire is exposed on a distal end side, and a second electric wire portion in which the electric wire is exposed on a proximal end side. The dropping unit drops the test solution to either one of the first electric wire portion and the second electric wire portion. The image acquisition unit acquires an image including the other one of the first electric wire portion and the second electric wire portion. The control unit determines a quality of a crimped state of the crimped portion based on the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Akira TANAKA, Masashi WATANABE, Emi SATO, Juhong YANG
  • Patent number: 11754936
    Abstract: Provided is a wax which is used in a toner, whereby the toner is excellent in low-temperature fixability and heat-resistant shelf stability, the glossiness is improved as compared with the prior art, and the generation of ultrafine particles and the bleeding of the wax are not likely to occur. The wax for toners, wherein the wax is an ester wax generated by esterification of a pentaerythritol and a monocarboxylic acid; wherein the monocarboxylic acid used for the esterification contains a behenic acid, an arachidic acid and a stearic acid; and wherein, with respect to 100% by mass of the monocarboxylic acid, a content ratio of the behenic acid is from 60% by mass to 80% by mass; a content ratio of the arachidic acid is from 5% by mass to 15% by mass; and a content ratio of the stearic acid is from 15% by mass to 25% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: ZEON CORPORATION, NOF CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Watanabe, Takeshi Yoshimura, Norifumi Itako
  • Publication number: 20230283850
    Abstract: A computer program causes at least one processor to perform the following functions: displaying, based on operation data indicating content of an operation of a user, a virtual space that accommodates a virtual public venue for showing a video; displaying an entry-allowed time slot that includes at least (i) a show start time that is specified for the public venue and (ii) an entry end time obtained by adding an allowed time to the show start time; determining whether a time at which the public venue was selected based on the operation data as a venue to be entered is included in the entry-allowed time slot of the public venue; and in response to determining that the time at which the public venue is selected is included in the entry-allowed time slot, receiving a video specified for the public venue from a server device and displaying the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Masashi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11736779
    Abstract: A video distribution system distributes a video including animation of a character object generated based on a motion of an actor to client devices used by a plurality of viewing users. The video distribution system includes: one or more computer processors; a storage that stores objects associated with each of the plurality of viewing users; and a display device seeable by the actor. The one or more computer processors execute computer-readable instructions to: receive a display request for any of the objects from a first viewing user among the plurality of viewing users; and display object information on the display device, the object information including information on the object corresponding to the display request in association with identification information of the first viewing user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Masashi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20230119130
    Abstract: In a communication apparatus, an analog circuit includes a circuit element to be connected to a first conductor, and processes a differential signal. A communication circuit receives, via a connection circuit, a differential signal processed by the analog circuit, and generates a signal for which the potential of a second conductor is used as a reference potential based on the received differential signal. An inductor is connected between the first conductor and the second conductor. The connection circuit includes a circuit element different from a capacitor. The analog circuit (21), the connection circuit, the communication circuit, the inductor, the first conductor, and the second conductor are housed in a conductive housing box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Masashi WATANABE, Makoto MASHITA
  • Patent number: 11625851
    Abstract: A geographic object recognition unit (120) recognizes, using image data (192) obtained by photographing in a measurement region where a geographic object exists, a type of the geographic object from an image that the image data (192) represents. A position specification unit (130) specifies, using three-dimensional point cloud data (191) indicating a three-dimensional coordinate value of each of a plurality of points in the measurement region, a position of the geographic object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mamoru Miura, Ayako Nemoto, Yoshimi Moriya, Hideyuki Masui, Yusuke Itani, Masashi Watanabe, Katsuyuki Kamei, Takuma Kadoya
  • Publication number: 20230023653
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a process including generating avatar information relating to an avatar expression or pose based on streamer data indicating a facial expression or pose of a streamer; acquiring gift information concerned with a gift of an object that is provided from a viewer to the streamer; determining whether the gift information satisfies a predetermined condition; in a case that the gift information is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition, rendering an avatar facial expression or pose using a predetermined facial expression or pose corresponding to the predetermined condition; and in a case that the gift information is determined to not satisfy the predetermined condition, rendering the avatar facial expression or pose using the avatar information generated based on the streamer data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Masashi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230018262
    Abstract: A computer program, a method, and a server device, all of which enable a further reduction in the possibility of increasing of the load to perform display control, as compared to conventional technologies, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Masashi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220413410
    Abstract: Provided is an electrostatic image development toner comprising colored resin particles and an external additive, the colored resin particles containing a binder resin, a colorant, an aromatic vinyl thermoplastic elastomer having a polymerizable unsaturated bond, and a release agent, wherein the release agent is an ester compound having a glycerol skeleton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220410006
    Abstract: An information processing system is disclosed that includes a drawing portion that draws a display image for a terminal including at least one display medium positioned in a virtual space, an acquisition portion that acquires input from a user, and a position update portion that changes a position of the display medium associated with one user in the virtual space based on a first input from the one user acquired by the acquisition portion. The drawing portion draws guidance information indicating a positional relationship between a first display medium associate with the one user and a second display medium associated with another user, associating the guidance information with the first display medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Masashi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220410111
    Abstract: Provided are hollow particles which have a high void ratio, hardly collapse, and have a reduced amount of volatile compounds. The hollow particles comprising a shell and a hollow portion surrounded by the shell, and having a void ratio of 50% or more and 90% or less, wherein the shell has a thickness of 0.2 ?m or more and 0.9 ?m or less, and the shell contains a polymer derived from a polymerizable monomer for shell, which is composed of 70% by mass or more and 100% by mass or less of a crosslinkable monomer and 0% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less of a non-crosslinkable monomer, and a polar resin selected from the group consisting of polymers containing a repeating unit which contains a hetero atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220417490
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a drawing portion that draws a display image for a terminal including one or more display media positioned in a virtual space; an acquisition portion that acquires input from a user; a state switching portion that switches, between a plurality of states, a state of the display medium; a position changing portion that changes the position of the display medium associated with one user in the virtual space, based on a first input from the one user acquired by the acquisition portion when the state of the display medium is a first state; and a viewpoint switching portion that switches a viewpoint of when the drawing portion draws the display image from a first viewpoint to a second viewpoint when the state of the display medium is switched from the first state to a second state by the state switching portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Masashi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220365025
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an electrophoresis device which detects the presence or absence of foreign matter in a flow path 111. In order to solve the above problems, the electrophoresis device of the present invention is characterized by including a flow path 111 filled thereinside with a migration medium, a migration medium container which stores a migration medium, a liquid feeding mechanism which feeds the migration medium to the flow path 111, a photographing device 115 which photographs the flow path 111, and a control unit which analyzes an image of the flow path 111 photographed by the photographing device 115 and in that the control unit determines the presence or absence of the foreign matter in the flow path 111 on the basis of the image of the flow path 111.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi TOMIYOSHI, Masashi WATANABE, Takeshi OOURA, Motohiro YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20220355264
    Abstract: The method produces hollow particles which have a high void ratio, which can reduce the residual amount of a sparingly water-soluble solvent used in the production process, and which are less likely to collapse. The method for producing hollow particles which comprise a shell and a hollow portion and which have a void ratio of 50% or more and 90% or less, wherein a suspension treatment of a mixture liquid containing a polymerizable monomer for shell, a polar resin, a hydrocarbon solvent, a sparingly water-soluble inorganic metal salt as a dispersant, and an aqueous medium is carried out to prepare a suspension in which droplets of a monomer composition containing the polymerizable monomer for shell, the polar resin and the hydrocarbon solvent are dispersed in the aqueous medium; a polymerization reaction of the suspension is carried out; and the hydrocarbon solvent is removed from the obtained hollow particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: ZEON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220340392
    Abstract: A wire rod disposing device includes: a wire rod delivering mechanism configured to deliver a wire rod from a nozzle at a predetermined speed; a movable stage serving as a member support part configured to support a base plate serving as a disposition target member such that the wire rod is routed after the wire rod is delivered from the nozzle and curved; and a tension application mechanism configured to apply tension to the wire rod, the wire rod being routed to the base plate by being delivered from the nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: NITTOKU Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki SATO, Masashi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220335700
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program, a method, and a server in which a possibility that a load on display control increases is reduced, compared to the related art. According to an exemplary embodiment of such a configuration, first data relevant to a first position in a virtual space in which a first avatar manipulated by using a first terminal of a first user exists is acquired, whether or not a first condition is satisfied is determined, second data is received in a case where it is determined that the first condition is satisfied, control data for controlling a display unit of the first terminal such that at least the virtual object is displayed on the display unit of the first terminal is decided on the basis of the second data, and the display unit is controlled on the basis of the control data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Masashi WATANABE, Keiichi YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11427187
    Abstract: An automatic valet parking system includes: a terminal device having an application information generator for transmitting application information for the valet parking to a parking place server and a vehicle manufacturer server; a vehicular device having an autonomous driving controller for performing autonomous driving control according to a drive plan when receiving a temporary key; a parking place server having a key request generator for receiving the application information and transmitting a temporary key request to the vehicle manufacturer server; and a vehicle manufacturer server having a key request verification portion for verifying authenticity of the temporary key request and a temporary key generator for transmitting the temporary key to the vehicular device when a verification result is true. The parking place server or the vehicular device includes a drive planning portion for generating a drive plan to a targeted parking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sirinda Khurewattanakul, Masashi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220219092
    Abstract: A game processing device determines a movement range of a moving object in a game field using movement range information indicating the movement range of the moving object in the game field. Further, the game processing device arranges a game medium operated by a player in the game field so that a relative position of the game medium with respect to the movement range satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Masashi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220212097
    Abstract: A game processing apparatus displays an image of virtual space on a display that displays an image by using a sensor for identifying the position and direction of a certain body part of a player and the display. A controller in the game processing apparatus displays the image of the virtual space on the display in accordance with the position and direction of the certain body part of the player, and, when an information providing condition regarding the position and direction of the certain body part of the player is satisfied, outputs to-be-provided information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Masashi WATANABE