Patents by Inventor Masayuki Sekiya

Masayuki Sekiya 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).

  • IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20120256946
    Abstract: An element choice list designating a plurality of elements among elements included in CG description data is generated in advance and stored. Examples of the element include a virtual object (CG object), a virtual camera, a virtual light, a virtual force field, and a virtual wind. An image generating unit excludes one or more elements other than an element selected by a user's manipulation from among the elements designated by the element choice list from the CG description data and generates a CG image. By manipulating the selection manipulating unit, the user can perform a manipulation of selecting the element from the element choice list and can easily change content of a CG image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Sensaburo Nakamura, Masayuki Sekiya, Toshimasa Kakihara
  • Apparatus for cooking food on skewers
    Patent number: 7222564
    Abstract: A roasting apparatus for cooking skewered food constituted by food and a skewer skewering the food includes a main apparatus body having a wall member forming a cooking space maintained within the food during cooking, a heater provided in such a manner that a heat-emitting section is positioned at an upper part of the cooking space, and a food holding mechanism for positioning food downwards from the heat-emitting section and being capable of holding horizontally laid skewers in a manner enabling free rotation about a center axis of the skewers, so as to enable heat from the heating means to be used effectively and enable the skewered food to be effectively cooked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Forming Food's Trading Limited
    Inventor: Masayuki Sekiya
  • Apparatus for cooking food on skewers
    Publication number: 20040099146
    Abstract: A roasting apparatus for cooking skewered food constituted by food and a skewer skewering the food includes a main apparatus body having a wall member forming a cooking space maintained within the food during cooking, a heater provided in such a manner that a heat-emitting section is positioned at an upper part of the cooking space, and a food holding mechanism for positioning food downwards from the heat-emitting section and being capable of holding horizontally laid skewers in a manner enabling free rotation about a center axis of the skewers, so as to enable heat from the heating means to be used effectively and enable the skewered food to be effectively cooked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventor: Masayuki Sekiya