Patents by Inventor Masayuki TODATE

Masayuki TODATE 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: 10417811
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates rendered images associated with 3D representations of an object indicated by image groups each including a plurality of parts of 2D images by using the image group to perform at least one of movement and deformation of each part included in the image groups. At this time, the apparatus sequentially decides rendering directions in which the object is rendered in the rendered images, and determines a moving direction determined by transition of the sequentially decided rendering directions. The apparatus differentiates the rendering direction, in which at least some parts of the image groups used to generate the rendered images are changed to different parts, in accordance with the determined moving direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Live2D Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nakajo, Masayuki Todate
  • Patent number: 10366529
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates rendered images associated with 3D representations of an object indicated by image groups each including a plurality of parts of 2D images by using the image group to perform at least one of movement and deformation of each part included in the image groups. At this time, the apparatus sequentially decides rendering directions in which the object is rendered in the rendered images, and determines a moving direction determined by transition of the sequentially decided rendering directions. The apparatus differentiates the rendering direction, in which at least some parts of the image groups used to generate the rendered images are changed to different parts, in accordance with the determined moving direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Live2D Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nakajo, Masayuki Todate
  • Patent number: 10235785
    Abstract: A storage (240) of an image processing device (100) stores a background image (2410) and a first image (2420) and a second image (2430) that are foreground images with respect to the background image (2410), and a first basic mask image (the first basic mask image (2450) formed from pixels having a pixel value of ‘1’ indicating opacity and pixels having a pixel value of ‘0’ indicating transparence. An acquirer (250) acquires each of these images. An image generator (220) generates a first intermediate image by compositing the first image (2420) onto the background image (2410) only in pixels that are in the same positions as the pixels in the first basic mask image (2450) having the pixel value of ‘1’. The image generator (220) then generates a first composite image by overwriting the second image (2430) onto the first intermediate image only in the pixels that are in the same positions as the pixels in the first basic mask image (2450) having the pixel value of ‘1’.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: LIVE2D INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nakajo, Masayuki Todate
  • Patent number: 9928664
    Abstract: An acquirer (231) of an image processing device (100) acquires first connection information set between a first part displayed on a display (30) and glue from a glue setting table (214) of a memory (210). The acquirer (231) acquires second connection information set between a second part displayed on the display (30) and the glue from glue setting table (214) of the memory (210). A controller (232) connects together the first part and the second part displayed on the display (30) based on the first connection information and the second connection information acquired by the acquirer (231). A display controller (230) displays the first part and the second part connected together on the display (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: LIVE2D INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nakajo, Masayuki Todate
  • Publication number: 20170178393
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus generates rendered images associated with 3D representations of an object indicated by image groups each including a plurality of parts of 2D images by using the image group to perform at least one of movement and deformation of each part included in the image groups. At this time, the apparatus sequentially decides rendering directions in which the object is rendered in the rendered images, and determines a moving direction determined by transition of the sequentially decided rendering directions. The apparatus differentiates the rendering direction, in which at least some parts of the image groups used to generate the rendered images are changed to different parts, in accordance with the determined moving direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuya NAKAJO, Masayuki TODATE
  • Publication number: 20170076476
    Abstract: A storage (240) of an image processing device (100) stores a background image (2410) and a first image (2420) and a second image (2430) that are foreground images with respect to the background image (2410), and a first basic mask image (the first basic mask image (2450) formed from pixels having a pixel value of ‘1’ indicating opacity and pixels having a pixel value of ‘0’ indicating transparence. An acquirer (250) acquires each of these images. An image generator (220) generates a first intermediate image by compositing the first image (2420) onto the background image (2410) only in pixels that are in the same positions as the pixels in the first basic mask image (2450) having the pixel value of ‘1’. The image generator (220) then generates a first composite image by overwriting the second image (2430) onto the first intermediate image only in the pixels that are in the same positions as the pixels in the first basic mask image (2450) having the pixel value of ‘1’.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuya NAKAJO, Masayuki TODATE
  • Publication number: 20160379420
    Abstract: An acquirer (231) of an image processing device (100) acquires first connection information set between a first part displayed on a display (30) and glue from a glue setting table (214) of a memory (210). The acquirer (231) acquires second connection information set between a second part displayed on the display (30) and the glue from glue setting table (214) of the memory (210). A controller (232) connects together the first part and the second part displayed on the display (30) based on the first connection information and the second connection information acquired by the acquirer (231). A display controller (230) displays the first part and the second part connected together on the display (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Tetsuya NAKAJO, Masayuki TODATE