Patents by Inventor Motohiko Higashiguchi

Motohiko Higashiguchi 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: 7815509
    Abstract: A game apparatus and associated method comprises means for controlling development of a game based on a game program, a number of displays for displaying game images, a seat for game players to sit on, a number of audio outputs, a rotating table upon which the seat and audio outputs are mounted on, means for calculating rotation angle of the rotating table as the game develops and rotating the rotating table based on this rotation angle, and means for changing conditions of audio output outputted from the audio output sections and controlling assigned position of a sound field of stereophonic sound based on rotating table rotation angle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamaya, Yuji Sugimori, Motohiko Higashiguchi, Tomoyuki Goto
  • Publication number: 20080039216
    Abstract: To provide a swing device capable of making a user body sense a rising, lowering, and/or turning feeling more impressively or with higher reality with a simple structure, there is provided a swing device including: a swing member on which a user rides; a fulcrum support mechanism that swingably supports the swing member at a fulcrum; and a first driving mechanism that swingably supports a first driving point on the swing member and moving the first driving point in a vertical direction, the first driving point being spaced apart from the fulcrum in a longitudinal direction of the swing member, the fulcrum is placed on a rear side of a riding position of the user in the longitudinal direction of the swing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventor: Motohiko Higashiguchi
  • Publication number: 20070161425
    Abstract: A game player is subjected to audiovisual synergetic effects so as to increase the sense of realism by ensuring that a condition displayed in images and a condition outputted for audio match in game apparatus configured so that the positions of a seat and audio output means with respect to screens installed within an enclosure change in a relative manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega, d/b/a Sega Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamaya, Yuji Sugimori, Motohiko Higashiguchi, Tomoyuki Goto
  • Patent number: 6752716
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a game apparatus which can provide an experience of vibrations similar to a real experience. The game apparatus relating to the present invention executes a game program to display displayed bodies on a screen and comprises means for simulating vibrations generated by the displayed bodies in a state of motion for the player operating the game apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Enterprises
    Inventors: Eiji Nishimura, Minoru Matsuba, Motohiko Higashiguchi
  • Patent number: D559997
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Sega Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Sugimori, Naoaki Shoui, Motohiko Higashiguchi
  • Patent number: D564101
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Sega Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Sugimori, Naoaki Shoui, Motohiko Higashiguchi
  • Patent number: D565667
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Sega Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Sugimori, Naoaki Shoui, Motohiko Higashiguchi