Patents by Inventor Nobuhiko Kuramochi

Nobuhiko Kuramochi 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).

  • Publication number: 20090174652
    Abstract: A technique is provided related to an input interface wherein entertainment is enhanced by an information processing system that includes means for producing a computer image that prompts a player to virtually touch a plurality of touch points; means for accepting input of a video image of the player captured by image pickup means; display control means for causing a display device to display and superimpose the video image and the computer image on each other; means for analyzing the video image during display of the computer image to detect virtual touches of any of the plurality of touch points; and means for executing predetermined processing when the detecting means detects virtual touches that are performed on a predetermined number of touch points in a predetermined order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Masami Yamamoto, Nobuhiko Kuramochi, Akira Imagawa