Patents by Inventor Shinichiro Hirano

Shinichiro Hirano 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: 20240293750
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute: determining a reward based on a reached game stage when a game is started in a first mode in which game stages proceed based on an operation input by a player while a game screen is displayed; and determining a reward based on an elapsed time or a reached game stage when the game is started in a second mode in which the player operation input and the game screen display are not required and the game stages proceed in association with the passage of time. The types of the rewards determined in the first and second modes are the same. In the second mode, the amount of time required to reach a first game stage is greater than the shortest time by which the first game stage can be reached in the first mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventors: Ryohei Ishizuka, Shinichiro Hirano, Reiji Suzumaru, Hiroki Tsuda, Eri Tatsuzawa, Yuji Okada, Asahi Inoue
  • Patent number: 10638084
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: an operation unit through which recording of an image acquired by an image pickup device can be instructed; and a controller configured to perform control to record, in a main recording unit, a first image acquired by the image pickup device when the image recording is instructed through the operation unit and record, in a sub recording unit, a second image acquired by the image pickup device irrespective of whether the image recording is instructed through the operation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro Hirano, Osamu Mitsunaga
  • Publication number: 20180288361
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: an operation unit through which recording of an image acquired by an image pickup device can be instructed; and a controller configured to perform control to record, in a main recording unit, a first image acquired by the image pickup device when the image recording is instructed through the operation unit and record, in a sub recording unit, a second image acquired by the image pickup device irrespective of whether the image recording is instructed through the operation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichiro HIRANO, Osamu MITSUNAGA
  • Patent number: 5133632
    Abstract: In an automated warehouse for storing cartridge tapes, a plurality of the cartridge tapes are accommodated in horizontal cases as arrayed in rows and columns. A plurality of shelves each adapted to support a plurality of the horizontal cases thereon as aligned horizontally, are in turn supported from a rack in a cantilever fashion at a plurality of respective levels. A robot having an arm is movable along the front of the rack. The arm is rotatable in a plane parallel to the surfaces of the shelves. Preferably, the arm of the robot is extensible and retractable and also is vertically movable, so that a cartridge picker mounted at the tip end of the arm can easily access each of the cartridge tapes accommodated in the automated warehouse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1992
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mikio Aramaki, Seiki Tanaka, Shinichiro Hirano, Hidemasa Satoh, Jiro Agawa