Patents by Inventor Tadao Nakayama

Tadao Nakayama 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: 8678935
    Abstract: A biological signal is obtained from a player, under a situation where a biological parameter can be calculated based on a biological signal repeatedly obtained from a sensor attached to a player, and a predetermined game processing can be performed using the biological parameter. Then, whether the sensor is attached to the player is determined based on the biological signal, and the predetermined game processing is performed in at least one of a case where the sensor attachment determining means determines that the sensor has changed from its attached state to its detached state and a case where the sensor attachment determining means determines that the sensor has changed from its detached state to its attached state, according to the timing at which the determinations is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Goro Abe, Tomoyuki Yambe, Norihiro Sugita, Makoto Yoshizawa, Tadao Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20110294581
    Abstract: A biological signal is obtained from a player, under a situation where a biological parameter can be calculated based on a biological signal repeatedly obtained from a sensor attached to a player, and a predetermined game processing can be performed using the biological parameter. Then, whether the sensor is attached to the player is determined based on the biological signal, and the predetermined game processing is performed in at least one of a case where the sensor attachment determining means determines that the sensor has changed from its attached state to its detached state and a case where the sensor attachment determining means determines that the sensor has changed from its detached state to its attached state, according to the timing at which the determinations is made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicants: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Goro Abe, Tomoyuki Yambe, Norihiro Sugita, Makoto Yoshizawa, Tadao Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8012018
    Abstract: A video game apparatus includes a CPU, and the CPU executes a game according to a game program in a virtual space. During the game, the player selectively displays a 2D game screen and a 3D game screen by operating a controller. It should be noted that a player character, etc. is subjected to a modeling process in a virtual three-dimensional space, and the image is photographed by a virtual camera so as to be displayed as a 2D or 3D game screen on a monitor. If it is determined whether or not the player character and the predetermined object are contacted with each other, collision data for 2D display or collision data for 3D display set in advance to the object is utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Kawade, Tadao Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20070202949
    Abstract: A video game apparatus includes a CPU, and the CPU executes a game according to a game program in a virtual space. During the game, the player selectively displays a 2D game screen and a 3D game screen by operating a controller. It should be noted that a player character, etc. is subjected to a modeling process in a virtual three-dimensional space, and the image is photographed by a virtual camera so as to be displayed as a 2D or 3D game screen on a monitor. If it is determined whether or not the player character and the predetermined object are contacted with each other, collision data for 2D display or collision data for 3D display set in advance to the object is utilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Kawade, Tadao Nakayama
  • Patent number: 6536142
    Abstract: An excavator of the invention comprises an excavating body having an excavating element and a clinometer detecting an inclination angle of ditch wall in a excavating ditch; a traveling distance recorder for measuring moving distance of said excavator; a calculator for calculating and accumulating the inclination signal for every moving distance of said excavator on the basis of the inclination signal outputted from said clinometer and the moving distance signal outputted from the traveling distance recorder; and a display device for displaying accumulated said inclination signal outputted from said calculator, thereby can excavate the ditch with excellent flatness of the ditch wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiko Mizutani, Tadao Nakayama
  • Patent number: 6381882
    Abstract: The present invention provides a work control system for a trencher type excavator for soil cement wall, wherein in controlling the work of forming a soil cement wall carried out in the procedure such that a cutter post provided on a trencher type excavator for soil cement wall and having a chain cutter wound endlessly is inserted into the object ground, the cutter post is rotated while discharging a ground filler out of a discharge opening provided in the cutter post, and the cutter post is moved in a lateral direction of the ground, execution width of the soil cement wall based on a fixed work load, and filling quantity of the ground filler at each position of the soil cement wall forming work are displayed on a two-dimensional coordinate in a lateral axis and a longitudinal axis, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiko Mizutani, Tadao Nakayama, Shozo Kajikawa, Fujio Itoh
  • Publication number: 20010049891
    Abstract: An excavator of the invention comprises an excavating body having an excavating element and a clinometer for detecting an inclination angle of ditch wall in a excavating ditch; a traveling distance recorder for measuring moving distance of said excavator; a calculator for calculating and accumulating the inclination signal for every moving distance of said excavator on the basis of the inclination signal outputted from said clinometer and the moving distance signal outputted from the traveling distance recorder; and a display device for displaying accumulated said inclination signal outputted from said calculator, thereby can excavate the ditch with excellent flatness of the ditch wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Applicant: KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motohiko Mizutani, Tadao Nakayama
  • Patent number: 4656855
    Abstract: A method is set forth for use in crown control in a multi-roll rolling mill, the method including the steps of: setting in advance a shape of a thermal crown of a work roll corresponding to various rolling conditions and a changing gradient of a mechanical crown for each rolling speed zone applied to a work roll which is determined according to a change in time of a thermal crown relative to a change in rolling speed; applying a roll bending force, as an initial value, to the work roll, controlling the roll bending force from the thermal crown shape and an initial value of a mechanical crown amount at a suitable position of the work roll which is determined from an expected rolling schedule and a target mechanical crown amount at a standing speed; detecting the rolling speed; selecting the changing gradient of the mechanical crown according to the rolling speed zone at that time; and at the same time adjusting the roll bending force applied to the work roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Hirokichi Sakamaki, Tadao Nakayama