Patents by Inventor Tatsuro Okamoto

Tatsuro Okamoto 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: 8915784
    Abstract: A program for playing a game based on an input from an operation section including a first controller and a second controller, the program causing a computer to function as: a movement operation input detection section which determines whether or not an output value from a movement sensor provided in at least one of the first controller and the second controller satisfies a detection condition for a movement operation input; a game calculation section which performs a game calculation process based on the movement operation input; an operation input display control section which performs a display control process of a movement operation input display object for displaying a detection result of the movement operation input; and an image generation section which generates a game image including the movement operation input display object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignees: Bandai Namco Games Inc., Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Aisaku Yamanaka, Tatsuro Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20070270222
    Abstract: A program for playing a game based on an input from an operation section including a first controller and a second controller, the program causing a computer to function as: a movement operation input detection section which determines whether or not an output value from a movement sensor provided in at least one of the first controller and the second controller satisfies a detection condition for a movement operation input; a game calculation section which performs a game calculation process based on the movement operation input; an operation input display control section which performs a display control process of a movement operation input display object for displaying a detection result of the movement operation input; and an image generation section which generates a game image including the movement operation input display object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Applicants: NAMCO BANDAI GAMES INC., NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aisaku Yamanaka, Tatsuro Okamoto
  • Patent number: 4998199
    Abstract: A game playing system for business use includes a plurality of independent game machines and transmission lines for connecting the game machines together, each of the game machines including player input device through which a player can input a game start command signal, a communication interface for performing the reception and transmission of data between the one player's game machine and the other game machines through the transmission lines, a group setting device for grouping the game machines including the one player's game machine to participate in a game in accordance with the game start command signal from the player input device and various signals from the other game machines through the communication interface and a game calculating device for performing the reception and transmission of game data between the one player's game machine and the other game machines in the same group through the communication interface to make a predetermined calculation of game, whereby a plurality of game machines
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1991
    Assignee: Namco Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Tashiro, Shinichiro Okamoto, Tatsuro Okamoto
  • Patent number: 4958835
    Abstract: A game playing system for business use includes a plurality of independent game machines and transmission lines for connecting the game machines into a loop, data calculated in each of the game machines being sequentially transmitted to the other game machines through the looped transmission lines, whereby the game machines can be played in a game simultaneously within the same game space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: Namco Ltd
    Inventors: Koichi Tashiro, Shinichiro Okamoto, Tatsuro Okamoto