Patents by Inventor Tatsuya Shoji

Tatsuya Shoji 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).

  • Program for processing a live commentary, computer-readable recording medium on which such a program is recorded, and live commentary processing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 6736728
    Abstract: Upon issuance of a sound reproduction request, storage locations of sound data constituting a sentence are determined. A live commentary sound is output based on the sound data that are stored in a distributed manner. At this time, the sound data in a CD-ROM are transferred to a RAM in a divisional manner. The sound data that have been transferred to the RAM are then transferred to a sound memory in a divisional manner. In this manner, even sound data of a long sentence can be read from the CD-ROM with a small number of times of access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
    Inventor: Tatsuya Shoji
  • Game system and computer readable storage medium
    Patent number: 6572476
    Abstract: It is an object of present invention to effectively, separately use a game field image and an enlarged image relating to the neighborhood of a sight postion in the game field image. In a game system executing a shooting simulation of the like, a game field image is displayed on a screen of a predetermined monitor by a computer of the game system, a sight position in the game field image is changed in accordance with a player's postion select operation conducted to a predetermined input device, and an enlarged image relating to a predetermined range including the sight postion is displayed on the screen of the monitor. Further, a magnification of the enlarged image relative to the game field image is changed in accordance with a player's magnification switch operation conducted to the input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Konami Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Shoji, Masaaki Nagakura
  • Program for processing a live commentary, computer-readable recording medium on which such a program is recorded, and live commentary processing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 6458033
    Abstract: Upon issuance of a sound reproduction request, storage locations of sound data constituting a sentence are determined. A live commentary sound is output based on the sound data that are stored in a distributed manner. At this time, the sound data in a CD-ROM are transferred to a RAM in a divisional manner. The sound data that have been transferred to the RAM are then transferred to a sound memory in a divisional manner. In this manner, even sound data of a long sentence can be read from the CD-ROM with a small number of times of access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Square Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Shoji
  • Program for processing a live commentary, computer-readable recording medium on which such a program is recorded, and live commentary processing apparatus and method
    Publication number: 20020132667
    Abstract: Upon issuance of a sound reproduction request, storage locations of sound data constituting a sentence are determined. A live commentary sound is output based on the sound data that are stored in a distributed manner. At this time, the sound data in a CD-ROM are transferred to a RAM in a divisional manner. The sound data that have been transferred to the RAM are then transferred to a sound memory in a divisional manner. In this manner, even sound data of a long sentence can be read from the CD-ROM with a small number of times of access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Applicant: SQUARE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Tatsuya Shoji
  • Game system and computer readable storage medium
    Publication number: 20010029203
    Abstract: It is an object of present invention to effectively, separately use a game field image and an enlarged image relating to the neighborhood of a sight position in the game field image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Applicant: KONAMI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Shoji, Masaaki Nagakura