Patents by Inventor Teruhiko Nakagawa

Teruhiko Nakagawa 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).

  • Information display method and information display system
    Publication number: 20070162870
    Abstract: A virtual space including a model in place of each user is displayed on a terminal of a user. About an item in which the user is interested, the level of interest is previously registered so that the figure of a model of the other user can vary depending on the level of the interest. For example, about a certain interesting item, if the other user is also interested in that item, the user's terminal screen provides a display of the other user's model differently from the ordinary figure of the model. If not interested, then it is displayed as the ordinary model. Thus, the user can readily find out a user he/she wants to meet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Teruhiko Nakagawa, Shoichiro Kanazawa
  • Information display method and information display system for finding another user in a plurality of users based upon registered information
    Patent number: 7210104
    Abstract: A virtual space including a model in place of each user is displayed on a terminal of a user. About an item in which the user is interested, the level of interest is previously registered so that the figure of a model of the other user can vary depending on the level of the interest. For example, about a certain interesting item, if the other user is also interested in that item, the user's terminal screen provides a display of the other user's model differently from the ordinary figure of the model. If not interested, then it is displayed as the ordinary model. Thus, the user can readily find out a user he/she wants to meet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Sega Corporation
    Inventors: Teruhiko Nakagawa, Shoichiro Kanazawa
  • Virtual three-dimensional sound pattern generator and method and medium thereof
    Patent number: 6760050
    Abstract: A virtual three-dimensional sound pattern generator is provided. A player character may move within a virtual three-dimensional space using a sound source object and a sound marker. The player character may use the sound source object to shoot sound signals at the sound marker. The sound marker may then provide sound information based on the relative position of the sound source object for the player character, and based on materials of virtual objects. Audible sounds at prescribed positions and in prescribed directions within the virtual three-dimensional space are then provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Enterprises
    Inventor: Teruhiko Nakagawa
  • Information display method and information display system
    Publication number: 20010020955
    Abstract: A virtual space including a model in place of each user is displayed on a terminal of a user. About an item in which the user is interested, the level of interest is previously registered so that the figure of a model of the other user can vary depending on the level of the interest. For example, about a certain interesting item, if the other user is also interested in that item, the user's terminal screen provides a display of the other user's model differently from the ordinary figure of the model. If not interested, then it is displayed as the ordinary model. Thus, the user can readily find out a user he/she wants to meet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Inventors: Teruhiko Nakagawa, Shoichiro Kanazawa