Patents by Inventor Teruki Murakawa
Teruki Murakawa 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).
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Patent number: 8517839Abstract: An example game apparatus stores a state of a game during execution as execution state information in a memory, and stores a captured image of the game screen by bringing it into correspondence with the execution state information in the memory. Furthermore, during execution of the game, the captured image is displayed on a lower LCD while the game screen is displayed on an upper LCD. In a state that the game screen and the captured image are thus displayed, a selecting operation from a user is accepted. Then, by using the execution state information which is brought into correspondence with the captured image selected in response to a selecting operation, the state of the game is restored.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Teruki Murakawa, Masahiro Kawano, Kenta Tanaka, Ken Kato
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Patent number: 8187099Abstract: A video game selection program runs on a home video game console system connected to the Internet and displays on a home color television set a menu of one or more video game titles corresponding to video game programs available via the Internet from a remote server. At least some video game programs available from the server are designed for execution by a computer having a different hardware architecture than the home video game console system. The video game selection program, in response to selection of a video game title on the menu, sends game title ID information to the server and downloads and stores both a video game program corresponding to a title selected from said menu and corresponding emulator program of a type especially suited for enabling execution of the selected video game program on the home video game console.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sagahiro Taho, Hideya Akasaka, Teruki Murakawa
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Publication number: 20120077601Abstract: An example game apparatus stores a state of a game during execution as execution state information in a memory, and stores a captured image of the game screen by bringing it into correspondence with the execution state information in the memory. Furthermore, during execution of the game, the captured image is displayed on a lower LCD while the game screen is displayed on an upper LCD. In a state that the game screen and the captured image are thus displayed, a selecting operation from a user is accepted. Then, by using the execution state information which is brought into correspondence with the captured image selected in response to a selecting operation, the state of the game is restored.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Teruki MURAKAWA, Masahiro Kawano, Kenta Tanaka, Ken Kato
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Patent number: 8016681Abstract: A portable game system includes two display screens, at least one of which is touch-sensitive. A memory card or other device is selectively connectable to the portable game system via in insertable connection port.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2005Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshino, Keizo Ohta, Yoshitaka Yasumoto, Kenji Nishida, Kenichi Sugino, Masato Ibuki, Teruki Murakawa, Soichi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7988556Abstract: A portable game system includes two display screens, at least one of which is touch-sensitive. A memory card is selectively connectable to the portable game system.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2010Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshino, Keizo Ohta, Yoshitaka Yasumoto, Kenji Nishida, Kenichi Sugino, Masato Ibuki, Teruki Murakawa, Soichi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20110092285Abstract: A portable game system includes two display screens, at least one of which is touch-sensitive. A memory card is selectively connectable to the portable game system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2010Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshino, Keizo Ohta, Yoshitaka Yasumoto, Kenji Nishida, Kenichi Sugino, Masato Ibuki, Teruki Murakawa, Soichi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7837558Abstract: A portable game system includes two display screens, at least one of which is touch-sensitive. A memory card is selectively connectable to the portable game system.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2005Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshino, Keizo Ohta, Yoshitaka Yasumoto, Kenji Nishida, Kenichi Sugino, Masato Ibuki, Teruki Murakawa, Soichi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7285051Abstract: A game system includes a first game machine which operates according to a first architecture and, a second game machine which operates according to a second architecture different from the first architecture and has a processing capability lower than that of the first game machine. A game information storage medium stores, in addition to a first game program executable on the first game machine, a second game program executable on the second game machine and an emulator program that converts the second architecture into the first architecture. When a predetermined condition is satisfied while a first game according to the first game program is being executed on the first game machine, it is possible to execute a second game according to the second game program using the emulator program.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2003Date of Patent: October 23, 2007Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuya Eguchi, Takashi Tezuka, Shigeru Miyamoto, Teruki Murakawa, Sagahiro Taho, Hideya Akasaka
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Publication number: 20060100021Abstract: A portable game system includes two display screens, at least one of which is touch-sensitive. A memory card is selectively connectable to the portable game system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2005Publication date: May 11, 2006Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshino, Keizo Ohta, Yoshitaka Yasumoto, Kenji Nishida, Kenichi Sugino, Masato Ibuki, Teruki Murakawa, Soichi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20060094512Abstract: A portable game system includes two display screens, at least one of which is touch-sensitive. A memory card or other device is selectively connectable to the portable game system via in insertable connection port.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2005Publication date: May 4, 2006Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Yoshino, Keizo Ohta, Yoshitaka Yasumoto, Kenji Nishida, Kenichi Sugino, Masato Ibuki, Teruki Murakawa, Soichi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20060009290Abstract: A game information storage medium is removably connected to a first game machine having a first architecture, and includes a game program for a second game machine having a second architecture, an emulator program for converting the second architecture into an architecture compatible with the first architecture, and a game selection program. When the game information storage medium is started-up on the first game machine, by executing the game selection program, the first game machine displays a game title to be selected by a player, and executes a game program of the selected game title by using the emulator program.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2005Publication date: January 12, 2006Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sagahiro Taho, Hideya Akasaka, Teruki Murakawa
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Patent number: 6955606Abstract: A game information storage medium is removably connected to a first game machine having a first architecture, and includes a game program for a second game machine having a second architecture, an emulator program for converting the second architecture into an architecture compatible with the first architecture, and a game selection program. When the game information storage medium is started-up on the first game machine, by executing the game selection program, the first game machine displays a game title to be selected by a player, and executes a game program of the selected game title by using the emulator program.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2001Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sagahiro Taho, Hideya Akasaka, Teruki Murakawa
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Publication number: 20040005928Abstract: A game system includes a first game machine which operates according to a first architecture and, a second game machine which operates according to a second architecture different from the first architecture and has a processing capability lower than that of the first game machine. A game information storage medium stores, in addition to a first game program executable on the first game machine, a second game program executable on the second game machine and an emulator program that converts the second architecture into the first architecture. When a predetermined condition is satisfied while a first game according to the first game program is being executed on the first game machine, it is possible to execute a second game according to the second game program using the emulator program.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2003Publication date: January 8, 2004Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuya Eguchi, Takashi Tezuka, Shigeru Miyamoto, Teruki Murakawa, Sagahiro Taho, Hideya Akasaka
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Publication number: 20010031665Abstract: A game information storage medium is removably connected to a first game machine having a first architecture, and includes a game program for a second game machine having a second architecture, an emulator program for converting the second architecture into an architecture compatible with the first architecture, and a game selection program. When the game information storage medium is started-up on the first game machine, by executing the game selection program, the first game machine displays a game title to be selected by a player, and executes a game program of the selected game title by using the emulator program.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2001Publication date: October 18, 2001Inventors: Sagahiro Taho, Hideya Akasaka, Teruki Murakawa
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Publication number: 20010029205Abstract: A game program delivery system delivers a game program to a first game machine employing a first architecture. The hard disk included in a delivery apparatus stores a game program for a second game machine employing a second architecture, an emulator program and a game selection program. The delivery apparatus transmits the game selection program to the first game machine through the Internet to thereby execute the game selection program in the first game machine and allow a player to select a game title, and, when information representative of the selected game title is sent back from the first game machine, delivers the game program and for the selected game title and the emulator program. The first game machine thereafter executes the game program downloaded on a memory based on the emulator program.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2001Publication date: October 11, 2001Inventors: Sagahiro Taho, Hideya Akasaka, Teruki Murakawa