Patents by Inventor Tetsuro Itami

Tetsuro Itami 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).

  • Publication number: 20120218209
    Abstract: A determination unit executes determination on whether or not a target area, which is set based on one of a plurality of contact points where a user has touched a touch panel and which includes the one of the plurality of contact points, includes any other contact point out of the plurality of contact points. If the target area includes the any other contact point, a setting unit sets, as a new target area, an area that includes an area other than an area formerly set as the target area and that includes the one the plurality of contact points and the any other contact point. If the determination unit executes the determination multiple times, processing is executed based on the one of the plurality of contact points and on each contact point determined as being included in the target area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuro ITAMI
  • Patent number: 8060224
    Abstract: A music genre judging device able to judge a genre of music in a relatively simple structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Itami, Yukie Yamazaki, Matsumi Suzuki, Yasushi Yoshida, Hajime Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20110218041
    Abstract: There is provided a game machine configured such that the activity is enhanced in a game where points are gained depending on the state of the plural component objects being piled up in a game image. The shot line to be moved out of the lines of ball masses BM, BM100 constituted by plural balls B, B100, by the moving line determination operation by a player, and the moving distance for which the moving line ML is moved is determined by the moving distance determination operation by the player. The plural balls B, B100 on the determined moving line are moved in the line direction depending on the determined moving distance. In the case that, after the moving line moving, the plural balls B, B100 in the ball masses BM establish a predetermined state, the plural balls B, B100 are deleted, and the balls B, B100 arranged on the column of the deleted balls B, B100 are moved in the column direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Itami, Yumi Matsuura, Miyuki Ariga
  • Publication number: 20100234108
    Abstract: A music genre judging device able to judge a genre of music in a relatively simple structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: Konami Digital Entertainament Co.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Itami, Yukie Yamazaki, Matsumi Suzuki, Yasushi Yoshida, Hajime Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20090275409
    Abstract: A game machine of playing a game is provided in which music unique to a character is generated as the character advances its morphologic changes. The game machine of the present invention obtains a morphology changing factor and changes a morphologic change status of a character. When the morphologic change status of the character satisfies any of the evolution requirements provided to the next evolution stage of the current character, the game machine sets the evolution morphology correlated to the evolution requirement as a character morphology. It also generates an evolution melody on the basis of the character melody for the character and a morphology melody which is a melody unique to the evolution morphology of the character, and sets the evolution melody generated as an advanced character melody.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Itami, Yukie Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 7568965
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transformable toy with which the user can enjoy the transforming process of the figure of the toy much more than ever. A movable toy includes an assembly composed of a plurality of components. The assembly is mounted onto an upper body of a toy doll to constitute an exterior 30 for the upper body of a toy robot. The assembly includes a first assembly constituent section, a second assembly constituent section, and a third assembly constituent section. The first assembly constituent section (13A, 14, 15) is disposed in a front side of the toy doll. The second assembly constituent section (11, 13B, 17) is connected to the first assembly constituent section and disposed in a back side of the toy doll. A handle (16A, 16B) composing the third assembly constituent section connects the first and second assembly constituent sections. The first, second and third assembly constituent sections are assembled together in an annular shape to constitute the exterior 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Toriyama, Tetsuro Itami, Shinichi Hanamoto, Koji Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20080233833
    Abstract: The present invention provides a transformable toy with which the user can enjoy the transforming process of the figure of the toy much more than ever. A movable toy includes an assembly composed of a plurality of components. The assembly is mounted onto an upper body of a toy doll to constitute an exterior 30 for the upper body of a toy robot. The assembly includes a first assembly constituent section, a second assembly constituent section, and a third assembly constituent section. The first assembly constituent section (13A, 14, 15) is disposed in a front side of the toy doll. The second assembly constituent section (11, 13B, 17) is connected to the first assembly constituent section and disposed in a back side of the toy doll. A handle (16A, 16B) composing the third assembly constituent section connects the first and second assembly constituent sections. The first, second and third assembly constituent sections are assembled together in an annular shape to constitute the exterior 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Toriyama, Tetsuro Itami, Shinichi Hanamoto, Koji Okamoto
  • Patent number: D505983
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Konami Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Itami, Ryosuke Toriyama