Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Miida

Toshiaki Miida 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: 7131907
    Abstract: An image processing device which places a display object within a virtually-defined three-dimensional space, creates a picture of the display object viewed from a virtual viewpoint with the image processing device, and displays the picture on a display. The image processing device comprises a display body setting element for setting a plurality of display bodies within said three-dimensional space; a display body disposal element for overlappingly disposing one of the plurality of display bodies within the display object, a display body image setting element for setting an image of the display object such that the one of the plurality of display bodies housed within the display object becomes visible, and a display body movement mode reflection element for making at least one movement mode of the one of the plurality of display bodies reflect a movement mode of the display object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega
    Inventors: Toshiaki Miida, Katsuyasu Ando, Mamoru Sugihara, Toshihiro Nagoshi, Jun-ichi Yamada, Hisashi Endo
  • Publication number: 20030112233
    Abstract: A text 220, which needs to be displayed constantly, is displayed on the floor/wall 206C in the background image 202. This text (number) 220, as shown in FIG. 5, is structured of an aggregate of a plurality of plate polygons 222. Each of these plate polygons can be subject to gradation in accordance with the camera viewpoint, and, as a result, is displayed in a state of being three-dimensional with concavities and convexities against the floor/wall 206C as illustrated in FIG. 4. These plate polygons 222 cannot become the counterstroke face of the ball 212, and the floor/wall 206C is judged as a plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2002
    Publication date: June 19, 2003
    Inventors: Toshiaki Miida, Katsuyasu Ando, Mamoru Sugihara, Toshihiro Nagoshi, Jun-Ichi Yamada, Hisashi Endo