Patents by Inventor Toshiharu Yabe
Toshiharu Yabe 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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Publication number: 20220118367Abstract: A ranking list display method in a game system, which can easily execute ranking confirmation of a user, who is a ranking confirmation target, such as the user himself/herself, a friend or a rival, is provided. The ranking list display method in a game system includes determining a position in a ranking list of a game of a user who is a ranking confirmation target in relation to a display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on a terminal, and displaying a pointer, which corresponds to the determined position in the ranking list of the user who is the ranking confirmation target in relation to the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal, within the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Maya SAWAMURA, Takuya KAI, Kenji IGUCHI, Yushi TAKAGI, Toshiharu YABE
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Patent number: 11247131Abstract: A ranking list display method in a game system, which can easily execute ranking confirmation of a user, who is a ranking confirmation target, such as the user himself/herself, a friend or a rival, is provided. The ranking list display method in a game system includes determining a position in a ranking list of a game of a user who is a ranking confirmation target in relation to a display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on a terminal, and displaying a pointer, which corresponds to the determined position in the ranking list of the user who is the ranking confirmation target in relation to the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal, within the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Maya Sawamura, Takuya Kai, Kenji Iguchi, Yushi Takagi, Toshiharu Yabe
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Patent number: 10850194Abstract: According to one embodiment, a terminal display control method for using as a controller of a game a terminal device including a touch panel, which is configured to be integral with a display, includes selecting a controller image which is used in the game; setting at least one of a presence/absence of a function, a number, a size, a shape and a position of disposition, with respect to an operation element in the controller image; and making variable, in accordance with a content of the setting, a state of the controller image displayed on the display, and an operation standard of the operation element corresponding to an input on the touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Yushi Takagi, Toshiharu Yabe, Kenji Iguchi, Takuya Kai
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Publication number: 20180001193Abstract: According to one embodiment, a terminal display control method for using as a controller of a game a terminal device including a touch panel, which is configured to be integral with a display, includes selecting a controller image which is used in the game; setting at least one of a presence/absence of a function, a number, a size, a shape and a position of disposition, with respect to an operation element in the controller image; and making variable, in accordance with a content of the setting, a state of the controller image displayed on the display, and an operation standard of the operation element corresponding to an input on the touch panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Gree, Inc.Inventors: Yushi Takagi, Toshiharu Yabe, Kenji Iguchi, Takuya Kai
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Publication number: 20170340975Abstract: A ranking list display method in a game system, which can easily execute ranking confirmation of a user, who is a ranking confirmation target, such as the user himself/herself, a friend or a rival, is provided. The ranking list display method in a game system includes determining a position in a ranking list of a game of a user who is a ranking confirmation target in relation to a display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on a terminal, and displaying a pointer, which corresponds to the determined position in the ranking list of the user who is the ranking confirmation target in relation to the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal, within the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Maya Sawamura, Takuya Kai, Kenji Iguchi, Yushi Takagi, Toshiharu Yabe
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Patent number: 9782673Abstract: According to one embodiment, a terminal display control method for using as a controller of a game a terminal device including a touch panel, which is configured to be integral with a display, includes selecting a controller image which is used in the game; setting at least one of a presence/absence of a function, a number, a size, a shape and a position of disposition, with respect to an operation element in the controller image; and making variable, in accordance with a content of the setting, a state of the controller image displayed on the display, and an operation standard of the operation element corresponding to an input on the touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Yushi Takagi, Toshiharu Yabe, Kenji Iguchi, Takuya Kai
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Patent number: 9737816Abstract: A ranking list display method in a game system, which can easily execute ranking confirmation of a user, who is a ranking confirmation target, such as the user himself/herself, a friend or a rival, is provided. The ranking list display method in a game system includes determining a position in a ranking list of a game of a user who is a ranking confirmation target in relation to a display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on a terminal, and displaying a pointer, which corresponds to the determined position in the ranking list of the user who is the ranking confirmation target in relation to the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal, within the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Maya Sawamura, Takuya Kai, Kenji Iguchi, Yushi Takagi, Toshiharu Yabe
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Publication number: 20170102776Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an imaging unit, an icon display control unit causing a display to display an operation icon, a pickup image display processing unit causing the display to sequentially display an input operation region image constituted by, among pixel regions constituting an image picked up by the imaging unit, a pixel region including at least a portion of a hand of a user, an icon management unit managing event issue definition information, which is a condition for determining that the operation icon has been operated by the user, for each operation icon, an operation determination unit determining whether the user has operated the operation icon based on the input operation region image displayed in the display and the event issue definition information, and a processing execution unit performing predetermined processing corresponding to the operation icon in accordance with a determination result by the operation determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Inventors: Toshiharu YABE, Kenichiro KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20170100673Abstract: A ranking list display method in a game system, which can easily execute ranking confirmation of a user, who is a ranking confirmation target, such as the user himself/herself, a friend or a rival, is provided. The ranking list display method in a game system includes determining a position in a ranking list of a game of a user who is a ranking confirmation target in relation to a display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on a terminal, and displaying a pointer, which corresponds to the determined position in the ranking list of the user who is the ranking confirmation target in relation to the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal, within the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Maya Sawamura, Takuya KAI, Kenji IGUCHI, Yushi TAKAGI, Toshiharu YABE
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Patent number: 9561434Abstract: A ranking list display method in a game system, which can easily execute ranking confirmation of a user, who is a ranking confirmation target, such as the user himself/herself, a friend or a rival, is provided. According to the invention, a ranking list display method in a game system includes determining a position in a ranking list of a game of a user who is a ranking confirmation target in relation to a display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on a terminal, and displaying a pointer, which corresponds to the determined position in the ranking list of the user who is the ranking confirmation target in relation to the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal, within the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Maya Sawamura, Takuya Kai, Kenji Iguchi, Yushi Takagi, Toshiharu Yabe
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Patent number: 8965184Abstract: A video-recording/reproducing apparatus and a video-recording/reproducing method making it possible to grasp the outline of a content in a frame using caption data are provided. A storage unit for storing content data containing video data and caption data correlated with each other by time information, a caption string acquisition unit for acquiring a caption string contained in the caption data, a time acquisition unit for acquiring time information corresponding to the caption string, a video acquisition unit for acquiring sequentially video information, from the video data, corresponding to the time information of the caption string acquired by the time acquisition unit, and a display control unit for displaying by thumbnails the video information acquired by the video acquisition unit in time series in a frame on a display unit are included.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2008Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Toshiharu Yabe
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Patent number: 8918814Abstract: A program information processing apparatus and a program information processing method that are capable of easily conducting a program search using an electronic program guide and displaying the search result clearly on the electronic program guide. A display control unit for displaying on a display unit an electronic program guide containing information relating to a plurality of programs, a selection unit for selecting a program from the plurality of programs in response to the operation of a user, and a search unit for searching a program containing information identical to or similar to at least a part of the information of the program selected by the selection unit are included, wherein the display control unit displays search result by the search unit on the electronic program guide.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2008Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshiharu Yabe, Tatsuya Narahara
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Publication number: 20140333533Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an imaging unit, an icon display control unit causing a display to display an operation icon, a pickup image display processing unit causing the display to sequentially display an input operation region image constituted by, among pixel regions constituting an image picked up by the imaging unit, a pixel region including at least a portion of a hand of a user, an icon management unit managing event issue definition information, which is a condition for determining that the operation icon has been operated by the user, for each operation icon, an operation determination unit determining whether the user has operated the operation icon based on the input operation region image displayed in the display and the event issue definition information, and a processing execution unit performing predetermined processing corresponding to the operation icon in accordance with a determination result by the operation determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshiharu YABE, Kenichiro Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20140235337Abstract: A ranking list display method in a game system, which can easily execute ranking confirmation of a user, who is a ranking confirmation target, such as the user himself/herself, a friend or a rival, is provided. According to the invention, a ranking list display method in a game system includes determining a position in a ranking list of a game of a user who is a ranking confirmation target in relation to a display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on a terminal, and displaying a pointer, which corresponds to the determined position in the ranking list of the user who is the ranking confirmation target in relation to the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal, within the display range of the ranking list which is currently displayed on the terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Maya SAWAMURA, Takuya Kai, Kenji Iguchi, Yushi Takagi, Toshiharu Yabe
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Publication number: 20140213360Abstract: According to one embodiment, a terminal display control method for using as a controller of a game a terminal device including a touch panel, which is configured to be integral with a display, includes selecting a controller image which is used in the game; setting at least one of a presence/absence of a function, a number, a size, a shape and a position of disposition, with respect to an operation element in the controller image; and making variable, in accordance with a content of the setting, a state of the controller image displayed on the display, and an operation standard of the operation element corresponding to an input on the touch panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2014Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Yushi TAKAGI, Toshiharu Yabe, Kenji Iguchi, Takuya Kai
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Patent number: 8789125Abstract: An information processing device which shares program information specifying a program with other devices connected through a network is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2008Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Toshiharu Yabe
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Patent number: 8698743Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an imaging unit, an icon display control unit causing a display to display an operation icon, a pickup image display processing unit causing the display to sequentially display an input operation region image constituted by, among pixel regions constituting an image picked up by the imaging unit, a pixel region including at least a portion of a hand of a user, an icon management unit managing event issue definition information, which is a condition for determining that the operation icon has been operated by the user, for each operation icon, an operation determination unit determining whether the user has operated the operation icon based on the input operation region image displayed in the display and the event issue definition information, and a processing execution unit performing predetermined processing corresponding to the operation icon in accordance with a determination result by the operation determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2012Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshiharu Yabe, Kenichiro Kobayashi
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Patent number: 8346558Abstract: An information processing apparatus which allows a user to select programs that are interesting to the user and are current topics of conversation. The information processing apparatus includes: a first setting section for extracting a keyword from article information described in an RSS format and being delivered to the user, and giving a ranking to the extracted keyword; and a second setting section for acquiring at least one of program information on a program being received and program information on a recorded program, and giving a ranking to the program including, in the program information, the same keyword as a keyword having as far as a predetermined ranking among the keywords having rankings given by the first setting section.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2006Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuya Narahara, Nobuyuki Fujiwara, Toshiharu Yabe, Kenichiro Kobayashi, Tsutomu Seki, Hideaki Okamura
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Publication number: 20120278720Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an imaging unit, an icon display control unit causing a display to display an operation icon, a pickup image display processing unit causing the display to sequentially display an input operation region image constituted by, among pixel regions constituting an image picked up by the imaging unit, a pixel region including at least a portion of a hand of a user, an icon management unit managing event issue definition information, which is a condition for determining that the operation icon has been operated by the user, for each operation icon, an operation determination unit determining whether the user has operated the operation icon based on the input operation region image displayed in the display and the event issue definition information, and a processing execution unit performing predetermined processing corresponding to the operation icon in accordance with a determination result by the operation determination unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventors: Toshiharu YABE, Kenichiro KOBAYASHI
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Patent number: 8250623Abstract: A preference extracting apparatus includes a text information obtaining section that obtains text information having correspondence with a scene being currently played when video contents having text information having correspondence with each scene is played, a keyword extracting section that extracts a keyword for measuring user's preference based on the text information, a presenting section that presents the user a fact that the keyword has been extracted, a preference value defining section that defines a preference value of the user regarding the extracted keyword in accordance with the response by the user to the presentation, a storage section that establishes correspondence between the keyword and the preference value and stores them as the user's preference information in predetermined storage means.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshiharu Yabe, Tatsuya Narahara