Patents by Inventor Toshikazu Goi

Toshikazu Goi 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: 7585215
    Abstract: Provided is a game device which determines the goal point pursuant to the game progress and not in advance. The game device 1 is a game for competing for game scores in accordance with the superiority of the state of arrival upon the taxi, which is the moving object, reaching a goal. This game device 1 is a game wherein a presentation unit for presenting a goal determining element (passenger), which becomes the objective upon a taxi moving in the game space 511 (S104, S105), and judgment unit for determining the game results by judging the superiority of the state of arrival in accordance with such selected goal determining element upon selecting one goal among a plurality of goals (S105; YES) provided by the presentation unit (S104, S105) are processed by the CPU and displayed on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega
    Inventors: Kenji Kanno, Masaaki Ito, Toshikazu Goi
  • Patent number: 7513824
    Abstract: A game device displays on a display monitor scenes of a vehicle moving in response to manipulations by the player. The display monitor further displays a plurality of goal determining elements. A goal point and a time limit to reach the goal point are set when one of the goal determining elements is picked up. Time is counted from when the goal point and the time limit are set. The game device determines an amount of time for the vehicle to reach the goal point and a score that the player has achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Enterprises
    Inventors: Kenji Kanno, Masaaki Ito, Toshikazu Goi
  • Publication number: 20070010306
    Abstract: A game device displays on a display monitor scenes of a vehicle moving in response to manipulations by the player. The display monitor further displays a plurality of goal determining elements. A goal point and a time limit to reach the goal point are set when one of the goal determining elements is picked up. Time is counted from when the goal point and the time limit are set. The game device determines an amount of time for the vehicle to reach the goal point and a score that the player has achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Inventors: Kenji Kanno, Masaaki Ito, Toshikazu Goi
  • Patent number: 6200138
    Abstract: A game display method displays a driving game which permits characters to be present in a city and can prevent cruel images of collisions with characters. Characters in a dangerous area are intentionally moved away from a motorbike B. Those H1, H2 of the characters behind the motorbike B as viewed in a moving direction of the motorbike B are intentionally moved away from a current position 01 of the motorbike B, a position of the center of the motorbike B. Those H3, H4, H5 of the characters in front of the motorbike B as viewed in the moving direction of the motorbike B are intentionally moved toward the back of the motorbike B, i.e., directions normal to a straight line interconnecting the position 01 of the center of the motorbike B and the characters H3, H4, H5. The characters H3, H4, who are forward left of the motorbike B, are moved left, and the character Hr, who is forward right, is moved right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2001
    Assignee: Sega Enterprises, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ando, Kazunari Tsukamoto, Toshiya Yamaguchi, Tomoya Takasugi, Masaaki Ito, Toshikazu Goi