Patents by Inventor Toshio Sengoku

Toshio Sengoku 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: 9602809
    Abstract: A storage medium encoded with a display control program and executable by a computer of a display control device capable of interacting with an input device, for controlling a display capable of providing stereoscopic display, is provided. The present display control program stored in the storage medium includes zoom control instructions for performing zoom processing of a stereoscopic image based on an operation input accepted by operation input acceptance instructions, parallax control instructions for adjusting parallax of the stereoscopic image based on the operation input accepted by the operation input acceptance instructions, and display control instructions for causing the display to display the stereoscopic image subjected to zoom processing in accordance with the zoom control instructions, with parallax adjusted in accordance with the parallax control instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Akifusa, Toshio Sengoku, Naoki Nakano, Naoko Mori
  • Publication number: 20110304714
    Abstract: A storage medium encoded with a display control program and executable by a computer of a display control device capable of interacting with an input device, for controlling a display capable of providing stereoscopic display, is provided. The present display control program stored in the storage medium includes zoom control instructions for performing zoom processing of a stereoscopic image based on an operation input accepted by operation input acceptance instructions, parallax control instructions for adjusting parallax of the stereoscopic image based on the operation input accepted by the operation input acceptance instructions, and display control instructions for causing the display to display the stereoscopic image subjected to zoom processing in accordance with the zoom control instructions, with parallax adjusted in accordance with the parallax control instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke AKIFUSA, Toshio Sengoku, Naoki Nakano, Naoko Mori
  • Patent number: 6811487
    Abstract: When users simultaneously play the same game with interconnected game machines, processing delays would conventionally cause inconsistencies in game content between different game machines. To solve this problem, the game machines are not synchronized with one another, but each game machine outputs operation key status data representing the state of a set of number of operation controls to the other game machines in accordance with predetermined data communication timing. A received FIFO data buffer in each game machine, sequentially stores operation key status data received from the other game machines. Only valid operation control status data is transferred to an operation data buffer for use in game processing. Inconsistencies in game content between different game machines are prevented through software-based synchronization which does not require hardware-based synchronization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshio Sengoku
  • Publication number: 20020077179
    Abstract: When a plurality of users simultaneously play the same game with their game machines being interconnected to one another, a delay in the processing of one of the game machines would conventionally cause inconsistencies in game content between different game machines. In order to solve this problem, each game machine operates not in synchronization with one another, but so as to simultaneously output operation key status data representing the state of a set of number of operation controls to the other game machines in accordance with predetermined data communication timing. A received data buffer, which is a FIFO buffer (first-in-first-out buffer), sequentially stores a plurality of operation key status data received from the respective game machines. Among the received data stored in the received data buffer, only valid operation control status data is transferred to an operation data buffer in accordance with a predetermined transfer process, so as to be used for game processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventor: Toshio Sengoku