Patents by Inventor Yasuyuki Shimohata
Yasuyuki Shimohata 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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Patent number: 10744404Abstract: Provided is an information processing system including a reflection member, a hand-held information processing apparatus including an imaging section, and an information processing apparatus communicable with the hand-held information processing apparatus. The reflection member is a retroreflecting material. The hand-held information processing apparatus includes the imaging section and a light emitting section. The hand-held information processing apparatus analyzes a captured image, calculates the position of an image of the retroreflecting material corresponding to reflected light from the retroreflecting material, and outputs positional information thereof. The information processing apparatus estimates the orientation or position of the hand-held information processing apparatus on the basis of the positional information, and generates an image based on the result of the estimation.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyasu Ogasawara, Tomohisa Kawakami, Yasuyuki Shimohata, Naoki Hatta
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Patent number: 10649760Abstract: An information processing apparatus to which an input apparatus is connected through a wire or wirelessly is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes an application program in accordance with an operation by a user accepted by the input apparatus, obtains update data for firmware of the input apparatus from a server through a network, and performs processing for updating the firmware of the input apparatus in response to a request from the application program while the application program is being executed. The processor suspends execution of the application program before update of the firmware and resumes execution of the application program in response to completion of update of the firmware.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki Shimohata, Naoki Hatta, Yoshihiro Tomizawa, Masaaki Sugino, Ryota Oiwa
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Patent number: 10644515Abstract: An example information processing system includes a main device, and an operation device attachable to the main device. The operation device includes a first control circuit, a first battery, and a first power supply circuit. The main device includes a second control circuit, a second battery, and a second power supply circuit. The second power supply circuit supplies power from the second battery to the operation device in response to satisfaction of a condition about the amount of remaining charge indicated by the remaining charge amount information transmitted from the operation device. When power is supplied from the main device to the operation device, the first power supply circuit supplies power supplied from the main device to the first control circuit, instead of power from the first battery.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Tamaki, Hideto Matoba, Ryo Fukasawa, Shumpei Yasuda, Yasuyuki Shimohata, Toshiki Oizumi
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Publication number: 20200083729Abstract: An example information processing system includes a main device, and an operation device attachable to the main device. The operation device includes a first control circuit, a first battery, and a first power supply circuit. The main device includes a second control circuit, a second battery, and a second power supply circuit. The second power supply circuit supplies power from the second battery to the operation device in response to satisfaction of a condition about the amount of remaining charge indicated by the remaining charge amount information transmitted from the operation device. When power is supplied from the main device to the operation device, the first power supply circuit supplies power supplied from the main device to the first control circuit, instead of power from the first battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Yuki TAMAKI, Hideto MATOBA, Ryo FUKASAWA, Shumpei YASUDA, Yasuyuki SHIMOHATA, Toshiki OIZUMI
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Patent number: 10534426Abstract: There is provided an interactive system, which includes a remote controller. The remote controller is equipped with a camera to capture an operating frame having a user image and a background image therein; and a processing unit to analyze the operating frame to identify a user image section and a background image section within the operating frame corresponding to the user image and the background image respectively, wherein the processing unit generates a movement information of the remote controller according to intensity distributions of the user image section and the background image section.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.Inventors: Shu-Sian Yang, Han-Ping Cheng, Daisuke Kumazaki, Yasuyuki Shimohata, Yukihiro Ukai
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Patent number: 10516280Abstract: An example information processing system includes a main device, and an operation device attachable to the main device. The operation device includes a first control circuit, a first battery, and a first power supply circuit. The main device includes a second control circuit, a second battery, and a second power supply circuit. The second power supply circuit supplies power from the second battery to the operation device in response to satisfaction of a condition about the amount of remaining charge indicated by the remaining charge amount information transmitted from the operation device. When power is supplied from the main device to the operation device, the first power supply circuit supplies power supplied from the main device to the first control circuit, instead of power from the first battery.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuki Tamaki, Hideto Matoba, Ryo Fukasawa, Shumpei Yasuda, Yasuyuki Shimohata, Toshiki Oizumi
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Patent number: 10474924Abstract: A non-limiting example information processing apparatus includes a processor, and an infrared LED and an imaging device are connected to the processor. The processor controls on/off of the infrared LED, and an image sensor images infrared images according to switching timings thereof. An image processing circuit estimates an influence (situation) of noise such as sunlight etc. based on respective infrared images at times when the infrared LED is turned on and off, and determines at least advisability of use of the imaging device (infrared sensor). A determination result about the advisability of use is applied to the processor from the image processing circuit, and when it cannot be used, a message to that effect is displayed on an LCD.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Nishikawa, Yoshiyasu Ogasawara, Yasuyuki Shimohata, Yuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 10429961Abstract: A controller device is used for more information processes. The controller device is capable of wirelessly communicating with an information processing device. The controller device includes a communication unit, a display unit, and a program executing unit. The communication unit transmits, to the information processing device, operation data obtained based on an operation performed on the controller device, and receives, from the information processing device, image data generated in the information processing device through a process performed based on operation data. A display unit displays an image represented by the image data received from the information processing device. When a predetermined operation on the controller device is performed, the program executing unit executes a predetermined program and displays at least the image resulting from the execution of the program on the display unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki Shimohata, Toru Yamashita, Kuniaki Ito
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Patent number: 10362436Abstract: An example of an information processing system includes a plurality of user terminals and a server capable of communicating with each user terminal. The server transmits a content to the user terminal. The user terminal executes a first program for displaying a content, thereby displaying on a display apparatus the content received from the server. The user terminal stores related image information indicating a related image related to the content. When executing a second program, which is a program that is different from the first program and can be executed in the user terminal, the user terminal displays on the display apparatus an image by changing an image based on the second program, using the related image information.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Takuya Kaminosono, Yasuyuki Shimohata, Kenichi Mae, Kazuhiro Suzuki, Takafumi Aoki
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Patent number: 10286311Abstract: An example system includes: a communication device including a first wireless communication part performing short-distance wireless communication; and an information processing apparatus including a second wireless communication part performing short-distance wireless communication, a processing part performing processing concerning input or output of information, a restriction part, in correspondence to the processing of one of the second wireless communication part and the processing part, restricting the processing of the other, and an information processing part performing information processing corresponding to a processing result of the second wireless communication part or the processing part whose processing is not restricted by the restriction part.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuyuki Shimohata, Kuniaki Ito, Hideki Ohashi
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Patent number: 10201761Abstract: An attachment configured to be attached to a game controller with a camera is provided. The attachment includes a housing having a support portion which supports the game controller and an operation portion in the housing. The support portion supports the game controller such that a direction of shooting of the camera is oriented to the inside of the housing and supports the game controller such that a field of view of shooting with the camera includes a first region including a first indication in the housing as a subject and a second region including a second indication in the housing as a subject. The first indication is located such that a position thereof is maintained regardless of an operation onto the operation portion, and the second indication is located such that a position thereof is variable in accordance with an operation onto the operation portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyasu Ogasawara, Yasuyuki Shimohata, Naoki Hatta, Takeshi Nishikawa
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Patent number: 10164686Abstract: An example of information processing system includes a storage device; and an information processing device for performing near field communication with the storage device. The storage device includes a storage unit storing application data usable in a predetermined application program and shared data usable in an application program regardless of whether the application program is the predetermined application program. The information processing system receives an instruction regarding data read and/or data write from/to the storage device from an application program to be executed by the information processing device. Under the condition that the instruction is from the predetermined application program, the application data is passed to the predetermined application program. Regardless of whether the instruction is from the predetermined application program, the shared data is passed to the application program that issued the instruction.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuyuki Shimohata, Kimiharu Hyodo, Ryuichi Yoshida, Goro Abe, Yusuke Yamasoto
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Publication number: 20180365001Abstract: An information processing apparatus to which an input apparatus is connected through a wire or wirelessly is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor executes an application program in accordance with an operation by a user accepted by the input apparatus, obtains update data for firmware of the input apparatus from a server through a network, and performs processing for updating the firmware of the input apparatus in response to a request from the application program while the application program is being executed. The processor suspends execution of the application program before update of the firmware and resumes execution of the application program in response to completion of update of the firmware.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2018Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Yasuyuki SHIMOHATA, Naoki HATTA, Yoshihiro TOMIZAWA, Masaaki SUGINO, Ryota OIWA
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Patent number: 10155155Abstract: An attachment configured to be attached to a game controller with a camera is provided. The attachment includes a housing and an operation portion in the housing. The housing includes a support portion which supports the game controller such that a direction of shooting of the camera is oriented to the inside of the housing. The operation portion has a movable portion in the housing, a position of the movable portion being changed in accordance with a pressing operation onto the operation portion, and at least one of a shape of and a pattern on the movable portion viewed from the camera being changed in accordance with a rotation operation onto the operation portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyasu Ogasawara, Fumihiko Inoue, Yoshitaka Tamura, Shinta Minagawa, Hitoshi Tsuchiya, Yasuyuki Shimohata, Shinichi Kinuwaki, Naoki Hatta, Takeshi Nishikawa, Kazuyoshi Osawa
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Patent number: 10055011Abstract: There is provided an interactive system, which includes a remote controller. The remote controller is equipped with a camera to capture an operating frame having a user image and a background image therein; and a processing unit to analyze the operating frame to identify a user image section and a background image section within the operating frame corresponding to the user image and the background image respectively, wherein the processing unit generates a movement information of the remote controller according to intensity distributions of the user image section and the background image section.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignees: PIXART IMAGING INC., NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Shu-Sian Yang, Han-Ping Cheng, Daisuke Kumazaki, Yasuyuki Shimohata, Yukihiro Ukai
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Publication number: 20180173301Abstract: There is provided an interactive system, which includes a remote controller. The remote controller is equipped with a camera to capture an operating frame having a user image and a background image therein; and a processing unit to analyze the operating frame to identify a user image section and a background image section within the operating frame corresponding to the user image and the background image respectively, wherein the processing unit generates a movement information of the remote controller according to intensity distributions of the user image section and the background image section.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Shu-Sian YANG, Han-Ping CHENG, Daisuke KUMAZAKI, Yasuyuki SHIMOHATA, Yukihiro UKAI
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Publication number: 20180138727Abstract: An example information processing system includes a main device, and an operation device attachable to the main device. The operation device includes a first control circuit, a first battery, and a first power supply circuit. The main device includes a second control circuit, a second battery, and a second power supply circuit. The second power supply circuit supplies power from the second battery to the operation device in response to satisfaction of a condition about the amount of remaining charge indicated by the remaining charge amount information transmitted from the operation device. When power is supplied from the main device to the operation device, the first power supply circuit supplies power supplied from the main device to the first control circuit, instead of power from the first battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Yuki TAMAKI, Hideto MATOBA, Ryo FUKASAWA, Shumpei YASUDA, Yasuyuki SHIMOHATA, Toshiki OIZUMI
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Publication number: 20180043248Abstract: An attachment configured to be attached to a game controller with a camera is provided. The attachment includes a housing and an operation portion in the housing. The housing includes a support portion which supports the game controller such that a direction of shooting of the camera is oriented to the inside of the housing. The operation portion has a movable portion in the housing, a position of the movable portion being changed in accordance with a pressing operation onto the operation portion, and at least one of a shape of and a pattern on the movable portion viewed from the camera being changed in accordance with a rotation operation onto the operation portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Yoshiyasu OGASAWARA, Fumihiko INOUE, Yoshitaka TAMURA, Shinta MINAGAWA, Hitoshi TSUCHIYA, Yasuyuki SHIMOHATA, Shinichi KINUWAKI, Naoki HATTA, Takeshi NISHIKAWA, Kazuyoshi OSAWA
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Publication number: 20180043270Abstract: An attachment configured to be attached to a game controller with a camera is provided. The attachment includes a housing having a support portion which supports the game controller and an operation portion in the housing. The support portion supports the game controller such that a direction of shooting of the camera is oriented to the inside of the housing and supports the game controller such that a field of view of shooting with the camera includes a first region including a first indication in the housing as a subject and a second region including a second indication in the housing as a subject. The first indication is located such that a position thereof is maintained regardless of an operation onto the operation portion, and the second indication is located such that a position thereof is variable in accordance with an operation onto the operation portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Yoshiyasu OGASAWARA, Yasuyuki SHIMOHATA, Naoki HATTA, Takeshi NISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 9843362Abstract: An information processing device includes: a communication control unit which performs short-range wireless communication with an IC tag; a base antenna; and a terminal to which an extension antenna device can be connected, the extension antenna device includes: extension antennas; and a terminal which, by being connected to the terminal to which an extension antenna device can be connected, connects the extension antennas and the information processing device to each other, and the communication control unit performs the short-range wireless communication with the IC tag via at least any of the base antenna 19 and the extension antennas.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2016Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Suzuki, Yasuyuki Shimohata