Patents by Inventor Yoichiro Serita

Yoichiro Serita 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: 7870489
    Abstract: A interface unit, which while displaying a current content, receives input of reference information specifying a target content that will be switched to and viewed from the current content. A content sequence creation unit creates a content sequence in which one or more intermediate contents, which have been identified as related to at least one of the current content and the target content, are inserted between the current content and the target content. A display control unit controls content display by passing data to a display apparatus so that a content display is made in accordance with the created content sequence starting from the current content, proceeding through the intermediate contents which are inserted in order, and finally ending with the target content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichiro Serita, Hirotoshi Maegawa
  • Patent number: 7689683
    Abstract: An object management device using at least partially the object in the virtual space, which is divided into ordered partial space regions, as a target of management, wherein the object used as the management target has an ordering key which is defined in relation to an order related to a partial space region and calculated by a client device, and by using this ordering key, the object which is used for management is selectively defined among objects as candidates for the target of the management.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kato, Yoichiro Serita
  • Publication number: 20070136424
    Abstract: An object management device using at least partially the object in the virtual space, which is divided into ordered partial space regions, as a target of management, wherein the object used as the management target has an ordering key which is defined in relation to an order related to a partial space region and calculated by a client device, and by using this ordering key, the object which is used for management is selectively defined among objects as candidates for the target of the management.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Hiroki Kato, Yoichiro Serita
  • Publication number: 20070061855
    Abstract: A interface unit, which while displaying a current content, receives input of reference information specifying a target content that will be switched to and viewed from the current content. A content sequence creation unit creates a content sequence in which one or more intermediate contents, which have been identified as related to at least one of the current content and the target content, are inserted between the current content and the target content. A display control unit controls content display by passing data to a display apparatus so that a content display is made in accordance with the created content sequence starting from the current content, proceeding through the intermediate contents which are inserted in order, and finally ending with the target content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: Yoichiro Serita, Hirotoshi Maegawa
  • Patent number: 6798414
    Abstract: A base animation storing unit stores base animation, generated for each grid point in a range of adaptation with regard to a certain motion. A synthesizing unit starts adaptation motion synthesizing in the event that an end effector exists within the range of adaptation. The synthesizing unit calculates a weight array based on the position of a target and the position of each grid point, and adds base animation with the calculation results as linear addition coefficients, thereby generating the desired animation. Accordingly, animation cooperatively display with multiple objects of display can be effectively generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohto, Yuichi Ueda, Takashi Nozaki, Yoichiro Serita
  • Publication number: 20020089507
    Abstract: A base animation storing unit stores base animation, generated for each grid point in a range of adaptation with regard to a certain motion. A synthesizing unit starts adaptation motion synthesizing in the event that an end effector exists within the range of adaptation. The synthesizing unit calculates a weight array based on the position of a target and the position of each grid point, and adds base animation with the calculation results as linear addition coefficients, thereby generating the desired animation. Accordingly, animation cooperatively display with multiple objects of display can be effectively generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohto, Yuichi Ueda, Takashi Nozaki, Yoichiro Serita
  • Publication number: 20020067363
    Abstract: An animation generating unit supplies start requests for entire animation and synthesizing requests for partial animation to an interpolating computation unit, based on input events. The interpolating computation unit extracts the entire animation data and partial animation data from the entire animation storing unit and the partial animation storing unit, respectively, sequentially executes interpolation computation under timer output, generates new animation data, and outputs the newly-generated animation data to an animation display unit. Thus, animation can be efficiently generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2001
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Yasunori Ohto, Yuichi Ueda, Takashi Nozaki, Yoichiro Serita