Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Kotsugai
Yoshinori Kotsugai 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: 11957989Abstract: In a case where an actual object is moved by a user manipulation or by other means, physical phenomena associated with the object are addressed. A control system includes a mobile apparatus being an apparatus that moves on a sheet where images indicating coordinates are arranged and having a camera for photographing part of the sheet. The control system acquires the user manipulation, controls the mobile apparatus in such a manner as to travel according to the user manipulation (S106), detects a position of the mobile apparatus on the basis of an image photographed by the camera included in the mobile apparatus (S101), determines, on the basis of the position detection by position detection means, whether or not the mobile apparatus has moved in a manner estimated on the basis of the user manipulation (S102, S105), and performs a predetermined procedure (S103, S110, S111) in a case where it is determined that the mobile apparatus does not move in the estimated manner.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventor: Yoshinori Kotsugai
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Patent number: 11497989Abstract: An information acquiring section acquires identification information recorded in a card. A behavior DB stores a kind-of-card ID, and software associated with the kind-of-card ID. A processing section, when the identification information is acquired by the information acquiring section, specifies software associated with a kind of card by referring to storage contents of the behavior DB. Incidentally, the behavior DB stores the kind-of-card ID and processing for software with the kind-of-card ID and the processing being associated with each other. The processing section executes the processing stored in the behavior DB for the specified software.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Tsubasa Umeki, Shuichi Takeda, Yoshinori Kotsugai, Yasuyuki Hiramaru
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Patent number: 11498013Abstract: Provided is a self-propelled reading device to read cards more reliably. Each of the cards includes a first end part configured to be adjacent to another card in a predetermined direction; a second end part configured to be on the opposite side of the first end part and adjacent to another card different from the first end part; and a surface printed with a pattern in which are coded coordinates indicating a positional relation relative to a reference line extended in the predetermined direction indicative of a region in which a self-propelled device is to travel. Each of the first and the second end parts has a positioning part regulating how the other card adjacent to the end part is to be placed. The positioning parts and the reference line have a predetermined positional relation therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Tetsunori Nakayama, Ayako Kochu, Yoshinori Kotsugai
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Publication number: 20220241680Abstract: In a case where an actual object is moved by a user manipulation or by other means, physical phenomena associated with the object are addressed. A control system includes a mobile apparatus being an apparatus that moves on a sheet where images indicating coordinates are arranged and having a camera for photographing part of the sheet. The control system acquires the user manipulation, controls the mobile apparatus in such a manner as to travel according to the user manipulation (S106), detects a position of the mobile apparatus on the basis of an image photographed by the camera included in the mobile apparatus (S101), determines, on the basis of the position detection by position detection means, whether or not the mobile apparatus has moved in a manner estimated on the basis of the user manipulation (S102, S105), and performs a predetermined procedure (S103, S110, S111) in a case where it is determined that the mobile apparatus does not move in the estimated manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Inventor: Yoshinori KOTSUGAI
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Publication number: 20210162310Abstract: Provided is a self-propelled reading device to read cards more reliably. Each of the cards includes a first end part configured to be adjacent to another card in a predetermined direction; a second end part configured to be on the opposite side of the first end part and adjacent to another card different from the first end part; and a surface printed with a pattern in which are coded coordinates indicating a positional relation relative to a reference line extended in the predetermined direction indicative of a region in which a self-propelled device is to travel. Each of the first and the second end parts has a positioning part regulating how the other card adjacent to the end part is to be placed. The positioning parts and the reference line have a predetermined positional relation therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2019Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Tetsunori Nakayama, Ayako Kochu, Yoshinori Kotsugai
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Publication number: 20200246694Abstract: An information acquiring section acquires identification information recorded in a card. A behavior DB stores a kind-of-card ID, and software associated with the kind-of-card ID. A processing section, when the identification information is acquired by the information acquiring section, specifies software associated with a kind of card by referring to storage contents of the behavior DB. Incidentally, the behavior DB stores the kind-of-card ID and processing for software with the kind-of-card ID and the processing being associated with each other. The processing section executes the processing stored in the behavior DB for the specified software.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2017Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Tsubasa Umeki, Shuichi Takeda, Yoshinori Kotsugai, Yasuyuki Hiramaru
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Patent number: 9802117Abstract: A game device includes: a screen image generating unit that generates and displays an image of a golf course, a landing point control unit that displays a marker indicating a predicted landing point of a ball, and a shot control unit operative to control a shot. Upon receiving an input instruction for moving the position of the marker, the landing point control unit moves the position of the marker by, changing the azimuth angle of the marker in a continuous manner along with a movement of an indicated position and by changing the radius of the marker discretely, when the position of the marker is represented by a two-dimensional polar coordinate system of which the origin point is a current ball position.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Yoshinori Kotsugai, Kentaro Suzuki, Masashi Muramori, Hirofumi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 9061212Abstract: A game device includes an input receiving unit for receiving the input of user's operations, a control unit for controlling a game where a player's character plays golf, according to the input of the user's operation, and a screen generating unit for displaying a game screen. The control unit includes an impact determining unit for acquiring the position of an input device at the start of a shot and the position of the input device at the time of an impact, when the user swings the input device while holding it and then comparing the respective positions with each other so as to determine the impact position, and a ball path calculating unit for calculating the path of a ball hit in the impact.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Takanori Kikuchi, Hisashi Kishida, Masashi Muramori, Toshiyuki Kuwabara, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Yoshinori Kotsugai, Kentaro Suzuki
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Publication number: 20140342789Abstract: A game device includes: a screen image generating unit that generates and displays an image of a golf course, a landing point control unit that displays a marker indicating a predicted landing point of a ball, and a shot control unit operative to control a shot. Upon receiving an input instruction for moving the position of the marker, the landing point control unit moves the position of the marker by, changing the azimuth angle of the marker in a continuous manner along with a movement of an indicated position and by changing the radius of the marker discretely, when the position of the marker is represented by a two-dimensional polar coordinate system of which the origin point is a current ball position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Yoshinori KOTSUGAI, Kentaro SUZUKI, Masashi MURAMORI, Hirofumi HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 8827784Abstract: A game device includes: a screen image generating unit that generates and displays an image of a golf course, a landing point control unit that displays a marker indicating a predicted landing point of a ball, and a shot control unit operative to control a shot. Upon receiving an input instruction for moving the position of the marker, the landing point control unit moves the position of the marker by, changing the azimuth angle of the marker in a continuous manner along with a movement of an indicated position and by changing the radius of the marker discretely, when the position of the marker is represented by a two-dimensional polar coordinate system of which the origin point is a current ball position.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Kotsugai, Kentaro Suzuki, Masashi Muramori, Hirofumi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20130017871Abstract: A game device includes an input receiving unit for receiving the input of user's operations, a control unit for controlling a game where a player's character plays golf, according to the input of the user's operation, and a screen generating unit for displaying a game screen. The control unit includes an impact determining unit for acquiring the position of an input device at the start of a shot and the position of the input device at the time of an impact, when the user swings the input device while holding it and then comparing the respective positions with each other so as to determine the impact position, and a ball path calculating unit for calculating the path of a ball hit in the impact.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Takanori Kikuchi, Hisashi Kishida, Masashi Muramori, Toshiyuki Kuwabara, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Yoshinori Kotsugai, Kentaro Suzuki
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Publication number: 20120309478Abstract: A game device includes: a screen image generating unit that generates and displays an image of a golf course, a landing point control unit that displays a marker indicating a predicted landing point of a ball, and a shot control unit operative to control a shot. Upon receiving an input instruction for moving the position of the marker, the landing point control unit moves the position of the marker by, changing the azimuth angle of the marker in a continuous manner along with a movement of an indicated position and by changing the radius of the marker discretely, when the position of the marker is represented by a two-dimensional polar coordinate system of which the origin point is a current ball position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Yoshinori Kotsugai, Kentaro Suzuki, Masashi Muramori, Hirofumi Hashimoto
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Patent number: 7798906Abstract: In a game management server that manages a network multiplayer game, a game-holding-prior-notice-receiving unit receives a date and time for a prospective multiplayer game being held, and conditions for holding the game, and the unit registers them into a database. An entry-reservation-receiving unit announces a prior notice of the meeting being held and calls for participants. A user who desires to participate requests the entry-reservation-receiving unit to make an entry reservation. When receiving the entry reservation, the entry-reservation-receiving unit registers the reservation into a database. When the date and time that the meeting is expected to be held arrives, the execution managing unit generates data necessary for executing the meeting and manages the execution of the meeting to be held. A result presenting unit presents the result of the meeting.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2008Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Yoshinori Kotsugai, Akihito Wada
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Publication number: 20090088256Abstract: In a game management server that manages a network multiplayer game, a game-holding-prior-notice-receiving unit receives a date and time for a prospective multiplayer game being held, and conditions for holding the game, and the unit registers them into a database. An entry-reservation-receiving unit announces a prior notice of the meeting being held and calls for participants. A user who desires to participate requests the entry-reservation-receiving unit to make an entry reservation. When receiving the entry reservation, the entry-reservation-receiving unit registers the reservation into a database. When the date and time that the meeting is expected to be held arrives, the execution managing unit generates data necessary for executing the meeting and manages the execution of the meeting to be held. A result presenting unit presents the result of the meeting.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Inventors: Yoshinori KOTSUGAI, Akihito Wada