Patents by Inventor Yoshinori Tsuchiyama

Yoshinori Tsuchiyama 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).

  • Publication number: 20240075383
    Abstract: At a position including coordinates of an input start possible point on a first display, an image indicating the input start possible point is displayed, and at a position including coordinates of an input target point on a second display, an image indicating the input target point is displayed. Then, if a coordinate input to the first display includes an input to a position including the coordinates of the input start possible point, and a coordinate input to the second display includes an input to a position including the coordinates of the input target point, based on trajectories of coordinates of the coordinate inputs to the first display and the second display, a positional relationship between the first display and the second display is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiaki SUZUKI, Yoshinori TSUCHIYAMA, Izumi FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 11872477
    Abstract: At a position including coordinates of an input start possible point on a first display, an image indicating the input start possible point is displayed, and at a position including coordinates of an input target point on a second display, an image indicating the input target point is displayed. Then, if a coordinate input to the first display includes an input to a position including the coordinates of the input start possible point, and a coordinate input to the second display includes an input to a position including the coordinates of the input target point, based on trajectories of coordinates of the coordinate inputs to the first display and the second display, a positional relationship between the first display and the second display is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Suzuki, Yoshinori Tsuchiyama, Izumi Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20210252389
    Abstract: At a position including coordinates of an input start possible point on a first display, an image indicating the input start possible point is displayed, and at a position including coordinates of an input target point on a second display, an image indicating the input target point is displayed. Then, if a coordinate input to the first display includes an input to a position including the coordinates of the input start possible point, and a coordinate input to the second display includes an input to a position including the coordinates of the input target point, based on trajectories of coordinates of the coordinate inputs to the first display and the second display, a positional relationship between the first display and the second display is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Toshiaki SUZUKI, Yoshinori TSUCHIYAMA, Izumi FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 10112117
    Abstract: Movement amount identifying unit 111 of exemplary game device 1 identifies, for each of characters, a movement amount, based on which a character is moved on a map, the movement amount being randomly determined. Movement processing unit 112 moves, for each of the characters, a character on the map based on a movement amount determined for the character. Mini-game executing unit 113 executes a mini-game on detecting that a first character included in the characters has reached a predetermined first cell on the map. When doing so, mini-game executing unit 113 starts the mini-game, the first character joining the mini-game from the start of the mini-game, and causes a second character included in the characters to join the mini-game subsequent to the first character with a delay, the second character having failed to reach the first cell as of the start of the mini-game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Suzuki, Yoshinori Tsuchiyama, Shuichiro Nishiya, Takeru Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20170354894
    Abstract: Movement amount identifying unit 111 of exemplary game device 1 identifies, for each of characters, a movement amount, based on which a character is moved on a map, the movement amount being randomly determined. Movement processing unit 112 moves, for each of the characters, a character on the map based on a movement amount determined for the character. Mini-game executing unit 113 executes a mini-game on detecting that a first character included in the characters has reached a predetermined first cell on the map. When doing so, mini-game executing unit 113 starts the mini-game, the first character joining the mini-game from the start of the mini-game, and causes a second character included in the characters to join the mini-game subsequent to the first character with a delay, the second character having failed to reach the first cell as of the start of the mini-game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Toshiaki SUZUKI, Yoshinori TSUCHIYAMA, Shuichiro NISHIYA, Takeru SUGIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8038533
    Abstract: A game system includes a parent game device and a plurality of child game devices connected thereto. The parent game device displays a common screen on a CRT, and each of the plurality of child game devices displays an individual screen on an LCD provided for each child device. The parent game device detects a degree of progress of a game of each child game device, selects for each child game device predetermined display information data out of a plurality of display information data on the basis of the detected degree of progress of the game, and creates different parent game device data for each child device on the basis of the display information data. Each child game device generates image data for displaying the individual screen on the LCD on the basis of the parent game device data received from the parent game device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tsuchiyama, Akira Tahara
  • Publication number: 20070197273
    Abstract: A board game system includes a board 1 of a board game played by moving a gamepiece along a track formed by a plurality of spaces drawn on the board, and a game device 10 for displaying a predetermined image on a screen. The board includes at least one event space 5, 6, 7 drawn thereon indicating that an event is to be executed by using the game device when a gamepiece lands on the space. The game device includes: input accepting means 15 for accepting an input from a player; and event process executing means 31 for executing an event process corresponding to the event space when there is a player input obtained by the input accepting means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryunosuke Suzuki, Yoshinori Tsuchiyama
  • Publication number: 20050026695
    Abstract: A game system includes a parent game device and a plurality of child game devices connected thereto. The parent game device displays a common screen on a CRT, and each of the plurality of child game devices displays an individual screen on an LCD provided for each child device. The parent game device detects a degree of progress of a game of each child game device, selects for each child game device predetermined display information data out of a plurality of display information data on the basis of the detected degree of progress of the game, and creates different parent game device data for each child device on the basis of the display information data. Each child game device generates image data for displaying the individual screen on the LCD on the basis of the parent game device data received from the parent game device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Publication date: February 3, 2005
    Applicant: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Tsuchiyama, Akira Tahara