Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Imada

Yoshiyuki Imada 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: 10369479
    Abstract: A content execution unit executes a game program, and a sharing processing unit manages the control right of a content. A distribution processing unit transmits content image data to a different information processing apparatus. The sharing processing unit includes an information acquisition unit acquiring operation information of a controller from the different information processing apparatus, an operation data provision unit providing the acquired operation information to the game program, a control data acquisition unit acquiring control data for a control target unit of the controller from the game program, and a control data provision unit providing the control data to a controller of the different information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Suwa, Yoshiyuki Imada, Shigetaka Kudo
  • Publication number: 20190126144
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing device that provides an operation signal of an analog stick to a game, including: a conversion processing unit configured to convert a detection value obtained by detection of a movement of a controller into an analog stick signal; and an output processing unit configured to provide the analog stick signal obtained by the conversion to the game. The conversion processing unit includes a first calculation unit configured to calculate a first signal from a detected angular velocity, a second calculation unit configured to calculate a second signal according to a deviation amount between a direction in which the controller is directed and a reference direction, an addition unit configured to add the first signal and the second signal to generate a motion operation signal, and an analog stick signal generation unit configured to generate an analog stick signal from the motion operation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Takanori Minamino, Yoshiyuki Imada, Kenzo Nishikawa, Dean Sofer
  • Publication number: 20190126136
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus that provides an operation signal of an input part of a controller to a game. The information processing apparatus includes an acquisition part configured to acquire a detected value of a motion of the controller, a conversion processing part configured to convert the acquired detected value to the operation signal of the input part of the controller, and an output processing part configured to provide the converted operation signal to the game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicants: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Takanori Minamino, Yoshiyuki Imada, Kenzo Nishikawa, Dean Sofer
  • Publication number: 20170225082
    Abstract: A content execution unit executes a game program, and a sharing processing unit manages the control right of a content. A distribution processing unit transmits content image data to a different information processing apparatus. The sharing processing unit includes an information acquisition unit acquiring operation information of a controller from the different information processing apparatus, an operation data provision unit providing the acquired operation information to the game program, a control data acquisition unit acquiring control data for a control target unit of the controller from the game program, and a control data provision unit providing the control data to a controller of the different information processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Suwa, Yoshiyuki Imada, Shigetaka Kudo
  • Patent number: 9280265
    Abstract: A game device includes: a display control unit that displays a plurality of display targets on a display screen of a display device; an input acquiring unit that acquires a position of input from a front touch panel or a rear touch panel, which can detect input on the display screen; and a movement control unit that defines as a target to be moved a display target displayed by the display control unit on the display screen at a position corresponding to the position of a first input entry acquired by the input acquiring unit, and operative to scroll a display target other than the target to be moved in accordance with a second input entry acquired by the input acquiring unit while keeping the display position of the target to be moved at the position of the first input entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Arito Mochizuki, Tomoya Kitayama, Yoshiyuki Imada, Phillip Profitt
  • Patent number: 9128550
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device which allows a user to provide, regardless of a position or direction of a touch sensor, an operation input to the touch sensor at an arbitrary position or in an arbitrary direction. The information processing device includes two touch sensors each including a detection surface for detecting a position of an object thereon, the two touch sensors being arranged to be opposed to each other, determines at least one of a reference point and a reference axis based on one or a plurality of positions detected by one touch sensor of the two touch sensors, and evaluates a content detected by another touch sensor of the two touch sensors based on the at least one of the determined reference point and the determined reference axis to determine a content of an operation input of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Imada, Arito Mochizuki, Tomoya Kitayama, Phillip Profitt
  • Publication number: 20130181930
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing device which allows a user to provide, regardless of a position or direction of a touch sensor, an operation input to the touch sensor at an arbitrary position or in an arbitrary direction. The information processing device includes two touch sensors each including a detection surface for detecting a position of an object thereon, the two touch sensors being arranged to be opposed to each other, determines at least one of a reference point and a reference axis based on one or a plurality of positions detected by one touch sensor of the two touch sensors, and evaluates a content detected by another touch sensor of the two touch sensors based on the at least one of the determined reference point and the determined reference axis to determine a content of an operation input of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Imada, Arito Mochizuki, Tomoya Kitayama, Phillip Profitt
  • Publication number: 20130100050
    Abstract: A game device includes: a display control unit that displays a plurality of display targets on a display screen of a display device; an input acquiring unit that acquires a position of input from a front touch panel or a rear touch panel, which can detect input on the display screen; and a deformation control unit that defines as a reference position a position on the display screen corresponding to the position of a first input entry acquired by the input acquiring unit, and that deforms, in accordance with a second input entry acquired by the input acquiring unit, a display target displayed on the display screen, while keeping the reference position as the center of the deformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Phillip Profitt, Yoshiyuki Imada, Tomoya Kitayama, Arito Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20130100049
    Abstract: A game device includes: a display control unit that displays a plurality of display targets on a display screen of a display device; an input acquiring unit that acquires a position of input from a front touch panel or a rear touch panel, which can detect input on the display screen; and a movement control unit that defines as a target to be moved a display target displayed by the display control unit on the display screen at a position corresponding to the position of a first input entry acquired by the input acquiring unit, and operative to scroll a display target other than the target to be moved in accordance with a second input entry acquired by the input acquiring unit while keeping the display position of the target to be moved at the position of the first input entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Arito MOCHIZUKI, Tomoya KITAYAMA, Yoshiyuki IMADA, Phillip PROFITT
  • Publication number: 20130100051
    Abstract: A game device includes: a display control unit that displays a plurality of display targets that are classified into a plurality of layers of a hierarchy; an input acquiring unit that acquires input on a front touch panel or a rear touch panel; and a switch control unit that switches display targets in a first layer in case that the input acquiring unit acknowledges a first operational input entry, which includes an input entry on the front or rear touch panel and movement of the position of the input entry thereafter, and that switches display targets in a second layer on a level upper than the first layer in case that the input acquiring unit acknowledges a second operational input entry, which includes a concurrent input entries on the front and rear touch panel and movement of the positions of the input entries thereafter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Arito Mochizuki, Tomoya Kitayama, Yoshiyuki Imada, Phillip Profitt
  • Patent number: 6947644
    Abstract: The present invention includes a sheet material, a first optical fiber, a second optical fiber optically coupled to the first optical fiber in portions thereof, and an optical fiber coupler constituted in the portions where the two optical fibers are coupled, and those of the first and second optical fibers, and the optical fiber coupler are integrally held in the sheet material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd., NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuaki Kondo, Kazuo Imamura, Minoru Yoshida, Yasuhide Sudo, Yoshiyuki Imada, Tatsuhiro Kawamura, Takashi Okuyama, Hideki Okuno, Atsushi Toyohara
  • Publication number: 20030012505
    Abstract: The present invention includes a sheet material, a first optical fiber, a second optical fiber optically coupled to the first optical fiber in portions thereof, and an optical fiber coupler constituted in the portions where the two optical fibers are coupled, and those of the first and second optical fibers, and the optical fiber coupler are integrally held in the sheet material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Katsuaki Kondo, Kazuo Imamura, Minoru Yoshida, Yasuhide Sudo, Yoshiyuki Imada, Tatsuhiro Kawamura, Takashi Okuyama, Hideki Okuno, Atsushi Toyohara
  • Patent number: 4884434
    Abstract: A wear sensor provided with a block incorporating one or more optical fibers for indicating that wear has occurred to the block, on the basis of a fact that the fibers have been severed on account of wear of the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Satake, Yoshiyuki Imada