| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6901650 |
Adjusting method for an optical disc apparatus |
June 7, 2005 |
| A relative adjustment between an optical disc rotating mechanism and an optical pickup is adjusted by rotating a rotary member against a biasing force of an engaging projection. As the rotary member is rotated, the projection is slid for movement on an inclined surface, changing a re |
| 6881149 |
Entertainment system, entertainment apparatus, recording medium, and program |
April 19, 2005 |
| When a main character enters a battle, a rectangular navigation mark is displayed over a designated monster on a display monitor. When the main character approaches the monster, the navigation mark rotates and gets smaller until it is converged into a targeting point on the display m |
| 6871239 |
Electronic equipment communication system, external device for the communication system, electro |
March 22, 2005 |
| An electronic equipment communication system has electronic equipment and an external device to be connected to the electronic equipment. Communication between the external device and electronic equipment takes place when they are connected to each other and the external device has a |
| 6859207 |
Method and apparatus for producing a coordinated group animation by means of optimum state feedb |
February 22, 2005 |
| An apparatus is disclosed for producing an animation of a group including a plurality of members which are dynamically controlled. The apparatus includes a role assignment switchboard for assigning roles to the respective members of the group so as to achieve a layout specifying a pa |
| 6856321 |
Texture rendering method, entertainment apparatus and storage medium |
February 15, 2005 |
| In order to form an image by projecting a texture 520 at an arbitrary angle to an arbitrary position on a surface of an object 500 represented as a 3D model, texture data 520 is divided into texture lines 530 having a width of one dot and a length equal to the number of dots on one side |
| 6846237 |
Entertainment system, entertainment apparatus, recording medium, and program |
January 25, 2005 |
| An entertainment system comprises parameter changing means for permitting a user to input manipulation data by successively pressing a decision button when a button icon is displayed on a display monitor. Based on the manipulation data, the parameter changing means changes damage of a |
| 6845067 |
Optical pickup position control method |
January 18, 2005 |
| A position control method, which positions the relative position of an optical disk and an optical pickup to a position that provides the optimum value of the jitter value of the detection signal obtained by detecting the reflected light of an optical spot, has a jitter value acquisition |
| 6839857 |
Interrupt controller in an interface device or information processing system |
January 4, 2005 |
| There is disclosed an interface device which can prevent the freezing of an information processing system caused occupation of a system bus even when a wait signal outputted from the PC card is kept asserted. When the wait signal outputted from the PC card, is asserted, a timer portion 2 |
| 6826134 |
Optical disk device with tracking adjustment and sled adjustment of optical pickup and method fo |
November 30, 2004 |
| Optical disk device, in which tracking adjustment systems and a sled adjustment system are controlled independently, has offset value acquisition capability, which detects drive signals output from tracking adjustment systems and acquires tracking drive offset values. Such disk also |
| 6823420 |
Entertainment apparatus |
November 23, 2004 |
| An entertainment apparatus comprising a peripheral device and a controller for controlling the peripheral device. The peripheral device and the controller are connected each other by an address bus and a data bus. The peripheral device which receives a DMA acknowledge signal from the |
| 6817021 |
Disk device and guide member |
November 9, 2004 |
| A disk device is provided with a disk tray having a detachable guide member, which guides an optical disk between a depression and claws provided thereon. When an optical disk is to be mounted within a disk device in the vertical orientation, the optical disk can automatically be gui |
| 6816975 |
Status display for temperature regulation of processing unit using LEDs of different color |
November 9, 2004 |
| An electronic device has a temperature sensor that detects temperature of a CPU, an image processing unit, and a microprocessor unit that controls the supply of electric power from a power source unit to the CPU and the image processing unit according to the temperature detected by the t |
| 6816972 |
Disk recording medium, reproduction device and method for performing reproduction on disk record |
November 9, 2004 |
| A device and method for protection of legitimate software against used software and counterfeit software in recording media. The device includes a disk is set in a main unit. A specific title code is read, and if this title code has been registered, the main unit shifts to a normal o |
| 6814662 |
Portable electronic device, entertainment system and method of operating the same |
November 9, 2004 |
| A portable electronic device and an entertainment system that can give a user a sense of familiarity by generating a proper character using an identification number and by displaying it, for example, on a display means include an identification-number holding section which holds a pr |
| 6795068 |
Prop input device and method for mapping an object from a two-dimensional camera image to a thre |
September 21, 2004 |
| A hand-manipulated prop is picked-up via a single video camera, and the camera image is analyzed to isolate the part of the image pertaining to the object for mapping the position and orientation of the object into a three-dimensional space, wherein the three-dimensional description of t |
| 6792292 |
Portable information communication terminal, entertainment system, and storage medium |
September 14, 2004 |
| A portable information communication terminal can easily be combined with an existing industrial system. Article discount information is broadcast from a central computer of the headquarters of a convenience store via a broadcasting system, and received by a portable information communic |
| 6792245 |
Information reproducing apparatus and broadcasting system |
September 14, 2004 |
| An information reproducing apparatus and method for reproducing information comprises an identification information provider for providing an identification information. A receiver receives broadcast information including broadcast identification information. The receiver includes a |
| 6789078 |
Member information registration method and system, and member verification method and system |
September 7, 2004 |
| Users desiring to register as users access web server for personal computers using terminal device, and run a member registration process by registering a member ID and password. When a user that has registered as a member wants to use the membership system service-providing site with a |
| 6785199 |
Drive device including a restart drive detection element |
August 31, 2004 |
| A drive device has a feed mechanism that causes a control object to move in order to control the positioning of the control object, a motor that serves as the drive source of said feed mechanism, and a control means that controls this motor. The control means has an operation history |
| 6784561 |
Resistance force generator for use in a game machine |
August 31, 2004 |
| A resistance force generator generates, in accordance with game information, a resistance force corresponding to an input operation on a trigger of an operation device which inputs information to a main unit of a game machine. The resistance force generator has a container that accom |
| 6781598 |
Entertainment apparatus, image generation method, and storage medium |
August 24, 2004 |
| It is intended to display, in a 3D-CG animation, a high-quality background image that is free of distortion due to a pan of a viewing camera. Pre-rendering images of three-dimensional background scenes are mapped over the inside surfaces of respective virtual spheres 70a.sub.k-1 and |
| 6780112 |
Game device in which the character representation changes corresponding to the value of a multi- |
August 24, 2004 |
| An entertainment device comprises: an operation device comprising a plurality of push operation mechanisms, each of which outputs a multi-level signal indicating one of three or more values, which change according to the amount of the push operation; a data hold section, which holds |
| 6778948 |
Method of creating a dynamic image, storage medium and program executing apparatus |
August 17, 2004 |
| An induced explosion of a firework ball is represented using a small processing volume. A range for an induced explosion is set around a firework ball to be exploded drawn on a display image, for example, as indicated by the broken line in FIG. 10A in accordance with attributes of th |
| 6775209 |
Optical disk apparatus and method of controlling movement of objective lens |
August 10, 2004 |
| In an optical disk apparatus, a sensitivity adjusting circuit measures a time between a reflection on a surface and a reflection on a recoding layer of an optical disk when moving an objective lens. This time is considered to be in accordance with sensitivity of an actuator during la |
| 6774896 |
Method and apparatus for generating image data by modulating texture data with color data and br |
August 10, 2004 |
| A multiplication circuit (33a) of a modulation circuit (33) is provided to multiply color components from a texture mapping circuit (31) using a texture information and triangle vertex coordinates by color components from an interpolation circuit (32) using triangle vertex color informat |
| 6771259 |
Image generating method and apparatus, recording medium and random number generator |
August 3, 2004 |
| An image generating apparatus and method for generating drawing data on the basis of a polygon drawing command and outputting the drawing data as image data, a polygon drawing command including polygon information for drawing a reference object representing a rough shape of an object to |
| 6771251 |
Electronic equipment, recording medium and method for changing parameter settings of the electro |
August 3, 2004 |
| An electronic equipment which provides an easier-to-use interface for the changing of the settings of various parameters on an LCD panel or the screen of a computer by the pushing by a user of a simple ON/OFF switch or holding it down, includes a switch connected to a pressure-sensitive |
| 6769988 |
Entertainment unit, recording medium and method for setting its parameters |
August 3, 2004 |
| An operation unit provided with an operation axis as an input unit of an entertainment unit is more effectively utilized. An entertainment unit receives input information from an operation unit and calculates a displacement value with respect to the rotation movement of the operation |
| 6762746 |
Entertainment apparatus, storage medium and operation method of manipulating object |
July 13, 2004 |
| Disclosed is an entertainment apparatus in which even an unskilled player can enjoy a flight simulation, a drive simulation or the like satisfactorily. Based on a signal depending on coordinate values on X-Y coordinate decided by a manipulation applied to manipulation sticks 31a and |
| 6760541 |
Information processing device and method, distribution medium, and recording medium |
July 6, 2004 |
| To distribute data for an information processing device, and if an improper electronic device connection is made, to inform the user of this fact and have him make the correct connection. If a correct connection is made, image part 61 is displayed on a display device, such as a televisio |
| 6760041 |
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT THAT PERFORMS ENLARGEMENT, REDUCTION AND SHAPE-MODIFICATION PROCESSING OF I |
July 6, 2004 |
| Electronic equipment which provides an easier-to-use user interface for zoom-in and zoom-out actions has a switch which includes a pressure-sensitive unit, and a processing unit that performs enlargement or reduction processing depending on the output from the pressure-sensitive unit |
| 6750861 |
Information processing device and method thereof, and transmission medium |
June 15, 2004 |
| Processing at high speed is realized. Interpolation is carried out between vertexes of a series of vertexes and a series of vertexes taken as a longer series of vertexes of a strip. Interpolation is then carried out between each vertex of the interpolated series of vertexes and corre |
| 6749507 |
Entertainment apparatus and monitor device used therein |
June 15, 2004 |
| The present invention provides an entertainment apparatus that can serve to display images and to reproduce sound either by connecting to a television set or only by itself. It has an apparatus body (1) for generating and outputting sound and video signals and a monitor device (90) attac |
| 6749506 |
Method for changing viewpoints using pressure-sensitive means, recording medium providing softwa |
June 15, 2004 |
| A recording medium on which is recorded a computer-readable and executable software program that performs processing by taking as instructions an output from a controller used in an entertainment system. The controller has a pressure-sensitive unit. The software program used in the e |
| 6745290 |
High-speed processor system and cache memories with processing capabilities |
June 1, 2004 |
| The invention is aimed at providing a high-speed processor system capable of performing distributed concurrent processing without requiring modification of conventional programming styles.The processor system in accordance with the invention has a CPU, a plurality of parallel DRAMs, and |
| 6744709 |
Focusing control apparatus, recording medium, and optical disk playback apparatus |
June 1, 2004 |
| In advance of the playback of an optical disk 11, the peaks of a focus error signal are detected, and the reference values of the focus error signal are set on the basis of the values of the peaks. In executing a layer jump, a kick signal for an object lens 13a is stopped from being |
| 6744445 |
Repeater |
June 1, 2004 |
| A repeater has multiple operation terminal connections to which operation terminals are connected, multiple external memory device connections that are set in correspondence with the operation terminal connections and to which external memory devices are connected, and a main body connec |
| 6742573 |
Heat sink including a heat dissipating fin and method for fixing the heat dissipating fin |
June 1, 2004 |
| A heat sink including a heat dissipating fin comprises (1) a heat dissipating fin having a plurality of mountain-shaped portions and base portions supporting the mountain-shaped portions, (2) a base member having a plurality of slits into which the mountain-shaped portions of the heat |
| 6741742 |
Entertainment system, entertainment apparatus, recording medium, and program |
May 25, 2004 |
| An entertainment system has an input determiner for comparing an input pattern image displayed on the screen of the display monitor according to a control input entered from a manual controller and a reference pattern image with each other, and producing an evaluation of the control inpu |
| 6726566 |
Method for changing viewpoints using pressure-sensitive means, recording medium providing softwa |
April 27, 2004 |
| A recording medium on which is recorded a computer-readable and executable software program that performs processing by taking as instructions an output from a controller used in an entertainment system. The controller has a pressure-sensitive unit. The software program used in the e |
| 6724693 |
Optical disk having readable information on both sides of the disk combination with an optical d |
April 20, 2004 |
| An optical disk has a magnetic recording medium and/or magnetic playback medium. The magnetic substance carrying recording data is formed on the label side of the optical disk. The magnetic substance is formed as a pattern of a desired shape by silk screen printing using an ink containin |
| 6724385 |
Method of replaying game, recording medium, program, and entertainment system |
April 20, 2004 |
| Images can be replayed from various viewpoints when games of various genres are replayed. When a game is replayed, a memory control unit holds only a certain replayable region with respect to a present camera viewpoint position successively in a RAM. If there is an instruction from a man |
| 6722989 |
Virtual pet game in which the virtual pet can converse with the player and learn new words and p |
April 20, 2004 |
| A portable electronic device is selectively connected to a master. Durring conection, a plurality of conversation scripts and associated dictionay are downloaded to provide a video game comprising a virtual pet, which game is capable of being executed independently from the master. The |
| 6721264 |
Optical recording medium and entertainment system that employs it |
April 13, 2004 |
| It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical recording medium having a new information recording part and an entertainment system employing it. According to an optical recording medium of the present invention, a new information recording part (210) is formed on parts o |
| 6717568 |
Method of controlling the movement of a position indicating item, storage medium on which a prog |
April 6, 2004 |
| A method is disclosed for controlling the movement of a position indicating item displayed on a screen in accordance with an output signal of control means including a pressure-sensitive resistor which outputs a signal whose level varies depending upon a pressing force applied to an oper |
| 6714660 |
Image processing device and method, and distribution medium |
March 30, 2004 |
| To make it possible to accurately track a prescribed part, a low-resolution overall image is taken in from an input image, and a medium-resolution image, whose center is the head part, is extracted from it. When it is possible to extract a medium-resolution image in the middle of which i |
| 6702677 |
Entertainment system, entertainment apparatus, recording medium, and program |
March 9, 2004 |
| An entertainment system includes a sound presentation trial processing unit for displaying an object relatively moving on at least one track displayed on a display unit, allowing the user to try to acquire the object with a control input, and outputting a sound assigned to the track on w |
| 6699123 |
Entertainment system, entertainment apparatus, recording medium, and program |
March 2, 2004 |
| An entertainment system for a game in which novel three-dimensional line drawing images are displayed on a display screen is disclosed. By pressing a predetermined control button of a manual controller at predetermined timing, a character object line drawing image can clear a virtual roa |
| 6695702 |
Program execution system, program execution device, relay device, and recording medium |
February 24, 2004 |
| Entertainment system main body is connected via a relay device to an "i-mode" portable telephone system using a controller connection connector or external memory insertion connector provided on entertainment system main body. This relay device has the function of coordinating the softwa |
| 6688710 |
Electronic device cabinet and electronic device |
February 10, 2004 |
| An electronic device cabinet and an electronic device wherein the rotation of the cover upon opening can be slowed with a simple hinge mechanism. A rotating member provided with a protruding piece is provided on said cover. Said rotating member comes into sliding contact with contact par |
