Patents Assigned to Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20200197809
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for a game device having a processor, in which the program causes the processor to: identify a game element in a virtual space, or a position of the game element in the virtual space, based on an indicated direction in the virtual space in accordance with an operation input made by a user; and generate first information to enable a position designation image to be displayed on a display unit, the position designation image being to representative of the position in the virtual space depending on an identification result obtained by identifying the game element or the position of the game element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yota TSUTSUMIZAKI, Yuji KAINE
  • Publication number: 20200171392
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for a game device having a processor, in which the program causes the processor to: receive an operation-input made by a first user; and cause a first character of a game to execute an action, based on the operation-input made by the first user, in which when a first action made by a second character of the game is executed based on an operation-input made by a second user, the program causes the processor to cause the first character to execute a second action responsive to the first action, based on the operation-input made by the first user and received by the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yota Tsutsumizaki
  • Patent number: 10635241
    Abstract: [Problem] To detect touch coordinates, without detection errors and without using a special pen, on a substrate such as a touch panel. [Solution] This coordinate detection method comprises: calculating a ratio between the short-term average (STA) and long-term average (LTA) of output signals from at least three vibration detectors installed apart from each other at predetermined distances on a substrate which has a uniform thickness and is made from a homogeneous material that allows the propagation speeds of oscillating waves to be constant; calculating, as arrival times, the times at which the STA/LTA ratio of the three vibration detectors by oscillating waves generated by touching the substrate exceeds a predetermined threshold value; and calculating touch position coordinates on the basis of each of the arrival times, the propagation speed of the oscillating waves, and the distances at which the three vibration detectors are spaced apart from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignees: ALAB INC., KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Araki, Tatsuya Sugawara, Hajime Takahama
  • Patent number: 10610785
    Abstract: Provided is a game system including at least one processor configured to: select, from among a plurality of pieces of game data which are respectively associated with a plurality of pieces of user identification information, a piece of game data associated with a piece of user identification information as a usage target to be used for game processing of another piece of game data associated with another piece of user identification information, to thereby execute the game processing; determine whether or not an execution history of the game processing, which has been executed with the piece of game data associated with the piece of user identification information being selected as the usage target, satisfies a predetermined condition; and associate a reward with the piece of user identification information, in a case where access is made from a terminal device of a user after the execution history satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Onishi, Seitaro Kimura
  • Patent number: 10610781
    Abstract: A game system comprising at least one processor configured to: obtain saved data of a first game, the saved data being stored in a storage included in a first game terminal that executes the first game; determine whether a second game that is executed in a second game terminal is played by a user of the first game terminal; and perform a control for storing, in a server device, the saved data of the first game stored in the storage based on a determination result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noriaki Okamura
  • Patent number: 10607450
    Abstract: A game system executes lottery processing where at least one lottery candidate is selected from plural lottery candidates; gives value according to the lottery result to a user; displays on a monitor a game screen for performing a lottery; controls a shooting game to be played by the user while the game screen is displayed on the monitor; changes an expectant value as the lottery result according to a game-play state of the shooting game; and settles the change at a predetermined timing of the shooting time. Then, the game system executes the lottery processing based on the expectant value settled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norifumi Kawai, Shinya Suga, Manabu Kitagawa
  • Publication number: 20200054945
    Abstract: Provided is a server device that when, during viewing of a video, viewing conditions for changing states of displayed objects included in the video are changed according to selection by the user, is capable of suppressing display of comments that do not match the viewing conditions of the video. A center server delivers, to a user terminal, replay data for displaying a replay video of which viewing conditions are changed during viewing in accordance with the selection by each user. The center server has a storage unit storing comment data including information about a stamp attached to the replay video and information about the viewing condition under which the replay video should be displayed. The center server, when delivering the replay data, provides the user terminal with the comment data so that the stamp displayed in the replay video is changed in accordance with change of the viewing condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunari Sarugaku, Tomoaki Miyagawa
  • Publication number: 20200054943
    Abstract: Provided is a server device that is capable of reflecting a game activity track record in evaluation results of a game video. A center server is connected via a network to a user terminal that displays videos and manages evaluation results of each user when the videos are evaluated by the users. In addition, if a game video related to a game provided by the user terminal is displayed on the user terminal, the center server stores play data described so as to associate a user ID with information on the presence or absence of each user's play track record of the game. The center server classifies the evaluation results, on the basis of the information on the presence or absence of a play track record, into mutually separate special evaluation results and general evaluation results, and provides the evaluation results so as to include the special evaluation results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuru TAMAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200059704
    Abstract: Provided is a server device that is capable of making it easy to attach comments to videos while reflecting the individuality of various users. A center server, when a user terminal is connected, delivers video data according to a request by the user terminal. The center server also specifies a stamp selected by each user among a plurality of stamps that have been prepared in advance, and, on the basis of symbol data for managing symbols that are separately set for users in order to visually identify each user, specifies the symbol of the user who has selected the stamp. The center server, when a request is made for delivery the video data, provides the user terminal with information about the stamp and the symbol so that a comment icon in which the selected stamp and the symbol of the user are combined is attached to the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eiri MIKOSHIBA
  • Patent number: 10546455
    Abstract: A game machine comprises: a lottery mechanism where a plurality of pockets, each being correlated to each choice, are provided so that at least one choice is selected from a plurality of choices, and a lottery that by making a ball enter any one of the plurality of pockets, the choice correlated to the pocket is selected is executed; and a discharging mechanism which discharges a ball to the lottery mechanism, wherein the discharging mechanism is controlled so that at least one ball is discharged to the lottery mechanism as one lottery unit, and further controlled so that the game body is discharged continuously to repeat the lottery by the lottery unit, as long as a predetermined end condition is not established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Azuma, Shinya Ito, Junichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10537798
    Abstract: The server apparatus is applied to a game system which has a storage unit storing gaming dynamic images different from each other in association with a stream ID for identifying each gaming dynamic image. The game system acquires a playing dynamic image photographed by a portable phone and a stream ID of the playing dynamic image via a network. Base on the acquisition result, the game system determines the gaming dynamic image whose stream ID corresponds to the stream ID of the playing dynamic image acquired as a target gaming dynamic image, and provides a dynamic-image delivery service so that a delivery screen is displayed at each personal computer, the delivery screen including a composite dynamic image where the playing dynamic image and the target gaming dynamic image are synthesized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Takahashi, Takashi Taniguchi, Hiroshi Yokota, Hiroyuki Hosoyama, Takayuki Akita, Yuichi Tomoyose
  • Patent number: 10537786
    Abstract: A lottery device includes: a drawing body having medium entrance units which are provided along a circumferential direction thereof, and into each of which a game medium can enter; a driving mechanism driving the drawing body in the circumferential direction; a dividing device dividing a periphery of a path of the medium entrance units, in which path the medium entrance units travel, into lottery segments in the circumferential direction; a medium introduction mechanism introducing the game medium individually into each lottery segment; an entrance unit detection device detecting a medium entrance unit into which the game medium has entered; a displacement amount detection device detecting an amount of displacement in the circumferential direction; and a lottery segment distinguishing device distinguishing from which of the lottery segments the game medium has entered into the medium entrance unit based on a result of detection by the displacement amount detection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Azuma, Kensaku Yoshida, Toshihiro Kusano, Kazuo Tsubota
  • Patent number: 10537791
    Abstract: A game machine includes an input device that is capable of detecting a position at which a user performs an operation, and a control device that commands the user respective positions and timings at which a plurality of operations is to be performed by the user upon the input device, and that evaluates the operations by the user: wherein the control device includes an operation determination device that determines presence or absence of an operation corresponding to a command for any one operation, on the basis of whether or not the operation has been detected within a range of determination; and the operation determination device includes a determination range adjustment device that adjusts a range of determination corresponding to a subsequent operation following the one operation so as not to include the position at which the one operation has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10532280
    Abstract: Provided is a game system that is capable of suppressing time needed to share or exchange opinions between users in a game. This game system provides a quiz game that is played by eight users simultaneously. Furthermore, in a information share phase of the quiz game, the game system gives, via a game screen for selecting a region, a selection opportunity that is shared by the eight users such that eight selected regions corresponding to the eight users are selected individually by them from three region images of an enemy character image, and provides, in there, selection status information relating to the eight selected regions. Then, in a battle phase which follows the information share phase, the game system gives, based on the selection result in the information share phase, changes corresponding to the eight selected regions to the quiz game such that user characters attack the selected regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ayumi Ishizawa, Yuhei Ue, Mami Shimbo
  • Patent number: 10528247
    Abstract: An operation system includes a detector, an area designator, a selection item designator, and a display controller. The detector may be configured to detect an operation of touching a touch panel at a touch-position on the touch panel. The area designator may be configured to designate an area, which includes the touch-position at which the operation of touching the touch panel is detected, from a plurality of areas of the touch panel. The selection item designator may be configured to designate an associated set of selection items which is associated with the area designated by the area designator. The display controller may be configured to control the touch panel to display an operator which includes the associated set of selection items at or in the vicinity of the touch-position, at which the operation of touching the touch panel is detected by the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Abe
  • Publication number: 20200007899
    Abstract: Provided is a server device that is capable of extracting and recommending various videos relating to each user from a plurality of videos relating to a game. A center server manages video data for a video group relating to a game such that individual videos are associated with information about a “managed items”, extracts some video from the video group on the basis of that information, and distributes the video data of the some video to a user terminal connected via a network. When a user ID is provided from the user terminal, the center server extracts some related video relating to activity records which is described in play data so as to be associated with user IDs as the some video on the basis of the information about the “management item” and the activity records by using the user ID as a reference, and provides this information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiri MIKOSHIBA, Kenichi Kataoka, Mitsuru Tamagawa
  • Publication number: 20200007900
    Abstract: Provided is a server device capable of further promoting provision of videos. A center server stores video data to be distributed to user terminals connected via a network and distributes video data in response to a request from a user terminal. The center server also manages the video data so that a user ID and a video ID are associated and recorded and, when an additional condition including the viewing of individual videos as a requirement is satisfied, uses the video data as a basis to specify a first user corresponding via user ID to a video viewed through a user terminal in order to satisfy the additional requirement. Furthermore, when a user terminal additionally functions as a game terminal for providing a game, the center server provides additional information to the first user for adding a game change to the game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiri Mikoshiba, Kenichi Kataoka, Kazunari Sarugaku, Mitsuru Tamagawa
  • Publication number: 20200001178
    Abstract: Provided is a server device that makes it possible to suitably distribute both video data and replay data. A center server distributes at least part of server data to a user terminal connected via a network. When the user terminal functions as a game terminal, the server center acquires replay data for reproducing past play from the user terminal so that the replay data functions as the server data and, when the server data includes video data and the user terminal functions as a video display terminal, updates the video data so that game video corresponding to the past play is displayed. The center server determines data to be distributed in accordance with the type of user terminal so that replay data is distributed to the user terminal when functioning as a game terminal and video data is distributed to the user terminal when functioning as a video display terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiri Mikoshiba, Kenichi Arai
  • Patent number: 10518179
    Abstract: A game device controls a game in which an action is applied to a movable object. A prediction accepting unit accepts a prediction made by a user on a movement parameter of the movable object when a predetermined operation of making a prediction is performed by the user. A moving unit decides the movement parameter of the movable object. A determination unit determines a result of the prediction made by the user based on movement parameters respectively predicted by the user and decided by the moving unit. A display control unit displays an arrival point area indicating an expected arrival position of the movable object in an active area in which the action can be applied to the movable object, and changes a size of the arrival point area based on a result of determination by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Sogabe, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Manabu Tashiro, Koji Toyohara, Keiji Matsukita
  • Patent number: 10510052
    Abstract: In a fee collection system a game machine as a charge collective apparatus is provided with a reader terminal for obtaining predetermined identification information from a card, and a reader control unit for outputting to a control board a signal equivalent to an output signal of a coin selector, wherein when a card ID is transmitted from the reader control unit, a management PC refers to charge setting data, determines the consumption amount of electronic money, and requests an account management server to process withdrawal of the consumption amount from an account of electronic money corresponding to the card ID. The management PC notifies the reader control unit the processing result transmitted from the account management server, and outputs to the control board a signal equivalent to the output signal of the coin selector when the withdrawal is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Keina Kanisawa, Yusuke Kitakaze, Jiro Hotta, Masahiko Kami, Tadanobu Otaki, Toyofumi Kitano, Kazutaka Kubota, Satoshi Ueda, Hideaki Minoda