Patents Assigned to Universal Entertainment Corporation
  • Patent number: 11941944
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including an interface capable of receiving identification information on a user retrieved by an information reading apparatus installed in a gaming hall, and a controller capable of retrieving locational information on an object related to the user in the gaming hall from a storage device based on the identification information on the user and performing image processing to create a floor map of the gaming hall in which an image associated with the object is mapped to a corresponding position of the object in the gaming hall. The storage device stores identification information for identifying the object together with the identification information on the user and further stores the locational information for locating the object together with the identification information on the object. The information processing apparatus enables grasp of objects related to the user in the gaming hall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Kengo Takeda
  • Patent number: 11922779
    Abstract: A tournament management device manages tournaments consistently from making promotions to progress a game and configured to encourage a member to participate in each suitable tournament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigehiko Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 11915557
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus that enables a user to more easily understand a displayed amount. The information processing apparatus is provided with: multiple types of paper stock having currency information that include a currency unit; an insertion slot into which the multiple types of paper stock are inserted; a reading device for reading the multiple types of paper stock inserted into the insertion slot; and a display device for displaying a currency amount, being equivalent of one credit of a credit amount necessary for starting a process, with the currency unit, based on currency information corresponding to each of the multiple types of paper stock read by the reading device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Emori
  • Patent number: 11908278
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus that enables a player to more easily understand a bet amount. The information processing apparatus is provided with: multiple types of paper stock having currency information including currency units; an insertion slot into which the multiple types of paper stock are inserted; a reading device for reading the multiple types of paper stock inserted into the insertion slot; a display device for displaying a bet amount, for starting a process, together with currency information, based on currency information corresponding to each of the multiple types of paper stock read by the reading device; and an input device capable of inputting the bet amount displayed on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki Emori
  • Patent number: 11861990
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a management server which makes it possible to uniformly and rapidly limit the usage of a predetermined currency in a case in which currency handling systems including currency reading devices in each of which a wide variety of currencies are available are used. A slot machine management server 1 and a casino management system 2 manage slot machines 4S including currency handling systems 100 in each of which a wide variety of currencies are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Haishima
  • Patent number: 11837045
    Abstract: Player's obsession to a game is avoided. Whether to take an action for a player is determined based on game information of the player who plays a game at a gaming machine, and when an action is taken for the player, benefit information is output to the gaming machine to allow the player to acquire a specific advantage at a location different from the gaming machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigehiko Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 11830324
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote processing terminal capable of reducing a necessity of confirmation by a user when the user uses a foreign currency. A slot machine G10 displays a confirmation screen 721 for determining whether to execute exchange of a foreign currency, and is able to receive an input for selecting whether no further confirmation is necessary by the confirmation screen 721. When a selection indicating that no further confirmation is necessary is received, display of the confirmation screen is cancelled after this.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Haishima
  • Patent number: 11823181
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a currency handling system which makes it possible to decrease a risk of dealing with foreign currency at the time of the occurrence of a communication error in a case in which a currency reading device capable of accepting a variety of currencies including a foreign currency is used while the currency handling system is connected to a management server through a communication line. A currency handling system 100 is connected to a casino management system 2 through a network 3, and includes a currency reading device 201 which is capable of accepting a variety of currencies and a PTS terminal 700. The PTS terminal 700 causes a process which limits usage of a foreign currency but allows usage of a local currency in the currency reading device 201 to be performed in a case (offline state) in which an error occurs in communication with the casino management system 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Haishima
  • Patent number: 11816955
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that enables adequately grasping the gaming environment. The information processing apparatus receives environmental information representing a gaming environment at a place where a gaming machine is installed in a gaming hall and performs image processing to create a floor map of the gaming hall in which gaming machines installed in the gaming hall are mapped to corresponding positions by associating the environmental information with the position of the gaming machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Kengo Takeda
  • Patent number: 11798053
    Abstract: Provided is an information provision system which determines preference of a user based on a dialogue with the user utilizing an Internet shopping site and determines a recommended commodity based on the determined preference. An information provision server in an information provision system receives utterance (input) by a user utilizing an Internet shopping site via a user terminal and provides a response thereto onto the user terminal, thereby performing control so as to have a conversation with the user. Further, based on the input by the user and user attributes, the information provision server determines a user type of the user and when a recommended commodity is presented to the user, determines the recommended commodity from among commodities purchased by other user whose user type is the same as the user type of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Takuo Henmi, Shigefumi Iinuma, Takaaki Okade
  • Patent number: 11756372
    Abstract: Provided is a casino game medium and a game table system capable of reducing adjacent reading without limiting a design of a game table. The casino game medium 100 includes the medium side antenna 110, the resistance element 111 connected to the medium side antenna 110, and the IC chip 112 that stores medium information and outputs the medium information based upon an induced electromotive force generated in the medium side antenna 110. The medium side antenna 110 is designed so that the resonance frequency thereof is higher than the specified frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Hideaki Imura
  • Patent number: 11568449
    Abstract: A server comprises a storage unit for storing a plurality of image data, a first end input request image data including a redisplay setting image for setting whether to display the image on the information processor again or not and a first end request image for ending the display of the image, a second end input request image data including a second end request image for rejecting the redisplay of the image and ending the display of the image, and association data in which one of the first end input request image data and the second end input request image data is stored in association with the types of the plurality of image data, and a controller for executing a process of transmitting any one image data of the plurality of image data and either the first end input request image data or the second end input request image data associated based on the association data corresponding to the image data to the information processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 11568699
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a banknote processing system capable of easily specifying a banknote processing terminal which accommodates banknotes of a particular currency in a container. In a banknote processing system 1000, a slot machine G10 is configured to read to which currency type an accommodated banknote T belongs and to send a currency type signal to a management server 260 configured to store location information specifying an installation location of each of slot machines G10, to store the slot machine G10 which has sent the currency type signal, in association with a currency type indicated by the currency type signal, to specify the slot machine G10 associated with a predetermined currency type, and to present the installation location of the specified slot machine G10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jun Haishima
  • Patent number: 11532213
    Abstract: A game system includes: a typing game apparatus; and a server, wherein: the server includes: a server communication unit for communicating with the typing game apparatus; a clock unit for clocking the time and date; a storage unit for storing game data with a definite usable term for use in the typing game; a time limit judgment unit for judging expired data that an usable term of game data passes; and a command unit for issuing a deletion command for deleting the expired data based on the judgment result to the typing game apparatus; and the typing game apparatus includes: a game communication unit for communicating with the server; a game control unit for controlling a typing game; a data storage unit for storing the game data; and a data management unit for deleting the expired data based on the deletion command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Kogo
  • Patent number: 11524243
    Abstract: A game control method, a game server, and a game system with which a user can efficiently increase the number of friends in a game with a friend-up function are provided. When a friend candidate list image 230 of a recommended friend search screen 23 is generated in response to a request from an information processor 1 connected to a game server 10 over a communication line, the game server 10 generates a list of friend candidates with reference to a friend seeking flag. The friend seeking flag is stored in association with a user ID by which each user is identified, and indicates whether the user corresponding to the user ID is seeking friends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 11474681
    Abstract: An immersive head-mounted display (IHMD) system includes an IHMD that is communicatively coupled to a control device. The IHMD includes a hardware data receiving component operable to receive data indicative of data generated by the one or more electronic appliances from the control device. The IHMD includes a processing unit further operative to: modify, based on selection of one or more electronic appliances, the graphical user interface to display modifiable settings of the selected one or more electronic appliances; update the modified graphical user interface based on requested changes to the modifiable settings; and transmit, via a hardware transmitting component to the control device, setting data to the selected electronic appliance, wherein the setting data is data obtained from the modified settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Oono
  • Patent number: 11455866
    Abstract: A terminal device includes: an information medium payout device that pays out an information medium associated with balance information representing a balance of a game value according to a result of a game; and a transmission device that transmits information medium identification information unique to the paid-out information medium, insertion information representing the inserted game value associated with the information medium identification information, game information representing a history of a game executed based upon the inserted game value, the balance information, and gaming machine identification information identifying the gaming machine in which the balance information is generated to an information processing device, and the information processing device includes a history information storage device that stores the information medium identification information as unique history information associated with the information medium identification information, and a determination device that deter
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Jun Haishima
  • Patent number: 11443587
    Abstract: To provide a gaming table apparatus capable of suppressing the prevention of progress of a game. The gaming table apparatus includes bet units on which gaming media betted by players are placed, a reading unit reading monetary values of the gaming media placed on the bet units, a card shoe in which cards used for a game are accommodated in a drawable manner, a detecting device detecting identification information of the cards taken from the card shoe and outputs the detected identification information, a controller managing the destination to which the game proceeds, a display displaying information about the destination to which the game proceeds managed by the controller, and a memory in which the information displayed on the display is stored, in which the controller determines the destination to which the game proceeds when the monetary values of the gaming medium betted on the bet unit change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yamaguchi, Kouichi Matsumoto, Yoshiyuki Kanno, Masaya Kato, Hideaki Imura
  • Patent number: 11423735
    Abstract: A game controller downloads a chip database at a predetermined timing from a server and stores the chip database as offline data in a storage unit, determines whether communication with the server is possible, when a chip communication unit accesses a game chip, and authenticates the game chip with reference to a offline data table when the communication is impossible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Yamaguchi, Kouichi Matsumoto, Yoshiyuki Kanno, Masaya Kato
  • Patent number: 11373504
    Abstract: An immersive head-mounted display (IHMD) can present primary present primary content on one or more displays; receive first alert content from a first electronic appliance; determine, based on a first alert level of the first alert content, whether to pause rendering of the primary content and present the first alert content within a period of time the rendering of the primary content is paused, or to continue the rendering of the primary content and present the first alert content overlaying the primary content within a period of time the rendering of the primary content continues; and in response to a determination that the alert level is high, pause the rendering of the primary content and present the first alert content within the period of time the rendering of the primary content is paused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kuwana