Patents Examined by Lawrence S Galka
  • Patent number: 11724165
    Abstract: A golf swing analyzer system for analyzing a golfer's golf swing. An inertial measurement unit (IMU) may be used to capture data regarding the swing. The IMU may be oriented along a hosel-axis and a face-axis to reduce the complexity of calculations to determine the path of the swing. Two IMUs may be used to permit correction of captured data, different orientations of the IMUs to increase accuracy of captured data, and a doubling of the captured data. The IMU may include a magnetometer that cooperates with a magnet that is adapted to indicate the time at or near impact of the head of the golf club with the golf ball. An LED system provides visual information to a user regarding the swing while the swing is being made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: BWR Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Jeff A. Wandler, Joel A. Jorgenson, Thomas W. Nelson, Landon E. Lee, Adam C. Jorgenson, Travis J. DeJong, Thomas S. Wohl
  • Patent number: 11724201
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for generating insights for video games. The method includes gathering information regarding a player for a plurality of video games, the information comprising at least one of in-world state data, player action data, player progression data, and/or real-world events relevant to each video game. The method also includes tracking events in at least one video game of the plurality of video games, the events comprising an action event or a standby event. The method also includes determining that an event of the tracked events is an action event. The method also includes generating insights regarding the action event based on the information gathered regarding the player, the insights for improving the player's performance in the video game. The method also includes relaying the insights to the player to improve the player's performance in the video game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.
    Inventors: Harold Henry Chaput, Mattias Teye, Zebin Chen, Wei Wang, Ulf Erik Kristoffer Sjöö, Ulf Martin Lucas Singh-Blom
  • Patent number: 11717744
    Abstract: A computer device has a user interface which presents a gameboard to a user and detects user input when a user engages with a user selectable game element of the game board. A processor receives a detected user input and detects a qualifying match game condition. The matched elements are removed and new user selectable game elements are provided to replenish the gameboard. The present disclosure provides an activation mode to selectively activate a segment of the gameboard, the segment comprising a subset of gameboard tiles. On detection of a qualifying match game condition, if any of the tiles supporting the user selectable game elements of the match belong to the activated segment, a booster game element is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventor: Ida Andersson Junkka
  • Patent number: 11721160
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for artificial intelligence implementation for modifying user interface elements may include receiving gaming device data associated with a gaming device, the gaming device data including a plurality of gaming device parameter values for a plurality of gaming parameters associated with the gaming device. The gaming device data is analyzed to determine a first gaming device parameter value of the plurality of gaming device parameter values. Using a predictive model including a plurality of data clusters, the first gaming device parameter value is correlated with a first data cluster of the plurality of data clusters, where each data cluster is associated with a user interface parameter value of the gaming device. A user interface element of the gaming device is then modified based on the user interface parameter value associated with the first data cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Stefan Keilwert, Klaus Achmueller
  • Patent number: 11712620
    Abstract: A modular system for creating a location-based gamified application configured to be played by one or more player units on a playground, uses a location-based mobile game application configured to track and supervise the creation of the location-based gamified application. A gaming content module is configured to store a plurality of contents of different media required for creation of the gamified application. A database storing a plurality of customization and relocation tools, is provided wherein the tools are organized in a plurality of hierarchical templates. Tools include a Generic Gaming Core template for creating a basic skeleton of the gamified application, a Setup Design template for incorporating a relocation component into the Generic Gaming Core corresponding to a specific location and environment, and a User Customization template for enhancing the gamified application experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventor: Reuven Bakalash
  • Patent number: 11715348
    Abstract: A gaming system compatible with patron-controlled portable electronic devices, such as smart phones or tablet computers, is described. The gaming system can include electronic gaming machines that are compatible to receive both virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers that are redeemable for credits on the electronic gaming machines. Information associated with a virtual ticket voucher can be stored on a patron-controlled portable electronic device and then can be wireless transmitted to the electronic gaming machines. The electronic gaming machines can be configured to issue virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers that can be redeemed for cash or additional game play on another electronic gaming machine. In one embodiment, the electronic gaming machine can be configured to issue a virtual ticket voucher to a patron-controlled portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Steven G. LeMay, Dwayne R. Nelson, Jim A. Vasquez, Scott T. Gowin
  • Patent number: 11710380
    Abstract: In a table game system provided by the present invention, a card shoe used in a table game can be used to calculate periods associated with the progress of the game handled by a dealer, particularly periods from the time when a card is drawn from a card accommodating section to the time when a result of the game is displayed, such as a game play period, and other periods excluding the play period which includes a bet period and a bet settlement period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11704977
    Abstract: A lottery apparatus includes a programmed computer acting as a lottery control system which controls operation of the distribution of prizes to the purchasing customers from a lottery pool. The apparatus includes a plurality of typical instant win lottery tickets having a predetermined prize result taken from the pool together with a plurality of lottery cards which do not act as lottery tickets but instead include an activation code containing no information defining a prize and an access code which is used for entry by the customer into a digital experience provided by the lottery control system by which the customer accesses game information. The system, when the code is activated, assigns the result from the pool to the code and displays to the customer on a digital experience when accessed by the access code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventors: Douglas E. Pollard, Nancy Bettcher, Richard Bennett Roschuk, Amit Chhabra
  • Patent number: 11690535
    Abstract: A mobile music listening device synchronizing in a personalized way music and movement, and dedicated to improving the kinematics of the runner. Thanks to inertial units connected to a smartphone, the runner's steps are detected in real time by the mobile application. A dedicated algorithm adapts the pulsation of the musical excerpts in such a way as to bring the runner to a suitable cadence, capable of preventing injuries. A method for the synchronization of the rhythmic stimulation with the biological variability using a Kuramoto model characterized in that phase oscillator with a coupling term from the movement dynamics with parameters of, coupling strength, maximum and minimum frequencies for a fraction of the unmodified song frequency, maximum difference between the tempo and target frequency, Target the target frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignees: UNIVERSITEIT GENT, CENTRE HOSPITALIER ET UNIVERSITAIRE DE MONTPELLIER, UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER, CLINIQUE BEAU-SOLEIL, MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Benoît Bardy, Simone Dalla Bella, Loic Damm, Dobri Dotov, Déborah Varoqui, Jeska Buhmann, Marc Leman, Bart Moens, Edith Van Dyck, Sean O'Leary, Joseph Timoney, Rudi Villing, Tomas Ward, Valérie Cochen de Cock
  • Patent number: 11694507
    Abstract: Various embodiments of gaming systems, gaming devices, and methods of the present disclosure provide one or more alternative wagering propositions to a player when the player's credit balance is less than (or, in certain embodiments, less than or equal to) a designated wager amount. If the player accepts one of the alternative wager propositions, the player risks an amount of the player's remaining credit balance for a chance to win an alternative award. If the player wins the alternative award, the gaming system enables the player to play one or more plays of the wagering game at the designated wager amount. If the player does not win the alternative award, the gaming system reduces the player's credit balance by the amount risked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Adam M. Singer, Mark C. Nicely
  • Patent number: 11684858
    Abstract: An information exchange method and a related apparatus include a game picture that may be displayed that includes a candidate skill region, a target skill determined based on a skill selection operation for the candidate skill region, a virtual joystick object displayed on the game picture, and when a movement operation for the virtual joystick object is detected, at least one skill generation position of the target skill is calculated based on the movement operation. A skill effect model of the target skill is generated at the at least one skill generation position when a cast operation for the virtual joystick object is detected. A user may control a plurality of skill effect model generation positions of a game skill through the virtual joystick object, so that precision of information exchange can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Yao Yu
  • Patent number: 11682267
    Abstract: Various implementations of a method and apparatus may include executing a play of a game on the game device. Implementations may include detecting a game action event during the play of the game. Implementations may also include deducting a game action fee from a player's credit account based on the game action event during the play of the game. Implementations may also include determining a wager portion of the game action fee. Implementations may also include determining a game fund portion of the game action fee. Implementations may also include storing the game fund portion in a game fund account associated with the player. Implementations may also include determining a game fund award from the game fund account. Implementations may also include modifying the play of the game based on the game fund award.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Inventor: Albert Massi
  • Patent number: 11682172
    Abstract: An interactive video game system includes at least one sensor and at least one display device disposed near a play area. The system also includes a controller communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor and the at least one display device, wherein the controller is configured to: receive, from the at least one sensor, the scanning data of the player in the play area; generate at least one model from the scanning data of the player; identify an action of the player in the play area based on the at least one model; generate the virtual representation for the player based on the at least one model and the action of the player; and present, on the display device, the virtual representation of the player in a virtual environment, wherein an action of the virtual representation is augmented relative to the action of the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Travis Jon Cossairt, Wei Cheng Yeh, Neil Andrew Leiba, Erica Lynn McCay
  • Patent number: 11673022
    Abstract: An apparatus for natural torso and limbs tracking and feedback for electronic interaction with fall safety support. The apparatus comprises a body harness worn on the body of a user, a support structure designed to bear the weight of the user in the event of a stumble, trip, or fall, and a plurality of tethers attached at one end to the harness and at the other end to the support structure. One or more sensors are integrated into the system to measure aspects of the user's movement and used as input to control a computer system. In the event of stumble, trip, or fall, all of, or a portion of, the user's body weight is borne by the tethers as a safety mechanism to prevent injury. The system is designed to be used with virtual reality systems wherein the user's vision is blocked or obscured by a virtual reality visor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: BLUE GOJI LLC.
    Inventor: Coleman Fung
  • Patent number: 11673062
    Abstract: A method and system hosts a game on a collaboration platform to allow playing users to participate in gameplay of the game. The method and system identify a condition of the game that is specified by the creating user of the game and identifies first social interaction criteria for the plurality of playing user. Satisfaction of the condition qualities at least one of the playing users to receive a friend request. The method and system determine that a first social interaction between a first playing user and a second playing user of the plurality of playing users playing the game satisfies the condition of the game. The method and system send the friend request to a first client device of the first playing user inviting the first playing user to establish a friendship with the second playing user on the collaboration platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Roblox Corporation
    Inventor: David B. Baszucki
  • Patent number: 11660538
    Abstract: A method for automatically connecting game items for sharing by a plurality of game systems is disclosed. A first game system is added to a computer-implemented game. The first game system is associated with a first game system definition. The first game system definition corresponding to a first game object. The first game system is automatically connected to a second game system. The automatic connecting includes, at least: identifying a correspondence between the first game system definition and a second game system definition, the second game system definition being associated with the second game system, the second game system definition corresponding to a second game object; and preventing a change to the first game object during runtime of the computer-implemented game based on a detection that the change to the first game object would violate a rule associated with the second game system definition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Unity IPR ApS
    Inventors: Ming Zhu, Benan Arigil
  • Patent number: 11638876
    Abstract: Described herein are computerized methods and systems for enabling remote participation in sporting event decision-making. A current game situation in a sporting event is received by a server from a remote device. The server retrieves plays applicable to the current game situation from a playbook. The server generates a playcall UI comprising the retrieved play categories and plays and transmits the playcall UI to fan computing devices. The server receives a vote for one of the plays from the fan computing devices. The server determines a selected play based on the received votes. The server transmits the selected play to player computing devices associated with players involved in the sporting event, wherein the players execute the selected play. The current game situation is updated at the remote device based upon an outcome of the selected play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Project Fanchise Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Sohrob Farudi, Steven Adler, Raymond Austin, Grant Cohen, Patrick Dees
  • Patent number: 11636939
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for monitoring the performance of an individual during a fitness activity are disclosed. A method of monitoring the performance of a participant engaged in a fitness activity includes receiving a GPS signal during the fitness activity at a portable fitness device used by the participant; determining participant performance data based on the received GPS signal; at a stationary position beacon, transmitting location data associated with the location of the stationary position beacon; at a mobile participant receiver supported by the participant, receiving the location data from the stationary position beacon; and modifying the participant performance data based on the data received from the stationary position beacon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Jon Harald Werner, Christian DiBenedetto, Stephen John Black
  • Patent number: 11620875
    Abstract: Technologies are provided for the supply of video segments and other types of media assets during a gameplay of a videogame. In some embodiments, a gaming device can receive first data identifying a sports player within a listing of sports players. The gaming device also can receive second data identifying a performance benchmark within a listing or performance benchmarks. The gaming device can select a performance period corresponding to the sports player. The gaming device can then determine if a performance of the sports player during the performance period meets or exceeds the performance benchmark. In response to a positive determination, the gamins device can cause a display device to present a sequence of video segments corresponding to the performance of the sports player during the performance period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: DK CROWN HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventor: John Lukasik
  • Patent number: 11622156
    Abstract: Systems and methods for synchronizing client data structures with session events are disclosed. The system can establish a session responsive to a request from a host client device associated with a host player profile. The system can configure the host player profile to share records of events performed via the host player profile during the session, and can receive requests to join the session, each request associated with a respective viewer player profile. The system can receive a request from a viewer to permit automatic population of records corresponding to events performed via the host player profile during the session. The system can detect an event performed via the host player profile during the session, and generate a record corresponding to the event in the viewer player profile, which is used to enable performance of a corresponding event having the same event parameters via the viewer player profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: DraftKings, Inc.
    Inventors: Jordan Mendell, Edward Zaleski, Ethan Haskell