Patents by Inventor Fumiaki Shiraishi

Fumiaki Shiraishi 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).

  • Video game apparatus and video game program
    Patent number: 8070573
    Abstract: A video game apparatus has a memory for storing two or more tasks which a player character can get instructed character(s) to execute according to a scenario development of a game, means for displaying tasks at a time when a scenario development of a game reaches a predetermined position so as to be selected by the player, means for determining candidate characters which can participate the task selected by the player and for displaying these so as to be selectable by the player, means for determining the character selected by the player as participant character, and means for executing the task according to a parameter which is set on the participant character on the basis of the participant character and the selected task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
    Inventors: Kenichiro Yuji, Fumiaki Shiraishi
  • VIDEO GAME APPARATUS AND VIDEO GAME PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20090098919
    Abstract: A video game apparatus has a memory for storing two or more tasks which a player character can get instructed character(s) to execute according to a scenario development of a game, means for displaying tasks at a time when a scenario development of a game reaches a predetermined position so as to be selected by the player, means for determining candidate characters which can participate the task selected by the player and for displaying these so as to be selectable by the player, means for determining the character selected by the player as participant character, and means for executing the task according to a parameter which is set on the participant character on the basis of the participant character and the selected task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro YUJI, Fumiaki Shiraishi