Patents by Inventor Katsuhiro Kido

Katsuhiro Kido 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).

  • Publication number: 20160027239
    Abstract: A gaming machine of the present invention stores a bet area on which a bet is placed and a game value placed as the bet in each gaming terminal, rotates and stops the wheel to determine a resulting symbol from the plurality of symbols, awards a payout based on the resulting symbol and the odds set for the bet area on which the bet is placed in the gaming terminal, and then adjusts the payout rate by changing the odds set for the bet areas in the gaming terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Katsuhiro KIDO, Hiroki MUNAKATA
  • Patent number: 9205322
    Abstract: A roulette game device is configured to make prediction of a game result difficult by making timing at which a bet operation ends variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kido
  • Patent number: 9183697
    Abstract: A gaming machine of the present invention stores a bet area on which a bet is placed and a game value placed as the bet in each gaming terminal, rotates and stops the wheel to determine a resulting symbol from the plurality of symbols, awards a payout based on the resulting symbol and the odds set for the bet area on which the bet is placed in the gaming terminal, and adjusts the payout rate by changing the odds set for the bet areas in the gaming terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Kido, Hiroki Munakata
  • Patent number: 8951112
    Abstract: A display device having bet areas where a plurality of bet objects are displayed and a unit bet buttons where a plurality of bet amounts are displayed and a touch panel which is provided on the front surface side of the display device to be able to receive a touch input from the outside and detect a touched position of the touch input are included. When the touched position of the touch input corresponds to any bet amounts in the unit bet buttons, a bet amount is determined based on this touched position. When the touched position of the touch input continuously moves at least in the bet areas, betting on each bet object on the moving path among the bet objects in the bet areas is received with the bet amount determined using the unit bet button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kido
  • Patent number: 8926438
    Abstract: Provided is a gaming machine having a cabinet. Between the back as a back face and the right side face of the sides of the cabinet, the gaming machine has a right end side, which is formed by cutting a plane parallel to the gravitational direction in a manner to join lines spaced at predetermined distances in the individual directions of the back and the right side face from a line of intersection, on which the back and the right side face intersect when extended. The gaming machine also has a left end side between the back and a left side face. Moreover, the right end side and the left end side are symmetric with respect to a plane dividing the cabinet equally to the right and left.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitomo Sasaki, Akira Shimizu, Katsuhiro Kido, Kenta Kitamura, Hideaki Kishi, Hiroatsu Ike
  • Publication number: 20140349731
    Abstract: A roulette game device is configured to make prediction of a game result difficult by making timing at which a bet operation ends variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventor: Katsuhiro KIDO
  • Patent number: 8833947
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a variable aperture stop device, a control circuit and a user interface. The variable aperture stop device is operable to adjust the lens opening size by opening and closing an aperture. The control circuit is operable to control the opening and closing of the aperture based on an aperture ratio for the brightness distribution of an input signal constituting a screen. The user interface permits to set times necessary for the opening and closing of the aperture. The control circuit controls the opening and closing of the aperture based on times set via the user interface so that the response to the opening and closing of the aperture differs between when the signal changes from dark to light levels and when the level changes from light to dark levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Kido, Hideki Onuma
  • Patent number: 8834250
    Abstract: A roulette game device is configured to make prediction of a game result difficult by making timing at which a bet operation ends variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kido
  • Patent number: 8827793
    Abstract: A roulette game machine has a plurality of stations. The roulette game machine accepts a side bet operation carried out by players at the plurality of stations. The roulette game machine accumulatively adds one portion of the gaming values on which a side bet was placed, as a progressive payout. In case of granting a progressive payout, the roulette machine determines a station to which the progressive payout will be granted, from the stations at which the side bet operation has been carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kido
  • Patent number: 8608549
    Abstract: The range of game strategies for a player in a roulette game is broadened by providing a bet region corresponding to a new bet rate. A CPU displays a plurality of bet regions, as well as displays a third bet region corresponding to a third numerical range that is smaller than a first numerical range corresponding to a first bet range among a plurality of bet regions, and that is larger than a second numerical range corresponding to a second bet region among the plurality of bet regions. Next, a bet is accepted for a bet region thus displayed, and in a case where it is determined that an award is to be granted for the bet region thus accepted, payout data corresponding to the bet region is extracted from ROM, and the award according to the payout data thus extracted is granted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kido
  • Patent number: 8529329
    Abstract: A roulette gaming machine includes a plurality of satellites, each of which allows a player to play a lotto-type roulette game while executing a usual roulette game simultaneously. In the lotto-type roulette game, a set of winning numbers for the given number of roulette games is predicted at a time by a player at a satellite, and award is calculated when the given number of roulette games has been executed. The progress of the lotto-type roulette game is controlled with respect to each of the plurality of satellites. When a new player participates in the lotto-type roulette game, the maximum waiting time for the new player equals the time required for one roulette game to be executed. Thus, the reduction of the waiting time can be achieved with respect to a new participant in the lotto-type roulette game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kido
  • Patent number: 8439360
    Abstract: It is possible to arrange a plurality of wheel pins 281 on an inclined face 28 formed so as to follow an outer circumferential direction of a plurality of pockets 23 formed in a roulette device 2. These wheel pins 281 include threaded holes 282 and insertion pins 283, and match positions of through holes 284 formed in the inclined face 28 and the threaded holes 282, and are fastened with screws 286 inserted from a back surface side of the inclined face 28 to be detachable. In addition, concave portions 285 formed according to a distance between the threaded holes 282 and the insertion pins 283 in the wheel pins 281 are formed in the inclined face 28, and the insertion pins 283 are inserted and cause a direction of the wheel pins 281 to be fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kido
  • Patent number: 8435116
    Abstract: A gaming machine displays a bet start instructional image on a dealer used display, displays a bet end instructional image in response to a predetermined lapse of time after receiving a bet start instruction signal from a touch panel, and controls an oscillation motor to cause a playing board to oscillate after receiving a bet end instruction signal from the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kido
  • Patent number: 8388454
    Abstract: A gaming machine 1 includes: a cabinet 2; a top door 3 that is openable and closable, and disposed on an upper portion T of the cabinet 2; and a main display 31 that is disposed on the top door 3 and performs display related to a game. In addition, the cabinet 2 has a main housing portion 22 that houses a control unit 61 and a sub housing portion 21 that is provided between the top door 3 and the main housing portion 22. In the sub housing portion 21, a relay portion (211) that relays a connection of the main display 3 and a control unit 61.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kido
  • Patent number: 8376848
    Abstract: A gaming machine displays a bet start instructional image on a dealer used display, displays a bet end instructional image in response to a predetermined lapse of time after receiving a bet start instruction signal from a touch panel, and controls an oscillation motor to cause a playing board to oscillate after receiving a bet end instruction signal from the touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kido
  • Patent number: 8298062
    Abstract: The present invention has an object of providing a gaming system that can allow a game to be advanced even by an inexperienced dealer. CPU counts a time by a timer as upon triggering at a predetermined timing, on a time axis on which the roulette game is advanced based on control of the roulette game control unit and displays on dealer-used display an instructional image stored to be associated with a timing data, in response to a time counted by the timer matching a time indicated by timing data stored in ROM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kido
  • Patent number: 8282100
    Abstract: A roulette game device is provided that allows a ball revolving on the roulette wheel to be easily observed from players and spectators around the roulette game device, and can facilitate betting for a player. An outer circumferential wall 29 of an inclined face 28, which is formed so as to extend from pockets 23 of a roulette device in an outer circumferential direction, includes a guide portion 291 that is provided at an upper portion thereof so as to protrude towards inside of the inclined face 28, in which a length that the guide portion 291 protrudes towards the inside of the inclined face 28 is shorter than a length of a radius r of the ball 11, which is thrown onto the roulette wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kido
  • Publication number: 20120231874
    Abstract: A gaming machine displays a bet start instructional image on a dealer used display, displays a bet end instructional image in response to a predetermined lapse of time after receiving a bet start instruction signal from a touch panel, and controls an oscillation motor to cause a playing board to oscillate after receiving a bet end instruction signal from the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro KIDO
  • Publication number: 20120225714
    Abstract: A gaming machine displays a bet start instructional image on a dealer used display, displays a bet end instructional image in response to a predetermined lapse of time after receiving a bet start instruction signal from a touch panel, and controls an oscillation motor to cause a playing board to oscillate after receiving a bet end instruction signal from the touch panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro KIDO
  • Patent number: 8257166
    Abstract: The dice gaming machine accepts a bet on a bet area and a bet on an intermediate area between/among a plurality of bet areas. After ending the bet acceptance, it starts rolling dice. After the rolling of the dice has been stopped, the dice gaming machine identifies a winning bet area based on the dice rolling result. A payout amount for each terminal is calculated based on the identified winning bet area, the bet area or the intermediate area on which the bet is accepted, and a payout magnification ratio set for the bet area or the intermediate area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhiro Kido