Patents by Inventor Takahiro Otomo
Takahiro Otomo 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).
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Patent number: 11439905Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow reserved content to be used at the proper timing. The information processing device of the present invention comprises a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content set in association with each other; a user information storage unit that stores user information in which a user's possessed content and reserved content are set; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMESInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20210370181Abstract: An object of the present inventions is to reduce the time and effort required to train using the corresponding content for a mission. A program causes a computer to function as: a granting means 44 for granting a reward when a parameter of corresponding content for a mission reaches a prescribed value, a control means 42 for advancing a game discipline in which corresponding content can be acquired based on mission instructions, and when the plurality of corresponding contents was acquired based on said advancement, a fusion means 46 for automatically fusing one of the corresponding contents as a fusion source and the remaining corresponding contents as resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20210346804Abstract: An information processing device includes a storage that stores: game tasks of a game to be played by a player; and game contents associated with a player ID of the player as possessed contents possessed by the player; and a processor connected to the storage and a display and that: extracts, from the possessed contents, an evolvable content that can be evolved; determines, from the game tasks, first game tasks that can be selected by the player causes a display to display a selection screen indicating the first game tasks and that receives a game task selected, from the first game tasks, by the player. The processor further determines, from the first game tasks, a second game task related to an evolution of the evolvable content. The selection screen indicates the second game task in a different form from remaining game tasks except for the second game task.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20210252396Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow the points allotted for time restoration to be easily obtained even after automatic restoration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games Doing Business as Sega GamesInventor: Takahiro OTOMO
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Patent number: 10898806Abstract: An information processing device includes a memory that stores character data of one or more first characters of a game and character data of one or more second characters owned by a user, a receiver that receives a game operation from the user, and a processor connected to the memory and the receiver. The processor updates character data of a third character selected from the one or more first characters, and outputs the updated character data to the memory. The processor extracts the same character as the third character from the one or more second characters based on reception of the game operation. The processor causes a display to display, to the user, a notification indicating that the character data of the same character has been updated.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: SEGA CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Otomo, Kensuke Arai, Hayato Hirai
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Publication number: 20200360817Abstract: An information processing device includes: a receiver that receives a slide gesture input and a tap gesture input on a touch panel that displays a screen of the game; and a processor that, once a user completes a quest of the game, causes the touch panel to display a screen indicating contents and a confirmation button. Upon detecting the slide gesture input, the processor determines that desired contents have been continuously selected from the contents. The slide gesture input is based on a slide gesture by which the desired contents have been continuously touched. Upon detecting the tap gesture input, the processor determines that the desired contents have been confirmed to be selected. The tap gesture input is based on a tap gesture on the confirmation button. A space between each of the contents and the confirmation button is at least a size of each of the contents.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games doing business as Sega Game Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20200316471Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow reserved content to be used at the proper timing. The information processing device of the present invention comprises a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content set in association with each other; a user information storage unit that stores user information in which a user's possessed content and reserved content are set; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.Inventor: Takahiro OTOMO
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Publication number: 20190060764Abstract: An information processing device includes: a screen display that displays a screen including one or a plurality of first contents, one or a plurality of second contents as fusion sources, and a third content that is different from the first contents and the second contents; and a processor that accepts a first operation input and a second operation input. The first operation input selects one of the first contents as a fusion resource of one of the second contents when a designated position on the screen moves between any of the first contents and any of the second contents on the screen, and ends at the one first content or the one second content on the screen. The second operation input selects the one first content as a selling object when the designated position on the screen moves between any of the first contents and the third content on the screen, and ends at the one first content or the third content on the screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20190060763Abstract: An information processing device that executes a fusion game, includes: a content information storage that stores content information in which a plurality of resource contents, associated with each other in advance, are set corresponding to a fusion source content; a user information storage that stores user information including content associated with a user ID; a processor that: associates at least one of the plurality of contents, wherein the plurality of contents include any of the resource contents, with the user ID; when one of the resource contents is associated with the user ID, extracts: the fusion source content corresponding to the one resource content associated with the user ID and the resource contents corresponding to the extracted fusion source content, and sends a notification about the relationship between the extracted fusion source content and the extracted plurality of resource contents.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games doing business as Sega Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kensuke Arai, Hayato Hirai, Takahiro Otomo
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Patent number: 10130069Abstract: A production method for animal excretion treatment material and a production device therefor, having a step in which a raw material is pulverized and a pulverized material is obtained and a step in which the pulverized material is granulized. In the step in which the pulverized material is obtained, the raw material is pulverized by a pulverizer and the pulverized material is obtained. The pulverizer has: an insertion port for the raw material; a pulverization chamber for the raw material; a pulverization mechanism provided inside the pulverization chamber; a mesh screen through which passes the raw material pulverized by the pulverization mechanism and having a plurality of openings; and a discharge port connected to the openings in the mesh screen.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2013Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Shotaro Mochizuki, Hidekazu Yamada, Takahiro Otomo, Tatsuya Sogo, Chiyo Takagi
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Publication number: 20180280806Abstract: A game server connected to a plurality of game terminals via a communication network is disclosed including a receiver that receives a first request to register an invitation code for a game that is available for download, from a first game terminal operated by a first player, a memory, a processor connected to the memory and that causes the memory to register the invitation code in a state that allows acquisition from another game terminal, and a transmitter. The receiver receives a second request to acquire the invitation code from a second game terminal operated by a second player. The transmitter transmits the invitation code to the second game terminal in response to the reception of the second request. The processor causes the memory to register the invitation code based on the reception of the first request, regardless of whether or not the first player has a game play history.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Otomo, Kensuke Arai
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Publication number: 20180221768Abstract: An information processing device includes a memory that stores character data of one or more first characters of a game and character data of one or more second characters owned by a user, a receiver that receives a game operation from the user, and a processor connected to the memory and the receiver. The processor updates character data of a third character selected from the one or more first characters, and outputs the updated character data to the memory. The processor extracts the same character as the third character from the one or more second characters based on reception of the game operation. The processor causes a display to display, to the user, a notification indicating that the character data of the same character has been updated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Otomo, Kensuke Arai, Hayato Hirai
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Patent number: 9968912Abstract: A method for manufacturing a granular excretion disposal material having a core portion and a covering layer that covers the core portion. The method includes: a granulating step of granulating the core portion by blending a core portion raw material containing pulp and highly absorbent resin, with water; a covering step of forming the covering layer by spraying a covering layer raw material containing pulp and highly absorbent resin, onto a surface of the core portion granulated in the granulating step; a drying step of drying a granular matter, in which the covering layer is formed in the covering step, with hot air; and a cooling step of cooling the granular matter dried in the drying step.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Unicharm CorporationInventors: Shotaro Mochizuki, Hidekazu Yamada, Takahiro Otomo, Tatsuya Sogo, Chiyo Takagi
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Patent number: 9854786Abstract: A production method for animal excrement treatment material and a production device therefor, having: a step in which a raw material is granulized and a granular material is obtained; and a step in which a coating material is coated on the granular material. The step in which the coating material is coated on the granular material has: a step in which the coating material is arranged on the granular material; and a step in which a vibration is applied to the granular material having the coating material arranged thereupon.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2013Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: Uni-Charm CorporationInventors: Shotaro Mochizuki, Hidekazu Yamada, Takahiro Otomo, Tatsuya Sogo, Chiyo Takagi
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Patent number: 9757657Abstract: The information processing device relating to the present invention configures, in association with a stage where each of a plurality of players can engage in battle play, a player character owned by the player as a support character that provides support in a stage where another player engages in battle play, generates a game screen displaying a list view of support characters associated with the selected stage once a first player among the plurality of players performs an operation to select a stage, directs the selected support character and a player character belonging to the first player to engage in battle with an enemy character configured in the selected stage once the first player performs an operation to select a support character from the list, and provides benefits to a second player, from among the plurality of players, who owns the selected support character.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: DeNA Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Patent number: 9538722Abstract: Provided is an animal litter that is less liable to scatter and in which the depth of the solids is less liable to increase when a liquid such as urine has been absorbed. An animal litter composed of a plurality of particulates having water absorbency, wherein the particulates contain: long grains having a granularity of 4 mm or more and less than 10 mm, and a length that is greater than the diameter; and short grains having a granularity of 4 mm or more and less than 10 mm, and a length that is no more than the diameter. The long grains are provided with a core part primarily composed of pulp, and a coating layer containing highly water-absorbent resin and used for coating the core part. The weight ratio of the short grains in total of the long grains and the short grains is 10%-50%, inclusive.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Unicharm CorporationInventors: Kenji Hiroshima, Tomoko Hirao, Shinya Kaneko, Hidekazu Yamada, Takahiro Otomo
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Patent number: 9517409Abstract: A server device according to the present invention is connected with a player terminal through a network, displays, in the player terminal, a screen in which a plurality of types of playable games is listed, receives a reservation registration request of automatic play information in which a game and a start timing specified by the player are set, and perform reservation registration of the automatic play information of the player. The server device determines whether automatically starting a game play of the specified game at the specified start timing based on the automatic play information subjected to the reservation registration, and automatically starts the game play of the game at the start timing when the determination is affirmed.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: DeNA CO., LTD.Inventors: Hotaka Kawada, Takashi Ninjouji, Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20160144276Abstract: An information processing device is provided with a game content appearance module that determines a game content object, selected from among multiple game content objects based on the appearance probability associated with each one of the multiple game content objects, to be an appearing game content object that appears to a player; an appearance probability variation module that varies the appearance probability, when a specifying operation used to specify a game content object from among the multiple game content objects is performed by the player, so as to increase or decrease the frequency at which the specified game content object is determined to be an appearing game content object; and a parameter configuration module that configures the parameters of the specified game content object depending on whether the frequency of determination of said game content object as an appearing game content object is increased or decreased.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Yuji UKAI, Takahiro OTOMO
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Publication number: 20160106069Abstract: A production method for animal excrement treatment material and a production device therefor, having: a step in which a raw material is granulized and a granular material is obtained; and a step in which a coating material is coated on the granular material. The step in which the coating material is coated on the granular material has: a step in which the coating material is arranged on the granular material; and a step in which a vibration is applied to the granular material having the coating material arranged thereupon.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2013Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: UNI-CHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Shotaro MOCHIZUKI, Hidekazu YAMADA, Takahiro OTOMO, Tatsuya SOGO, Chiyo TAKAGI
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Publication number: 20160082416Abstract: A method for manufacturing a granular excretion disposal material having a core portion and a covering layer that covers the core portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2014Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATIONInventors: Shotaro MOCHIZUKI, Hidekazu YAMADA, Takahiro OTOMO, Tatsuya SOGO, Chiyo TAKAGI