Patents by Inventor Takehisa Itagaki

Takehisa Itagaki 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: 20130040719
    Abstract: Game qualification time may be set to allow participation in a common game from a basic game. This game qualification time is awarded in accordance with a bet amount stored in a RAM 243, after receiving a bet which is input by means of a 1-bet button 26 and a maximum bet button 27. A winning probability in a quick catch bonus game that occurs when a game result of the basic game is a predetermined game result is increased in accordance with the length of the game qualification time stored in a game qualification time management table in the RAM 243 (i.e., a basic quick catch bonus payout table is replaced with a special quick catch bonus payout table).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicants: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC., UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masumi FUJISAWA, Takehisa ITAGAKI, Kensaku YOSHIKAWA, Daisyun OKAMOTO, Hiroki MUNAKATA
  • Publication number: 20120184369
    Abstract: A gaming machine is provided which is capable of providing a rendering in such a manner that a story gradually extends together with a bonus game in a case where rendering processing is executed in parallel with the bonus game. The routine transfers to a free game, as triggered by establishment of a condition for rearranging a specific symbol in a base game. Next, the routine transfers to a bonus game, as triggered by establishment of a first transfer condition in the free game. Then, the routine transfers to another free game, as triggered by establishment of a second transfer condition in the bonus game. In this manner, an extended game loop in which the free game and the bonus game enter extended games is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicants: Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Takehisa ITAGAKI, Hiroki Munakata, Masumi Fujisawa
  • Publication number: 20120115568
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine that is capable of prompting a player to concentrate his or her consciousness to a unit game that attracts the player's interest by performing rendering when a li-zhi has been established, the gaming machine beings capable of visually recognizing by the player an outcome of symbols without keeping off his or her eye from moving symbols. The gaming machine is configured to display symbols associated with at least one scroll line in a second mode that is different from a first mode from among scroll lines corresponding to the moving symbols as triggered by the fact that a li-zhi has been established by means of symbols displayed in a stopped state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicants: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC., UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masumi FUJISAWA, Kenta KITAMURA, Takehisa ITAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20120115613
    Abstract: When a common game condition is established, at least one of the following games is run: a first common game in which a participating gaming terminal is able to win a bonus type more than once and a payout based on a unit payout amount corresponding to the bonus type that the gaming terminal wins is awarded to the gaming terminal; a second common game in which a participating gaming terminal is able to win a bonus type more than once and a payout based on the number of winnings is awarded to the gaming terminal; and a third common game in which one of the participating gaming terminals is able to win one of the predetermined bonus types and a payout is awarded to the gaming terminal which wins said one of the bonus types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicants: Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Universal Entertainment Corporation, Ariake Frontier Building
    Inventors: Hiroki MUNAKATA, Kenta SUGANO, Daisyun OKAMOTO, Masumi FUJISAWA, Takehisa ITAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20120115569
    Abstract: A gaming machine capable of prompting a player to pay his or her attention to a unit game that is attractive to the player, by performing a rendering caused by WILD symbol display or symbol movement mode. Symbols that are associated with a first scroll line are moved in a first direction, and symbols that are associated with a second scroll line are moved in a direction that is different from the first direction. After a predetermined period of time has elapsed, a WILD symbol that is included in the symbols that are associated with the second scroll line is displayed in a stopped state, and as triggered by the fact that the WILD symbol has been displayed in the stopped state, the symbols that are associated with the first scroll line are displayed so that a movement speed is gradually slowed down.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicants: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC., UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masumi FUJISAWA, Kenta KITAMURA, Takehisa ITAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20120115612
    Abstract: A plurality of gaming terminals each having a terminal display on which a plurality of symbols are provided, a plurality of upper displays forming a single common effect display screen which is constituted by gaming terminal areas corresponding to the respective gaming terminals, and a center controller are provided. When the common game starts, the center controller displays a common game start effect image on a common effect display screen and transmits a common game start effect image display command to the gaming terminals so that the common game start effect image divided for respective gaming terminal areas is displayed on the terminal display of each of the gaming terminals corresponding to the gaming terminal areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicants: Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki MUNAKATA, Kenta SUGANO, Daisyun OKAMOTO, Masumi FUJISAWA, Takehisa ITAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20120115611
    Abstract: A plurality of gaming terminals provided in a parallel manner, a plurality of upper displays which are provided in a parallel manner independently from the gaming terminals and form a single common effect display screen, a plurality of display controllers controlling image display on the respective upper displays, and a center controller controlling the display controllers are provided. The center controller controls the display controllers so that the upper displays perform image display as one common effect display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicants: Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Munakata, Kenta Sugano, Daisyun Okamoto, Masumi Fujisawa, Takehisa Itagaki
  • Publication number: 20120115614
    Abstract: A plurality of gaming terminals each having a terminal display on which a plurality of symbols are lined up, a plurality of upper displays forming a single common effect image display screen constituted by gaming terminal areas corresponding to the respective gaming terminals, and a center controller are included. The center controller determines whether a common game is being run when an independent special game is started, and produces an effect in the gaming terminal area corresponding to the gaming terminal, only when the common game is not being run.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicants: Aruze Gaming America, Inc., Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki MUNAKATA, Kenta SUGANO, Daisyun OKAMOTO, Masumi FUJISAWA, Takehisa ITAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20120115566
    Abstract: The controller of the gaming machine executing processing operations of: (a) determining a magnification of a respective one of plural kinds of colors which are produced in a color displayable manner by means of the multiple color light emitting backlight and then displaying on the display; (b) determining a light emitting color by means of the multiple color light emitting backlight and then controlling light emission in the determined color; and (c) executing a payout of a number which is obtained by multiplying the magnification that corresponds to the color determined in the processing (b), from among the magnifications of the respective colors, the magnifications being determined in the processing (a), for a payment that corresponds to the pattern of the specific symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicants: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC., UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masumi FUJISAWA, Kenta KITAMURA, Takehisa ITAGAKI, Masafumi UCHIDA, Makoto MIYAWAKI
  • Publication number: 20110059788
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine with new entertainability, which executes processing of: (A) executing a normal game; (B) accepting an input of selecting any of the plurality of the specific symbols stop-displayed, in response to a fact that a plurality of the specific symbols are stop-displayed, in the normal game executed in the processing (A); (C) awarding a benefit according to the specific symbols selected in the processing (B); (D) determining whether or not to generate a specific game state, in response to the specific symbols selected in the processing (B); (E) accepting an input of selecting a specific symbol other than the specific symbol selected in the processing (B), from among the plurality of specific symbols stop-displayed, in response to a fact that it is determined that the specific game state is generated in the processing (D); and (F) awarding a benefit according to the specific symbol selected in the processing (E).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicants: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, Aruze Gaming America, Inc.
    Inventors: Takehisa Itagaki, Masahiko Konishi, Masaya Honda, Masahiro Yoshida, Hiroki Saito, Kazumasa Yoshizawa, Hiroki Nakamura, Kenta Sugano
  • Publication number: 20090104972
    Abstract: A slot machine executes a special effect process when a predetermined condition is satisfied. In the special effect process, a main CPU changes a display style of a stopped multi symbol from a first display style to a second display style, while displaying an effect character image on a variable display portion. Further, the effect character image is displayed while being overlapped with a part of symbol display areas, while maintaining a state in which most of figures of stopped symbols can be seen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventors: Takehisa ITAGAKI, Masahiko KONISHI, Syunichiro KURIHARA, Hiroyuki YAMADA, Toshiaki OHKUBO
  • Publication number: 20060046832
    Abstract: A gaming machine for starting a bonus game to make it beneficial to the player to acquire coins or the like, so that the player may not feel monotonous. The gaming machine comprises a determination device for determining whether or not symbols displayed in a display 3 contain a feature game combination disclosed to the player, to shift the game to a feature game. The determination device shifts the play mode to a mystery feature game, when the displayed symbols do not contain a base winning combination or a feature game combination but contain a mystery feature game combination not disclosed to the player, and in case a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2005
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Applicant: Aruze Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Isogai, Takehisa Itagaki
  • Publication number: 20050266915
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes: a display that displays a game screen having a plurality of display areas provided with a plurality of symbol display areas; a lottery unit that performs a lottery to determine symbols to be displayed in each of the symbol display areas from among a plurality of symbols; and a controller that controls the display to display the symbols to be stopped in each of the symbol display areas after variably displaying the plurality of symbols in each of the symbol display areas, wherein when a predetermined combination of the symbols is determined by the lottery unit to be displayed in at least one of the display areas, the controller controls the display to replace the predetermined combination of the symbols into a different symbol different from the symbols in the predetermined combination after displaying the symbols determined by the lottery unit to be stopped in each of the symbol display areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Inventors: Ryo Isogai, Daisuke Hatakeyama, Takehisa Itagaki, Hirokazu Kitani