Patents by Inventor Toshikazu JINNOUCHI

Toshikazu JINNOUCHI 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).

  • Patent number: 10866723
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processor, a game program, and a game control method. It is able to adjust a repeated frequency of a bonus game easily. An information processing unit 1 comprises a display 2 for displaying a screen and a touch panel 5 for receiving a touch input of a user. The information processing unit 1 displays a displaying area 21 set based on the screen in a map 20 which has a plurality of node icons 22 on the path, displays a current position indicating icon 24, sets the current position based on a certain node icon 22 of the plurality of node icons 22 in a case of the node icon being touched, and displays the displaying area 21 in which the node icon 22 set to be the current position is located in the map 20 in a case of the current position indicating icon 24 being touched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10806999
    Abstract: The present invention is able to improve the user interface in a game. The server (10) stores identification information for respectively identifying a plurality of kinds of screens which can be transitioned by the information processor 1, stores the identification information of the transition destination screen in the memory (3) when a screen transition is performed in the information processor (1), and displays a screen identified by the identification information stored in the memory (3) as an initial screen of the game of the information processor (1) when starting a game according to a request from the information processor 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10762741
    Abstract: A process of randomly determining symbols to be rearranged within a display frame for each of the first video reel and the second video reel in the slot game, a process of displaying an image for rearranging symbols of the second video reel in the display frame after rearranging the symbols of the first video reel in the display frame based on the random determination, and a process changing a symbol of the first video reel at a position where the special symbol is rearranged to a corresponding symbol of a function that is more advantageous than the symbol of the first video reel in the symbol correspondence table and outputting the result of the slot game are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10709990
    Abstract: An information processor for executing a game comprises an input unit for operating the game, a memory for storing a counter area for digitizing and counting information which increases as the game is executed and a numerical value game rank correspondence table in which a plurality of numerical value ranges and a plurality of game ranks are associated, and a controller programmed to perform the following processes. (1a) a process of executing a game by operations of an input unit, (1b) a process of digitizing and counting information which increases as the game is executed in the counter area, (1c) a process of determining the game rank corresponding to the numerical value counted in the counter area on the basis of the numerical value counted in the counter area and the numerical value game rank correspondence table, (1d) a process of giving a benefit according to the game rank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10699519
    Abstract: An information processor includes: a display configured to display a symbol display area on which symbols are displayable; and a controller programmed to execute the processes of: (1a) randomly determining symbols to be displayed outside a symbol display area; (1b) displaying, outside the symbol display area, the symbols determined in the process (1a); (1c) randomly determining a combination of symbols to be displayed in the symbol display area; (1d) displaying, in the symbol display area, the combination of the symbols determined in the process (1c); (1e) when a predetermined condition is satisfied, displaying a predetermined number of symbols out of the symbols displayed outside the symbol display area in the process (1b) in the symbol display area, in accordance with the satisfied predetermined condition; and (1f) after the process (1e), awarding a benefit in accordance with a combination of the symbols displayed in the symbol display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10685534
    Abstract: A server of an information processing system includes a controller which is configured to calculate points corresponding to a particular prize when a game result received from information processors is the particular prize, and a memory which is configured to accumulatively store the points calculated by the controller. The controller sends a special prize to the information processor when the number of the points stored in the memory for the at least one of the information processors is equal to or larger than a predetermined number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10679458
    Abstract: An information processor of the present invention comprises a display for displaying a symbol display area in which a plurality of symbols can be displayed, and a controller programmed to execute the following processes (1a) to (1c): (1a) a process of determining a plurality of symbols to be displayed in the symbol display area by random determination, (1b) a process of displaying the plurality of symbols determined by the process of (1a) in the symbol display area, and (1c) a process of displaying a character corresponding to a specific symbol outside the symbol display area in a case where the specific symbol is displayed among the plurality of symbols displayed in the symbol display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10653954
    Abstract: The present invention is a server that causes a logged-in information processor to run a game among a plurality of information processors, comprising: executing to determine a present information of a content corresponding to a status information of the information processor of a transmission destination when receiving a present giving signal for giving a present to the information processor of the transmission destination identified by an ID information, and transmitting the present information to the information processor of the transmission destination, triggered by a predetermined action of the information processor of the transmission destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Publication number: 20200143637
    Abstract: An information processor and a program, with which a control program for providing various payout amounts as a result of random determination in a game is simplified, are provided. While a slot game is repeatedly executed, a payout amount awarded in response to the total points which is the sum total of the points corresponding to the number of “RED V” symbols rearranged in the symbol display area 21 and the points corresponding to the number of “BLUE V” symbols rearranged in the symbol display area 21 increases each time the “UP” symbol is rearranged in the symbol display area 21. As such, a payout amount which may be awarded is increased little by little, and hence various payout amounts are available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Publication number: 20200143640
    Abstract: Apparatuses such as an information processor, with which the winning probability of a specific payout at a predetermined timing is easily increased when there are many types of payouts. A server which executes a slot game in which a payout is awarded based on a randomly determined symbol combination includes a controller which is programmed to execute the processes of: a) accepting the use of a GIGA WIN confirmation item with which the probability of rearrangement of a symbol combination corresponding to a payout of “GIGA WIN” among plural symbol combinations is increased; and b) when the GIGA WIN confirmation item is used, displaying the symbol combination corresponding to the payout of “GIGA WIN” and awarding the payout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki OYAMA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200111288
    Abstract: An information processor displays a slot game on a display and stores the detail of a bet in a flash memory in accordance with an input indicating the bet. When the slot game is finished, the information processor determines whether an item for automation is valid. When the item for automation is valid, the information processor starts the next execution of the slot game with the detail of the bet stored in the flash memory. When the item for automation is not valid, the information processor waits for an input of a bet on the next execution of the slot game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Masaki OYAMA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200111318
    Abstract: An information processor which provides a game in which a benefit is awarded as a result of random determination to a terminal device over a communication line executes the processes of: (a) receiving, from the terminal device, a result of the random determination of determining content of the benefit, which is sent each time the random determination is executed; (b) storing, in the storage unit, the result of the random determination received in the process (a); (c) when a game acceleration instruction for accelerating progress of the game is made in the terminal device, receiving results of a predetermined number of times of execution of the random determination, which are sent together from the terminal device; and (d) storing, in the storage unit, the results of the predetermined number of times of execution of the random determination, which are received in the process (c).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Masaki OYAMA, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Publication number: 20200111287
    Abstract: An information processor displays a slot game on a display and stores a normal effect and a high-speed effect in which the normal effect is reproduced at higher speed than the normal effect, in association with a game result. The information processor internally and randomly determines the game result of the slot game, selects the normal effect associated with the game result and displays the normal effect on the display when an item for acceleration has not been used, and selects a high-speed effect and displays the high-speed effect on the display when the item for acceleration has been used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Masaki OYAMA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI
  • Patent number: 10610789
    Abstract: A possibility of providing motives to continue a game is improved. A game system 100 stores a relation between user identification information corresponding to a user who plays a game and user identification information corresponding to another user who is a friend of the user, stores ranking determined based on the game history of plural users in association with the user identification information, when transiting to a rank screen 22 in which a predetermined number of sets of the user identification information of the users ranked at or above a predetermined rank is displayed, constructs and displays the rank screen 22 in which each set of user identification information is associated with each friend-request button 241b, and when a friend request is made by the friend-request button 241b, shifts to a state that allows these users to become friends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Publication number: 20200082671
    Abstract: The information processor executes the processes of: (a) setting a winning probability of second random determination based on a winning probability corresponding to a condition set by a setting unit which sets one of conditions associated with different winning probabilities; (b) determining whether to execute the first random determination by the second random determination based on the winning probability set in the process (a); (c) when a win is achieved in the second random determination in the process (b), executing the first random determination; and (d) when a result of the first random determination in the process (c) is different from a predetermined result, executing the first random determination again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Masaki OYAMA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200082669
    Abstract: The information processor executes the processes of: (a) accepting a bet amount by a betting device; (b) executing random determination based on the bet amount accepted in the process (a); (c) when there is a payout as a result of the random determination in the process (b), calculating the ratio of the payout to the bet amount; (d) determining whether the ratio calculated in the process (c) falls within a predetermined range; (e) when the ratio falls within the predetermined range in the process (d), awarding the payout and terminating the unit game; and (f) when the ratio does not fall within the predetermined range in the process (d) or when there is no payout in the process (b), executing the processes (b) to (e) again.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Masaki OYAMA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200074790
    Abstract: When a symbol displayed in a scroll area of a reel which stops first satisfies a predetermined condition, an information processor 1 executes a process of: setting the scroll area of the reel which is rotating and stops last as an effect display frame, hiding the rotating reel behind the effect display frame, and displaying, in the effect display frame 22, an indication effect corresponding to a predetermined game result; and after the execution of the indication effect, displaying the reel at the effect display frame again so as to display the arrangement of at least one symbol on that reel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Masaki OYAMA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200074799
    Abstract: In the information processor, the following processes are executed: (a) executing first random determination of determining whether to set the high-probability game random determination table; (b) when it is determined in the first random determination not to set the high-probability game random determination table, setting the normal game random determination table as a random determination table used in the normal game and executing second random determination based on the normal game random determination table; (c) when it is determined in the first random determination to set the high-probability game random determination table, setting the high-probability game random determination table as a random determination table used in the normal game and executing third random determination based on the high-probability game random determination table; and (d) when the predetermined benefit is to be awarded as a result of the second random determination or the third random determination, awarding the predetermin
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Masaki OYAMA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI
  • Patent number: 10573132
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processor, a game program, and a game control method capable of performing various presentations for the result display of the rearrangement of the symbols. The information processor 1 displays the symbol display area 21 having the scroll areas 211 to 216 in which the win determination line 400 is set on the slot game screen 20. In the winning determination, the information processor 1 determines whether to employ either the winning determination based on the “LEFT TO RIGHT” or the winning determination based on the “RIGHT TO LEFT” for the symbols 500 to be rearranged in the winning determination line 400 according to the type of the symbols 500 to be rearranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Publication number: 20200013260
    Abstract: An information processor, which runs a unit game in which reel strips on which symbols are arranged stop in a matrix-shaped symbol display area, includes a controller which is programmed to execute the processes of: (a) randomly determining the symbols which will stop in the symbol display area; (b) scrolling the reel strips and then stopping the symbols determined in the process (a) in the symbol display area; (c) when plural specific symbols are included in the symbols having stopped in the symbol display area, determining whether another symbol which is different from the specific symbol stops between the specific symbols; and (d) when it is determined in the process (c) that the another symbol stops between the stopped specific symbols, replacing the another symbol with the specific symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Masaki OYAMA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI