Patents Assigned to Gree Inc
  • Patent number: 12285674
    Abstract: A shooting game control method, which is executed by a computer incorporated in a device including a display and a touch panel, includes accepting a touch operation on the touch panel; displaying a first frame indicative of a shooting effective range on the display in accordance with a position of the touch operation; accepting an instruction for an attack on an attack target in a state in which the first frame is displayed; determining whether the attack target in a game image displayed on the display is within the first frame or not, at a time point when the instruction for the attack has been accepted; and controlling the attack on the attack target in the game image in accordance with a result of the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Tsuchiya, Norihiro Sawada, Tadashi Nagano, Takeshi Arakawa
  • Patent number: 12285678
    Abstract: Provided are a program, a control method, and an information processing apparatus which may provide an improved user interface on which a user may easily and efficiently execute various processes on a game content. The information processing apparatus may be caused to execute a game content specifying step of specifying a selected game content on the basis of first input operation data from an operation unit, a step of retrieving information from a storage unit, a step of specifying a direction from a start point to an end point of a second input operation on the basis of second input operation data from an operation unit, and an execution step of executing one process associated with the direction from the start point to the end point of the second input operation in the information from the storage unit on the selected game content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Junko Yamanokuchi, Masato Nozaki
  • Patent number: 12289354
    Abstract: One or more computer processors include (i) a distribution portion that distributes, to a viewing user terminal, information about a video including an animation of a character object of a distribution user, (ii) a receiver that receives a display request for a specified gift transmitted from the viewing user terminal, (iii) an object display device that displays a specified gift object corresponding to the specified gift in the video, based on the display request received by the receiver, (iv) a determination portion that determines whether behavior information of the distribution user or another gift object satisfies a predetermined condition associated with the specified gift object, and (v) an expression portion that changes at least one of a movement and a shape of the specified gift object when the determination portion determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Aya Kurabuchi
  • Patent number: 12285693
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of synchronizing an online game, and a server device, that do not require centralized information management, reduce the processing burden on each device during online communication, and allow for continuation of processing in an offline environment. A method, according to the present disclosure, of synchronizing an online game that allows for transmission and reception of information related to game processing between a first client terminal and a second client terminal via a server includes: receiving, from the first client terminal connected online, first information related to game processing on the first client terminal; determining whether the first information is information that determines a game status; and storing the first information on the server and transmitting the first information to the second client terminal when the first information is determined to be information that determines the game status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Robert Jay Gould
  • Patent number: 12287949
    Abstract: An information processing system comprises processing circuitry configured to generate first information for displaying a video on an information processing apparatus; transmit the first information to the information processing apparatus; receive operation information regarding a plurality of operations performed on a first icon to take an action on the video displayed on the information processing apparatus; and determine, based on the operation information, a display mode of an object corresponding to the first icon, wherein the processing circuitry generates the first information for displaying the object on the video in the display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Akihiko Shirai, Yusuke Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 12285681
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for video transmission. In one example, a processor generates first data related to first positional coordinates set in advance in a first virtual space and second data related to second positional coordinates set in advance in a second virtual space, the first data including first virtual reference points set on the first positional coordinates; the second data including second virtual reference points corresponding to each of the first virtual reference points; and the second data includes: data related to a basic coordinate group including the some of the second virtual reference points obtained by multiplying some of the first virtual reference points by a predetermined magnification; and data related to a distortion coordinate group including some of the second virtual reference points obtained by multiplying some of the first virtual reference points by a magnification different from the predetermined magnification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Norifumi Okumura
  • Patent number: 12285684
    Abstract: In a communication system including a server and a plurality of communication terminals capable of communication with the server, based on a variety of parameters indicating the status of a space formed within a game playable by the user of each communication terminal over the communication system, the server transmits advisory information, which suggests the next action for the space, to the communication terminal. The communication terminal displays a screen including the received advisory information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Takayuki Sano
  • Patent number: 12283017
    Abstract: Provided are a computer program, a method, and a server in which a possibility that a load on display control increases is reduced, compared to the related art. According to an exemplary embodiment of such a configuration, first data relevant to a first position in a virtual space in which a first avatar manipulated by using a first terminal of a first user exists is acquired, whether or not a first condition is satisfied is determined, second data is received in a case where it is determined that the first condition is satisfied, control data for controlling a display unit of the first terminal such that at least the virtual object is displayed on the display unit of the first terminal is decided on the basis of the second data, and the display unit is controlled on the basis of the control data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Masashi Watanabe, Keiichi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20250124635
    Abstract: A computer program, a method, and a server device, all of which enable a further reduction in the possibility of increasing of the load to perform display control, as compared to conventional technologies, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Masashi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 12274944
    Abstract: A computer game device and method including initiating a special game when at least one game parameter of an object in a main game falls below a predetermined threshold, the special game including matching a guide element against a virtual game element, the guide element corresponding to the object, and concluding the special game and returning to the main game in response to a failure of a user to maintain a matching state between the guide element and the virtual game element for a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Imai, Gaku Kawamura, Yuzaburo Maruyama
  • Patent number: 12265747
    Abstract: A control method includes displaying, by a terminal device of a first user, a first image and a second image, the first image including a first object representing the first user, and the second image including a second object representing a second user that is different from the first user; transmitting, to a terminal device of the second user via a network, information relating to display of the first image; displaying the first image including the first object as being changed in accordance with an action or audio data of the first user; displaying the second image including the second object as being changed in accordance with an action or audio data of the second user; and displaying a third image, including a third object representing a distributing user, in accordance with a first instruction by the first user or the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Daiki Hayata
  • Patent number: 12260069
    Abstract: A display data generation method used in a computer including an output module, includes generating display data of page numbers for scrollably displaying page numbers of a plurality of pages each containing predetermined item information, to output the display data of page numbers from the output module, retrieving page information indicating a same number of pages as a number of page numbers displayed in a distance corresponding to a distance between two points in a display region in which the page numbers are displayed when the two points are specified by the user, wherein the number of page numbers are calculated based on the distance between the two points and the distance between adjacent page numbers displayed in the display region, and generating item display data for displaying item information contained in the pages indicated in the retrieved page information, to output the item display data from the output module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Daisuke Takayama
  • Patent number: 12239906
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for video transmission. According to one example, computer-readable storage media storing computer-readable instructions, which when executed by a computer having at least one processor, cause the computer to: change, during or after execution of a computer-implemented game, at least one current parameter of an avatar of a first distributor on the basis of second data or display in a second video, during or after execution of the computer-implemented game, an avatar of the first distributor and an avatar of at least any user of one or more users on the basis of the second data, wherein first data is data regarding at least any of the following: one or more users who jointly distributed a computer-implemented game with the first distributor, and one or more users who jointly distributed with the first distributor using an avatar of the first distributor and his/her own avatar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Yosuke Kanaya
  • Patent number: 12243141
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a process including generating avatar information relating to an avatar expression or pose based on streamer data indicating a facial expression or pose of a streamer; acquiring gift information concerned with a gift of an object that is provided from a viewer to the streamer; determining whether the gift information satisfies a predetermined condition; in a case that the gift information is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition, rendering an avatar facial expression or pose using a predetermined facial expression or pose corresponding to the predetermined condition; and in a case that the gift information is determined to not satisfy the predetermined condition, rendering the avatar facial expression or pose using the avatar information generated based on the streamer data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Masashi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12231740
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention relates to a video distribution system for live distributing a video containing animation of a character object generated based on a motion of a second user. The video distribution system includes one or more computer processors that execute computer-readable instructions to: display a display instruction object on a second user device that is used by the second user in response to reception of a first display request for a first gift from a first user; and display the first gift in the video in response to operation on the display instruction object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Aya Kurabuchi
  • Patent number: 12220628
    Abstract: A recording medium and server provide a game that improves the interest in and taste of a battle event and increases the interest in and real enjoyment of the entire game. The recording medium provides a game including a predetermined battle event comprising at least one battle. In a battle event of this game, game contents are displayed in a first field, and a player selects therefrom a game content to be used for a battle with an enemy character. The first field is replenished with another game content alternative to the selected game content as needed so that the player can further select an additional game content therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Hisaoka, Makiko Tamura, Yuji Okada, Takahiro Mori, Mitsuo Iwao
  • Publication number: 20250047914
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus of a distributor includes processing circuitry configured to transmit, to a first terminal apparatus of a viewer via a first server apparatus, one of either configuration data or a first video, the configuration data including audio data and motion data; after the transceiver receives a second video from a second server apparatus, control playback of the second video; and transmit playback data to the first terminal apparatus via the first server apparatus, the playback data including at least one of access data and indication data, the access data indicating a method for accessing the second video played back by the terminal apparatus, and the indication data indicating an operation to be performed on the second video by the first terminal apparatus in synchronization with playback of the second video by the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Akashi YOSHIDA, Tomio FUJII, Aya KURABUCHI, Tomoki MORITA
  • Patent number: 12210732
    Abstract: An information processing system distributes a video and includes processing circuitry configured to accept selection of a first object from a first information processing terminal; transmit, in accordance with the selection, a predetermined notification to a second information processing terminal associated with the first object; receive a response to the predetermined notification from the second information processing terminal; determine a state of a first screen displayed on the first information processing terminal; and decide, based on the determined state of the first screen, a second screen to be displayed on the second information processing terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Soichiro Takakuwa, Kazunori Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12211130
    Abstract: A user device executes a first drawing process of outputting, to a display viewed by a user, a video in which registered parts associated with the user are applied to an avatar object that reflects movements of the user; a designation process of sending information designating a lottery target group including a plurality of lottery target parts to a server based on an operation to an input operation portion by the user; a trial parts acquisition process of acquiring trial parts data relating to a trial part preset as a part to be temporarily applied to the avatar object from among the parts included in the lottery target group; and a second drawing process of outputting, to the display, the avatar object to which the trial part has been automatically applied using the trial parts data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Yoshiki Kudo
  • Patent number: 12198470
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions which, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to acquire, from a first sensor, data related to a face of a performer; provide first data, that is generated based on the data, to a classifier; receive, from the classifier, specific facial expression data indicating one specific facial expression among a plurality of predetermined specific facial expressions on the basis of the first data; and select, for display output, a specific facial expression corresponding to the specific facial expression data received from the classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Akihiko Shirai