Patents Assigned to Gree Inc
  • Patent number: 11607614
    Abstract: A game device for reducing the processing load of a redraw process, including a storage module storing game content information associated with identification information for one or more users, and a module for processing a lottery, in which multiple types of game contents may each be associated with an index value corresponding to the relative values of the types of game contents. The module for processing the lottery may include a module for executing redrawing that may execute new lottery processing for drawing, via the lottery, a type of game content that differs from game content drawn by a first lottery process, when the game content drawn by the first lottery process related to one user's identification information is associated with an index value which is equal to or greater than a predetermined standard value, and when said game content has a predetermined relationship with the game content information related to the user's identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Satoshi Horigome
  • Publication number: 20230084288
    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: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiko SHIRAI, Yusuke YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11602689
    Abstract: A system obtains game medium information associated with a game medium in a virtual space. When a predetermined event occurs, the system determines a generation condition for an image of the virtual space based on the game medium information. The system generates an image including the game medium based on the generation condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Imai
  • Patent number: 11596860
    Abstract: The server device according to the invention includes: a storage unit that associates and stores multiple first characteristic data sets for each user and associates and stores second characteristic data for each group to which the multiple first characteristic data sets belong; a different-user-selecting unit that selects a different user when a predetermined event occurs while a game is being played; a group formation-assessing unit that determines whether or not all of the first characteristic data sets belonging to a group are included in the first characteristic data sets associated with the user and the different user; and an action-executing unit that executes predetermined actions using, in addition to the first characteristic data sets associated with the user and the different user, the second characteristic data associated with the group for which it has been determined that all of the pertinent first characteristic data sets are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Kensuke Umehara
  • Publication number: 20230065048
    Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing device, a stream user terminal and viewing user terminal. The information processing device comprises processing circuitry configured to stream a video, including a character object of a stream user, to the viewing user terminal by transmitting information on the video to the viewing user terminal; aggregate resulting information including information on an action by a viewing user to the video during streaming of the video; determine a specific motion to be applied to the character object based on the resulting information; and transmit specific information on the specific motion to the stream user terminal. After the streaming of the video is ended, a resulting screen is displayed on the stream user terminal, the resulting screen including a character image with the specific motion applied to the character object, and the character image is generated based on the specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Soichiro TAKAKUWA, Kazunori YAMAMOTO, Tomoki MORITA
  • Patent number: 11593453
    Abstract: A device configured to retrieve a markup language file; identify, based on the markup language file, an item to be used on a web page, address information for retrieving an object for the item, and an object type corresponding to the object; retrieve an evaluation result for the object; identify the object as an object to be used based on the evaluation result; identify address information of the object; and retrieve and execute the object based on the address information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Jason Parrott
  • Patent number: 11595739
    Abstract: A video distribution system according to this disclosure is a video distribution system that distributes a video including an animation of a character object generated based on a movement of a distribution user and comprises one or a plurality of computer processors. The one or plurality of computer processors provide (i) a distribution portion, (ii) a display device, (iii) a determination portion. If the determination portion determines that a first object is being displayed within a predetermined distance from a second object, the object display device changes the first object and the second object to a third object and displays the third object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Soichiro Takakuwa, Yuta Yanagisawa, Aya Kurabuchi
  • Patent number: 11583767
    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: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Yosuke Kanaya
  • Publication number: 20230040321
    Abstract: An exemplary method of controlling a server that can provide a game can include associating a user with a group; determining, based on information related to activity of the user in at least one of the game and an event within the game, information related to activity of the group with which the user is associated; and providing a bonus to the group based on the information related to activity of the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Shinji MIZUNO
  • Patent number: 11573685
    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: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Daisuke Takayama
  • Publication number: 20230031566
    Abstract: A server includes drawing means for drawing an item by lottery from among an item group including a plurality of types of items with different scarcity values and providing the item to a user, and additional item providing means for providing an additional item to the user in accordance with a provision count of the number of times an item is provided by the drawing means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Masahito MAEDA
  • Patent number: 11565180
    Abstract: A game program causes a computer to set, if it is determined that a point based on a first action of the character of each of an own player and another player is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, a specific period from a time when an instruction to input a second action has been first accepted from the own player or the other player as a cooperation accepting period, to accept the instruction to input the second action up to a maximum number of times set for each cooperation player from a cooperation player other than the player who has instructed input of the second action, among the own player and the other player, during the cooperation accepting period, and to vary an effect of the second action in accordance with the number of times of the instruction to input the second action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Nariaki Wada, Yoichi Shoda
  • Publication number: 20230029145
    Abstract: Provided is one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media including computer-program instructions, which when executed by a system, cause the system to: cause a terminal device to display, in a first area of a game screen of a game, a plurality of items associated with progress of the game in such a manner that at least some of the plurality of items are excluded from a first view; extract a specific item from the plurality of items, based on a status of the game; cause the terminal device to display, in the game screen, the specific item in a second area in the first view; and execute an operation based on an item selected from the plurality of items or the specific item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Junsei KUNINOBU, Ikuhiro MAEDA, Gaku MIZUKAMI, Yui TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20230021662
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium has stored thereon instructions to be executed on a computer providing terminal devices with a battle game in which users each operate a unit. The instructions cause the computer to perform the steps of: determining a unit parameter of each of a plurality of units, group information being associated with each unit and indicating a group, among a plurality of groups, to which the unit belongs; deploying the units on a field, divided into regions, in the battle game; varying the unit parameter of a first unit on the field based on the group information associated with the first unit and the group information associated with a second unit on the field, the second unit having a predetermined positional relationship with the first unit; and conducting a battle between the first unit and other units using the varied unit parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Nariaki WADA, Akira USAMI, Asuka KAWAMURA, Shuichi KURA, Taichi WAKABAYASHI, Taishun KO, Totaro NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20230023653
    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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Masashi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20230021434
    Abstract: An information processing device displays a video including an avatar object on a display based on video data received from a server, displays a group to which a distributing user belongs in an identifiable manner in a video view or a video distribution list including images of multiple videos, and sends a display request to display an object in one of the videos to the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Takumi FUKUDA, Soichiro TAKAKUWA
  • Patent number: 11559737
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for video transmission using tokens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Yosuke Kanaya
  • Patent number: 11559745
    Abstract: Modified video is distributed to a viewer of a computer-implemented game by causing a processor to distribute, toward a terminal device of a viewer, a first video including an animation of a first avatar of a distributor generated based on motion data; distribute, toward the terminal device, a second video related to a computer-implemented game generated with operation data using a received web page; receive, from the terminal device, token data indicative of a token sent to the distributor from the viewer during execution of one unit section of the game; and distribute, toward the terminal device, the second video including, during one time section occurring after the one unit section of the game ends and before a next unit section of the game begins, a rendering of a token object selected based on the token data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Takahashi, Kai Sato, Yosuke Kanaya
  • Patent number: 11563998
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention relates to a video distribution system for live distributing a video containing a virtual space and an animation of a character object generated based on a motion of a distributor user. The video distribution system determines, when receiving from a viewer user watching the video a participation request to request participation in the video, which one of first and second groups the viewer user belongs to. If the viewer user is determined to belong to the first group, the video distribution system arranges a specific avatar of the viewer user in a first region within the virtual space. If the viewer user is determined to belong to the second group, the video distribution system arranges the specific avatar in a second region within the virtual space as long as a condition for participation is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Naohide Otsuka, Takashi Yasukawa, Yousuke Yamanouchi, Yasunori Kurita
  • Patent number: 11559740
    Abstract: Computer-readable storage media are disclosed storing instructions, which when executed, cause a processor to: distribute, toward a terminal device of a viewer via a communication line, a first video including an animation of a first avatar of a distributor generated on the basis of motion data or the motion data; distribute, toward the terminal device of the viewer via the communication line, a second video related to a game generated on the basis of operation data by using a received web page; receive, from the terminal device of the viewer via the communication line, token data indicative of providing a token to the distributor from the viewer viewing the second video; and distribute, toward the terminal device of the viewer via the communication line, the second video including a game object set on the basis of the token data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Aya Kurabuchi, Yushi Takagi, Shuhei Asada, Yosuke Kanaya, Shigeki Nakamura, Takahiro Fukumoto, Kaoru Murakami, Naoki Takahashi, Kenta Sagara