Patents Assigned to Gree Inc
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20230012870
    Abstract: A social game and the like that can increase the fun and amusement of a team battle and enhance players' motivation to participate in or continue a game by suppressing an occurrence of any non-participation team not participating in the battle are provided. A guild status determination unit determines, for each guild, whether the guild is in an inactive state or an active state, based on a result of detecting a login state of each player. A guild integrated control unit forcibly disbands a guild (i.e. an inactive guild) determined to be in the inactive state, based on guild activity information notified from the status determination unit. A disbandment notification unit notifies each player belonging to the inactive guild, of the disbandment of the guild.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Koichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20230020633
    Abstract: An information processing system that draws a virtual space and that draws multiple mobile media that are moveable in the virtual space and are respectively associated with multiple users. The multiple mobile media include a first mobile medium associated with a user of a first attribute and a second mobile medium associated with a user of a second attribute to whom a predetermined role is assigned in the virtual space, and the image processing system further draws the second mobile medium in a display image for a user of the first attribute or for a user of the second attribute in a manner identifiable from the first mobile medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Akihiko SHIRAI
  • Publication number: 20230019684
    Abstract: A point applying unit associates a predetermined point according to a type of regular purchase contract with user identification information according to a contractual user, for each predetermined period; a number-of-points information storage unit stores number-of-points information representing the number of points for each reward, in a plurality of providable rewards; a selection information acquisition unit retrieves selection information that is associated with the user identification information and represents a selected reward of the plurality of rewards; and a reward management unit enables the selected reward to be used, based on the user identification information, in a case where the total number of points are set by the selection information retrieved by the selection information acquisition unit and the number-of-points information in the number-of-points information storage unit and are associated with the selected reward has a predetermined relationship with the predetermined point associated b
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Tatsuya ENDO
  • Publication number: 20230018367
    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: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi IMAI, Gaku KAWAMURA, Yuzaburo MARUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230018262
    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: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Masashi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 11554317
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a computer cause the computer to provide a user with a first game. The instructions further cause the computer to display one or more pieces, each of the one or more pieces being movable in a predetermined direction according to a touch operation by the user. The instructions further cause the computer to retrieve, when a purpose of the first game is achieved, a game content as a reward given to the user, the game content being usable in a second game different from the first game to progress the second game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Hideki Fujita
  • Patent number: 11547939
    Abstract: A control program for a game device having a storage unit configured to store points associated with players. The game device may receive a request by a player to designate at least a portion of the points associated with the first player as region points of the first player, which may in turn be correlated with a game region designated by the first player. When the first player has the most points for a particular game region, the game region may be set to be a region of the first player. When the first player disposes a first and second game region in a predetermined arrangement, such that the first and second game region has game regions between them, the game regions between the first and second game region may have their point values swapped to put the first player on top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Masayuki Doi
  • Publication number: 20230005212
    Abstract: An information processing device for drawing an object arranged in a three-dimensional virtual space, in an expression viewed from a virtual camera, the object including a field object associated with a two-dimensional plane defined by a first axis and a second axis, and a specific object arranged on the field object, the device including: a change processing unit changing a region of the field object falling within a viewing angle of the virtual camera; and a deformation processing unit deforming the field object, in which in a case where the region is changed by the change processing unit, the deformation processing unit makes a deformation mode of the field object different when it is determined that the specific object is positioned in the region after being changed and when it is determined that the specific object is not positioned in the region after being changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryosuke NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230007061
    Abstract: A method for displaying objects on a timeline area does not lower user retention and can increase the CVR. The present disclosure provides a method for displaying objects on a timeline area, including the steps of an object display device that manages a timeline of communication messages for a user of a Web service determining whether the user has taken an action within a predetermined time period on the timeline area of the Web service, displaying a first object on the timeline area when determining that the user has not taken the action, and displaying a second object that differs from the first object on the timeline area when determining that the user has taken the action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi OHIDA, Taro YOSHIOKA, Masaya HIGASHINO, Kenji SUGIMOTO, Maya SAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230001293
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium configured to operate a game program. The program may cause an information processing device to execute a step of storing information relating to a game part, a step of displaying a screen including a first interface capable of detecting a first user operation, a determination step of (if the first user operation is detected) determining a mode of the game part to be one of a first mode or a second mode, a change step of changing a part of the screen according to the mode of the game part determined in the determination step, and an execution step of executing the game part in the mode determined in the determination step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Shota SHIMODA, Yudai NAGANO, Hiori CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20230001289
    Abstract: A game program when executed causes a computer to perform a process including storing a plurality of game areas each associated with one of a plurality of players including a subject player; receiving information concerning an own game area associated with the subject player and information concerning statuses of progress of the subject player and a plurality of other players different from the subject player through the game in the own game area; storing, in association with the own game area, the statuses of the progress of the subject player and the plurality of other players through the game in the own game area; comparing statuses of progress of the plurality of players through the game in the own game area; outputting display information for displaying a comparison result; and transmitting the display information to terminals of the plurality of players.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki HIGO
  • Patent number: 11543881
    Abstract: A system for displaying an image of a virtual space on a display obtains detection data from position detection sensors, the position detection sensors including a position detection sensor attached to a user. The system calculates a distance between a pair of the position detection sensors based on the detection data, and sets, based on the distance, a boundary for determining a motion of the user. The system determines, when the motion of the user occurs, whether a positional relationship between one of the position detection sensors and the boundary satisfies a condition, and, responsive to the positional relationship satisfying the condition, executes an action corresponding to the motion of the user in the virtual space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Robin Boucher
  • Publication number: 20220414962
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a memory and processing circuitry configured to generate a display image by rendering plural objects in a virtual space according to the object information; acquire a user input relating to a user object of the plural objects, the user object associated with the user; determine movement of the user object in the virtual space in accordance with the user input; generate positional relationship information indicating a positional relationship in the virtual space between the user object and a predetermined object of the plural objects; store first rendering information for rendering a first animation with a combination of the predetermined object and the user object; and generate the first animation according to the first rendering information in a case that a distance between the predetermined object and the user object is shorter than or equal to a predetermined distance according to the positional relationship information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiko SHIRAI, Takuma KATO
  • Publication number: 20220410006
    Abstract: An information processing system is disclosed that includes a drawing portion that draws a display image for a terminal including at least one display medium positioned in a virtual space, an acquisition portion that acquires input from a user, and a position update portion that changes a position of the display medium associated with one user in the virtual space based on a first input from the one user acquired by the acquisition portion. The drawing portion draws guidance information indicating a positional relationship between a first display medium associate with the one user and a second display medium associated with another user, associating the guidance information with the first display medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Masashi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220410013
    Abstract: An item can be provided to a user by a lottery and the item odds can be changed in accordance with a prescribed condition. A control method, performed by a server device connected via a communication line to a terminal device operated by a user, can be initiated by selecting a lottery mode from among a plurality of lottery modes. Following the selection of the lottery mode, the system may hold a drawing from among a plurality of types of items on the basis of the selected lottery mode, and, following the holding of the drawing, may ensure that the won item is provided to the user via the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Takayuki SANO
  • Publication number: 20220417490
    Abstract: An information processing system includes a drawing portion that draws a display image for a terminal including one or more display media positioned in a virtual space; an acquisition portion that acquires input from a user; a state switching portion that switches, between a plurality of states, a state of the display medium; a position changing portion that changes the position of the display medium associated with one user in the virtual space, based on a first input from the one user acquired by the acquisition portion when the state of the display medium is a first state; and a viewpoint switching portion that switches a viewpoint of when the drawing portion draws the display image from a first viewpoint to a second viewpoint when the state of the display medium is switched from the first state to a second state by the state switching portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Masashi WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20220405996
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions which, when executed by one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to acquire a mode of a plurality of modes in which each mode corresponding to a line of sight directed to a different object of plural objects, the mode related to a line of sight of an avatar corresponding to a motion of a delivering user wearing a head-mounted display; create, according to the mode, moving-image display data for displaying a moving image of a virtual space in which the avatar is disposed as viewed from a virtual camera; and transmit the moving-image display data to a viewing user device for display to a viewing user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiko SHIRAI, Takuma KATO
  • Patent number: 11517820
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for operating a computer game. It can include identifying a playing user and one or more other users; storing user information about one or more other users and the game progress information of those other users; determining whether any of the other users satisfy a predetermined condition based on their game progress information; identifying any of the other users that meet the condition and qualify as substitution-target users; displaying the substitution-target users to the playing user; obtaining input from a playing user indicating the selection of at least one substitution-target user; allowing the user to play the game, and obtaining a result of a game played by a playing user on behalf of a substitution-target user, with said game being one available to the substitution-target user; and updating the game progress information of the substitution-target user in accordance with the result of that game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Hidenobu Arai
  • Patent number: 11517823
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program configured to cause a terminal device to execute a game in communication with a server device, the program includes: a first storing step of receiving from the server device at least one token generated and stored in the server device to store the token in a terminal storage unit; a transmitting step of transmitting to the server device information-to-be-transmitted including an updating instruction of game data of a user and encrypted information obtained by encrypting information-to-be-encrypted at least including the token; and a deleting step of deleting the token stored in the terminal storage unit, wherein the updating instruction includes a first instruction to update the game data stored in the server device when the token extracted by decrypting the encrypted information and the token stored in the server device are matched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Kiyoto Suzuki, Peichao Yu