Patents Assigned to Gree Inc
  • Publication number: 20220314122
    Abstract: A game control program for controlling a game in which a cost is set for each of a plurality of skills, the program allowing a computer to function as: a skill activation unit activating a first skill of the plurality of skills in response to a fact that an activation instruction of the first skill of which the set cost is less than or equal to a point that is used in skill activation and associated with a player is received from the player; a point subtraction unit subtracting a point corresponding to the cost that is set for the first skill from the point in response to the activation of the first skill; and a cost increase unit increasing the cost that is set for the first skill in response to the activation of the first skill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Hikaru IDE
  • Patent number: 11458401
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Takayuki Sano
  • Publication number: 20220311732
    Abstract: A controller stores a new notification in a storage section when receiving a new notification to a user device. The controller checks, in the storage section, a use status of an application of the user device. The controller determines a notification method for outputting the notification stored in the storage section to an application display of the application when determining that the application is in use based on the use status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Keisuke MURATA
  • Patent number: 11451431
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a server device for providing a service which enables users to be associated with each other and includes a storage unit for storing, for each user provided with the service, information on different users associated with the user, information on each event provided in the service and information on each user participating in the event. The server device transmits an event list including the information on each event to each user device, lets the user participate in an event selected from the event list when receiving a request to participate in the event from each user device, makes the event proceed when receiving a request to proceed with the event from each user device, and associates and stores, when the event is over, the information on the users participated in the event in the storage unit, thus associating the users with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Masaru Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20220280869
    Abstract: A game processing system that controls a display to display a plurality of graphic forms each indicating an identifier; identifies a trajectory of a continuously drawn input selecting a plurality of the graphic forms; identifies the identifiers of the graphic forms corresponding to the input trajectory; identifies at least a first command based on an arrangement of the identifiers when detecting an end of the input; and controls a game operation of attacking an opponent based on the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Ryosuke INAMORI
  • Patent number: 11433299
    Abstract: To enhance motivation of a player to invite another player to a social game, thus activating the social game and a platform that provides the social game, a server device includes incentive giving means that gives an incentive to a player who operates a first terminal device when a player of a second terminal device that receives, from the first terminal device, invitation information including solicitation information to at least suggest participating in the game and specific information to at least specify a landing screen associated with a home screen of the game operates the second terminal device to access the landing screen on a basis of the specific information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Yuki Ino
  • Patent number: 11433307
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a game program causing a computer to execute functions includes moving each of a game medium in a game field including a plurality of regions, along respective paths set in accordance with a movable path and a moving speed set in the game medium associated with a first player and an attribute of the region; displaying a selection object so that the selection object is shown in at least one of the plurality of regions according to an operation by a second player; changing an attribute of a region in which the selection object is shown and an attribute of regions contained in an influence range set in the selection object; and moving, when the attribute of the region in which the selection object is shown is changed, the game medium according to the attribute of the region in which the selection object is shown, the movable path and the moving speed set in the game medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Makiko Tamura
  • Patent number: 11433305
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a storage device that stores state information of game contents changing according to progress of a game; a screen information generator that generates first information relating to a display of the game contents on a display screen and second information relating to a display of the state information on the display screen; an output device that outputs the first information and the second information to the display screen at a predetermined timing, respectively; and an instruction receiving device that receives a switching instruction to switch between display of the game contents and display of the state information on the display screen, wherein the screen information generator generates the second information based on latest state information stored on the storage device at a time when receiving the switching instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenji Inoue
  • Publication number: 20220276699
    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: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Robin BOUCHER
  • Patent number: 11420121
    Abstract: A control program causing a computer to execute a competition between two players, based on a correction value obtained by correcting a reference value of at least one player of the two players, the two players respectively belonging to two groups, to store a point which may be determined based on the reference value of at least the one player, in a storage unit in association with a group to which the winning player belongs, and to determine a result of the competition between groups, based on the summation of points which may be stored in the storage unit in association with each group. In a case where a predetermined action is performed on the predetermined game content of the group to which at least the one player belongs, control may be performed to change the correction value of the player and not to change the reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Yusuke Ozawa
  • Patent number: 11420120
    Abstract: A computer program product which may cause an information processing apparatus to execute steps of associating one group with each of a plurality of game media, arranging a plurality of game media on a field, starting a battle, arranging a first object associated with a plurality of parameters on the field according to a progress situation of the battle, executing a first change process of changing a parameter of the first object according to a control process of the game medium, stopping the executing of the first change process of the parameter if the parameter of the first object reaches the predetermined value, increasing points of the group corresponding to the parameter that has reached the predetermined value, and determining a result of the battle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Minenori Shigeoka, Yuta Tanaka, Yasuhiro Hayashida
  • Publication number: 20220262347
    Abstract: Computer-readable storage media, server devices, terminal devices and methods are disclosed for voice conversion. In one example, computer-readable instructions are executed by a processor to: adjust a weight related to a first encoder and a weight related to a second encoder so as to decrease a reconstruction error between a first voice and a generated first voice to be smaller than a predetermined value, in which the generated first voice is generated by using first language data acquired from the first voice by using the first encoder, second language data acquired from a second voice by using the first encoder, and second non-language data acquired from the second voice by using the second encoder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Tatsuma Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11416669
    Abstract: One or more non-transitory computer readable recording mediums configured to store an application program including instructions, which when executed by an information processing device that has a display part, causes the information processing device to transmit, to a server device, identification information of an object when the object displayed on a screen is selected. The information processing device is further configured to receive layout information relating to arrangement of the object from the server device. The information processing device is further configured to display the object on a screen displayed on the display part by executing a native program included in the application program. The information processing device is further configured to display, when the layout information is received, an object based on the layout information instead of the object displayed by the native program, using a web browser embedded in the application program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Yuichi Koga
  • Patent number: 11418855
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for video transmission using tokens. 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: generate a video including an animation of an avatar object of a distributor generated on the basis of motion data regarding a motion of the distributor and an animation of a token object given by a viewer to the distributor operating according to a predetermined rule; and transmit, toward a plurality of viewer terminals via a communication line, coordinate data including data regarding coordinates of the token object associated with a reference time, and audio data regarding a voice of the distributor associated with the reference time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Shuhei Asada, Motoki Uchida
  • Patent number: 11413543
    Abstract: A game apparatus for selectively providing motivation to specific users to continue playing a game, which may include a log information retrieval unit that retrieves log information associated with user identification information related to a plurality of registered users, a game processing unit that starts playing a game and progresses the game based on operation information by the registered users, an index value calculation unit that calculates, for each of the registered users, an index value indicating a possibility that the registered users will not perform a predetermined action within a predetermined period based on the log information retrieved by the log information retrieval unit, and a privilege granting unit that grants a predetermined privilege providing an advantage in the game to a specific user of the plurality of registered users based on the index value calculated by the index value calculation unit for each of the registered users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujiwara, Gakuto Yoshii
  • Patent number: 11413544
    Abstract: A server device and the like that can make a whole game and SNS more active by promoting the movement of players between groups to enhance the mobility of game participants. A server device comprises: a controller configured to enable a first player belonging to a first group to transfer to a second group based on an operation by a second player belonging to the second group, wherein the controller is configured to associate compensation for the transfer with the transfer of the first player. The controller is configured to perform payment and receipt of compensation for the transfer between at least two out of the first player, the first group, and the second group when the first player transfers from the first group to the second group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Koichi Suzuki, Eigo Isomura
  • Patent number: 11406893
    Abstract: When a mobile terminal obtains a container upon movement of a display range, a processor increases points in a storage unit. When the mobile terminal opens a container obtained by movement of the display range or as a present from another mobile terminal, the processor opens the container at predetermined success percentages, and writes an item obtained from the opened container in the storage unit. When the mobile terminal presents a container without opening it, the processor transmits screen data indicating a present to the other mobile terminal. The processor converts an item in the storage unit into points to increase the points in the storage unit based on an operation of the user of the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Takayuki Itoh, Tomohiro Tsukihara, Haruya Nishikubo, Midori Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20220241695
    Abstract: A computer for executing progress of a game by using a game content, the computer including memory and circuitry, the memory configured to store information corresponding to each of a plurality of game contents classified into a plurality of groups associated with an attribute, the circuitry configured to select a first game content from among game contents belonging to a first group among the plurality of groups based on a selection instruction from a player, identify the attribute associated with the selected first game content, select a second game content from among game contents belonging to a second group of the plurality of groups based on the identified attribute, and associate a game content group at least including the selected first game content and the selected second game content with a player and stores the resultant game content group to the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Katsumi ZENIYA, Kiyoto NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11400369
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having stored thereon instructions to be executed on by a game server, the game server and corresponding method which cause the game server to perform the steps of: provide a networked multiplayer battle game over a network, storing a battle history including an identifier of an opponent with whom a user has battled in the multiplayer battle game; determining, based on the battle history and an identifier of an opponent with whom a battle begins, a procedure for conducting the battle in the battle game to be one of a first mode for conducting the battle based on user operations and a second mode for conducting the battle with fewer user operations than in the first mode, and conducting the battle with the determined procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Masahito Maeda, Yasushi Mikawa
  • Publication number: 20220237844
    Abstract: An information processing system, a method, and a computer program capable of improving a motivation to view and/or distribute a moving image may be provided herein, which may include a distribution unit for distributing a moving image, a first selection reception unit for receiving selection of at least one object from a plurality of objects corresponding to each of a plurality of character objects, a second selection reception unit for receiving selection of at least one object from a plurality of objects, a specification unit for specifying a performing user associated with a character object corresponding to an object receiving most selections by the first selection reception unit and the second selection reception unit, an association unit for associating a specific object, and a display processing unit for generating information for displaying a specific object associated by the association unit in association with a character object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryo YABE, Motoki UCHIDA, Seiji OCHIAI, Aya KURABUCHI