Patents Assigned to Gree Inc
  • Patent number: 11925859
    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: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Masahito Maeda
  • Publication number: 20240078776
    Abstract: A processing device that causes a virtual-space image to be displayed on a display device mounted on a player's head is provided with a first display processor and a second display processor. The first display processor causes first external information input from outside to be displayed on a specified object included in the virtual-space image when the virtual-space image is being caused to be displayed by the HMD. The second display processor causes second external information that is second external information input from outside and includes a real-space image to be displayed along with the virtual-space image when the virtual-space image is caused to be displayed by the HMD. The virtual-space image is, for example, the virtual-space image of a game, and the real-space image is, for example, an image imaged by an imaging device installed in the surroundings of the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Masato NOZAKI, Miharu WATANABE, Junko SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 11918895
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for video transmission. According to one example, computer-readable instructions, cause a computer to: generate motion data; distribute, toward terminal devices of a plurality of viewers via a communication line, the motion data; receive a webpage; receive operation data from a user interface; generate a second video related to a computer-implemented game on the basis of the operation data by using the received web page; distribute the second video toward the terminal devices of the plurality of viewers via the communication line; receive at least one of distribution related data; extract a selected game object out of a plurality of game objects to be used in the game; calculate a control parameter related to the selected game object on the basis of the distribution related data; generate the second video including the selected game object; and distribute the second video toward the terminal devices of the plurality of viewers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Yosuke Kanaya
  • Patent number: 11918917
    Abstract: A game control method, game server, and program can increase variations on methods for acquiring items, increase the predictability of acquisition of an item with a high rarity value or the like, and heighten interest in the game. Included are the steps of presenting a communication terminal, connected over a communication line, with acquirable item information that, for each item type, includes a total count and an acquisition count or a non-acquisition count of items when receiving, from the communication terminal, a request to present information related to items acquirable by the communication terminal, determining an item to provide to the communication terminal when receiving an item acquisition request from the communication terminal, and changing the acquirable item information when receiving a reset request from the communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yoshikawa, Tomohiro Tsukihara, Norikazu Kato, Tomoki Yasuhara
  • Patent number: 11918891
    Abstract: A program, embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, which causes an information processing device that executes a game to execute: a step of causing an interface that accepts a user operation to be displayed; a step of storing first information related to game content on the basis of the user operation that is accepted by the interface; a step of storing second information related to game content that is selected among a plurality of items of game content by game content selection processing and is associated with a user; a step of comparing the first information and the second information; a step of causing a comparison result of the first information and the second information to be displayed; and a step of making a predetermined game effect capable of being exhibited in the game on the basis of comparison of the first information and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Hiroki Iguchi
  • Patent number: 11914847
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for operating a computer game involving moving a plurality of objects. A game screen on which a plurality of objects are displayed may be displayed on a touchscreen. If a swipe operation is detected, a plurality of the objects may be moved. If a swipe operation is detected while a touch operation that specifies any of the plurality objects is also being detected, the plurality of objects excluding the object specified with the touch operation are collectively moved in a direction indicated by the swipe operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Nishida
  • Patent number: 11911703
    Abstract: A computer is configured to receive an input operation from a distribution user and connect to game circuitry that manages progress of a game, and to video distribution circuitry. The computer sends, to the video distribution circuitry, display control data for displaying, on a viewing user device, a video of the game. The computer receives, from the game circuitry, gift data that is based on a gift output request sent from the viewing user device. The computer displays a gift that is based on the gift data. An image corresponding to consecutive behaviors of the game is displayed on the screen of the game, when a specified command included in game operation data sent from a user device used by any of the users participating in the game and the gift output request sent from the viewing user device cause the consecutive behaviors to be established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Yosuke Kanaya
  • Publication number: 20240061564
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for operating a computer game involving moving a plurality of objects. A game screen on which a plurality of objects are displayed may be displayed on a touchscreen. If a swipe operation is detected, a plurality of the objects may be moved. If a swipe operation is detected while a touch operation that specifies any of the plurality objects is also being detected, the plurality of objects excluding the object specified with the touch operation are collectively moved in a direction indicated by the swipe operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryosuke NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240058696
    Abstract: A program, a game control method, and an information processing apparatus, which are capable of improving operability of a game. A program causing an information processing apparatus to execute a step of causing an object arranged on a field object in a virtual space in which a coordinate system having a first axis and a second axis is set to be displayed on a screen in which a coordinate system having a third axis and a fourth axis is set, a step of detecting first and second positions on the screen while the first user operation is being detected, and a moving step of moving the object according to a first user operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke TAKA, Motoshi ABE, Masaru IDA, Kiyoto SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240058703
    Abstract: A method for controlling a computer and the like that cause players to effectively use possessed game contents in a game and increase the attractiveness of the game. The computer includes a storage unit that stores one or more game contents possessed by a player and a game content group, the one or more game contents each having a parameter value, the game content group being composed by using at least one of the one or more game contents, and makes a game proceed based on an instruction from a player. The method includes the steps of modifying the parameter value of a common game content in the game content group possessed by the player and being the same type as the one or more game contents other than the game content group, and processing an event by using the game content group whose parameter value is modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi SHIRATORI
  • Publication number: 20240056653
    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: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Aya KURABUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240050847
    Abstract: The server device 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: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Kensuke UMEHARA
  • Patent number: 11896901
    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: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Takayuki Sano
  • Patent number: 11896897
    Abstract: A game processing apparatus displays an image of virtual space on a display that displays an image by using a sensor for identifying the position and direction of a certain body part of a player and the display. A controller in the game processing apparatus displays the image of the virtual space on the display in accordance with the position and direction of the certain body part of the player, and, when an information providing condition regarding the position and direction of the certain body part of the player is satisfied, outputs to-be-provided information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Masashi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20240046295
    Abstract: A system and a method allow for the provision of an incentive between different applications. A server stores information including, in association, a user identifier, a first identifier, and a second identifier received from a client terminal, and when receiving an incentive request, causes an application server to provide an incentive to the user pertaining to the first identifier corresponding to the second identifier based on the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi ONO, Takuya WATABE, Yugo TAKINO
  • Publication number: 20240046553
    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: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryosuke NISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240046541
    Abstract: An information processing system includes processing circuitry configured to process motion of each avatar of plural avatars in a virtual space; associate, with an avatar of the plural avatars, text information specified by a user corresponding to the avatar or text information relating to the avatar; determine a relationship between text information associated with a first avatar and text information associated with a second avatar; and in a case that the first avatar and the second avatar have a first positional relationship in the virtual space, control the second avatar or both the first avatar and the second avatar to automatically perform a certain motion based on a result of the determined relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Akihiko SHIRAI
  • Publication number: 20240042323
    Abstract: An information processing system includes processing circuitry configured to store a skill related to an action in a virtual space; store a trigger condition associated with the skill, the trigger condition being related to an object in the virtual space; determine, in a case that the skill is associated with an avatar, whether the trigger condition is satisfied; and control, in a case that the trigger condition is determined to be satisfied, the avatar to perform the action based on the skill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Akihiko SHIRAI
  • Patent number: 11890537
    Abstract: During execution of a game, a user terminal sends, to a first server, a message sending request for sending a message without specifying a recipient. Responsive to receiving the message sending request, the first server selects a user specified as the recipient of the message. The first server sends, to a second server, a message sending request for sending the message while specifying the selected user as the recipient and indicating a game management account as a sender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Shota Ishii, Masayuki Nishida, Takahiro Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 11890539
    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: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Imai