Patents Assigned to Gree Inc
  • Publication number: 20230201716
    Abstract: An information processing device includes circuitry that manages distribution of a video including animation of an avatar object corresponding to a user. The circuitry acquires history data including user action history relating to the distribution or viewing of the video from a user device used by the user, and records the history data in a memory. The circuitry acquires the history data of the user associated with a selection screen selected by the user, from among the history data. The circuitry specifies each banner display condition corresponding to a plurality of banners associated with the selection screen. The circuitry determines a condition that matches the acquired history data, from among the specified banner display conditions. The circuitry selects a banner corresponding to the banner display condition that matches the history data, from among the plurality of banners, and sends drawing data for the banner to the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Daiki HAYATA
  • Publication number: 20230191257
    Abstract: An information processing system having a processing circuitry that determines whether a predetermined start condition including consumption of a predetermined game medium is met, automatically realizes a predetermined advancement of a game part with a first attribute associated with one user when it is determined that the predetermined start condition is met, determines a setting value of a first parameter based on a consumed amount of the predetermined game medium or a consumed type of the predetermined game medium, the first parameter being related to advancement of the game part with the first attribute, starts to count the first parameter to be updated toward the determined setting value of the first parameter, when it is determined that the predetermined start condition is met, and allows a termination result of the predetermined advancement to be output, when an updated counting value of the first parameter meets a predetermined output condition, the termination result of the predetermined advancement
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicants: GREE, INC., BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Hikaru IDE
  • Publication number: 20230191246
    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: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Kensuke UMEHARA
  • Publication number: 20230191260
    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: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Satoshi HORIGOME
  • Publication number: 20230191248
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for video transmission using tokens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Yosuke KANAYA
  • Patent number: 11682154
    Abstract: A moving image processing method includes: generating a moving image including an animation of an avatar object of a distribution user, based on a motion of the distribution user; receiving a request signal that is generated based on a manipulation of a viewing user viewing the moving image and requests that a first gift object is applied to the avatar object from a terminal device of the viewing user through a communication line; displaying the first gift object that is applied to the avatar object based on the request signal on the moving image; and a second gift object on the moving image in a case where it is determined that the avatar object executes a predetermined action with respect to one or a plurality of first gift objects displayed on the moving image, based on the motion of the distribution user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 11673057
    Abstract: One embodiment of the disclosure relates to a method of transferring game data of a user stored in association with a first user identification information on a first platform to a second platform by executing computer readable instructions by one or more computer processors. The first user identification information is used to identify the user on the first platform and a second user identification information is used to identify the user on the second platform. The method includes a step of generating link data that associates the first user identification information with the second user identification information included in the identification code read by a first client device, and a step of identifying the game data based on the second user identification information and the link data and providing a game to the second client device by using the game data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Toshiya Horie
  • Patent number: 11673060
    Abstract: A server device that provides a plurality of client devices with a game obtains a first request from a first client device of a first user. Responsive to obtaining the first request, the server device outputs first identification information corresponding to the first user. The server device obtains a second request including the first identification information from a second client device of a second user. Responsive to obtaining the second request, the server device corrects second user information on the second user using correction data based on first user information on the first user. The server device causes the second client device to display at least part of the corrected second user information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Jun Saito
  • Patent number: 11666828
    Abstract: An information processing device that progresses a game using a game content associated with a player. In response to receiving an obtaining request, the device selects a subset of game contents, where a portion of the game contents has a same identification information and each of the portion of the game contents has a different validity period. The device obtains a validity period associated with each of the selected game contents. When a first game content associated with the player has the same identification information as a second game content, the device updates, for each game content, a validity period of the first game content based on the validity period of the second game content in the subset of game contents. The device then restricts use of the first game content in the game when the validity period of the first game content lapses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Jun Saito
  • Patent number: 11662877
    Abstract: An image distribution device receives, from a terminal device, a handwritten and input image including a trajectory handwritten and inputted by a first user in a state where a virtual space, in which characters of the first and a second user are present, is set as a background, to a display view of the terminal device on which the virtual space is displayed. By transmitting, to the terminal device, the received handwritten and input image as a message from the first user, the image distribution device displays the handwritten and input image on the display view of the terminal device on which the virtual space is displayed while associating the handwritten and input image with the character of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Gaku Mizukami, Ryohei Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11663621
    Abstract: A server device determines a first item number by specifying a first object correlated with an item number of items defined in a game and determines a change value by specifying a second object correlated with the change value for changing the first item number. The server device changes the first item number to a second item number on the basis of the determined first item number and the determined change value and gives a reward on the basis of the second item number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Keiya Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20230158404
    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: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Nariaki WADA, Yoichi SHODA
  • Publication number: 20230156295
    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: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Soichiro TAKAKUWA, Yuta YANAGISAWA, Aya KURABUCHI
  • Patent number: 11648471
    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: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Junko Yamanokuchi, Masato Nozaki
  • Patent number: 11645811
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Nishida
  • Patent number: 11642592
    Abstract: A social game capable of informing a player of the attractiveness of a group fighting event is disclosed herein. A server device comprises: an information storage unit that stores information on the game; and a control unit that executes an arithmetic operation relating to the game and performs processing to display an image of the game at the terminal devices. The information storage unit stores, as a part of the information on the game, information on a fighting event, and the control unit performs processing to, in accordance with an instruction from a player, display the information on the fighting event at a terminal device operated by the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventor: Tomoki Yasuhara
  • Patent number: 11644893
    Abstract: An application processing system provides an interaction with a virtual character to a user. The system outputs an image of a virtual space including the virtual character to a head mounted display. The system determines that a menu icon has been selected based on detection information obtained by the head mounted display. The system sets, based on the menu icon being selected, a first selection point and a second selection point on the virtual character, and determines, based on one or more items of detection information obtained by the head mounted display, that the first selection point or the second selection point has been selected. The system specifies, based on the first selection point being selected, a first user action as an action of the user, and specifies, based on the second selection point being selected, a second user action as an action of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Takashi Kuwatani, Makoto Chida
  • Patent number: 11642595
    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: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yoshikawa, Tomohiro Tsukihara, Norikazu Kato, Tomoki Yasuhara
  • Patent number: 11642591
    Abstract: A game processing system according to an aspect is a game processing system for processing a game having a first mode and a second mode, the system comprising: a storage storing a game parameter relating to the game; and one or more computer processors. The one or more computer processors execute computer-readable instructions to: provide, in the first mode, an interaction with a virtual character in accordance with first detection information obtained by an information processing device not mounted on a head of a player; provide, in the second mode, an interaction with the virtual character in accordance with second detection information obtained by a head mounted display mounted on the head of the player; and update the game parameter in accordance with progress of the game in the first mode and the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Kuwatani, Makoto Chida
  • Patent number: 11642590
    Abstract: A game processing system for processing of a game that provides interaction with a virtual character according to one embodiment includes a storage that stores action data for specifying one or more actions of the virtual character and one or more computer processors. The game includes a VR mode in which the game progresses in accordance with detection information obtained by a head mounted display. The one or more processors determine an action of the player performed toward the virtual character based on the detection information obtained by the head mounted display attached to the head of the player, cause the virtual character to interact with the player based on the action of the player; and suspend execution of the VR mode if a suspension condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Kuwatani, Makoto Chida