Patents Assigned to Gree Inc
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Patent number: 11642592Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventor: Tomoki Yasuhara
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Patent number: 11644893Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: GREE, INC.Inventors: Takashi Kuwatani, Makoto Chida
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Patent number: 11642595Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: GREE, INC.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yoshikawa, Tomohiro Tsukihara, Norikazu Kato, Tomoki Yasuhara
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Patent number: 11642591Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Takashi Kuwatani, Makoto Chida
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Patent number: 11642590Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Takashi Kuwatani, Makoto Chida
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Publication number: 20230138046Abstract: A first video generator generates first information for displaying, as a first video, a character object of a first user and a first object. A second video generator displays the first object and a third object different from the second object. An association portion associates the character object of the first user with a fourth object associated with the third object when the character object of the first user and the third object have a predetermined relationship. The second video generator displays the fourth object in association with the character object of the first user when the fourth object is associated with the character object of the first user by the association portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: GREE, INC.Inventors: Ryo YABE, Shuhei ASADA, Ken WATANABE
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Publication number: 20230140372Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: GREE, INC.Inventor: Hitoshi IMAI
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Publication number: 20230134965Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for video transmission. In one example, a processor generates first data related to first positional coordinates set in advance in a first virtual space and second data related to second positional coordinates set in advance in a second virtual space, the first data including first virtual reference points set on the first positional coordinates; the second data including second virtual reference points corresponding to each of the first virtual reference points; and the second data includes: data related to a basic coordinate group including the some of the second virtual reference points obtained by multiplying some of the first virtual reference points by a predetermined magnification; and data related to a distortion coordinate group including some of the second virtual reference points obtained by multiplying some of the first virtual reference points by a magnification different from the predetermined magnification.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventor: Norifumi OKUMURA
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Patent number: 11638879Abstract: A game processing system for processing a game having a first mode and a second mode according to an aspect includes one or more computer processors. The one or more computer processors are configured to provide an interaction with a virtual character in the first mode and the second mode. In a switch process for switching the game from the first mode to the second mode, the one or more computer processors are configured to, start the second mode if a switch object is selected by a player of the game gazing at the switch object during a predetermined period of time since the switch object is displayed, and return to the first mode if the switch object is not selected during the predetermined period of time.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Takashi Kuwatani, Makoto Chida
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Publication number: 20230130306Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventor: Yosuke KANAYA
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Patent number: 11633669Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for video transmission. In one example, computer-readable storage media store instructions cause a processor to: generate first motion data; distribute, toward terminal devices of a plurality of viewers via a communication line, the first motion data; receive a web page; receive first operation data from a user interface; generate a second video related to a computer-implemented game on the basis of the first operation data by using the received web page; distribute the second video toward the terminal devices of the plurality of viewer; receive viewer data regarding a plurality of viewers; 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 viewer data; generate the second video including the selected game object; and distribute the second video toward the terminal devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventor: Yosuke Kanaya
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Publication number: 20230124685Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Aya KURABUCHI, Yushi TAKAGI, Shuhei ASADA, Yosuke KANAYA, Shigeki NAKAMURA, Takahiro FUKUMOTO, Kaoru MURAKAMI, Naoki TAKAHASHI, Kenta SAGARA
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Patent number: 11628359Abstract: A game management system that retrieves a delay time of each of a plurality of user devices playing a game; stores the delay times retrieved from each of the plurality of user devices; and transmits an instruction to synchronize game progress to each of the user devices, the instruction including an offset time determined based on a maximum value of the stored delay times.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: GREE, INC.Inventors: Tomohiko Furumoto, Masato Nagai
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Patent number: 11628361Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a computer, etc., which makes it possible to improve the usability of city building games. The computer is provided with a storage unit configured to store game contents arranged within a game space, positions of the game contents, and a template defining positions of one or more of game contents, and progresses a game by arranging the game contents within the game space based on a command by a player. The method includes when the template is applied to a predetermined area within the game space based on the command by the player, moving, by the computer, the game contents arranged within the game space to the positions of the game contents defined by the template.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: GREE, INC.Inventor: Taiki Eda
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Patent number: 11628362Abstract: A terminal apparatus, which may include a display unit that displays a game content positioned in a virtual space, a storage unit that stores information related to a predetermined position in the virtual space, a retrieving unit that retrieves instructions for moving including a moving direction given by a player, a calculating unit that calculates a route from a position of the game content in the virtual space to the predetermined position, a determining unit that determines whether or not the calculated route satisfies a predetermined condition related to the moving direction, and a display control unit that controls display of the game content such that the game content moves to the predetermined position along the route when it is determined that the route satisfies the predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Koji Kakizawa, Shota Shimoda
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Publication number: 20230109706Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventors: Naoki TAKAHASHI, Kai SATO, Yosuke KANAYA
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Patent number: 11623151Abstract: Instructions recorded on a non-transitory recording medium cause an information processing device that executes a battle game to execute the steps of storing different attribute information in association with each of at least two players; displaying a field including a plurality of regions, a predetermined event being set for each region, and attribute information being associable with each region; upon a player selecting at least one region from among the plurality of regions, executing processing for the event of the selected region; based on a processing result for the event, determining whether newly to associate the attribute information of the player with the selected region; and determining victory and defeat for the plurality of players based on at least one of a count, a total area, and a total volume of regions with which each piece of attribute information is associated.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: GREE, Inc.Inventor: Makiko Tamura
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Publication number: 20230096294Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventor: Masayuki DOI
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Publication number: 20230101386Abstract: A user device executes a first drawing process of outputting, to a display viewed by a user, a video in which registered parts associated with the user are applied to an avatar object that reflects movements of the user; a designation process of sending information designating a lottery target group including a plurality of lottery target parts to a server based on an operation to an input operation portion by the user; a trial parts acquisition process of acquiring trial parts data relating to a trial part preset as a part to be temporarily applied to the avatar object from among the parts included in the lottery target group; and a second drawing process of outputting, to the display, the avatar object to which the trial part has been automatically applied using the trial parts data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: GREE, INC.Inventor: Yoshiki KUDO
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Publication number: 20230092494Abstract: An information processing system comprises processing circuitry configured to render a virtual space; render each mobile medium associated with each user, each mobile medium being able to move within the virtual space; associate designated movement authority information to a first mobile medium, the first mobile medium being associated with a first user based on a first input from the first user; switch the designated movement authority information from association with the first mobile medium to association with a second mobile medium, the second mobile medium being associated with a second user different from the first user and based on a second input from the first user; and judge, based on the designated movement authority information, whether to allow one mobile medium to move toward a designated position within the virtual space.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: GREE, Inc.Inventor: Akihiko SHIRAI