Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Sega
  • Patent number: 11957977
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow reserved content to be used at the proper timing. The information processing device of the present invention comprises a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content set in association with each other; a user information storage unit that stores user information in which a user's possessed content and reserved content are set; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20220362669
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow reserved content to be used at the proper timing. The information processing device of the present invention comprises a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content set in association with each other; a user information storage unit that stores user information in which a user's possessed content and reserved content are set; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro OTOMO
  • Publication number: 20220362670
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow reserved content to be used at the proper timing. The information processing device of the present invention comprises a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content set in association with each other; a user information storage unit that stores user information in which a user's possessed content and reserved content are set; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro OTOMO
  • Patent number: 11471766
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow the points allotted for time restoration to be easily obtained even after automatic restoration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Patent number: 11439905
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow reserved content to be used at the proper timing. The information processing device of the present invention comprises a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content set in association with each other; a user information storage unit that stores user information in which a user's possessed content and reserved content are set; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Patent number: 11112220
    Abstract: [The present invention is] a dart game apparatus that provides a dart game in which one player successively throws n number of (n=3 or 4) darts D at a dart board 12, having: light sources LS that are disposed around the dart board 12 and emit lights L along the board face of the dart board 12; a plurality of photo-sensors S that are disposed around the dart board 12 at approximately the same height from the dart board 12 in the board thickness direction, and detect the brightness of the lights L emitted from the light sources LS; and a processor that calculates a hit position of a dart D in the dart board 12 based on the brightness of each light. A number of photo-sensors S is n×2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha SEGA Games, Kabushiki Kaisha Dartslive
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takamura, Takayuki Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20210252396
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow the points allotted for time restoration to be easily obtained even after automatic restoration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games Doing Business as Sega Games
    Inventor: Takahiro OTOMO
  • Patent number: 10976141
    Abstract: A dart game apparatus 100 is provided with: a dart board in which a dart can stick and a plurality of segments are demarcated; a first detecting part 100 that detects a position of a point where the dart stuck in the dart board; a second detecting part 102 that detects a segment of the point where the dart stuck from the plurality of segments; a correcting part 104 that corrects the position detected by the first detecting part 100 based on the segment detected by the second detecting part 102 if a segment corresponding to the position detected by the first detecting part 100 is different from the segment detected by the second detecting part 102; and an outputting part 106 that output the position detecting by the first detecting part 100 or position corrected by the correcting part 104.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha SEGA Games, Kabushiki Kaisha Dartslive
    Inventor: Yuji Sugimori
  • Publication number: 20200360817
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a receiver that receives a slide gesture input and a tap gesture input on a touch panel that displays a screen of the game; and a processor that, once a user completes a quest of the game, causes the touch panel to display a screen indicating contents and a confirmation button. Upon detecting the slide gesture input, the processor determines that desired contents have been continuously selected from the contents. The slide gesture input is based on a slide gesture by which the desired contents have been continuously touched. Upon detecting the tap gesture input, the processor determines that the desired contents have been confirmed to be selected. The tap gesture input is based on a tap gesture on the confirmation button. A space between each of the contents and the confirmation button is at least a size of each of the contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games doing business as Sega Game Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20200316471
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to allow reserved content to be used at the proper timing. The information processing device of the present invention comprises a trade information storage unit that stores trade information for each user in which trade-away content and trade-for content set in association with each other; a user information storage unit that stores user information in which a user's possessed content and reserved content are set; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the designated trade-for content and is not the same as the possessed content, from among the user's reserved content based on the user information, as a result of an operation performed by the user to designate trade-for content that the user wants to acquire in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro OTOMO
  • Publication number: 20200217630
    Abstract: A dart game apparatus 100 is provided with: a dart board in which a dart can stick and a plurality of segments are demarcated; a first detecting part 100 that detects a position of a point where the dart stuck in the dart board; a second detecting part 102 that detects a segment of the point where the dart stuck from the plurality of segments; a correcting part 104 that corrects the position detected by the first detecting part 100 based on the segment detected by the second detecting part 102 if a segment corresponding to the position detected by the first detecting part 100 is different from the segment detected by the second detecting part 102; and an outputting part 106 that output the position detecting by the first detecting part 100 or position corrected by the correcting part 104.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha SEGA Games d/b/a SEGA Games Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Dartslive D/B/A Dartslive Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Sugimori
  • Publication number: 20200155941
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a controller that generates a game image of an object disposed in a virtual game space; and a touch panel that displays the game image. The touch panel detects an input of a user's touch operation on the game image and outputs, to the controller, a detection signal indicating the detection of the input. The controller determines a contact surface area at an indicated position on the touch panel indicated by the user's touch operation based on the detection signal. The controller determines, based on a size of the contact surface area, whether ae first operation or a second operation has been inputted. The controller performs a first control related to the object in response to the first operation, and a second control related to the object when the second operation has been inputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games doing business as Sega Game Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinpei Ito
  • Publication number: 20200132419
    Abstract: [The present invention is] a dart game apparatus that provides a dart game in which one player successively throws n number of (n=3 or 4) darts D at a dart board 12, having: light sources LS that are disposed around the dart board 12 and emit lights L along the board face of the dart board 12; a plurality of photo-sensors S that are disposed around the dart board 12 at approximately the same height from the dart board 12 in the board thickness direction, and detect the brightness of the lights L emitted from the light sources LS; and a processor that calculates a hit position of a dart D in the dart board 12 based on the brightness of each light. A number of photo-sensors S is n×2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha SEGA Games d/b/a SEGA Games Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Dartslive D/B/A Dartslive Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takamura, Takayuki Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20200030698
    Abstract: A game processing method that causes a computer to execute a game program includes displaying, with a touchscreen, a reference operation and a deck that comprises an item, receiving a first input operation to select the deck and second input operations, determining a matching degree between the reference operation and each of the second input operations, outputting, from a processor to a memory, a level of the matching degree based on the determination, counting, with the processor, a number of consecutive times that the level continuously exceeds a predetermined threshold level, calculating, with the processor, a score of the user based on the number, and outputting, from the processor to the memory, the score. When the item comprises a card having a predetermined effect and continuation of exceeding the predetermined threshold level is interrupted, the number is counted as if no interruption has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koutarou Ishiki, Shinya Sakai, Kazuma Itoh, Yuko Tatsuko, Akiko Takada
  • Patent number: 10493362
    Abstract: A game device includes a memory that stores a predetermined value and a processor that subtracts a value corresponding to a game action in a game from the predetermined value while the game action is executed and outputs the subtracted predetermined value to the memory. The processor also increases, as time passes, the predetermined value of which an upper limit is an upper limit value and outputs the increased predetermined value to the memory. When the processor detects payment of a fee or use of a game item obtained by the payment, the processor adds a first value to the predetermined value that exceeds the restoration upper limit value and outputs, to the memory, the predetermined value to which the first value is added. The first value is greater than a second value that is added to the predetermined value being under the upper limit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games
    Inventors: Tomio Kikuchi, Daisuke Kubota, Ryotaro Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10471352
    Abstract: A game processing method that causes a computer to execute a game program includes displaying, with a touchscreen of the computer, a reference operation to a user, receiving, with the touchscreen, an input operation from a user, determining, with a processor of the computer, a matching degree between the input operation and the reference operation, outputting, from the processor to a memory of the computer, a level of the matching degree between the input operation and the reference operations based on the determination, counting, with the processor, the number of consecutive times that the level continuously exceeds a predetermined threshold level, and outputting, from the processor to the memory, information to award a bonus at a predetermined winning probability for an achieved number of consecutive times when the number of consecutive times reaches the achieved number of consecutive times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games
    Inventors: Koutarou Ishiki, Shinya Sakai, Kazuma Itoh, Yuko Tatsuko, Akiko Takada
  • Patent number: 10373432
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller that generates a list that includes a plurality of players while a game is underway, a receiver that receives a request from an external device to acquire an intangible item to be executed in the game based on input from one of the players, and a transmitter that transmits a signal to the external device. The controller counts a number of predetermined players who have input the request within a first time period among the plurality of players. The controller outputs, to the transmitter, an instruction to award the intangible item to the predetermined players when the number is less than a predetermined value. The controller outputs, to the transmitter, an instruction to award the intangible item and an additional intangible item to the predetermined players when the number is greater than or equal to the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games
    Inventor: Manato Ito
  • Publication number: 20190192973
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a memory, a transceiver receiving an input from a terminal device operated by a player in a game, and a controller. The memory stores usage frequency of game media used by players for each of the game media, game media in a possessed state for each of the players, a quantity of game items owned by each of the players, first and second quantities of game items for each of the game media. The input causes the game media in the possessed state to be put into a non-possessed state. The controller puts the game media into the possessed state upon detecting consumption of the first quantity from the quantity. The controller adds the second quantity to the quantity upon detecting the input. The controller determines the first and second quantities. The lower the usage frequency, the lower the first and second quantities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games doing business as Sega Games Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kubota, Hiroyasu Tamura
  • Patent number: 10232260
    Abstract: Retrieval performance when selecting a game playing video can be improved. An information processing apparatus {12(n)} includes: a storage section (66) in which at least one tag and a tagging condition of the tag are stored in association with each other; and an attaching section (74) which, when playback data to be used to play back a game playing video of a game has been generated and an event during the play of the game satisfies the tagging condition, attaches the tag, which is associated with the tagging condition, to the playback data as an index of the game playing video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games
    Inventors: Mizuki Hosoyamada, Koji Shindo
  • Publication number: 20190060763
    Abstract: An information processing device that executes a fusion game, includes: a content information storage that stores content information in which a plurality of resource contents, associated with each other in advance, are set corresponding to a fusion source content; a user information storage that stores user information including content associated with a user ID; a processor that: associates at least one of the plurality of contents, wherein the plurality of contents include any of the resource contents, with the user ID; when one of the resource contents is associated with the user ID, extracts: the fusion source content corresponding to the one resource content associated with the user ID and the resource contents corresponding to the extracted fusion source content, and sends a notification about the relationship between the extracted fusion source content and the extracted plurality of resource contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games doing business as Sega Games Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Arai, Hayato Hirai, Takahiro Otomo