Patents Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games Doing Business as Sega Games
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Publication number: 20240325903Abstract: 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 storage unit that stores acquirable content that has been reserved by the user without having been acquired, as reserved content; a selection unit that selects reserved content that is the same as the content that becomes the designated trade-for content from among the user's reserved content, as a result of a designated operation performed by the user that wants to acquire the trade-for content in a trade; and a notification unit that notifies the user that the selected reserved content can be acquired without a trade.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.Inventor: Takahiro OTOMO
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Patent number: 12036473Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20220362669Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.Inventor: Takahiro OTOMO
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Publication number: 20220362670Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.Inventor: Takahiro OTOMO
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Publication number: 20210252396Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games Doing Business as Sega GamesInventor: Takahiro OTOMO
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Publication number: 20200360817Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games doing business as Sega Game Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20200316471Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2018Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.Inventor: Takahiro OTOMO
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Publication number: 20200155941Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games doing business as Sega Game Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shinpei Ito
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Publication number: 20200030698Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koutarou Ishiki, Shinya Sakai, Kazuma Itoh, Yuko Tatsuko, Akiko Takada
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Publication number: 20190192973Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games doing business as Sega Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Kubota, Hiroyasu Tamura
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Publication number: 20190060764Abstract: An information processing device includes: a screen display that displays a screen including one or a plurality of first contents, one or a plurality of second contents as fusion sources, and a third content that is different from the first contents and the second contents; and a processor that accepts a first operation input and a second operation input. The first operation input selects one of the first contents as a fusion resource of one of the second contents when a designated position on the screen moves between any of the first contents and any of the second contents on the screen, and ends at the one first content or the one second content on the screen. The second operation input selects the one first content as a selling object when the designated position on the screen moves between any of the first contents and the third content on the screen, and ends at the one first content or the third content on the screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20190060763Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games doing business as Sega Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kensuke Arai, Hayato Hirai, Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20180280806Abstract: A game server connected to a plurality of game terminals via a communication network is disclosed including a receiver that receives a first request to register an invitation code for a game that is available for download, from a first game terminal operated by a first player, a memory, a processor connected to the memory and that causes the memory to register the invitation code in a state that allows acquisition from another game terminal, and a transmitter. The receiver receives a second request to acquire the invitation code from a second game terminal operated by a second player. The transmitter transmits the invitation code to the second game terminal in response to the reception of the second request. The processor causes the memory to register the invitation code based on the reception of the first request, regardless of whether or not the first player has a game play history.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Otomo, Kensuke Arai
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Publication number: 20180280797Abstract: An information processing device is disclosed including a processor that controls progress of a game in which a plurality of players can participate simultaneously based on operation inputs at a plurality of game terminals. The plurality of game terminals includes a leader terminal and a member terminal. The information processing device further includes memory connected to the processor and that manages one of the plurality of game terminals as a host terminal. The processor causes the memory to set the leader terminal as the host terminal. The processor inspects communication quality of the host terminal during execution of the game. When the leader terminal is the host terminal and the communication quality satisfies a predetermined condition, the processor causes the memory to set the member terminal as the host terminal, without changing the leader player.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Murakami, Kengo Uda, Kenichi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20180221768Abstract: An information processing device includes a memory that stores character data of one or more first characters of a game and character data of one or more second characters owned by a user, a receiver that receives a game operation from the user, and a processor connected to the memory and the receiver. The processor updates character data of a third character selected from the one or more first characters, and outputs the updated character data to the memory. The processor extracts the same character as the third character from the one or more second characters based on reception of the game operation. The processor causes a display to display, to the user, a notification indicating that the character data of the same character has been updated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Otomo, Kensuke Arai, Hayato Hirai
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Publication number: 20180221762Abstract: A video generation system is disclosed including a processing device, a game device that outputs, to the processing device, game video and game data that comprises a position coordinate of an object in a game and information in accordance with progress of the game, a generation device, and a display. The processing device receives the game data and processes the game data into a predetermined format. The generation device acquires the processed game data from the processing device, and generates content to be composited with the game video using the processed game data. The display displays the content composited with the game video at a position synchronized position coordinate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yosuke Noguchi, Sohey Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20180214775Abstract: An information processing device is disclosed including a receiver that receives an input operation from the user. The information processing device includes a memory that stores a plurality of attribute values of one or more characters of a game determined based on the input operation. The plurality of attribute values comprise a first attribute value of a first character. The information processing device includes a processor connected to the receiver and the memory and that controls progress of the game based on the plurality of attribute values. The processor changes the first attribute value, when a fusion instruction for a second character that is correlated with the first character is detected. The processor changes the first attribute value, when a cost associated with at least an elapsed time is spent. The processor changes the cost when a fusion instruction is detected. The processor outputs, to the memory, the changed first attribute value and the changed cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazutaka Karashima
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Publication number: 20170361229Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koutarou Ishiki, Shinya Sakai, Kazuma Itoh, Yuko Tatsuko, Akiko Takada
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Publication number: 20170340967Abstract: A terminal device includes a memory that stores, characters in a game, a plurality of slots into which action reservations for the characters are to be registered, an action sequence for each of the slots, and effects, a display, a receiver that receives a request of an action reservation for a first character, and a processor that outputs, to the memory, the request when the processor determines the first character is in an active state in which the character is allowed to register the action reservation. The memory registers the first character in an earliest slot in the action sequence among the slots in which no other characters have been registered. The processor causes the first character to execute an action associated with the slot according to the action sequence. The effect associated with the first character is applied to the executed action.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Taguchi, Akihiro Nakamura, Motonobu Shinotsuka, Toshifumi Imai, Yusuke Takiguchi, Naiko Maekawa, Seiki Saito, Makoto Niina, Toshiyuki Mukaiyama
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Publication number: 20170326452Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomio Kikuchi, Daisuke Kubota, Ryotaro Okamoto