Patents Assigned to Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 9839848
    Abstract: A controller causes a display unit to display N candidate values selected from natural numbers in a target range having a predetermined base value as the maximum value, as candidates to be selected by a user. The controller selects M values that are multiples of a plurality of different reference values, from among the natural numbers in the target range as candidate values, and causes the display unit to display a candidate value list that lists N candidate values that include the M values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoharu Umekawa
  • Patent number: 9833704
    Abstract: A game control device according to the present invention includes: a correlator configured to correlate a plurality of objects with each of a plurality of users including a first user and a second user; a setter configured to set a plurality of object groups including more than one object selected from the plurality of objects correlated with each of the plurality of users for each of the plurality of users; an associator configured to associate each of the plurality of object groups set by the setter, with a group type; an executor configured to execute a battle game between an object group of the first user and an object group of the second user; a determiner configured to determine a group type of the object group of the second user before the battle game is executed; and a selector configured to select an object group of the first user from the plurality of object groups set for the first user, the object group of the first user applied to the battle game, the object group of the first user associated wit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Owaku, Taku Endo
  • Patent number: 9827495
    Abstract: First control means of a simulation device simulates motions of a plurality of virtual players that are placed in a virtual world and other than an operation target of a user. Determining means determines whether a situation of a game being simulated in the virtual world is similar to a situation indicated in data. In a case where it is determined that the situation of the game in the virtual world is similar to the situation indicated in the data, second control means controls, in place of the first control means, the virtual players other than the operation target of the user based on a motion associated with the situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Iskander Umarov, Eiji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20170333791
    Abstract: A game machine includes a game operation acceptance device configured to accept one or more game operations. The game machine also includes a skill evaluating device configured to determine whether or not the one or more game operations that are accepted satisfy one or more predefined skill conditions. The game machine also includes a game value consuming device configured to consume a game value in case that the skill evaluating device determined that the one or more game operations that are accepted satisfy one or more predefined skill conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norifumi KAWAI, Shinya SUGA
  • Publication number: 20170337777
    Abstract: A game machine includes a game operation acceptance device configured to accept one or more game operations by a player. The game machine also includes a skill evaluating device configured to determine whether or not the one or more game operations that are accepted by the game operation acceptance device satisfy one or more predefined skill conditions. The game machine also includes a game value consuming device configured to consume a game value in case that the skill evaluating device determined that the one or more game operations by the player which are accepted by the game operation acceptance device satisfy the one or more predefined skill conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norifumi KAWAI, Shinya SUGA
  • Publication number: 20170337772
    Abstract: A game apparatus includes a symbol arrangement device, a replacement symbol drawing device, a symbol replacement device, and a win determination device. The symbol arrangement device is configured to arrange a plurality of symbols in a predefined area. The replacement symbol drawing device is configured to draw at least one replacement target symbol to be replaced. The symbol replacement device is configured to replace, with at least alternative symbol, the at least one replacement target symbol that was drawn, after the symbol arrangement device arranged at least one of the plurality of symbols. The win determination device is configured to perform a win determination based at least in part on an arrangement of symbols which are in at least a part of the predefined area, after the symbol replacement device replaced, by the at least alternative symbol, the at least one replacement target symbol that was drawn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakazu YAMAMORI, Yosuke SASAKI
  • Patent number: 9821225
    Abstract: Provided is a game machine that can expand the range of play actions demanded of a player. The game machine is provided with an input apparatus including four play operation units, and provides a music game that demands of the player a predetermined operation of each play operation unit. The game machine is provided with: a vibration sensor that detects a predetermined operation of each play operation unit; and an optical sensor that detects player actions during play of the music game. Also, the game machine evaluates the predetermined operation of the player on the basis of the detection results of the vibration sensor and evaluates player actions that are correlated with the predetermined operation on the basis of the detection results of the optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Asami, Hayana Honda, Shuhei Arai, Yohei Takahashi, Yoshiko Ichijo
  • Patent number: 9818255
    Abstract: Provided is a game system that makes it possible for different user groups mutually to participate in the progression of a game. In a game system (1), a user terminal (8) that provides a mobile game to a first user group, a game machine (GM) that provides an arcade game to a second user group that is different from the first user group, and a center server (3) that provides a predetermined service thereto, are connected together via a network. And, upon the condition that the first user of the first user group expends a predetermined value, the game system (1) provides an advantageous situation for the arcade game to the second user of the second user group; and moreover, if a benefit condition is satisfied in the arcade game, confers a benefit that can be used in the mobile game upon the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shigehito Mukasa
  • Patent number: 9814976
    Abstract: A game system allows a user to play a game in a similar way to a game machine. The game system includes a server device, a game machine, and a network terminal device. A game machine program makes a control device function as a device for making a user play a game and a device for accepting a predetermined service from the server device as well as identifying a user in cooperation with the server device. The server device is provided with a virtual game machine portion which executes the game machine program and makes a control unit thereof function as the device for making a user play the game and the device for accepting the service. The network terminal device is provided with an I/O control portion which makes the network terminal device function as a remote I/O device for the virtual game machine control portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuma Konishi, Suguru Hamada
  • Patent number: 9789405
    Abstract: A management server issues a token associated with friend network identification information identifying a user of a game provided by an application server, to the application server; receives the token passed from the game to another game on the basis of an operation of the user in a terminal apparatus where the game and the other game are available, from an application server that provides the other game; and manages, in association with each other, the friend network identification information related to the game and friend network identification information related to the other game for which the issued token matches the received token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Taniguchi, Yuji Osato, Takaaki Kotera
  • Patent number: 9779586
    Abstract: A game server provides a second game after a ranking of players is determined based on results of a first game in which plural players have participated is provided with an allocator that allocates a first option of plural first options to each of a predetermined number of high-order players in the ranking of the first game, the first option allocated to one of the high-order players differing from the first option allocated to another of the high-order players; a low-order player entry receiver that receives an entry for participation in the second game from a low-order player other than the predetermined number of high-order players, the entry for participation being received when one of the plural first options is selected; a determination unit that determines one of options including the plural first options; and a benefit awarder that awards benefit to a player having selected the first option determined by the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Saruta, Kiyohiko Yamane, Teruhiko Kimura, Saori Hanaoka, Ryu Nagashima, Toshio Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 9779577
    Abstract: A game system includes a game machine having a monitor that displays a game screen and a touch panel. This game system: receives an operation related to the progress of a game displayed upon the game screen in a game operation area specified within the game screen; controls the progression of the game on the basis of the operation that is inputted; displays a comment window upon the game screen; receives a movement operation for the comment window inside a comment operation area specified in the game screen; controls the movement of the comment window on the basis of the operation that is inputted; and limits reception of an operation by the game operation area when the movement operation for the comment window has been made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9779581
    Abstract: There is provided an amusement system which expands an opportunity that a user obtains a prize relating to a game. In an amusement system where: the game can be played on a user terminal using a game server portion of a server apparatus; a prize relating to the game is selected by the game server portion in association with an operation by a user to the user terminal; and the user can use the selected prize in the game, a vendor apparatus being constructed as a physical apparatus different from the user terminal is connected to the server apparatus, a prize is selected by the game server portion based on an operation by a user to the vendor operation, and printing-output is performed by a printer of the vendor apparatus as one example of a physical prize corresponding to the selected prize.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Fujii, Naoya Osawa, Hiroyuki Muraki, Yoshiko Hojo, Keiichi Nakajima, Kazuya Takahashi, Taku Tateyama
  • Patent number: 9764241
    Abstract: This game system (1) includes multiple game machines (2A, 2B) connected to a network (5), allows a player of a game machine to select one of selective items on a game prepared in advance, and allows the player to play a game having content reflecting the selected item. This game system is provided with a device (32) for storing relation data for determining whether or not a predetermined connection exists between players, a device (11) for determining the selection state pertaining to the items selected by the players on the game machines, a device (11, 12) for determining, based on the relation data, other players that have the predetermined connection with the player, and a device (21) which, when the player is making the selection from the selective items, presents the player making the selection with the selection state of other players having the predetermined connection with that player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Mito, Hidekazu Shimizu, Masanori Kono, Koji Makino, Masayuki Shamoto, Satoshi Tsuchida, Ryo Horie, Yuki Nakano, Naoko Nasuhara, Tomohiro Inami
  • Patent number: 9757655
    Abstract: According to the game control device, game control method, game control program, storage medium and game system of this invention, when composite processing on characters is performed, consumption points that are consumed in the composite processing are subtracted from the composition points corresponding to the user's user identifying information, and when the subtraction result is negative, predetermined point addition processing is performed until the subtraction result becomes zero or more. By performing the point addition processing as described above, the game control device, game control method, game control program, storage medium and game system can improve the user's operability without requiring the reselection of other characters to be composited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Suzuki, Hiroyuki Tomita, Minako Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9751016
    Abstract: A management server issues a token associated with friend network identification information identifying a user of a game provided by an application server, to the application server; receives the token passed from the game to another game on the basis of an operation of the user in a terminal apparatus where the game and the other game are available, from an application server that provides the other game; and manages, in association with each other, the friend network identification information related to the game and friend network identification information related to the other game for which the issued token matches the received token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Taniguchi, Yuji Osato, Takaaki Kotera
  • Publication number: 20170246541
    Abstract: A game system includes a selection device and a game control device. The selection device may be configured to select, for selecting one or more base games, at least one of a) the number of one or more primary games; and b) a type of the one or more base games, using at least a predefined information. A game control device may be configured to start or advance a secondary game, which is subordinate to the one or more primary games, based at least in part on a game state of the one or more base games selected by the selection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryu SASAKI, Takashi SAKUMA, Satoru EBIHARA
  • Patent number: 9737818
    Abstract: A game system includes a generating unit that generates game data used in progression through a game, based on player's instruction information input to a first terminal of a plurality of terminals. The system also includes a progression unit that makes the game progression, using the game data generated by the generating unit. The system also includes a determining unit that makes a determination regarding prohibition of use of the game data by at least a terminal other than the first terminal of the plurality of terminals, based on at least one playing result for a player that plays the game that the progression unit progresses using the game data generated by the generating unit based on the player's instruction information. The system also includes a control unit that controls the prohibition of use of the game data, based on the result of the determination by the determining unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tahei Katagai, Tomoaki Koguchi
  • Patent number: 9724613
    Abstract: Provided is a game device capable of enabling a user to more readily perceive the rhythm of music when playing a game in which the player performs a game operation to the music. In the game configured so that the player performs the game operation to the music, based on reference timing data indicating a reference timing at which the player should perform the game operation, a game device indicates the reference timing to the player by moving a guide image on a game screen from a generation position to a target position while changing a direction of the guide image in accordance with a beat of the music.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoki Tarama
  • Patent number: 9713773
    Abstract: A game system executes a first match based on at least one first game object which a first player uses and a plurality of opponent game objects which an opponent uses and are not the opponent itself, executes a second match based on at least one second game object which a second player uses and the plurality of opponent game objects, and identifies at least one opponent game object which is selected by the first player as at least one selected game object. The game system also acquires input information that is input by the first player during or after the first match in regard to the at least one selected game object. The game system records, in an online storage, the input information in association with the at least one selected game object and presents to the second player, the input information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoji Takeuchi