Patents Assigned to Sega Corporation
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Publication number: 20240131430Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores instructions causing a control device to execute: causing a controller to execute, in a training scenario, a training game and a challenge game in which a character attempts to achieve a target, in a specific order; awarding a skill point to the character based on an execution state of the training game or the challenge game; causing a display to display a skill acquisition screen in which the character acquires one or more skills from among acquirable skills of the character by consuming the skill point; when the character has acquired a skill that matches a condition included in the challenge game, activating the skill to be exhibited in the challenge game; and causing the display to display, on the skill acquisition screen, information on a condition included in a subsequently-executed challenge game.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20240082717Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores instructions for an information processing device that includes a processor, a storage device, and a display device, the instructions causing the processor to execute: storing, in the storage device, one or more game types that have been registered as a favorite by a player; receiving, from a player via a terminal device, a display request to display a list screen showing the registered game types; and in response to the display request, preferentially displaying on the list screen in the display device, from among the registered game types, a game type that satisfies a specific condition related to an execution deadline indicating an end of the game type.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventors: Sho Suzuki, Kosei Miyoshi, Yuezong Chen, Chiaki Annaka, Shoichiro Fukuyama
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Publication number: 20240075393Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores instructions for an information processing device that comprises a processor, a display device, and an audio output device. The instructions cause the processor to execute: acquiring, from a distribution server, a game video; acquiring, from a management system, operation information regarding a player playing a game in the game video, and event information on an event having occurred in the game based on the operation information; combining the game video, the operation information, and the event information to generate a final video; and presenting the final video via the display device and the audio output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Masahito Kurosawa
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Publication number: 20240075384Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores instructions for an information processing device that includes a processor, a display device, and an audio output device. The instructions cause the processor to execute: acquiring a game video from a distribution server; identifying a game based on the game video; acquiring reference information for a viewer of the game video from a management system that stores various types of reference information such that a different type of the reference information is acquired depending on the game identified based on the game video; combining the game video and the reference information to generate a final video; and presenting the final video via the display device and the audio output device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Masahito Kurosawa
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Publication number: 20240050855Abstract: An information processing device includes: a control device that: acquires position information about a player in a real world; determines whether a specific condition has been satisfied based on the position information; selects one or more events from types of the events in response to determining that the specific condition has been satisfied; accumulates the selected events in accumulation information associated with the player; and executes the accumulated events at a player's request. In response to execution of the accumulated events, the control device gives the player a reward related to the executed events, each of the accumulated events is associated with a time period of possible accumulation, and the control device deletes any event for which the time period of possible accumulation has elapsed, from the accumulation information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20240009562Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions that cause a computer to function as: a storage device that stores a usage status of each of player's possessed contents in a game; and a control device that: extracts, from the possessed contents, a content group having the usage status that does not satisfy a specific condition, receives, from a player via a terminal device including a display, a first request to browse the possessed contents, and in response to the first request, causes the display of the terminal device to display a screen including the possessed contents except the content group, the first request being a request for selecting, from the possessed contents, a content to be used in the game.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20240009557Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions that cause a computer to function as: a storage device that stores a usage status of each of player's possessed contents in a game; and a control device that: extracts, from the possessed contents, a content group having the usage status that satisfies a specific condition, receives, from a player via a terminal device including a display, a first request to browse the possessed contents, and in response to the first request, causes the display of the terminal device to display a screen including the possessed contents except the content group, the first request being a request for selecting, from the possessed contents, a content to be discarded.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Patent number: 11833432Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition means for acquiring position information about a player in a real world; a determination means for determining whether or not a specific condition related to a movement or a position of the player has been satisfied based on the position information; a selection means for selecting one or more contents from types of the contents based on appearance frequency, regardless of a request from the player, in response to determining that the specific condition has been satisfied; an accumulation means for accumulating the selected contents in accumulation information associated with the player; and an execution means for executing an event corresponding to the accumulated contents at the request of the player. The execution means gives the player a reward related to the accumulated contents in response to the execution of the event.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20230311004Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions that cause a computer to function as: extracts, from among player's possessed contents, a content group to which an evolved content as a new evolution destination has been added via a game update, causes a display device to display a notification screen that notifies the extracted content group, receives, via an input device, a batch instruction to collectively evolve each of contents included in the content group after the notification screen has been displayed, and upon receiving the batch instruction, collectively evolves and fuses the contents into the evolved content.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20230285861Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for executing a game in which a certain quest becomes executable based on an update that adds the certain quest to an existing quest, and a new character becomes usable based on an update that adds the new character to an existing character, the instructions causing a computer to: select a used character to be used in one quest that is the certain quest, execute the one quest based on a parameter of the used character, and grant a reward to a player in response to satisfying a clearance condition in the executed one quest, the used character including an existing character that became usable before a time when the one quest becomes executable, and the one quest becoming executable after a specific condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Patent number: 11752432Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Shinpei Ito
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Patent number: 11738267Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller and a storage that stores: contents and a mission associated with a first content of the contents. The controller executes a game in which a parameter of a source content is increased when the source content having a source content ID is fused with a resource content having a resource content ID that is the same as the source content ID; upon receiving an instruction for the mission based on a player's operation, causes a screen to display a game discipline in which the first content can be acquired; when two or more first contents are acquired, determines: a second content of the acquired first contents as the source content; and third contents of the acquired first contents as the resource contents; and cause the screen to display a result in which the second content is automatically fused with the third contents.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20230256342Abstract: The information processing device includes: a storage; and a controller that: stores, in the storage, participation status information indicating a user participation status in an event occurrence area, wherein the participation status information is associated with the event occurrence area that is set up at a location in a virtual game space corresponding to a location in a real space, determines whether the event occurrence area is in a crowded state based on the participation status information, after determining that the event occurrence area is in the crowded state, restricts participation to the event occurrence area in the virtual game space, and after determining that the event occurrence area is in the crowded state, sets up another event occurrence area in the virtual game space.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventors: Manato Ito, Yuya Kimura, Hidenori Tozuka, Takumi Tenpaku, Taishi Yokoshima, Naoki Fujiki, Tatsuya Kubota, Koji Otsuka, Atsushi Saito
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Publication number: 20230249072Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions that present, to a user, predetermined information necessary for utilizing updated contents provided by an information processing device, the instructions causing a computer to execute: extracting, from among possessed contents, an existing content to which an evolved content will be added through a game update, wherein the evolved content is an evolution destination of the existing content; acquiring, as the predetermined information, a cost required to evolve the existing content into the evolved content; and upon determining a lack of the cost in the possessed contents, displaying a notification screen that indicates the lack of the cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20230226452Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions that guide a user using a function to use another function among plural functions given by an information processing device, the instructions causing a computer to execute: giving preferential treatment to the user playing a first game depending on a first usage charge in the first game; acquiring usage information indicating a second usage charge in a second game; giving a predetermined license to the user, regardless of the first usage charge, under a condition that the second usage charge is equal to or greater than a certain amount; and giving the preferential treatment, in the first game, to the user who has given the predetermined license.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20230226446Abstract: An information processing device includes: a control means for causing the player to acquire a content in response to a game execution instruction from the player; an extraction means for extracting content groups of the same type from contents possessed by the player, according to an instruction from the player; a selection means for automatically selecting fusion source contents and resource contents from each of the extracted content groups; and a fusion means for collectively fusing, for each of the fusion source contents, one of the resource contents of the same type as the each of the fusion source contents. The selection means selects, as the resource contents, contents having a rarity at or below a specific level, from each of the extracted content groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2021Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Patent number: 11691081Abstract: An information processing device for executing a game in which a new quest can be executed based on an update that adds the new quest to an existing quest, and a new content becomes usable based on an update that adds the new content to an existing content, includes: a decision means for deciding a used content to be used in one quest, which is the existing quest, from contents associated with a player; an execution means for executing the one quest based on a parameter of the used content; and a granting means for granting a reward to the player in response to satisfying a clearance condition in the executed one quest. The granting means prioritizes the reward when a usable time of the used content is earlier than a specific time stored in association with the one quest.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20230191258Abstract: An information processing device includes: an acquisition means for acquiring position information about a player in a real world; a determination means for determining whether or not a specific condition related to a movement or a position of the player has been satisfied based on the position information; a selection means for selecting one or more contents from types of the contents based on appearance frequency, regardless of a request from the player, in response to determining that the specific condition has been satisfied; an accumulation means for accumulating the selected contents in accumulation information associated with the player; and an execution means for executing an event corresponding to the accumulated contents at the request of the player. The execution means gives the player a reward related to the accumulated contents in response to the execution of the event.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20230100449Abstract: An information processing method includes: causing a display to display: an advertisement within a game that is different from another advertisement for the game, and a question related to the advertisement in response to displaying the advertisement; calculating a degree of scrutinization according to an answer to the question received from a player of the game, the degree of scrutinization indicating a degree to which the player has scrutinized the advertisement; providing a content that the player uses in the game based on the display of the advertisement: and prioritizing the player to whom the controller provided the content based on the degree of scrutinization.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20230084802Abstract: An information processing method includes: storing in a storage, information indicating that a user is a paid member for a fixed period; providing an advantage in a game to the user for the fixed period; managing usage frequency of the advantage by the user for the fixed period; and sending the user notification information including the usage frequency as the fixed period elapses.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo