Patents Assigned to Sega
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Patent number: 12064703Abstract: A toy track of the invention includes a base member, a track member having a track surface portion where a toy vehicle can travel and biased into a deployed state where the track surface portion slopes down to a front relative to the base member, a lid member connected to the base member to be opened and closed and having a locked portion, and a locking member having a releasing projection disposed on the track surface portion of the track member in a stowed state and a locking portion for locking the locked portion to hold the lid member in a closed state. The lid member biases the track member into the stowed state when in the closed state, and the locking member releases locking of the locking portion on the locked portion when the releasing projection is pressed by the toy vehicle entering the track surface portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SEGA TOYS CO., LTD.Inventors: Seiji Murakami, Yoichiro Seto
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Publication number: 20240269562Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to function as: a control device that: causes a player to acquire a content in response to a game execution instruction; extracts content groups each consisting of same type contents, from contents possessed by the player, according to an instruction from the player; automatically selects a fusion source content and resource contents from each of the extracted content groups; and collectively fuses, with the fusion source content, the resource contents of the same type as the fusion source content. Before the collectively fusing, the control device outputs a confirmation screen showing the resource contents of the same type as the fusion source content. The confirmation screen is configured to receive, for the fusion source content selected by the control device, a selection to determine whether to execute the collectively fusing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: 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: 20240226752Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores instructions that cause a computer that executes a game in which a player can acquire paid items by taking a purchase procedure, the instructions causing the computer to execute: storing, in a storage, possessed item information including a paid item possessed by the player and an expiration period of the paid item; automatically consuming the paid item with a lapse of the expiration period and removing the paid item from the possessed item information in the storage; and upon automatically consuming the paid item, granting the player a reward related to the game.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2024Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20240226739Abstract: 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: July 11, 2024Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20240212440Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores instructions that cause a computer to execute: displaying a benefit provision period change screen that receives a change request from a user; in response to the change request, updating the benefit provision period after a start of the benefit provision period; registering a benefit that can be used in a game and is provided at a specific interval included in a remaining benefit provision period depending on the updated benefit provision period; and upon determining that a specific condition is satisfied, providing the user with the registered benefit at the specific interval included in the remaining benefit provision period.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2024Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Publication number: 20240202767Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing instructions that cause a computer to execute: displaying a selection screen that receives a setting request from a user; in response to the setting request, setting a benefit provision period including a specific interval at which a benefit that can be used in a game is provided to a user; registering the benefit provided at the specific interval, with respect to the benefit provision period; and upon determining that a specific condition is satisfied, providing the user with the registered benefit at the specific interval included in the benefit provision period.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2024Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Patent number: 11998847Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions for executing a game in which a certain quest becomes executable upon a version upgrade of the game, and a new character becomes available upon the version upgrade of the game. The instructions cause a computer to select, based on a user input, a playable character to be used in one quest that is the certain quest, execute the one quest based on a parameter of the playable character, and grant a reward to a player in response to satisfying a clearance condition in the executed one quest. The more new characters that become available as the playable character, the lower an amount of the granted reward.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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Patent number: 11998846Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiro Otomo
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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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Patent number: 11957977Abstract: 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: April 16, 2024Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMESInventor: 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: 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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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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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