Patents Assigned to Sega
  • Publication number: 20230191258
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230100449
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230084802
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230020609
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Patent number: 11545009
    Abstract: A medal arrangement device and a medal game machine are disclosed. A medal arrangement device has a holder and a supplier with a medal hopper and a guide unit. A medal passage has a first medal passage part and a second medal passage part. The guide has an upstream abutting part and a downstream abutting part provided on a first side wall surface side of the first medal passage part. When one medal ejected from the medal hopper reaches a predetermined position of the downstream end portion, at least a part of the upstream abutting part and at least a part of the downstream abutting part are located in the first medal passage part to press the medal against the second side wall surface. When the medal passes through the predetermined position, the downstream abutting part retracts to an outside of the first medal passage part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichiro Sagawa, Akira Hanamata
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20220284780
    Abstract: A medal arrangement device and a medal game machine are disclosed. A medal arrangement device has a holder and a supplier with a medal hopper and a guide unit. A medal passage has a first medal passage part and a second medal passage part. The guide has an upstream abutting part and a downstream abutting part provided on a first side wall surface side of the first medal passage part. When one medal ejected from the medal hopper reaches a predetermined position of the downstream end portion, at least a part of the upstream abutting part and at least a part of the downstream abutting part are located in the first medal passage part to press the medal against the second side wall surface. When the medal passes through the predetermined position, the downstream abutting part retracts to an outside of the first medal passage part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichiro SAGAWA, Akira Hanamata
  • Publication number: 20220189239
    Abstract: A game device includes a control section, a storage section, and a display section. The control section performs a game control method by executing a program stored in the storage section. The game control method includes displaying an image of spin of a reel in a first display area of the display section, and updating, in the case where a first symbol is displayed in the first display area when the spin of the reel is stopped, data stored in the storage section such that a privilege corresponding to a symbol displayed at a second position in a second display area of the display section which corresponds to a first position at which the first symbol is displayed in the first display area is awarded to a player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.
    Inventors: Masaaki Kojima, Masaya Ominami
  • Publication number: 20210370181
    Abstract: An object of the present inventions is to reduce the time and effort required to train using the corresponding content for a mission. A program causes a computer to function as: a granting means 44 for granting a reward when a parameter of corresponding content for a mission reaches a prescribed value, a control means 42 for advancing a game discipline in which corresponding content can be acquired based on mission instructions, and when the plurality of corresponding contents was acquired based on said advancement, a fusion means 46 for automatically fusing one of the corresponding contents as a fusion source and the remaining corresponding contents as resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20210346804
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a storage that stores: game tasks of a game to be played by a player; and game contents associated with a player ID of the player as possessed contents possessed by the player; and a processor connected to the storage and a display and that: extracts, from the possessed contents, an evolvable content that can be evolved; determines, from the game tasks, first game tasks that can be selected by the player causes a display to display a selection screen indicating the first game tasks and that receives a game task selected, from the first game tasks, by the player. The processor further determines, from the first game tasks, a second game task related to an evolution of the evolvable content. The selection screen indicates the second game task in a different form from remaining game tasks except for the second game task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Patent number: 11138832
    Abstract: A game system includes a receiver that receives an input of setting information related to the use of a service for an electronic money payment from a player when the service is used; a reader that reads electronic money information from a recording medium; a payment unit that makes a payment corresponding to the setting information received from the player by using the electronic money information read from the recording medium; and a setting information recorder that records first setting information input by the player. When the service is used, a screen for receiving the input of the first setting information from the player is generated when the first setting information is recorded in the setting information recorder, and a screen for receiving the input of second setting information from the player is generated when the first setting information is not recorded in the setting information recorder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruhito Abe, Naoki Nakamura, Koichi Kimata
  • 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 nĂ—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
  • Patent number: 11100749
    Abstract: A gaming device comprises a control unit and a storage unit. The control unit is configured to sequentially display symbols included in a first set of a plurality of symbols comprising a specific symbol in each of a plurality of display areas to change displays of the symbols in the plurality of display areas, and stop the changes of the displays of the symbols at a predetermined timing; sequentially display symbols included in a second set of a plurality of symbols comprising the specific symbol in a higher proportion than in the first set of symbols in each of the plurality of display areas to change displays of the symbols in the plurality of display areas, and stop the changes of the displays of the symbols at a predetermined timing; and execute a predetermined performance when the symbols included in the second set of symbols are sequentially displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Suzuki, Seiji Kato, Satoshi Arashima
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20210239438
    Abstract: A throwing star target is provided, in which a throwing star easily sticks and which has excellent durability. A throwing star target 1 which holds a thrown throwing star 2 includes a board 10, and a plurality of pins 20 arranged on a target surface 10A of the board 10. Each of the plurality of pins 20 has a polygonal XY cross section, is formed to be tapered, and has flat surfaces 20U, 20V, and 20W which come into contact with a front side 2A or a back side 2B of the throwing star 2 that is in a state in which of being held.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Dartslive d/b/a Dartslive Co., Ltd., Sega Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yamamoto, Hideki Saito, Yuuki Kaneto
  • Patent number: 11049366
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for obtaining a more enjoyable game. A game device comprises a determination unit for determining results of a plurality of games randomly, a sorting unit for sorting, on the basis of the results, a sequence in which the plurality of games are to be started, and a starting unit for starting the games in the sorted sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.
    Inventor: Shunichi Fujita
  • Patent number: D930051
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Sega Ag Group, LLC
    Inventor: Jeremy D. Seggebruch