Patents Assigned to Sega
  • Patent number: 11040280
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koutarou Ishiki, Shinya Sakai, Kazuma Itoh, Yuko Tatsuko, Akiko Takada
  • Patent number: 10974143
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Taguchi, Akihiro Nakamura, Motonobu Shinotsuka, Toshifumi Imai, Yusuke Takiguchi, Naoko Maekawa, Seiki Saito, Makoto Niina, Toshiyuki Mukaiyama
  • Patent number: 10976141
    Abstract: A dart game apparatus 100 is provided with: a dart board in which a dart can stick and a plurality of segments are demarcated; a first detecting part 100 that detects a position of a point where the dart stuck in the dart board; a second detecting part 102 that detects a segment of the point where the dart stuck from the plurality of segments; a correcting part 104 that corrects the position detected by the first detecting part 100 based on the segment detected by the second detecting part 102 if a segment corresponding to the position detected by the first detecting part 100 is different from the segment detected by the second detecting part 102; and an outputting part 106 that output the position detecting by the first detecting part 100 or position corrected by the correcting part 104.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha SEGA Games, Kabushiki Kaisha Dartslive
    Inventor: Yuji Sugimori
  • Patent number: 10922928
    Abstract: A lottery device comprises a control unit and a storage unit. The control unit implements a lottery function by executing a program stored in the storage unit. The lottery function comprises an associating function for associating, on the basis of random data, a plurality of positions on a virtual object and a plurality of marks, an operation control function for simulating a motion of the virtual object in a virtual space by physical operation, and a determining function for determining a lottery result on the basis of a mark associated with a position on the virtual object as determined according to a state of the virtual object in the simulation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.
    Inventor: Taiji Sugai
  • Patent number: 10905954
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Murakami, Kengo Uda, Kenichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10898806
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Otomo, Kensuke Arai, Hayato Hirai
  • Publication number: 20200360817
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games doing business as Sega Game Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20200316471
    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: September 14, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro OTOMO
  • Patent number: 10796527
    Abstract: A gaming apparatus displays a history of results of a plurality of games on the display unit, displays a first screen image on the display unit before betting a game, displays on the display unit a second screen image for a progress of the game and a third screen image indicating a result of the game in response to receiving a bet order under a first screen image-displayed state, makes a time to shift a displayed image from the first screen image to the third screen image when a display order of the result of the game is received under a first screen image-displayed state shorter than that when a bet is made under a first screen image-displayed state, and updates the display of the history of the results on the display unit according to the result of the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Miyano
  • Patent number: 10737187
    Abstract: A coding toy includes a control object (a figure body) having a control unit, an input unit and an output unit, and a part (an icon block) having a code identifier (an icon) that corresponds to a control detail of the control object. The control unit of the control object obtains code identifier information and positional information from the code identifier indicated by the part disposed in a predetermined position and the position of the part and controls the output unit to a control detail and in a control sequence that are determined by the code identifier information and the positional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: SEGA TOYS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akemi Kamata, Yuki Ito
  • Patent number: 10709963
    Abstract: A game system comprises a game progress control unit which allows a plurality of games to progress, a win and loss history managing unit which manages a win and loss history of each of the plurality of games, and an image generating unit which generates a game image comprising a win and loss history image representing the win and loss history. The win and loss history managing unit determines whether the win and loss history meets a predetermined highlight condition, and allows highlighting to be performed on the win and loss history image corresponding to the win and loss history determined to meet the highlight condition. This allows intuitive recognition of any of a plurality of games that has enhanced expectation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Takasaki, Takashi Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20200217630
    Abstract: A dart game apparatus 100 is provided with: a dart board in which a dart can stick and a plurality of segments are demarcated; a first detecting part 100 that detects a position of a point where the dart stuck in the dart board; a second detecting part 102 that detects a segment of the point where the dart stuck from the plurality of segments; a correcting part 104 that corrects the position detected by the first detecting part 100 based on the segment detected by the second detecting part 102 if a segment corresponding to the position detected by the first detecting part 100 is different from the segment detected by the second detecting part 102; and an outputting part 106 that output the position detecting by the first detecting part 100 or position corrected by the correcting part 104.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha SEGA Games d/b/a SEGA Games Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Dartslive D/B/A Dartslive Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Sugimori
  • Publication number: 20200155941
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games doing business as Sega Game Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinpei Ito
  • Publication number: 20200132419
    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: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha SEGA Games d/b/a SEGA Games Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Dartslive D/B/A Dartslive Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takamura, Takayuki Ohnishi
  • Publication number: 20200030698
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koutarou Ishiki, Shinya Sakai, Kazuma Itoh, Yuko Tatsuko, Akiko Takada
  • Patent number: 10529185
    Abstract: A management system and a gaming table. A server associates credits for each user with unique identification information and stores the credits. The server also performs controls by outputting an error if the following do not match: the amount indicated by chip information for a chip present in a predetermined sector; and the amount to be added to or subtracted from the credits that are associated and stored with the identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.
    Inventors: Hisao Oguchi, Takashi Maekawa
  • Patent number: 10493362
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Games
    Inventors: Tomio Kikuchi, Daisuke Kubota, Ryotaro Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10497206
    Abstract: A game apparatus possesses a symbol display controlling function, a parameter controlling function and a granting function. The symbol display controlling function makes one or a plurality of symbols randomly displayed. The parameter controlling function increases a value of a parameter which has been set in advance in correspondence with a displayed number of predetermined symbols in a plurality of parameters in accordance with a result of display of the symbol(s) by the symbol display controlling function. When the value of the parameter has reached a predetermined value, the granting function grants a privilege according to the parameter which has reached the predetermined value concerned. The game apparatus realizes a game of higher entertaining property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.
    Inventors: Yudai Takahara, Taiji Sugai
  • Patent number: D879880
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobutaka Abe
  • Patent number: D884075
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuharu Fukazawa, Nobutaka Abe