Patents Assigned to Sega
  • Patent number: 11752432
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinpei Ito
  • Patent number: 11738267
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230256342
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manato Ito, Yuya Kimura, Hidenori Tozuka, Takumi Tenpaku, Taishi Yokoshima, Naoki Fujiki, Tatsuya Kubota, Koji Otsuka, Atsushi Saito
  • Publication number: 20230249072
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230226452
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Publication number: 20230226446
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Patent number: 11691081
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • 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