Patents Assigned to Sega
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Publication number: 20180214775Abstract: An information processing device is disclosed including a receiver that receives an input operation from the user. The information processing device includes a memory that stores a plurality of attribute values of one or more characters of a game determined based on the input operation. The plurality of attribute values comprise a first attribute value of a first character. The information processing device includes a processor connected to the receiver and the memory and that controls progress of the game based on the plurality of attribute values. The processor changes the first attribute value, when a fusion instruction for a second character that is correlated with the first character is detected. The processor changes the first attribute value, when a cost associated with at least an elapsed time is spent. The processor changes the cost when a fusion instruction is detected. The processor outputs, to the memory, the changed first attribute value and the changed cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazutaka Karashima
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Patent number: 10035062Abstract: A roulette lottery apparatus with a novel configuration causes a player not to lose interest. The roulette lottery apparatus 1 for a roulette game comprises: plural roulette bodies that have plural ball pockets into which lottery balls enter, the plurality of roulette bodies being held so as to be rotatable about a horizontal or tilted rotation axis in a state where a rotation plane of the ball pockets is raisable, each of the plurality of the roulette bodies having different diameters; a drive source that rotationally drives the roulette bodies; and ball guide members that guide the balls to enter into any ball pocket among the ball pockets while causing the balls to be in pendular movement. The plural roulette bodies are arranged in a stepped state in which the roulette bodies are displaced in an axis direction on the rotation center line.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2013Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.Inventors: Masaki Kawabata, Naoya Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9978207Abstract: A game environment where an operation status of a player's own station machine can be easily monitored and operated and an operation status of other station machines can be also easily monitored. A game machine capable of executing a specified game by connecting a plurality of station machines to enable communications between them, wherein each station machine includes a display panel that displays an image indicating progress of the game including a player's own operation status; and wherein the station machine is configured to be capable of: generating a first display image including the player's own operation status; generating a second display image including the player's own operation status and an operation status of other station machines; and switching between a first display mode to display the first display image on the display panel and a second display mode to display the second display image on the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.Inventors: Taiji Sugai, Takeshi Hisajima, Takashi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 9956480Abstract: A server device is provided that includes a registration unit configured to accept information identifying a target application for pre-registration and information identifying a user from a terminal device and register the accepted information, and a providing unit configured to provide registration information to a management service for performing a verification with respect to the information identifying the target application and the information identifying the user accepted from the terminal device after the target application is released. The registration information may be provided in a batch or each time the verification is performed.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGAInventors: Hiroyuki Kurosawa, Manato Ito
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Patent number: 9861884Abstract: A rotating apparatus for a game system, comprising: an annular rail; a rotating member that rotates on the annular rail; and a drive source that causes the rotating member to rotate, wherein the rotating member comprises: plural moving objects that move along the annular rail; and a connecting body that is disposed between neighboring moving objects and that is rotatably connected to the moving objects.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.Inventors: Masaki Kawabata, Naoya Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9849375Abstract: A game program causes a computer to implement a player character movement control function of controlling a player character to move from its home position toward a target movement position which has been set and, when a predetermined condition is met after the player character has moved to the set target movement position, controlling the player character to move from the current position to a second area including the home position.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2014Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GamesInventor: Jun Matsunaga
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Publication number: 20170361229Abstract: A game processing method that causes a computer to execute a game program includes displaying, with a touchscreen of the computer, a reference operation to a user, receiving, with the touchscreen, an input operation from a user, determining, with a processor of the computer, a matching degree between the input operation and the reference operation, outputting, from the processor to a memory of the computer, a level of the matching degree between the input operation and the reference operations based on the determination, counting, with the processor, the number of consecutive times that the level continuously exceeds a predetermined threshold level, and outputting, from the processor to the memory, information to award a bonus at a predetermined winning probability for an achieved number of consecutive times when the number of consecutive times reaches the achieved number of consecutive times.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koutarou Ishiki, Shinya Sakai, Kazuma Itoh, Yuko Tatsuko, Akiko Takada
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Publication number: 20170340967Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Taguchi, Akihiro Nakamura, Motonobu Shinotsuka, Toshifumi Imai, Yusuke Takiguchi, Naiko Maekawa, Seiki Saito, Makoto Niina, Toshiyuki Mukaiyama
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Publication number: 20170326452Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2017Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomio Kikuchi, Daisuke Kubota, Ryotaro Okamoto
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Patent number: 9805550Abstract: In order to improve the tempo of a game, a gaming device 100 has permission means (308) for, when execution means (306) starts to execute a game action in a game, permitting the execution by subtracting a consumption value according to the game action from an execution acceptable value for the game action, temporal recovery means (318) for allowing for recovery of the execution acceptable value resulting from the subtraction, as time passes using a recovery upper limit value as an upper limit, and payment recovery means (320) for allowing for recovery of the execution acceptable value resulting from the subtraction, based on payment or use of a game item obtained by the payment, even when the recovery upper limit value is exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMESInventor: Hiroshi Masui
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Publication number: 20170296917Abstract: Scrolling of a game image is controlled appropriately while increasing the amusement of the game.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiichi MATSUNAMI, Fuminori SATO
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Publication number: 20170287278Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller that generates a list that includes a plurality of players while a game is underway, a receiver that receives a request from an external device to acquire an intangible item to be executed in the game based on input from one of the players, and a transmitter that transmits a signal to the external device. The controller counts a number of predetermined players who have input the request within a first time period among the plurality of players. The controller outputs, to the transmitter, an instruction to award the intangible item to the predetermined players when the number is less than a predetermined value. The controller outputs, to the transmitter, an instruction to award the intangible item and an additional intangible item to the predetermined players when the number is greater than or equal to the predetermined value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA Games doing business as SEGA Games Co., Ltd.Inventor: Manato Ito
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Patent number: 9539505Abstract: A game device having a touch panel to accept an input by a flick operation according to a contact operation and a slide operation on the touch panel, instructs a flick operation by displaying on the touch panel a screen that instructs a flick operation from a predetermined position in a predetermined direction on the touch panel at a predetermined timing, detects a contact start position on the touch panel by the flick operation, detects the slide direction from the contact start position on the touch panel by the flick operation, detects the contact timing on the touch panel by the flick operation and determines whether to accept or reject the flick operation based on a comparison between the detected contact start position and the predetermined position, a comparison between the detected slide direction and the predetermined direction, and a comparison between the detected contact timing and the predetermined timing.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2014Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGAInventors: Tomoharu Tanaka, Minami Kumazawa, Seiki Saito, Toshiyuki Mukaiyama
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Patent number: 9492748Abstract: A video game apparatus includes a depth sensor configured to capture an area where a player exists and acquire depth information for each pixel of the image; and a gesture recognition unit configured to divide the image into a plurality of sections, to calculate statistics information of the depth information for each of the plurality of sections, and to recognize a gesture of the player based on the statistics information.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGAInventor: Makoto Suzuki
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Publication number: 20160325181Abstract: Retrieval performance when selecting a game playing video can be improved. An information processing apparatus {12(n)} includes: a storage section (66) in which at least one tag and a tagging condition of the tag are stored in association with each other; and an attaching section (74) which, when playback data to be used to play back a game playing video of a game has been generated and an event during the play of the game satisfies the tagging condition, attaches the tag, which is associated with the tagging condition, to the playback data as an index of the game playing video.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.Inventors: Mizuki HOSOYAMADA, Koji SHINDO
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Publication number: 20160275560Abstract: To improve a continuing rate of usage of an app that is executed on a terminal device. A server apparatus includes a banner request accepting unit that accepts, from a first application program executed by a terminal device, a banner request with a user ID that specifies a user of the terminal device; an application program selecting unit that selects, by referring to a usage history of the user specified by the user ID based on the user ID regarding an arbitrary application program, a second application program for which a predetermined period has passed after final activation thereof; and an advertising information sending unit that sends advertising information to encourage use of the second application program, corresponding to the selected second application program, to the terminal device, and has the advertising information displayed on a screen of the first application program.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2013Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SEGA GAMES DOING BUSINESS AS SEGA GAMES CO., LTD.Inventors: Manato ITO, Hiroyuki KUROSAWA, Kiyoshi SUZUKI
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Patent number: 9345958Abstract: A view frustum, based on a virtual viewpoint, a gaze-point, and a view-angle, is formed in a virtual space in which objects including a player character and an obstacle are arranged. The gaze-point is set to be in a front area of the player character. The virtual viewpoint is set to be at a position separated from the player character by a certain distance in a rear area of the player character. Whether or not a line segment from the gaze-point to the virtual viewpoint crosses the obstacle is determined. The virtual viewpoint is reset to be at a position of a crossing coordinate nearest to the gaze-point. Such coordinate is from among crossing coordinates at which the line segment crosses the obstacle when the line segment crosses the obstacle to increase the view-angle from a preset reference angle.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha SegaInventor: Tetsu Yoshimitsu
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Patent number: 9196128Abstract: A game apparatus accepts a bet by a player on a betting target from among multiple betting targets. For each target, odds indicating a winning allotment in a first game are set. A drawing is conducted for the first game. According to the result of the drawing, a game medium is paid out. A stake is calculated for a second game whose payout ratio is 1, taking into account, along with a number of bet game media, a difference between a position payout ratio, which serves as a winning allotment expectation value per unit of game media, for the betting target bet on by the player, and a set payout ratio.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2012Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.Inventor: Taiji Sugai
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Publication number: 20150321082Abstract: A roulette lottery apparatus with a novel configuration causes a player not to lose interest. The roulette lottery apparatus 1 for a roulette game comprises: plural roulette bodies that have plural ball pockets into which lottery balls enter, the plurality of roulette bodies being held so as to be rotatable about a horizontal or tilted rotation axis in a state where a rotation plane of the ball pockets is raisable, each of the plurality of the roulette bodies having different diameters; a drive source that rotationally drives the roulette bodies; and ball guide members that guide the balls to enter into any ball pocket among the ball pockets while causing the balls to be in pendular movement. The plural roulette bodies are arranged in a stepped state in which the roulette bodies are displaced in an axis direction on the rotation center line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2013Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.Inventors: Masaki Kawabata, Naoya Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9180373Abstract: At the beginning of a game, the re-sortie gauge 100 is displayed in the cost gauge 90 displayed on the display unit 8. This re-sortie gauge 100 is displayed in, for example, a horizontal blue bar, and indicates the reserve cost given to the player at the time with its overall length. This reserve cost is a predetermined numerical value, and is given equally to each player. Accordingly, the same reserve cost is automatically given irrespective of whether the player is experienced or a beginner. For example, if a versus game starts and the player's own unit is attacked by an opponent unit and destroyed, the display length is reduced by subtracting the cost value of the destroyed unit from the re-sortie gauge 100. While the remaining level of the re-sortie gauge 100 is being displayed, control is performed so as to cause the destroyed unit to sortie again.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2007Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: SEGA CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Hiraro