Patents Assigned to Square Enix Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12214284
    Abstract: A computer is caused to execute: acquiring the log; generating a natural sentence based on the acquired log; and generating story content to be appreciated by a user by arranging the generated natural sentence and one or a plurality of game-related contents that are related to the log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD
    Inventors: Youichiro Miyake, Shinpei Sakata
  • Publication number: 20250018285
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the disclosure provide a non-transitory computer-readable medium having recorded thereon a program to be executed in a computer device having a vibration mechanism for generating vibration or in a computer device connected to a vibration device having the vibration mechanism in a wireless or wired manner is provided. The program causes the computer device to perform: calculating a movement vector indicating a movement direction of a moving object or a user's operation point when the moving object or the user's operation point moves on at least one surface of a virtual object; and generating vibration information for controlling an operation of the vibration mechanism, based on a normal vector of the at least one surface located on a movement path of the moving object or the user's operation point and the movement vector, when the moving object or the user's operation point moves along the movement path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuto YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250010204
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide a game system including: a terminal device configured to execute a video game including content used in the video game; and a server device connected to the terminal device via a communication network and configured to control progress of the video game. The game system further includes a processor configured to: issue a non-fungible token (NFT) corresponding to the content in a blockchain network with a user as an owner within a range of an upper limit number; acquire information for specifying a remaining number of NFTs corresponding to the same type of content in the blockchain network; and change at least a part of a status associated with the content according to the remaining number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu WATANABE
  • Patent number: 12136179
    Abstract: A style transfer program causes a server to implement an acquisition function of acquiring buffer data from a buffer used for rendering, a style transfer function of applying style transfer based on one or more style images to the buffer data, and an output function of outputting data after the style transfer is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Edgar Handy, Youichiro Miyake, Shinpei Sakata
  • Publication number: 20240325900
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a video game processing program that, when, executed, causes a server to perform: controlling progress of a video game; displaying a game screen based on a progress status of the video game; extracting a description of a term corresponding to the progress status of the video game from a predetermined storage area based on information different from text displayed on the game screen; and providing the extracted description of the term to a player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutoyo MAEHIRO, Momoka AONO
  • Publication number: 20240331284
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing an information processing program that, when executed, causes a server to perform: generating a display image by rendering a three-dimensional virtual space in which at least one or more three-dimensional models are arranged at a viewpoint of a virtual camera; determining a target object from the three-dimensional models; rendering only the target object at the viewpoint of the virtual camera to convert the target object into two-dimensional image data; generating a plurality of dot pictures by making an inside of each dot uniform color information based on a predetermined rule, wherein the two-dimensional image data relating to the target object includes a plurality of neighboring pixels as one dot; and displaying the dot pictures instead of the three-dimensional models of the target object in the three-dimensional virtual space by setting a billboard as an image attachable area which always faces the virtual
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya ASANO, Yasuaki ARAI, Ippei TOKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240325895
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a video game processing program that, when executed, causes a server to perform: specifying one or more terms that satisfy a search target condition in accordance with a progress of a video game from among a plurality of terms that appear in the video game; deciding search information based on an operation of a player; selecting a predetermined number of terms from among the specified one or more terms based on the search information; and displaying the selected predetermined number of terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazutoyo MAEHIRO, Momoka AONO
  • Patent number: 12102905
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium including a video game processing program for causing a server to perform functions to control progress of a video game using a virtual space corresponding to map information of a real space and positional information of a user terminal of a user is provided. The functions include: a registering function configured to register objects of a plurality of users; a generating function configured to generate a predetermined event on a basis of positional information of a user terminal of a first user; and a participating function configured to cause an object of a second user different from the first user, for whom the event is generated, among the objects registered by the registering function to participate in the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takamasa Shiba, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Jun Waga, Yutaka Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12090399
    Abstract: A plan processing program for planning a task executed by a character based on a hierarchical task network causes a server to implement a plan generation function of generating a plan configured with a plurality of tasks from a domain based on goal information, in which in the plan generation function, a function of generating the plan in which a subsequent task to be employed is configured to change in accordance with a state or a condition is implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youichiro Miyake, Kousuke Namiki, Tomohiro Mori
  • Patent number: 12076644
    Abstract: To provide a game program capable of achieving high amusement. A game program causes an object to execute a first action by a player's operation, and changes a first parameter with the passage of time; and causes the object to execute a second action by the player's operation in a case where the first parameter satisfies a predetermined first condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsunori Takahashi, Naoki Hamaguchi, Nobuyuki Matsuoka, Ryota Iwagami, Teruki Endo
  • Patent number: 12070689
    Abstract: Provided is a non-transitory computer readable medium including an object linking program causing a server to implement, in a case where one of a real space and a virtual space augmented from the real space is a first space, and the other is a second space, a change information obtaining function of obtaining change information indicating a change in parameter or form of a first object in the first space, and a change linking processing function of performing a process causing a parameter or a form of one or more second objects in the second space to correspond to the first object after change based on the change information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Tsuda, Keita Shibata, Manami Fushiki
  • Publication number: 20240273495
    Abstract: According to one or more embodiments, a system that enables a user to easily perceive states of off-chain and on-chain content is provided. Content managed on-chain and content managed off-chain are displayed on one screen. The system includes a terminal apparatus and a server apparatus capable of communicating with a distributed ledger network and provides a service including content. The ownership of the content is recordable in the distributed ledger network. The content is stored in a storage device of the server apparatus or recorded on a distributed ledger in the distributed ledger network. The system acquires information about the stored content, acquires information about the recorded content, and displays on-chain information and off-chain information of the content designated from a user on a content moving screen on the terminal apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyuki TAMATE, Yosuke TOYODA, Fumiya IWAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11986735
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a video game processing program for causing a server to perform functions to control progress of a video game according to an operation of a player is provided. The functions comprise: ejecting an object from a position corresponding to the player in a virtual space based on the operation of the player; determining whether to update a degree of uplift of a predetermined region based on a positional relation between the ejected object and the predetermined region in the virtual space referring to storage storing uplift information related to the degree of uplift of the predetermined region and updating the uplift information according to a first update rule related to the object and the predetermined region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chikara Saitou
  • Patent number: 11983829
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium including an augmented reality processing program causing a server to implement a controllable object display data output function of outputting display data for displaying, in a superimposed manner on a real space, a controllable object that is a virtual object controllable by a user, and a controllable object control function of controlling at least one of an operation, movement, and a state change of the controllable object in accordance with an operation input provided by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Tsuda, Keita Shibata, Manami Fushiki
  • Publication number: 20240153482
    Abstract: According to one or more embodiments, a non-transitory computer-readable medium including a program that, when executed, causes a server to perform functions including: converting a first text into a voice feature amount by inputting the first text into a learned conversion model, wherein the first text is in a different language from a predetermined language, the learned conversion model is pre-learned to convert a second text in the predetermined language into a voice feature amount, and synthesizing a voice from the converted voice feature amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinpei SAKATA, Yusuke MORI
  • Publication number: 20240149156
    Abstract: An object is to provide a new program with a higher level of satisfaction while increasing a player's freedom for provided content. An example content providing program determines whether or not information received from a user is similar to a predetermined character string corresponding to progress information and progresses the content in a case where it is determined that the information is similar to the predetermined character string.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Square Enix Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinpei SAKATA, Yusuke MORI
  • Patent number: 11951396
    Abstract: An object of at least one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a game program of higher interest. A game program controls the first character satisfying a predetermined condition as a result of the virtual battle to automatically execute, without moving in a virtual space together with the player character, a specific action that is an action different from before a start of the virtual battle and is advantageous for the player character, or controls the first character satisfying the predetermined condition as a result of the virtual battle to automatically generate a specific effect advantageous for the player character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11941763
    Abstract: A viewing system which presents augmented reality of a 3D model representing an appearance of a target, comprises: an obtainer which is able to obtain a captured image of the target; a creator which is able to create a 3D model of the target based on the captured image obtained by the obtainer; and a presenter which is able to present the 3D model of the target created by the creator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11931648
    Abstract: The present invention allows stress of a user that may occur until matching is completed when carrying out matching of a plurality of users with each other to be reduced. The users are arranged by taking into consideration a waiting time of a user who has never cleared content. When the user carries out a play request for content, the user is arranged in the content. The content in which the user is arranged is extracted by using an extraction condition regarding the waiting time of a non-cleared user. The plurality of users arranged in the content are thus matched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD., SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Takemura, Yoshinori Aoyagi, Mitsutoshi Gondai, Tsuyoshi Yokozawa
  • Publication number: 20240082696
    Abstract: In an information processing apparatus, position information is obtained with respect to each of a plurality of players, a group made up of the plurality of players is created, and event data of a game event that can be played by the group, the event data including one or a plurality of individual conditions to be satisfied by a player, is generated based on the position information of the players.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Youichiro MIYAKE