Patents Assigned to Square Enix Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 12214284Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 8, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTDInventors: Youichiro Miyake, Shinpei Sakata
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Publication number: 20250018285Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventor: Yuto YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20250010204Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventor: Yu WATANABE
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Patent number: 12136179Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Edgar Handy, Youichiro Miyake, Shinpei Sakata
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Publication number: 20240325900Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazutoyo MAEHIRO, Momoka AONO
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Publication number: 20240331284Abstract: 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 virtualType: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoya ASANO, Yasuaki ARAI, Ippei TOKUCHI
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Publication number: 20240325895Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazutoyo MAEHIRO, Momoka AONO
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Patent number: 12102905Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamasa Shiba, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Jun Waga, Yutaka Yoshida
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Patent number: 12090399Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 16, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Youichiro Miyake, Kousuke Namiki, Tomohiro Mori
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Patent number: 12076644Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Mitsunori Takahashi, Naoki Hamaguchi, Nobuyuki Matsuoka, Ryota Iwagami, Teruki Endo
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Patent number: 12070689Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Tsuda, Keita Shibata, Manami Fushiki
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Publication number: 20240273495Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Naoyuki TAMATE, Yosuke TOYODA, Fumiya IWAHASHI
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Patent number: 11986735Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventor: Chikara Saitou
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Patent number: 11983829Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto Tsuda, Keita Shibata, Manami Fushiki
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Publication number: 20240153482Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinpei SAKATA, Yusuke MORI
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Publication number: 20240149156Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Square Enix Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinpei SAKATA, Yusuke MORI
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Patent number: 11951396Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventor: Shoichi Ichikawa
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Patent number: 11941763Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventor: Makoto Tsuda
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Patent number: 11931648Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD., SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventors: Jun Takemura, Yoshinori Aoyagi, Mitsutoshi Gondai, Tsuyoshi Yokozawa
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Publication number: 20240082696Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.Inventor: Youichiro MIYAKE