Patents Examined by Pierre E. Elisca
  • Patent number: 12128301
    Abstract: A program, a game control method, and an information processing apparatus, which are capable of improving operability of a game. A program causing an information processing apparatus to execute a step of causing an object arranged on a field object in a virtual space in which a coordinate system having a first axis and a second axis is set to be displayed on a screen in which a coordinate system having a third axis and a fourth axis is set, a step of detecting first and second positions on the screen while the first user operation is being detected, and a moving step of moving the object according to a first user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventors: Daisuke Taka, Motoshi Abe, Masaru Ida, Kiyoto Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12121794
    Abstract: Electronic tracking systems are disclosed for assisting users with locating objects in a sporting environment. One such system includes a ball tracking component that tracks a game ball while moving in the sporting environment, and a heads up display that is worn by the user. This heads up display has an electronic display screen with a transparent display area that dynamically displays images within the user's field of view. A processor, which communicates with the ball tracking component and heads up display, is programmed to detect movement of the game ball, and responsively determine launch characteristics and/or flight characteristics of the moving game ball. The heads up display displays the launch/flight characteristics contemporaneous with an object indication adjacent to or superimposed over the moving game ball as the game ball is visible through the transparent display area of the display screen within the user's field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas A. Leech
  • Patent number: 12125346
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that offer side bets in a multi-hand game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Darren Maya, Paul Baskerville, Donald W. Humphreys, Patrick Issertell, Ben Holsclaw
  • Patent number: 12125339
    Abstract: A system is provided. The system may include a display device and a processor configured to present an array of display positions including columns and rows of display positions, the array including a first row having a reel of symbols associated with each column of the first row for displaying symbols on the reels within the first row, the array including a second row for displaying a set of initial symbols, each row of the array above the first row including a progressively increasing multiplier value, identify an RNG output for each of the reels, perform a lookup within a table associated with a column using the RNG output for the column, determine that a step-up symbol should be displayed in the first column based on the first lookup, and move the initial symbol displayed in the first column up at least one row based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Blake Davis, Allon Englman
  • Patent number: 12125348
    Abstract: Systems and methods employing a ticket voucher handling device, such as an electronic gaming machine or a ticket voucher redemption kiosk, that issues and/or redeems ticket vouchers associated with different ticket voucher systems corresponding to different activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, William Brosnan, Steven G. LeMay, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 12121803
    Abstract: A method is disclosed including setting, at a server, a server VSYNC signal to a server VSYNC frequency defining a plurality of frame periods. The server VSYNC signal corresponding to generation of a plurality of video frames at the server during the plurality of frame periods. The method including setting, at a client, a client VSYNC signal to a client VSYNC frequency. The method including sending a plurality of compressed video frames based on the plurality of video frames from the server to the client over a network using the server VSYNC signal. The method including decoding and displaying, at the client, the plurality of compressed video frames. The method including analyzing the timing of one or more client operations to set the amount of frame buffering used by the client, as the client receives the plurality of compressed video frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Mark E. Cerny, Kelvin M. Yong
  • Patent number: 12118851
    Abstract: A gaming system includes an EGM having a horizontally mounted display device, a reader device configured to wirelessly detect tagged items. The EGM is configured to detect, using the reader device, the presence of a first tagged item and determine a tag identifier (ID) of the first tagged item. The EGM is also configured to transmit a tag detection message to a gaming support server and receive, from the gaming support server, a response message including an amount of play credits to be added to a credit meter of the EGM. The EGM is further configured to increment a first credit meter on the EGM by the amount of play credits identified in the response message and to conduct instances of game play of an electronic game on the display device, each instance of game play decrementing the first credit meter to enable play.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Mordecai Marks
  • Patent number: 12112595
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a display screen for displaying an electronic game, a mobile topper unit configured to be positioned in a first position and a second position, the first position being a lower position that the second position, and a controller programmed to execute the electronic game and programmed to provide instructions to change the position of the mobile topper unit between the first position and the second position based on an event of the wagering game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Timothy Seckel, Joseph Kaminkow
  • Patent number: 12114302
    Abstract: A method and apparatus may be used to support coordinated and cooperative sectorized transmissions. Power control and clear channel assessment for sectorized transmissions may be used, along with sectorized beacon and associated procedures. Transmissions in a network may be protected by a first access point (AP) sending an omni-directional transmission and a beamformed or sectorized transmission to a station (STA), an overlapping basic service set (OBSS) confirming a spatially orthogonal (SO) condition based on the omni-directional transmission, and a second AP monitoring the omni-directional transmission and confirming the SO condition. The STA may be configured to receive a request-to-send (RTS) frame indicating data is available for transmission, and transmit a cooperative sectorized (CS) clear-to-send (CTS) frame indicating an ability for multiple AP reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Pengfei Xia, Oghenekome Oteri, Hanqing Lou, Nirav B Shah, Monisha Ghosh, Robert Olesen
  • Patent number: 12106626
    Abstract: A rewards system awards a prize to a player of a gaming machine, where the prize is awarded separate from any winnings awarded by the gaming machine for a winning wagering game outcome. The rewards system may comprise an automated prize redemption device having a housing which defines a prize storage area and a rewards server configured to compare activity information obtained from the gaming machine to criteria associated with stored prize events and when met, command the gaming machine to issue a media from a media dispenser of the gaming machine to the player. The player may present the media to the automated prize redemption device to cause it to dispense the awarded prize.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: ARIES TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Ronnie W. Harris, Kent Reisdorph, Janae Hoover, Rochelle Terman
  • Patent number: 12106638
    Abstract: A computing system receives a request to create a digital data object from a user device of a user for use in a game. The computing system generates the digital data object based on the request. The computing system causes a physical data object corresponding to the digital data object to be activated. The computing system receives a plurality of scanned images of the physical data object. The computing system receives an indication of an outcome of the game based on the physical data object. Based on the indication and the plurality of scanned images, the computing system generates a set of graphical objects to be displayed to the user via the user device of the user. The computing system causes the user to participate in the game using the set of graphical objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Lotto.com Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Metzger, Arthur Mirzoian
  • Patent number: 12102877
    Abstract: Some existing health and fitness apps map athletic activity and track that activity over time and present to the athlete various aggregations of their activity. Other existing health and fitness apps create training schedules for the athlete to achieve a fitness goal. However, the training schedules provided by these apps are static in nature and provide a fixed quantity and type of exercise within a fixed schedule for the athlete to accomplish. The presently disclosed virtual athletic coach offers dynamic training schedules that can make incremental adjustments based on an athlete's performance to the training schedule over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Humango, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Raphael Abecassis, William Cleveland Tidwell, Alan Robert Couzens
  • Patent number: 12106633
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a computer implemented method performed by a gaming system. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a method for operating an add-on game of a gaming system. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding gaming system and a computer program product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Play'n Go Marks Ltd
    Inventor: Kristóf Gábor Körmendi
  • Patent number: 12097425
    Abstract: The description relates to input devices that can be secured to and used to control various devices. One example input device can include a housing defining a top surface that includes controls. The housing can define a recess that includes generally opposing upper and lower surfaces that extends at least partially under and parallel to the top surface. A self-adjusting gripping mechanism can extend into the recess through the lower surface and can be biased toward the upper surface. The self-adjusting gripping mechanism can be configured to be contacted by devices having a range of thicknesses and configured to grip individual devices within the range of thicknesses between the self-adjusting gripping mechanism and the upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: James A. Trzaskos, Ryan Whitaker, Brian Claire, Casey Cook Zelig
  • Patent number: 12094288
    Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method for training a neural network associated with a casino table game monitoring system. Synthetic images of objects extracted from a virtual table game environment are used to train a machine learning model, which is deployed to a casino table game monitoring system to monitor one or more physical objects relative to a physical gaming table in a physical table game environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: LNW Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan M. Kelly, Terrin Eager, Martin S. Lyons
  • Patent number: 12083428
    Abstract: A game image display unit displays a game image. A system image display unit superimposes, onto the game image, and displays a system image according to an operation by a user. A selection area display unit displays an area for selection of participating, as a spectator, in a session for a multiplayer game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Fuse, Steven Trombetta
  • Patent number: 12087176
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for evaluating and enhancing or improving the creativity and intelligence of a user. The creativity and intelligence of the user are evaluated by generating and evaluating mathematical representations of user answers to creativity and intelligence prompts. The mathematical representations may include positions, orientations, and scales of interactive visualization inputs and the answers may be evaluated based on the fluency, originality, elaboration, and flexibility of the answers to the prompts. The creativity and intelligence of the user are enhanced through generating user learning groups of users with similar creativity levels, generating interactive assignments, generating user workspaces for the user learning groups, verifying completed interactive assignments, and assessing the completed interactive assignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Renzulli Learning, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Nicholas DiMauro, Sukru Murat Cebeci, Sally Reis Renzulli, Joseph S. Renzulli
  • Patent number: 12076639
    Abstract: A seat experience system that allows an occupant to grasp the state of the system and feel secure about using the system is provided. In the seat experience system, a seat includes a seat body, and a sensor provided at the seat body and configured to acquire a measurement value for detection of a motion of the occupant seated on the seat body. A controller is connected to the sensor and capable of acquiring the measurement value from the sensor, and a seat experience device is connected to the controller and operable based on the measurement value. The seat experience device may be capable of communicating with a server. If the seat experience device detects a malfunction of the seat experience system, the seat experience device notifies the occupant of the malfunction and limits at least a subset of functions of the seat experience system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaku, Atsushi Kusano, Akira Miyoshi, Satoshi Suzuki, Munetaka Kowa, Yousuke Higashi, Yoshikazu Ito
  • Patent number: 12080128
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a processor configured to control a display device to display a matrix of game positions, initiate a plurality of games, and control the display device to display each game of the plurality of games in an associated game position of the matrix of game positions. The processor is also configured to determine an outcome of each game, where each outcome is a qualifying outcome or a non-qualifying outcome, as well as to evaluate the matrix of game positions to determine whether a qualifying pattern is formed in the matrix by at least two qualifying outcomes. In response to the qualifying pattern being formed, the processor is also configured to provide an award to a player of the electronic gaming machine. Each outcome may be individually evaluated to provide one or more additional awards to the player as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Michael Schreiber
  • Patent number: 12073296
    Abstract: A system for generating physical activity sets for a human subject, the system comprising a computing device configured to detect a signal from a wearable fitness device, determine an activity profile using an activity machine-learning model and the signal, generate using the activity profile, at least a physical activity set, wherein generating further comprising classifying the activity profile with corresponding activity profile data from a plurality of human subjects, wherein the corresponding activity profile data correlates activity profile data to at least a physical activity set, training a fitness machine-learning model using the corresponding activity profile data, generating the at least a physical activity set as a function of the activity profile data and the fitness machine-learning model, and generate a presentation of the activity profile and the at least a physical activity set using a graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: KPN INNOVATIONS, LLC.
    Inventor: Kenneth Neumann