Patents by Inventor Atsushi Kumita

Atsushi Kumita has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230127359
    Abstract: An information processor includes: a display device which is able to display symbols including at least one first symbol and at least one second symbol and which is configured to display an area in which columns and stages are arranged; and a controller programmed to execute processes (1a) to (1c) as a unit game. The controller is programmed to execute: (1a) a process of randomly determining symbols; (1b) a process of displaying the determined symbols in the area; (1c) a process of awarding a payout; (1d) a process of fix-displaying the at least one second symbol in one or more the columns, the number of the one or more of the columns corresponding to the number of first symbols displayed in the area; and (1e) a process of performing next execution of the unit game by using the area in which the at least one second symbol is fix-displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi KUMITA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI, Muneki SHIRAISHI, Satoko BABA, Nobuyuki KAWARAI
  • Publication number: 20230104927
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing device and a program that can lower a difficulty level of clearing a predetermined condition and improve a continuation rate of a player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi KUMITA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI, Muneki SHIRAISHI, Satoko BABA
  • Publication number: 20230088120
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing system and a game management program that can improve a game continuation rate in a game in which any one of a plurality of game contents is executable by satisfying a predetermined condition. The information processing system includes: an information processing device in which any one of a plurality of game contents is executable by satisfying a predetermined condition; and a server communicably connected to the information processing device and configured to manage the game content executed in the information processing device, in which the server includes a control unit configured to perform control, based on information transmitted from the information processing device, such that any one of the plurality of game contents is executable in the information processing device that is a transmission source of the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi KUMITA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI, Muneki SHIRAISHI, Satoko BABA, Nobuyuki KAWARAI
  • Patent number: 11568449
    Abstract: A server comprises a storage unit for storing a plurality of image data, a first end input request image data including a redisplay setting image for setting whether to display the image on the information processor again or not and a first end request image for ending the display of the image, a second end input request image data including a second end request image for rejecting the redisplay of the image and ending the display of the image, and association data in which one of the first end input request image data and the second end input request image data is stored in association with the types of the plurality of image data, and a controller for executing a process of transmitting any one image data of the plurality of image data and either the first end input request image data or the second end input request image data associated based on the association data corresponding to the image data to the information processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 11524243
    Abstract: A game control method, a game server, and a game system with which a user can efficiently increase the number of friends in a game with a friend-up function are provided. When a friend candidate list image 230 of a recommended friend search screen 23 is generated in response to a request from an information processor 1 connected to a game server 10 over a communication line, the game server 10 generates a list of friend candidates with reference to a friend seeking flag. The friend seeking flag is stored in association with a user ID by which each user is identified, and indicates whether the user corresponding to the user ID is seeking friends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Publication number: 20210383650
    Abstract: An information processing system encourages a player to continue a game even after the end of a special game state. An information processing system includes a storage device. The information processing system executes a normal game, a special game which is triggered based on a result of the normal game and which is more advantageous than the normal game, and an additional game which is executed after the special game and which includes plural stages. When the shift related to the stages occurs so that the progress of the game reaches the final stage of the stages in the additional game, the information processing system provides an additional reward. Meanwhile, when the progress of the game does not reach the final stage in the additional game, the information processing system stores the current state of the stages into the storage device. The additional game resumes from the stored state of the stages in the next execution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi KUMITA, Takahiro OYA, Takenari MATSUDAIRA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI, Muneki SHIRAISHI, Satoko BABA, Nobuyuki KAWARAI
  • Patent number: 11069177
    Abstract: The user interface associated with the item is improved. The information processor 1 displays the first item display screen 22 in which the first item icons 221 corresponding to the types of the possessed items are displayed in a list correspondingly to the possessed number. The information processor 1 switches the second item display screen 23 to display in which the second item icons 231 corresponding to the possessed items are displayed in a list correspondingly to the expiration date when the first item icon 221 in the first item display screen 22 is operated by being pressed for a long time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Publication number: 20210178275
    Abstract: A game control method, a game server, and a game system with which a user can efficiently increase the number of friends in a game with a friend-up function are provided. When a friend candidate list image 230 of a recommended friend search screen 23 is generated in response to a request from an information processor 1 connected to a game server 10 over a communication line, the game server 10 generates a list of friend candidates with reference to a friend seeking flag. The friend seeking flag is stored in association with a user ID by which each user is identified, and indicates whether the user corresponding to the user ID is seeking friends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi KUMITA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI
  • Patent number: 11004300
    Abstract: An information processor includes: a display configured to display a screen of a game; a storage device configured to store an amount of a gaming medium usable in the game; and a controller programmed to execute the process of: comparing an amount of the gaming medium stored in the storage device with an amount of the gaming medium at login to the game, and displaying a predetermined message on the display when a relation between these amounts becomes equal to a predetermined ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10933332
    Abstract: An information processor comprises a terminal-side controller programmed to execute: (A1) a process of allowing a creation of a message to the information processor of a transmission destination; and (A2) a process of expanding a representable range of the message on condition of charging when the message is created, and a server comprises a server-side controller that calculates a charge amount charged for the message in the information processor by referring to a charge amount determination data, and a server-side memory that stores the charge amount correspondingly to each of the information processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10866723
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processor, a game program, and a game control method. It is able to adjust a repeated frequency of a bonus game easily. An information processing unit 1 comprises a display 2 for displaying a screen and a touch panel 5 for receiving a touch input of a user. The information processing unit 1 displays a displaying area 21 set based on the screen in a map 20 which has a plurality of node icons 22 on the path, displays a current position indicating icon 24, sets the current position based on a certain node icon 22 of the plurality of node icons 22 in a case of the node icon being touched, and displays the displaying area 21 in which the node icon 22 set to be the current position is located in the map 20 in a case of the current position indicating icon 24 being touched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10806999
    Abstract: The present invention is able to improve the user interface in a game. The server (10) stores identification information for respectively identifying a plurality of kinds of screens which can be transitioned by the information processor 1, stores the identification information of the transition destination screen in the memory (3) when a screen transition is performed in the information processor (1), and displays a screen identified by the identification information stored in the memory (3) as an initial screen of the game of the information processor (1) when starting a game according to a request from the information processor 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10709990
    Abstract: An information processor for executing a game comprises an input unit for operating the game, a memory for storing a counter area for digitizing and counting information which increases as the game is executed and a numerical value game rank correspondence table in which a plurality of numerical value ranges and a plurality of game ranks are associated, and a controller programmed to perform the following processes. (1a) a process of executing a game by operations of an input unit, (1b) a process of digitizing and counting information which increases as the game is executed in the counter area, (1c) a process of determining the game rank corresponding to the numerical value counted in the counter area on the basis of the numerical value counted in the counter area and the numerical value game rank correspondence table, (1d) a process of giving a benefit according to the game rank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10699519
    Abstract: An information processor includes: a display configured to display a symbol display area on which symbols are displayable; and a controller programmed to execute the processes of: (1a) randomly determining symbols to be displayed outside a symbol display area; (1b) displaying, outside the symbol display area, the symbols determined in the process (1a); (1c) randomly determining a combination of symbols to be displayed in the symbol display area; (1d) displaying, in the symbol display area, the combination of the symbols determined in the process (1c); (1e) when a predetermined condition is satisfied, displaying a predetermined number of symbols out of the symbols displayed outside the symbol display area in the process (1b) in the symbol display area, in accordance with the satisfied predetermined condition; and (1f) after the process (1e), awarding a benefit in accordance with a combination of the symbols displayed in the symbol display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10685534
    Abstract: A server of an information processing system includes a controller which is configured to calculate points corresponding to a particular prize when a game result received from information processors is the particular prize, and a memory which is configured to accumulatively store the points calculated by the controller. The controller sends a special prize to the information processor when the number of the points stored in the memory for the at least one of the information processors is equal to or larger than a predetermined number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10679458
    Abstract: An information processor of the present invention comprises a display for displaying a symbol display area in which a plurality of symbols can be displayed, and a controller programmed to execute the following processes (1a) to (1c): (1a) a process of determining a plurality of symbols to be displayed in the symbol display area by random determination, (1b) a process of displaying the plurality of symbols determined by the process of (1a) in the symbol display area, and (1c) a process of displaying a character corresponding to a specific symbol outside the symbol display area in a case where the specific symbol is displayed among the plurality of symbols displayed in the symbol display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10653954
    Abstract: The present invention is a server that causes a logged-in information processor to run a game among a plurality of information processors, comprising: executing to determine a present information of a content corresponding to a status information of the information processor of a transmission destination when receiving a present giving signal for giving a present to the information processor of the transmission destination identified by an ID information, and transmitting the present information to the information processor of the transmission destination, triggered by a predetermined action of the information processor of the transmission destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10625838
    Abstract: A marine propulsion unit includes a propeller that rotates around a rotation axis of a propeller shaft, a case in which the propeller shaft is disposed, and a skeg that extends downward from the case. The skeg includes a reinforcer with a mechanical strength greater than that of a base material of the skeg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hikaru Yasukawa, Atsushi Kumita
  • Patent number: 10610789
    Abstract: A possibility of providing motives to continue a game is improved. A game system 100 stores a relation between user identification information corresponding to a user who plays a game and user identification information corresponding to another user who is a friend of the user, stores ranking determined based on the game history of plural users in association with the user identification information, when transiting to a rank screen 22 in which a predetermined number of sets of the user identification information of the users ranked at or above a predetermined rank is displayed, constructs and displays the rank screen 22 in which each set of user identification information is associated with each friend-request button 241b, and when a friend request is made by the friend-request button 241b, shifts to a state that allows these users to become friends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10573132
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processor, a game program, and a game control method capable of performing various presentations for the result display of the rearrangement of the symbols. The information processor 1 displays the symbol display area 21 having the scroll areas 211 to 216 in which the win determination line 400 is set on the slot game screen 20. In the winning determination, the information processor 1 determines whether to employ either the winning determination based on the “LEFT TO RIGHT” or the winning determination based on the “RIGHT TO LEFT” for the symbols 500 to be rearranged in the winning determination line 400 according to the type of the symbols 500 to be rearranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi