Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Naraoka
Hiroshi Naraoka 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).
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Patent number: 8496529Abstract: A game system for a game where plural players partake and are combined on the basis of subjective data on the players. A game machine comprises a game control device for controlling a game executed with a game machine operated by a player who is combined with a player operating the game machine itself, an evaluation obtaining device for obtaining evaluation data which is evaluation to the player P4 by the player, a history evaluation updating device for, when obtaining the evaluation data to the player, updating the history evaluation information included in player information of the player by information based on the evaluation data. The server comprises a combination determining device for determining based on the history evaluation information, a combination of game machines partaking the game.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2005Date of Patent: July 30, 2013Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiko Narita, Yoshinobu Morimoto, Hiroshi Naraoka, Tadashi Minamino, Takahiro Ohashi, Yoko Takeuchi, Takashi Inubushi
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Patent number: 8221232Abstract: To provide a game system which improves a sense of being a member when a plurality of game machines are grouped. In a game system, in which each of a plurality of game machines G is sorted to any one group TTT and a game using a game element R is played among a plurality of game machines G, the game machine G obtains the evaluation to the content of the play of the game and a server CS updates registered group information 41 representing a group TTT holding the game element R into a group of the game machine G that obtained the evaluation when the evaluation and registered evaluation 43 stored related to the game element R meet a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2006Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Inubushi, Masayuki Komatsu, Yoshihiko Narita, Tadashi Minamino, Hiroshi Naraoka
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Publication number: 20110230244Abstract: A reroute table MT in which a new route is set to a reroute point Lr with respect to each of the routes R1, R2, R3 where a predetermined destination is set, a route determining portion 40d which determines the present route R, a position determining portion 40a which determines the position of moving body CA, and a reroute thinking portion 40e which determines whether the position of moving body CA reaches the reroute point Lr which is set for the present route by referring to the reroute table MT are comprised. The route determining portion 40d determines as the present route, the new route set to the reroute point Lr by referring to the reroute table MT, when the moving body CA reaches the reroute point Lr.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2009Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Inubushi, Hidetomo Nishiura, Yoshiko Oiwa, Hiroshi Naraoka
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Publication number: 20090156302Abstract: A game system for a game where plural players partake and are combined on the basis of subjective data on the players. A game machine comprises a game control device for controlling a game executed with a game machine operated by a player who is combined with a player operating the game machine itself, an evaluation obtaining device for obtaining evaluation data which is evaluation to the player P4 by the player, a history evaluation updating device for, when obtaining the evaluation data to the player, updating the history evaluation information included in player information of the player by information based on the evaluation data. The server comprises a combination determining device for determining based on the history evaluation information, a combination of game machines partaking the game.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2005Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiko Narita, Yoshinobu Morimoto, Hiroshi Naraoka, Tadashi Minamino, Takahiro Ohashi, Yoko Takeuchi, Takashi Inubushi
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Publication number: 20070077999Abstract: To provide a game system which improves a sense of being a member when a plurality of game machines are grouped. In a game system, in which each of a plurality of game machines G is sorted to any one group TTT and a game using a game element R is played among a plurality of game machines G, the game machine G obtains the evaluation to the content of the play of the game and a server CS updates registered group information 41 representing a group TTT holding the game element R into a group of the game machine G that obtained the evaluation when the evaluation and registered evaluation 43 stored related to the game element R meet a predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: April 5, 2007Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Inubushi, Masayuki Komatsu, Yoshihiko Narita, Tadashi Minamino, Hiroshi Naraoka
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Publication number: 20060287100Abstract: A game system reflects a plurality of subjective elements about players to a game. In the game system, evaluations to a player acquired by game apparatuses of other players relative to a plurality of evaluation items are acquired as the evaluation to the player, and each evaluation history of the player is updated depending on the acquired evaluation dedicated to the player. Further, a value corresponding to each evaluation history is set as a coordinate value in a coordinate space defined by coordinate axes of a plurality of evaluation items, thereby an evaluation position of the player in the coordinate space is specified. Then, a processing about the game is performed based on the specified evaluation position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2006Publication date: December 21, 2006Applicant: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO.Inventors: Takashi Inubushi, Yoshihiko Narita, Tadashi Minamino, Hiroshi Naraoka
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Patent number: 6582309Abstract: A game system has a display monitor for displaying a game image, a plurality of control buttons manually operable by a game player, and a memory for storing data representing timings to operate the control buttons, respectively. The game system has a control operation indicating function for displaying in the game image an image for indicating the timings to operate the control buttons based on the data stored in the memory, and an obstructing function for generating an obstructive effect in the image for indicating the timings to operate the control buttons, to obstruct an attempt of the game player to grasp the timings to operate the control buttons.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1999Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Konami Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Higurashi, Kiyoshi Mizuki, Shintaro Mukai, Masato Akiyama, Hiroshi Takeyasu, Ryo Komatsu, Hiroshi Naraoka
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Publication number: 20020002411Abstract: A game system has a display monitor for displaying a game image, a plurality of control buttons manually operable by a game player, and a memory for storing data representing timings to operate the control buttons, respectively. The game system has a control operation indicating function for displaying in the game image an image for indicating the timings to operate the control buttons based on the data stored in the memory, and an obstructing function for generating an obstructive effect in the image for indicating the timings to operate the control buttons, to obstruct an attempt of the game player to grasp the timings to operate the control buttons.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 1999Publication date: January 3, 2002Inventors: SEIJI HIGURASHI, KIYOSHI MIZUKI, SHINTARO MUKAI, MASATO AKIYAMA, HIROSHI TAKEYASU, RYO KOMATSU, HIROSHI NARAOKA