Patents by Inventor Keika Yokoyama

Keika Yokoyama 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: 20070197288
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes an operation controller, a processor, and a display. The operation controller accepts an operation of a player, and the processor controls a game based on the operation of the player accepted by the operation controller. The display simultaneously displays a first image that can be recognized visually from a first viewing angle direction and a second image that can be recognized visually from a second viewing angle direction different from the first viewing angle direction. The processor controls the display so as to display a game image relating to the game as the first image and to display game information based on a game process relating to the game controlled by the processor as the second image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventors: Jun Fujimoto, Masatsugu Kobayashi, Keika Yokoyama, Hiroshi Ohno, Tomoaki Oomori, Mayumi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20070197289
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine which allows players to observe a gaming image which is displayed for one player without being influenced by a gaming image which is displayed for another player in perfoming a game in which a plurality of players can play, and to reduce an equipment cost and an installation space. A display device 2 which adopts dual view liquid crystal is mounted on an approximately center of the gaming machine 1, and a common screen showing a common gaming situation to both players is displayed for the first and the second players P1, P2 and, at the same time, corresponding to the gaming situation, a first image which shows a gaming situation on the first player P1 is displayed for the first player within an angle range of ?2 and, simultaneously, a second image which shows a gaming situation on the second player P2 is displayed for the second player within an angle range of ?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventors: Jun FUJIMOTO, Masatsugu Kobayashi, Keika Yokoyama, Hiroshi Ohno, Tomoaki Oomori, Mayumi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20070178960
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes: a first display area that variably displays a plurality kinds of symbols; a second display area that displays effect contents in accordance with a gaming state; and a controller that controls the first display area and the second display area, wherein the controller is operable to: display a symbol to be a subject of a winning determination in the second display area; and perform the winning determination using the symbol displayed in the first display area and the symbol displayed in the second display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Masatsugu Kobayashi, Keika Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20070155478
    Abstract: A gaming machine has a lower liquid crystal display and a CPU. The lower liquid crystal display includes therein variable display portions in which a plurality of symbols to be used in a game are variably displayed and effect display regions in which effect contents are displayed according to a game state. The CPU controls the variable display of symbols in the variable display portions and the effect contents in the effect display regions. The CPU displays one or more additional symbols to be used for a winning determination in the game, in one or more effect display regions and in the vicinity of one or more symbols displayed in one or more variable display portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Masatsugu Kobayashi, Keika Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20070026937
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes: an image display device; a processor that performs a process for providing a player a game by controlling the image display device to display a progress of the game; and an operation unit that allows the player to input skip command. The processor performs the process includes: determining whether or not a win by the player occurs in the game; controlling the image display device to perform a game result displaying process for displaying a result of the game in accordance with the determination to allow the player to recognize the result of the determination; and controlling the image display device to cancel performing the game result displaying process before completion thereof, and to start performing a next game, when the skip command is input through the operation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Keika Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20070021177
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes: an image display device; and a game processing unit that performs a process for providing a player a game by controlling the image display device to display a progress of the game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Keika Yokoyama