Patents by Inventor Ken Narita

Ken Narita 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).

  • Patent number: 10937066
    Abstract: A terminal device including: a communication interface which is communicably connected to a server device via a network; a memory that is configured to store computer readable instructions; a processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions so as to cause the communication interface to receive image selection information of a display image from the server, the display image being included in the advertisement and select one of a plurality of images as the display image to be included in the advertisement based on the selection information, the plurality of images being stored in at least one of the memory and a storage device connected to the terminal device via the network; and a display configured to display the advertisement including the selected display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuki Morishita, Ken Narita
  • Patent number: 10904362
    Abstract: Provide, to a user, a banner with which it may be possible to arouse an interest of the user with respect to a specific application. A banner relating to an application that has been executed on a terminal device can be displayed on the terminal device. The banner can be generated on the basis of information unique to the terminal device or to a user thereof, the information being collected by a server device during execution of the application. Examples of the unique information include information relating to video displayed on the terminal device during execution of the application, and information relating to manipulations inputted to the terminal device during the execution of the application. Examples of a banner include media that include the video, and media that reproduce the manipulations on the terminal device on the basis of information relating to the manipulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki Morishita, Ken Narita
  • Patent number: 10761606
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a pseudo input interface configured to make a user to perceive a pseudo operation, an external communication interface configured to receive intention information indicating an intention of the user from a sensor device, the sensor device being wiredly or wirelessly connected to the external communication interface, the sensor device detecting the intention of the user who intends to perform an intended operation with respect to the pseudo input interface, a memory configured to store computer readable instructions, and a processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions so as to identify the intended operation by the user based on the intention information received by the external communication interface, regardless of an actual operation perceived by the user with respect to the pseudo input interface, and perform a processing corresponding to the identified intended operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki Morishita, Ken Narita
  • Patent number: 10754426
    Abstract: A terminal device including: an input interface configured to receive an operation input by a user; an external communication interface configured to receive intention information of the user who performs the operation input from a sensor device, the sensor device being configured to detect intention of the user with respect to the operation input; a memory configured to store computer-readable instructions; and a processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions so as to: identify the operation input which the user is going to perform based on the intention information before the input interface receives the operation input; start a process corresponding to the identified operation input; and perform a process corresponding to the operation input received by the input interface by using information relating to the already started process corresponding to the identified operation input when the input interference receives the operation input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki Morishita, Ken Narita
  • Publication number: 20200057497
    Abstract: A terminal device including: an input interface configured to receive an operation input by a user; an external communication interface configured to receive intention information of the user who performs the operation input from a sensor device, the sensor device being configured to detect intention of the user with respect to the operation input; a memory configured to store computer-readable instructions; and a processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions so as to: identify the operation input which the user is going to perform based on the intention information before the input interface receives the operation input; start a process corresponding to the identified operation input; and perform a process corresponding to the operation input received by the input interface by using information relating to the already started process corresponding to the identified operation input when the input interference receives the operation input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuki MORISHITA, Ken NARITA
  • Patent number: 10476990
    Abstract: Provide, to a user, a banner with which it may be possible to arouse an interest of the user with respect to a specific application. A banner relating to an application that has been executed on a terminal device can be displayed on the terminal device. The banner can be generated on the basis of information unique to the terminal device or to a user thereof, the information being collected by a server device during execution of the application. Examples of the unique information include information relating to video displayed on the terminal device during execution of the application, and information relating to manipulations inputted to the terminal device during the execution of the application. Examples of a banner include media that include the video, and media that reproduce the manipulations on the terminal device on the basis of information relating to the manipulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki Morishita, Ken Narita
  • Publication number: 20190312954
    Abstract: Provide, to a user, a banner with which it may be possible to arouse an interest of the user with respect to a specific application. A banner relating to an application that has been executed on a terminal device can be displayed on the terminal device. The banner can be generated on the basis of information unique to the terminal device or to a user thereof, the information being collected by a server device during execution of the application. Examples of the unique information include information relating to video displayed on the terminal device during execution of the application, and information relating to manipulations inputted to the terminal device during the execution of the application. Examples of a banner include media that include the video, and media that reproduce the manipulations on the terminal device on the basis of information relating to the manipulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuki Morishita, Ken Narita
  • Publication number: 20190066165
    Abstract: A terminal device including: a communication interface which is communicably connected to a server device via a network; a memory that is configured to store computer readable instructions; a processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions so as to cause the communication interface to receive image selection information of a display image from the server, the display image being included in the advertisement and select one of a plurality of images as the display image to be included in the advertisement based on the selection information, the plurality of images being stored in at least one of the memory and a storage device connected to the terminal device via the network; and a display configured to display the advertisement including the selected display image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuki Morishita, Ken Narita
  • Patent number: 10095404
    Abstract: To provide a server device with which the burden of processing can be reduced during generation of relationship information among multiple terminal devices. The server device can include a communication unit for communicating with a first terminal device having a first touch panel, and with a second terminal device having a second touch panel; and a controller for determining whether an interval of time that is identified on the basis of first operation information received from the first terminal device via the communication unit and corresponding to a first swipe operation performed on the first touch panel, and second operation information received from the second terminal device via the communication unit and corresponding to a second swipe operation performed on the second touch panel, falls within a prescribed range, and for generating prescribed relationship information on the basis of the result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Ken Narita, Kazuki Morishita
  • Publication number: 20170085680
    Abstract: Provide, to a user, a banner with which it may be possible to arouse an interest of the user with respect to a specific application. A banner relating to an application that has been executed on a terminal device can be displayed on the terminal device. The banner can be generated on the basis of information unique to the terminal device or to a user thereof, the information being collected by a server device during execution of the application. Examples of the unique information include information relating to video displayed on the terminal device during execution of the application, and information relating to manipulations inputted to the terminal device during the execution of the application. Examples of a banner include media that include the video, and media that reproduce the manipulations on the terminal device on the basis of information relating to the manipulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuki Morishita, Ken Narita
  • Publication number: 20160378329
    Abstract: To provide a server device with which the burden of processing can be reduced during generation of relationship information among multiple terminal devices. The server device can include a communication unit for communicating with a first terminal device having a first touch panel, and with a second terminal device having a second touch panel; and a controller for determining whether an interval of time that is identified on the basis of first operation information received from the first terminal device via the communication unit and corresponding to a first swipe operation performed on the first touch panel, and second operation information received from the second terminal device via the communication unit and corresponding to a second swipe operation performed on the second touch panel, falls within a prescribed range, and for generating prescribed relationship information on the basis of the result of the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Ken Narita, Kazuki Morishita
  • Patent number: 7930366
    Abstract: An information servicing method for communicating information between a server and a client terminal through a network, comprising: deciding whether a predetermined time period has elapsed without user input; switching a prevailing processing to a background processing when it is decided that the no user input has occurred during the predetermined time period; transmitting to the server personal information comprising user preference data and/or a schedule, registered in advance, each time the prevailing processing becomes background processing; and displaying an answer corresponding to the transmitted personal information when the answer is received from the server, the answer comprising push information correlating to the personal information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
    Inventors: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Ken Narita, Keizo Kokubo
  • Patent number: 7818688
    Abstract: In a display device, items of information relating to specified information, which is displayed as the largest item, via a selected relation criterion, are displayed aligned on a selection axis, and items of information relating via other relation criteria are displayed aligned on non-selection axes. An item of information selected as the specified information can be sequentially changed in response to an input from up and down direction keys. The relation criteria for items of information displayed on the selection axis and the non-selection axes can be sequentially changed in response to an input from left and right direction keys. An information selection by the user is confirmed with present specified information by an input from a circle button, and a jump is made to a process according to the present specified information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
    Inventors: Ken Narita, Hitoshi Imai, Tadashi Tsushima
  • Patent number: 7613782
    Abstract: A communications control program in which communication over an open network is allowed only between users who have previously communicated with one another over a local network. A terminal automatically registers, with a destination list, destinations with which the terminal has communicated over a local network such as ad hoc communications. Destinations of communications over an open network are limited to destinations included in the destination list, and thereby communications with strangers with whom a user of the terminal has not communicated in the local area are restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakajima, Tadashi Tsushima, Ken Narita
  • Patent number: 7590948
    Abstract: In a display device, information related to specified information, which is displayed large in a center portion of a display, by a selected relation criterion is displayed aligned on a selection axis, while information related by other relation criteria is displayed aligned on non-selection axes. Information selected as the specified information can be sequentially changed in accordance with an input from an up or down direction key, and a relation criterion of information displayed on the selection axis and the non-selection axes can be sequentially changed in accordance with an input from a left or right direction key. Also, in accordance with an input from an X button, an immediately preceding input from a direction key is cancelled, and a display condition returns to an immediately preceding history. In accordance with an input from a ? button, a display condition previously bookmarked by an input from a ? button is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
    Inventors: Ken Narita, Hitoshi Imai, Tadashi Tsushima, Satoshi Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20070106661
    Abstract: In a display device, items of information relating to specified information, which is displayed as the largest item, via a selected relation criterion, are displayed aligned on a selection axis, and items of information relating via other relation criteria are displayed aligned on non-selection axes. An item of information selected as the specified information can be sequentially changed in response to an input from up and down direction keys. The relation criteria for items of information displayed on the selection axis and the non-selection axes can be sequentially changed in response to an input from left and right direction keys. An information selection by the user is confirmed with present specified information by an input from a circle button, and a jump is made to a process according to the present specified information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (also trading as SQUARE ENIX Co., LTD.)
    Inventors: Ken Narita, Hitoshi Imai, Tadashi Tsushima
  • Publication number: 20070106949
    Abstract: In a display device, information related to specified information, which is displayed large in a center portion of a display, by a selected relation criterion is displayed aligned on a selection axis, while information related by other relation criteria is displayed aligned on non-selection axes. Information selected as the specified information can be sequentially changed in accordance with an input from an up or down direction key, and a relation criterion of information displayed on the selection axis and the non-selection axes can be sequentially changed in accordance with an input from a left or right direction key. Also, in accordance with an input from an X button, an immediately preceding input from a direction key is cancelled, and a display condition returns to an immediately preceding history. In accordance with an input from a ? button, a display condition previously bookmarked by an input from a ? button is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX
    Inventors: Ken Narita, Hitoshi Imai, Tadashi Tsushima, Satoshi Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20070033257
    Abstract: A communications control program in which communication over an open network is allowed only between users who have previously communicated with one another over a local network. A terminal automatically registers, with a destination list, destinations with which the terminal has communicated over a local network such as ad hoc communications. Destinations of communications over an open network are limited to destinations included in the destination list, and thereby communications with strangers with whom a user of the terminal has not communicated in the local area are restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (ALSO TRADING AS SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakajima, Tadashi Tsushima, Ken Narita
  • Publication number: 20060069748
    Abstract: An information servicing method for communicating information between a server and a client terminal through a network, comprising: deciding whether a predetermined time period has elapsed without user input; switching a prevailing processing to a background processing when it is decided that the no user input has occurred during the predetermined time period; transmitting to the server personal information comprising user preference data and/or a schedule, registered in advance, each time the prevailing processing becomes background processing; and displaying an answer corresponding to the transmitted personal information when the answer is received from the server, the answer comprising push information correlating to the personal information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2005
    Publication date: March 30, 2006
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix (also Trading as Square Enix Co., Ltd.)
    Inventors: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Ken Narita, Keizo Kokubo
  • Patent number: 7018295
    Abstract: To make it possible to provide other services even at the time of executing an online game and to communicate with a player receiving the other services in an online game space. Each game terminal receives comics distributions from a comics server and music distributions from a music server, even while executing the online game over its own browser. The game server administers the game participation of each game terminal and the utilization of various services (e.g., comics distributions, music distributions, mails or chats) by using a service utilization database. The game players can communicate with each other in the game space by the knock function in accordance with the service utilizations under the control of the game server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
    Inventors: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Ken Narita, Keizo Kokubo