Patents by Inventor Masataka Shimono
Masataka Shimono 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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Publication number: 20160279518Abstract: A terminal performs a process that places a plurality of objects and a special object that affects the progress of a game in a placement area, selection of an object among the plurality of objects being received based on input information input by the player, a process that generates the special effect of the special object, and a process that sets a game medium that has been selected based on the input information input by the player to a deck prior to start of the game. The terminal performs a process that reduces the special effect based on information about the game medium set to the deck.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: Masataka SHIMONO, Naoyuki KISHIMOTO
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Patent number: 9446317Abstract: A server system refers to the login history of a registered friend player within a given period when an authenticated player has been subjected to a login process. The server system gives a bonus that corresponds to the number (login friend count) of friend users who have logged in within the given period to the authenticated player when the authenticated player has logged in.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Masataka Shimono, Takashi Hamamura
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Patent number: 9333419Abstract: Input information that selects one card among five cards that are arranged in one direction in a predetermined area of a game screen is received, and a player character is caused to make a motion corresponding to the selected card. When three cards to which an identical attribute is assigned are adjacently disposed in the predetermined area, the three cards are replaced with one card to which the same attribute as that of the three cards is assigned, but which differs in type from the three cards, the card positioned in the rightward direction relative to the replaced cards is shifted in the leftward direction, and an additional two cards are disposed in the space formed by shifting the card.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2013Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Masataka Shimono, Shuntaro Watanabe, Takamasa Kato, Miki Tomisawa, Norimasa Matsuura
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Patent number: 8821288Abstract: A preferential winning item that has a high selection probability is set to each user from candidate items 14a to 14e of an event. The preferential winning item is set so that the type of the preferential winning item differs between a reference user 2a and friend users 2b to 2e of the reference user 2a. The type of item that is given to each user as a result of playing an event thus differs between each user. Each user can easily acquire a plurality of preferential winning items, but cannot easily acquire a non-preferential winning item. This urges each user to give an item to another user as a present.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2010Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Namco Bandai Games Inc.Inventor: Masataka Shimono
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Patent number: 8753181Abstract: A program for a game device having a timer, the program causing a computer to function as: an event table storage section which stores an event table created based on registration information input by a player, the event table defining a plurality of first parameters used for an event process and an available period of each of the first parameters; an event condition setting section which determines whether or not the player has performed a predetermined operation, detects an operation timing of the predetermined operation when the predetermined operation has been determined to have been performed, sets a second parameter used for the event process based on the detected operation timing, and sets an event condition based on the second parameter; and an event processing section which determines whether or not the event condition has been satisfied, selects an available first parameter from the first parameters referring to the event table based on time information generated by the timer when the event conditioType: GrantFiled: February 25, 2008Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Namco Bandai Games Inc.Inventor: Masataka Shimono
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Publication number: 20140080599Abstract: Input information that selects one card among five cards that are arranged in one direction in a predetermined area of a game screen is received, and a player character is caused to make a motion corresponding to the selected card. When three cards to which an identical attribute is assigned are adjacently disposed in the predetermined area, the three cards are replaced with one card to which the same attribute as that of the three cards is assigned, but which differs in type from the three cards, the card positioned in the rightward direction relative to the replaced cards is shifted in the leftward direction, and an additional two cards are disposed in the space formed by shifting the card.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Inventors: Masataka SHIMONO, Shuntaro WATANABE, Takamasa KATO, Miki TOMISAWA, Norimasa MATSUURA
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Publication number: 20130252742Abstract: A server system refers to the login history of a registered friend player within a given period when an authenticated player has been subjected to a login process. The server system gives a bonus that corresponds to the number (login friend count) of friend users who have logged in within the given period to the authenticated player when the authenticated player has logged in.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2012Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: NAMCO BANDAI GAMES INC.Inventors: Masataka SHIMONO, Takashi HAMAMURA
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Publication number: 20120154311Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium acquires an indicated position that has been input using an input section, and sets a plurality of direction determination areas that respectively correspond to a plurality of directions based on a previous indicated position. The information storage medium determines an input direction based on a direction determination area among the plurality of direction determination areas to which the indicated position belongs. The information storage medium causes the plurality of direction determination areas that respectively correspond to the plurality of directions to follow a change in the indicated position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.Inventors: Kenta IIJIMA, Hideyuki Fujiwara, Masataka Shimono
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Publication number: 20120011453Abstract: A user terminal displays a field screen on which an avatar corresponding to each following user is disposed. A balloon that indicates that a message has been posted by the corresponding following user is displayed together with the avatar. The message posted by the corresponding following user is displayed when the user has touched the balloon. The user can edit the avatar by touching the avatar.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: NAMCO BANDAI GAMES INC.Inventors: Masataka SHIMONO, Tatsushi ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20110124415Abstract: A preferential winning item that has a high selection probability is set to each user from candidate items 14a to 14e of an event. The preferential winning item is set so that the type of the preferential winning item differs between a reference user 2a and friend users 2b to 2e of the reference user 2a. The type of item that is given to each user as a result of playing an event thus differs between each user. Each user can easily acquire a plurality of preferential winning items, but cannot easily acquire a non-preferential winning item. This urges each user to give an item to another user as a present.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2010Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: NAMCO BANDAI GAMES INC.Inventor: Masataka SHIMONO
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Publication number: 20090036193Abstract: A program for a game device having a timer, the program causing a computer to function as: an event table storage section which stores an event table created based on registration information input by a player, the event table defining a plurality of first parameters used for an event process and an available period of each of the first parameters; an event condition setting section which determines whether or not the player has performed a predetermined operation, detects an operation timing of the predetermined operation when the predetermined operation has been determined to have been performed, sets a second parameter used for the event process based on the detected operation timing, and sets an event condition based on the second parameter; and an event processing section which determines whether or not the event condition has been satisfied, selects an available first parameter from the first parameters referring to the event table based on time information generated by the timer when the event conditioType: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: NAMCO BANDAI GAMES INC.Inventor: Masataka Shimono