Patents by Inventor Naoki HAMAGUCHI

Naoki HAMAGUCHI 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: 11452937
    Abstract: To provide a game program of high interest is an object. Switching between a manual control and an automatic control of a first player character. Performing an automatic control of a second player character acting as an ally of the first player character. The automatic control of the first player character is executed based on different action setting from the automatic control of the second player character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Hamaguchi, Teruki Endo
  • Publication number: 20210268377
    Abstract: To provide a game program of high interest is an object. Switching between a manual control and an automatic control of a first player character. Performing an automatic control of a second player character acting as an ally of the first player character. The automatic control of the first player character is executed based on different action setting from the automatic control of the second player character.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki HAMAGUCHI, Teruki ENDO
  • Publication number: 20210031107
    Abstract: To provide a game program capable of achieving high amusement. A game program causes an object to execute a first action by a player's operation, and changes a first parameter with the passage of time; and causes the object to execute a second action by the player's operation in a case where the first parameter satisfies a predetermined first condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsunori TAKAHASHI, Naoki HAMAGUCHI, Nobuyuki MATSUOKA, Ryota IWAGAMI, Teruki ENDO
  • Publication number: 20160292961
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium including a video game processing program product for causing a server to realize functions to control progress of a video game is provided. An in-game element for which a plurality of evolutive steps are provided appears in the video game. The functions include: a selecting function to select at least one in-game element from a plurality of in-game elements in accordance with a predetermined rule in response to a selection request from the user; an adjusting function to refer to a storage section, in which information regarding the in-game element is stored, to adjust a predetermined adjustment target so that the in-game element becomes a predetermined evolutive step or higher when the in-game element is given to the user on the basis of a selection result; and a giving function to give the user the in-game element as the selection result or the in-game element as an adjustment result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA SQUARE ENIX (also trading as SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.)
    Inventor: Naoki HAMAGUCHI