Patents by Inventor Naoya Osawa

Naoya Osawa 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: 9779581
    Abstract: There is provided an amusement system which expands an opportunity that a user obtains a prize relating to a game. In an amusement system where: the game can be played on a user terminal using a game server portion of a server apparatus; a prize relating to the game is selected by the game server portion in association with an operation by a user to the user terminal; and the user can use the selected prize in the game, a vendor apparatus being constructed as a physical apparatus different from the user terminal is connected to the server apparatus, a prize is selected by the game server portion based on an operation by a user to the vendor operation, and printing-output is performed by a printer of the vendor apparatus as one example of a physical prize corresponding to the selected prize.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Fujii, Naoya Osawa, Hiroyuki Muraki, Yoshiko Hojo, Keiichi Nakajima, Kazuya Takahashi, Taku Tateyama
  • Publication number: 20150087423
    Abstract: There is provided an amusement system which expands an opportunity that a user obtains a prize relating to a game. In an amusement system where: the game can be played on a user terminal using a game server portion of a server apparatus; a prize relating to the game is selected by the game server portion in association with an operation by a user to the user terminal; and the user can use the selected prize in the game, a vendor apparatus being constructed as a physical apparatus different from the user terminal is connected to the server apparatus, a prize is selected by the game server portion based on an operation by a user to the vendor operation, and printing-output is performed by a printer of the vendor apparatus as one example of a physical prize corresponding to the selected prize.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Tomoaki Fujii, Naoya Osawa, Hiroyuki Muraki, Yoshiko Hojo, Keiichi Nakajima, Kazuya Takahashi, Taku Tateyama
  • Publication number: 20120202603
    Abstract: Provided is a game system capable of easily performing the second and subsequent matching processes of the game which is played in two or more rounds. The game system includes a center server and game machines that can be connected to the center server through a communication line, and executes a game played in rounds. In the game system, the center server performs matching on a predetermined number of game machines from the game machines in response to matching requests and gives the same session ID to the game machines which are matched first. Using the session ID, the matching is performed on each of the game machines to which the same session ID is given or on each of the game machines to which the same session ID is not given.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Inventors: Shintaro Osato, Tomoko Habara, Takahiko Shimada, Ken Shimomura, Tomoaki Fujii, Kenji Seki, Shinpei Makino, Naoya Osawa, Hiroyuki Ashida