Patents by Inventor Shuichi Kurabayashi

Shuichi Kurabayashi 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: 20220172082
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including: a storage unit for storing a plurality of image recognition models each of which is defined by an item of learning content unique thereto, with each of which at least one item of identifier information can be inferred by using the item of learning content, and each of which is linked with an item of attribute information unique thereto; a destination-attribute-information identifying unit that identifies at least one item of attribute information as a destination of image information from among items of attribute information stored in the storage unit, on the basis of an operation; an image-recognition-model selecting unit that selects the image recognition model linked with the identified item of attribute information; and an identifier-information inferring unit that inputs the image information to the image recognition model selected by the image-recognition-model selecting unit and that infers an item of identifier information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 11331580
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention provides a system for inspecting a game program for a game that progresses as a user selects a medium from an owned medium set including a plurality of media and places the medium on a game field. A game log including medium information regarding the media, included in a game state including the game field and the owned medium set, is obtained, tensor data is created by creating array data in which matrices representing the media information included in the game state are arrayed along a time axis based on the obtained game log, machine learning is performed by using the created tensor data, thereby generating a learning model, the medium to be selected by the user is inferred by using the learning model, and the game program is executed using the inferred medium as a choice of the medium by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Publication number: 20220138244
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention is a medium recommendation system for recommending media or sets of media in a game that proceeds as a user selects media from a possessed medium group constructed to include D media and places the media in a game field, the recommended media or sets of media being media or sets of media to be added to a medium in order to construct at least a portion of the possessed medium group from the medium, the medium recommendation system including: an input acceptance unit that accepts the input of a single medium among the T kinds of media; a table storage unit that stores first tables; and a medium recommendation unit that is capable of outputting, as recommendation information, media or sets of media with which the single medium accepted by the input acceptance unit is associated in the first tables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 11321925
    Abstract: The present invention is a mixed-reality system including a server and a portable terminal device, the portable terminal device having a display for displaying a virtual object to a user present in a predetermined real space and having a photographing device that photographs the real space, the mixed-reality system serving to display, on the display, a mixed-reality image in which the virtual object is superimposed on a photographed image of the real space, wherein, at each of one or more predefined positions on a real object present in the predetermined space, an MR marker constituted of an identification code containing position information corresponding to that position and an alignment marker having a polygonal shape is disposed. The server includes a virtual-space-data storage unit and an application storage unit, and the portable terminal device includes a browser unit, a marker recognition unit, a position determination unit, and an image generation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 11288460
    Abstract: The present invention is a translation support system for supporting machine translation from a source-language sentence into a target-language sentence, the translation support system including an input unit that accepts an input of a source-language sentence to be translated; an error database that at least stores words or combinations of words included in a plurality of source-language sentences for which machine translation from the source-language sentences into target-language sentences is not performed correctly; a controlled-source-language-sentence database that stores a plurality of source-language sentences as well as controlled source-language sentences, which are source-language sentences that are controlled, corresponding to the plurality of source-language sentences and expressed in a format satisfying predetermined conditions; a control unit that classifies whether or not the input source-language sentence is machine-translatable; and an output unit that is capable of outputting the input sour
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 11282279
    Abstract: A system that enables real-time recognition of a real-space environment in a mixed-reality environment includes a server, a portable display device including a display unit for displaying a virtual object to a user and a photographing unit that photographs a real space, and image acquisition devices that acquire images individually from a plurality of fixed points where it is possible to photograph a region in a predetermined real space, the system making it possible to render the virtual object in a superimposed fashion on a real space or a photographed image of the real space, viewed by the user via the display unit, the server or the display device including a three-dimensional-space-data storage part, a table storage part, a color-information determining part, a color-information updating part, a user-environment determining part, a virtual-illumination-information generating part, and a rendering part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 11281908
    Abstract: Provided is a system for confirming that one kind of target object has been acquired, the system including a portable terminal device and a server, wherein the portable terminal device classifies, based on local features about shapes for detecting the plurality of kinds of target objects, whether one kind of target object is included in an image of a space captured by an image-capturing device of the portable terminal device, captures, as an acquired target-object image, the image classified as including the target object, and sends the acquired target-object image to the server, and wherein the server receives the acquired target-object image, determines, based on image features of one kind of target object, a feature correlation level of the acquired target-object image in relation to that target object, and classifies whether the acquired target-object image is an image in which the one kind of target object is captured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 11209941
    Abstract: The present invention provides a board game system in which an electrostatic-capacitance-based touchscreen that is capable of detecting a plurality of touched positions by detecting changes in electrostatic capacitance is used as a board. The board game system includes an electronic device equipped with the touchscreen; and game pieces that are used while being placed on the touchscreen and that are constituted at least partially of a conductive section. The conductive section is laid out so as to be intervened by a non-conductive section or gaps on the contact face. In the case where the game piece is placed on the touchscreen, the conductive section causes the predetermined or greater amount of change in the electrostatic capacitance at the contact positions of the conductive section on the contact face in the case where the conductive section is touched by the user. The electronic device recognizes the game piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Publication number: 20210394071
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention provides a system for extracting combinations of arbitrary numbers of media, included in a possessed medium group and having high frequencies of occurrence, in a game that proceeds as a user selects media from the possessed medium group and places the media in a game field, the individual media included in the possessed medium group being individually selected from a medium set preset in the game, the system including: a plurality of computing devices that each store possessed medium group information concerning possessed medium groups that are used by a plurality of predetermined users; and a control device that stores the possessed medium group information and that controls parallel processing of the operations of the individual computing devices, the control device allocating and sending sets constituted of a plurality of extracted media to the individual computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Publication number: 20210327104
    Abstract: Provided is an image processing method wherein a computer: generates an estimation model for estimating the colorized image from the line-drawing image for each element through machine learning using the learning data of that element; identifies the element corresponding to the subject line-drawing image; generates the colorized image that is to be paired with the subject line-drawing image, on the basis of the estimation model corresponding to the identified element and the subject line-drawing image; generates a colorization layer of an image file including a line-drawing layer and the colorization layer by using the subject colorized image; extracts the modified colorization layer and the corresponding line-drawing layer as the image pair for learning; and stores a pair of the line-drawing image of the extracted line-drawing layer and the colorized image of the extracted colorization layer, as the learning data, in association with the element corresponding to the estimation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Publication number: 20210316219
    Abstract: With existing game apps, in the case where the stamina is recovered through time-based recovery to an upper limit value thereof while a user is not playing the game, a message or the like indicating full stamina recovery is displayed on a notification screen of a smartphone. According to the present invention, a terminal device, such as a smartphone, is configured so that a user can receive, from a game app, a push notification indicating full stamina recovery through time-based recovery and can perform an operation for instructing time-based stamina recovery beyond a stamina upper limit value on a screen of the push notification. This makes it possible to execute a game play more advantageously just by performing the operation on the screen of the push notification even when the user cannot afford to spend time for starting the game app and playing the game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 11062137
    Abstract: The system is for confirming that a user of a portable terminal device has viewed posted material in a plurality of places by visiting one of the posted places, the system including the portable terminal device and a server, the device including a portable-terminal control unit, a portable-terminal communication unit, an image capturing unit, a portable-terminal storage unit, and a position-information obtaining unit, the server including a server control unit, a server communication unit, and a server storage unit that stores authenticated images about the posted material in the individual posted places in association with position information of the posted places, wherein the portable-terminal control unit sends a viewing confirmation request including a viewed image, the normalization information, and the portable-terminal position information to the server by using the portable-terminal communication unit, and the server control unit determines whether the viewed image is valid on the basis of the request
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Publication number: 20210205698
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention is a program that is executed on an electronic device equipped with a touchscreen, the program causing the electronic device to execute: holding data points as a data point sequence per predefined processing period, the data points being obtained based on touch events generated as a result of an operation performed on the touchscreen by a user; and determining displacement rates of data points in held data point sequences based on displacements of the data points in the data point sequences, and determining a speed factor with which the user controls movement of an operable object in a virtual space based on a deviation of the displacement rate in the latest data point sequence among the held data point sequences relative to the average of the displacement rates in the data point sequences held earlier than the latest data point sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 11036053
    Abstract: The present invention is a program executed by a processing device that performs rendering processing of a virtual space including a predetermined GUI object to be displayed on a display unit of a head-mounted display device, the program causing the processing device to execute a step of determining the position of a viewpoint of a user in the virtual space; a step of determining a movable range of the user in the virtual space; a step of determining a position of the GUI object in a region of the virtual space outside the determined movable range; a step of determining, by using a perspective property profile, a size of the GUI object in the virtual space such that the GUI object at the determined position has a constant display size on the display unit; and a step of generating rendering data of the virtual space including the GUI object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventors: Hideyo Isayama, Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Publication number: 20210174599
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention is a mixed reality system for displaying a mixed-reality image on a display, the system including a mobile terminal device having the display and a photographing device. The system includes a plurality of feature point sets arranged in the prescribed real space. The mobile terminal device recognizes each of the feature point sets photographed by the photographing device, determines a viewpoint position of a virtual camera, in a virtual space, corresponding to a position and a photographing direction of the photographing device in the real space, based on arrangement position and posture information for each of the feature point sets and relative position and posture information of the mobile terminal device with respect to each of the feature point sets, and generates a mixed-reality image in which an image of the virtual object is superimposed on a photographed image of the real space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 11032666
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system used to confirm that a user of a mobile terminal device has visited a prescribed location, the system including the mobile terminal device and a server, the server including a control device and one or more wireless devices, wherein: the one or more wireless devices transmit a service notification; the mobile terminal device transmits a visit confirmation request; at least one wireless device transmits a task notification; the mobile terminal device executes a task on the basis of the task notification and repeatedly transmits a task completion notification; at least one wireless device transmits a solution request; the mobile terminal device transmits a solution notification; at least one wireless device receives the solution notification transmitted from the mobile terminal device; and the control device determines the legitimacy of the visit confirmation request on the basis of the solution notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 10990591
    Abstract: An information processing method executed by an information processing system that executes processing for searching data to be searched by using a query condition that can be entered via a predetermined user interface and in which individual conditions constituting a query satisfy three properties consisting of reductiveness, idempotence, and commutativity, includes a pre-processing executing step of executing processing prior to processing for searching, and a search processing step of executing processing for searching. The pre-processing executing step includes a query extracting step of extracting a plurality of limited kinds of sub-queries constituting minimum units of queries and satisfying the three properties consisting of the reductiveness, the idempotence, and the commutativity by analyzing a set of statically defined kinds of queries, and a query executing step of executing each of the plurality of kinds of sub-queries extracted in the query extracting step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Patent number: 10956027
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium contains a program for a portable terminal including a touchscreen having a first area for selecting a command and a second area in which objects are displayed. The program causes a computer to store command information indicating associations between commands and objects that may serve as targets of the commands regarding a plurality of commands in relation to a plurality of objects, store position information indicating displayed positions of the individual objects in the second area, select the command based on a state in which an operation is being performed with a first finger of a user in the first area, and define, based on the command information and the position information, an area corresponding to the display position of an object that may serve as a target of the selected command in the second area as an area in which an operation is acceptable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Publication number: 20210052984
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention is a program that is executed on an electronic device, the program causing the electronic device to execute: holding data points indicated by values on a first axis and values on a second axis, obtained on the basis of touch events; terminating the holding of a data point for which a predefined holding period has expired among the held data points; determining the slope of a regression line on the basis of the held data points; determining an amount of rotation by which the determined slope of the regression line is to be rotated, on the basis of a displacement direction of the set of the held data points; and determining an angle by which the user controls an object being operated in a virtual space, on the basis of the determined slope of the regression line and the determined amount of rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi
  • Publication number: 20210046384
    Abstract: Provided is a system including: a user terminal that executes a game program for playing a game, that determines a parameter for executing a certain event in the game, and that executes the event on the basis of the parameter to generate a user result; a result-for-verification generation unit that generates a plurality of virtual instances for virtualizing the user terminal, that executes the game program in a headless mode in the plurality of virtual instances, that selects, from the plurality of virtual instances, a virtual instance for executing the event on the basis of the parameter received by a server, and that executes the event in the selected virtual instance on the basis of the parameter to generate a result for verification; and a cheat verification unit that compares the user result with the result for verification to determine whether or not cheating has been conducted at the user terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: CYGAMES, INC.
    Inventor: Shuichi Kurabayashi