Patents by Inventor Taiji Sugai
Taiji Sugai 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: 20230368603Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine that can maintain a sense of expectation of a player and continue a game. The gaming machine includes a display including a scroll area where a video reel including a plurality of main symbols is scrolled, the main symbols are rearranged after the scrolling, and a game result of a unit game is displayed and a non-scroll area where the video reel is not scrolled, a sub-symbol different from the main symbols being displayed in the non-scroll area and moving from the non-scroll area to the scroll area, a memory that stores information concerning the main symbols and information concerning the sub-symbol, and a controller that controls display of the main symbols and the sub-symbol on the display, the controller determining display content of the sub-symbol based on at least one probability mode among a plurality of probability modes respectively associated with probabilities different from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: SAMMY CORPORATIONInventors: Takaya YONEDA, Jun NISHIOKA, Yusuke HASHIMOTO, Hiroyuki ITO, Kazuaki UTSUNOMIYA, Teppei HIGASHI, Shinya OHTANI, Taiji SUGAI
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Publication number: 20220392316Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine that can maintain expectation in a game in which a prize is selectively granted to a player and continue the game. The gaming machine includes a display that displays a video reel having a plurality of symbols including a predetermined symbol and a plurality of cells, to each of which a prize is allocated and a controller that executes a base game in which a bet is necessary and the plurality of symbols are rearranged after scrolling of the video reel, when the predetermined symbol is rearranged in the base game, displays content of a prize of a cell in which the content of the prize is not displayed, when contents of prizes of all of the plurality of cells are displayed, selects one cell from the plurality of cells by lottery, and, when content of a prize allocated to the one cell is a transition to a bonus game more advantageous than the base game, transitions the base game to the bonus game.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2019Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: Sammy CorporationInventors: Takaya YONEDA, Shinya OHTANI, Yusuke HASHIMOTO, Teppei HIGASHI, Taiji SUGAI, Jun NISHIOKA, Kazuaki UTSUNOMIYA, Hiroyuki ITO, Masaaki KOJIMA, Shota TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220157125Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine that can achieve a balance between a profit given to a player and a profit of a gaming facility. The gaming machine is provided with: a display that displays a game result by scrolling a video reel including a plurality of symbols and then rearranging the plurality of symbols; and a controller that executes a base game and a plurality of chance games that require betting, and a plurality of free games that require no betting.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: SAMMY CORPORATIONInventors: Takaya YONEDA, Shinya OHTANI, Yusuke HASHIMOTO, Teppei HIGASHI, Taiji SUGAI, Jun NISHIOKA, Kazuaki UTSUNOMIYA, Hiroyuki ITO
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Publication number: 20220157124Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine that can allow active participation in a game without loss of interest even in the midst of a free game. The present invention includes: an operation reception device that receives an operation by a player; a display that scrolls a video reel on which a plurality of symbols are aligned, and then display a game result by rearranging the plurality of symbols; and a controller that executes a base game and a plurality of chance games that require betting, and a plurality of free games that require no betting. The controller executes, during execution of a free game, a skill game in which a video reel being scrolled is stopped in accordance with an operation by a player on the operation reception device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2019Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: SAMMY CORPORATIONInventors: Takaya YONEDA, Shinya OHTANI, Yusuke HASHIMOTO, Teppei HIGASHI, Taiji SUGAI, Jun NISHIOKA, Kazuaki UTSUNOMIYA, Hiroyuki ITO
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Patent number: 10922928Abstract: A lottery device comprises a control unit and a storage unit. The control unit implements a lottery function by executing a program stored in the storage unit. The lottery function comprises an associating function for associating, on the basis of random data, a plurality of positions on a virtual object and a plurality of marks, an operation control function for simulating a motion of the virtual object in a virtual space by physical operation, and a determining function for determining a lottery result on the basis of a mark associated with a position on the virtual object as determined according to a state of the virtual object in the simulation result.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.Inventor: Taiji Sugai
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Publication number: 20200074795Abstract: A game apparatus possesses a symbol display controlling function, a parameter controlling function and a granting function. The symbol display controlling function makes one or a plurality of symbols randomly displayed. The parameter controlling function increases a value of a parameter which has been set in advance in correspondence with a displayed number of predetermined symbols in a plurality of parameters in accordance with a result of display of the symbol(s) by the symbol display controlling function. When the value of the parameter has reached a predetermined value, the granting function grants a privilege according to the parameter which has reached the predetermined value concerned. The game apparatus realizes a game of higher entertaining property.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Yudai Takahara, Taiji Sugai
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Publication number: 20190378371Abstract: A game device comprises a control unit, a storage unit, and a display unit. The control unit is configured to execute a program stored in the storage unit to implement a function of displaying a roulette and a bet area on the display unit, a function of acquiring information on a bet position in the bet area in accordance with an instruction of a player, and a function of highlighting a position on the roulette corresponding to the bet position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2016Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventor: Taiji Sugai
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Patent number: 10497206Abstract: A game apparatus possesses a symbol display controlling function, a parameter controlling function and a granting function. The symbol display controlling function makes one or a plurality of symbols randomly displayed. The parameter controlling function increases a value of a parameter which has been set in advance in correspondence with a displayed number of predetermined symbols in a plurality of parameters in accordance with a result of display of the symbol(s) by the symbol display controlling function. When the value of the parameter has reached a predetermined value, the granting function grants a privilege according to the parameter which has reached the predetermined value concerned. The game apparatus realizes a game of higher entertaining property.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2016Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.Inventors: Yudai Takahara, Taiji Sugai
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Publication number: 20190206181Abstract: A lottery device comprises a control unit and a storage unit. The control unit implements a lottery function by executing a program stored in the storage unit. The lottery function comprises an associating function for associating, on the basis of random data, a plurality of positions on a virtual object and a plurality of marks, an operation control function for simulating a motion of the virtual object in a virtual space by physical operation, and a determining function for determining a lottery result on the basis of a mark associated with a position on the virtual object as determined according to a state of the virtual object in the simulation result.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2016Publication date: July 4, 2019Inventor: Taiji Sugai
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Publication number: 20190012872Abstract: Provided is a game system wherein a display control section executes control in order to display a bet target display section for displaying a plurality of possible betting positions respectively denoting a plurality of possible bet targets, a jackpot winning position display section for prominently displaying, as a jackpot winning position, a position selected in a first draw from among the plurality of possible betting positions, and a win notification section for indicating that the jackpot has been won in accordance with a position determined in a second draw from among the plurality of possible betting positions and the jackpot winning position. As a result, technology for obtaining a more entertaining game is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2016Publication date: January 10, 2019Applicant: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.Inventors: Hiroyuki MIYANO, Taiji SUGAI
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Publication number: 20180261045Abstract: A game apparatus possesses a symbol display controlling function, a parameter controlling function and a granting function. The symbol display controlling function makes one or a plurality of symbols randomly displayed. The parameter controlling function increases a value of a parameter which has been set in advance in correspondence with a displayed number of predetermined symbols in a plurality of parameters in accordance with a result of display of the symbol(s) by the symbol display controlling function. When the value of the parameter has reached a predetermined value, the granting function grants a privilege according to the parameter which has reached the predetermined value concerned. The game apparatus realizes a game of higher entertaining property.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2016Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Yudai Takahara, Taiji Sugai
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Publication number: 20180218569Abstract: A game apparatus possesses a control unit and a storage unit. The control unit is configured to execute a program stored in the storage unit and thereby to realize a lots-drawing function of performing lots-drawing in accordance with a game result of a first game and a granting function of grating a right to continuously play a second game in accordance with a result of lots-drawing, and thereafter in a case where a play result of the second game has satisfied a predetermined condition, granting a right to continuously play the second game a number of times which is not less than a number of times that the second game is continuously played under the right which has been granted at the previous time. The game apparatus provides a game of higher entertaining property.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2016Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventors: Yudai Takahara, Taiji Sugai
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Patent number: 9978207Abstract: A game environment where an operation status of a player's own station machine can be easily monitored and operated and an operation status of other station machines can be also easily monitored. A game machine capable of executing a specified game by connecting a plurality of station machines to enable communications between them, wherein each station machine includes a display panel that displays an image indicating progress of the game including a player's own operation status; and wherein the station machine is configured to be capable of: generating a first display image including the player's own operation status; generating a second display image including the player's own operation status and an operation status of other station machines; and switching between a first display mode to display the first display image on the display panel and a second display mode to display the second display image on the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.Inventors: Taiji Sugai, Takeshi Hisajima, Takashi Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20160292954Abstract: A game environment where an operation status of a player's own station machine can be easily monitored and operated and an operation status of other station machines can be also easily monitored. A game machine capable of executing a specified game by connecting a plurality of station machines to enable communications between them, wherein each station machine includes a display panel that displays an image indicating progress of the game including a player's own operation status; and wherein the station machine is configured to be capable of: generating a first display image including the player's own operation status; generating a second display image including the player's own operation status and an operation status of other station machines; and switching between a first display mode to display the first display image on the display panel and a second display mode to display the second display image on the display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2013Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: Taiji Sugai, Takeshi Hisajima, Takashi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 9196128Abstract: A game apparatus accepts a bet by a player on a betting target from among multiple betting targets. For each target, odds indicating a winning allotment in a first game are set. A drawing is conducted for the first game. According to the result of the drawing, a game medium is paid out. A stake is calculated for a second game whose payout ratio is 1, taking into account, along with a number of bet game media, a difference between a position payout ratio, which serves as a winning allotment expectation value per unit of game media, for the betting target bet on by the player, and a set payout ratio.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2012Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC.Inventor: Taiji Sugai
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Publication number: 20140349730Abstract: A game apparatus comprises operation accepting means that accepts a bet by a player on a betting target among a plurality of betting targets for each of which odds indicating a winning allotment in a first game are set; drawing means that conducts a drawing for the first game; allotment means that pays out a game medium in accordance with a drawing result of the drawing means; storage means that holds a set payout ratio targeted by the game apparatus; stake calculation means that calculates a stake for a second game whose payout ratio is 1, taking into account, along with a number of bet game media, a difference between a position payout ratio, which serves as a winning allotment expectation value per unit of game media, for the betting target bet on by the player, and a set payout ratio held by the storage means; stake accumulation means that accumulates a stake calculated by the stake calculation means; and second game execution means that, if a predetermined condition is satisfied, executes the second gameType: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: SEGA Sammy Creation Inc.Inventor: Taiji Sugai
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Publication number: 20090104955Abstract: A game device including: a first running surface; a second running surface positioned below the first running surface; a plurality of running objects which run on a track of the second running surface, each of the plurality of running objects including capturing unit for capturing an image; and a plurality of model objects which run on the first running surface following each of the plurality of running objects is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHI SEGA D/B/A SEGA CORPORATIONInventors: Sohei Yamamoto, Taiji Sugai, Masayoshi Ogata, Takao Seki