Patents by Inventor Takahiro Ogiwara

Takahiro Ogiwara 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: 7837548
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes: a plurality of game terminals each including an operation section for accepting operation of a player; a game medium payout unit for paying out game medium to the game terminal in response to the operation result and the game results of a base game and a bonus game having a different game mode from the base game; a bonus game generation determination unit for determining whether or not the bonus game is generated; a first game control unit for controlling the game based on the base game; a second game control unit for controlling the game based on the bonus game; an base game result determination unit for determining whether or not the game result of the base game satisfies a predetermined condition; and a bonus game result change unit for changing the game result of the bonus game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Ogiwara
  • Patent number: 7766738
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes: a plurality of game terminals each including an operation section for accepting operation of a player, an acceptance unit for accepting game medium, and an image display unit for displaying a predetermined image; a plurality of cumulative storage units for storing a predetermined value of the game medium; a game control unit for controlling a game based on a base game or a bonus game; a first lottery unit for performing a lottery as to whether or not the bonus game is generated for each of the plurality of game terminals; a second lottery unit for performing a lottery as to whether or not game medium are paid out for each game terminal when the bonus game is generated; and a cumulative game medium payout unit for paying out the game medium to the determined game terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Ogiwara
  • Patent number: 7690979
    Abstract: The betting apparatus is configured such that the numbers of a number display portion forming BET areas are displayed in a second BET screen with the same number as those of number plates disposed on a roulette wheel and in a wheel shape in the common array, and such that not only the designated BET area but also the BET areas around the former can be simultaneously bet by setting the bet width in a BET width select unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro Ogiwara
  • Publication number: 20070087824
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes: a plurality of game terminals each including an operation section for accepting operation of a player; a game medium payout unit for paying out game medium to the game terminal in response to the operation result and the game results of a base game and a bonus game having a different game mode from the base game; a bonus game generation determination unit for determining whether or not the bonus game is generated; a first game control unit for controlling the game based on the base game; a second game control unit for controlling the game based on the bonus game; an base game result determination unit for determining whether or not the game result of the base game satisfies a predetermined condition; and a bonus game result change unit for changing the game result of the bonus game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Takahiro Ogiwara
  • Publication number: 20070072669
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes: a plurality of game terminals each including an operation section for accepting operation of a player, an acceptance unit for accepting game medium, and an image display unit for displaying a predetermined image; a plurality of cumulative storage units for storing a predetermined value of the game medium; a game control unit for controlling a game based on a base game or a bonus game; a first lottery unit for performing a lottery as to whether or not the bonus game is generated for each of the plurality of game terminals; a second lottery unit for performing a lottery as to whether or not game medium are paid out for each game terminal when the bonus game is generated; and a cumulative game medium payout unit for paying out the game medium to the determined game terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Takahiro Ogiwara
  • Publication number: 20060223604
    Abstract: A gaming machine for executing a subgame in parallel with a main game, the gaming machine includes: a main game control unit for dealing a plurality of elements and determining the result of the main game in response to the dealt plurality of elements; a dealt element storage unit for storing the plurality of elements dealt by the main game control unit; and a subgame control unit for determining the result of the subgame based on the dealt plurality of elements stored in the dealt element storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventor: Takahiro Ogiwara
  • Publication number: 20050239536
    Abstract: A player switches display between a first BET screen 131 provided with a usual table betting board 30 and a second BET screen 133 provided with a Loto-type number selection betting board 132 by pressing a screen switch button 34, 46. In a roulette game using the second BET screen 133, the player predicts the three lottery results including the current lottery result on a roulette wheel 3 and selects three numbers. Further, after the lottery, how many of the three selected numbers match the win numbers is determined, and a predetermined amount of credit points are paid out based on the match number count (the number of identical number pairs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Takahiro Ogiwara
  • Publication number: 20050239537
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes: a game processing unit that provides a game of a type in which a plurality of players participate; a plurality of betting sections provided for each of the players, the betting section allowing the player to bet on a game result of the game provided by the game processing unit; and a lottery unit that performs a lottery for each of the betting sections, the lottery to win an occurrence of a special gaming state in which condition more advantageous than in a normal gaming state, wherein each of the betting sections includes an effect producing unit that produces a special effect when the special gaming state occurs in at least one of the betting sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Takahiro Ogiwara
  • Publication number: 20050212210
    Abstract: The betting apparatus is configured such that the numbers of a number display portion forming BET areas are displayed in a second BET screen with the same number as those of number plates disposed on a roulette wheel and in a wheel shape in the common array, and such that not only the designated BET area but also the BET areas around the former can be simultaneously bet by setting the bet width in a BET width select unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 29, 2005
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Takahiro Ogiwara