Patents by Inventor Toshikazu JINNOUCHI

Toshikazu JINNOUCHI 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: 20230127359
    Abstract: An information processor includes: a display device which is able to display symbols including at least one first symbol and at least one second symbol and which is configured to display an area in which columns and stages are arranged; and a controller programmed to execute processes (1a) to (1c) as a unit game. The controller is programmed to execute: (1a) a process of randomly determining symbols; (1b) a process of displaying the determined symbols in the area; (1c) a process of awarding a payout; (1d) a process of fix-displaying the at least one second symbol in one or more the columns, the number of the one or more of the columns corresponding to the number of first symbols displayed in the area; and (1e) a process of performing next execution of the unit game by using the area in which the at least one second symbol is fix-displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi KUMITA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI, Muneki SHIRAISHI, Satoko BABA, Nobuyuki KAWARAI
  • Publication number: 20230104927
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing device and a program that can lower a difficulty level of clearing a predetermined condition and improve a continuation rate of a player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi KUMITA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI, Muneki SHIRAISHI, Satoko BABA
  • Publication number: 20230088120
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processing system and a game management program that can improve a game continuation rate in a game in which any one of a plurality of game contents is executable by satisfying a predetermined condition. The information processing system includes: an information processing device in which any one of a plurality of game contents is executable by satisfying a predetermined condition; and a server communicably connected to the information processing device and configured to manage the game content executed in the information processing device, in which the server includes a control unit configured to perform control, based on information transmitted from the information processing device, such that any one of the plurality of game contents is executable in the information processing device that is a transmission source of the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi KUMITA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI, Muneki SHIRAISHI, Satoko BABA, Nobuyuki KAWARAI
  • Patent number: 11568449
    Abstract: A server comprises a storage unit for storing a plurality of image data, a first end input request image data including a redisplay setting image for setting whether to display the image on the information processor again or not and a first end request image for ending the display of the image, a second end input request image data including a second end request image for rejecting the redisplay of the image and ending the display of the image, and association data in which one of the first end input request image data and the second end input request image data is stored in association with the types of the plurality of image data, and a controller for executing a process of transmitting any one image data of the plurality of image data and either the first end input request image data or the second end input request image data associated based on the association data corresponding to the image data to the information processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 11524243
    Abstract: A game control method, a game server, and a game system with which a user can efficiently increase the number of friends in a game with a friend-up function are provided. When a friend candidate list image 230 of a recommended friend search screen 23 is generated in response to a request from an information processor 1 connected to a game server 10 over a communication line, the game server 10 generates a list of friend candidates with reference to a friend seeking flag. The friend seeking flag is stored in association with a user ID by which each user is identified, and indicates whether the user corresponding to the user ID is seeking friends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 11295580
    Abstract: Apparatuses such as an information processor, with which the winning probability of a specific payout at a predetermined timing is easily increased when there are many types of payouts. A server which executes a slot game in which a payout is awarded based on a randomly determined symbol combination includes a controller which is programmed to execute the processes of: a) accepting the use of a GIGA WIN confirmation item with which the probability of rearrangement of a symbol combination corresponding to a payout of “GIGA WIN” among plural symbol combinations is increased; and b) when the GIGA WIN confirmation item is used, displaying the symbol combination corresponding to the payout of “GIGA WIN” and awarding the payout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Publication number: 20210383650
    Abstract: An information processing system encourages a player to continue a game even after the end of a special game state. An information processing system includes a storage device. The information processing system executes a normal game, a special game which is triggered based on a result of the normal game and which is more advantageous than the normal game, and an additional game which is executed after the special game and which includes plural stages. When the shift related to the stages occurs so that the progress of the game reaches the final stage of the stages in the additional game, the information processing system provides an additional reward. Meanwhile, when the progress of the game does not reach the final stage in the additional game, the information processing system stores the current state of the stages into the storage device. The additional game resumes from the stored state of the stages in the next execution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi KUMITA, Takahiro OYA, Takenari MATSUDAIRA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI, Muneki SHIRAISHI, Satoko BABA, Nobuyuki KAWARAI
  • Patent number: 11189129
    Abstract: A game system includes: terminal devices on each of which a game is playable; and a server which is connected to the terminal devices in a communicable manner and manages game data used in the game played on the terminal devices, each of the terminal devices including a controller, and the controller being programmed to execute the processes of: executing the game in which an accumulable gaming value is increased or decreased in accordance with a result; and requesting the server to send the game data managed by the server, when an amount of increase of the gaming value as a result of the game is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Toshikazu Jinnouchi, Masamichi Miyara
  • Patent number: 11113928
    Abstract: In the information processor, the following processes are executed: (a) executing first random determination of determining whether to set the high-probability game random determination table; (b) when it is determined in the first random determination not to set the high-probability game random determination table, setting the normal game random determination table as a random determination table used in the normal game and executing second random determination based on the normal game random determination table; (c) when it is determined in the first random determination to set the high-probability game random determination table, setting the high-probability game random determination table as a random determination table used in the normal game and executing third random determination based on the high-probability game random determination table; and (d) when the predetermined benefit is to be awarded as a result of the second random determination or the third random determination, awarding the predetermin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 11100750
    Abstract: An information processor 1 includes: a storage unit 3 which stores reel strip display data formed of plural types of symbol images, long symbol display data which is sized to be in a game display area 21, and position determination data used for determining a location where superposition on a reel strip is performed; and a controller 10 configured to display and control symbols the controller 10 being configured to execute the processes of: determining symbol stop positions; determining whether to superpose the long symbol display data and display in the game display area 21; and when it is determined that the long symbol display data is superposed and displayed in the game display area, displaying a long symbol 20 entirely in the game display area 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 11100751
    Abstract: When a symbol displayed in a scroll area of a reel which stops first satisfies a predetermined condition, an information processor 1 executes a process of: setting the scroll area of the reel which is rotating and stops last as an effect display frame, hiding the rotating reel behind the effect display frame, and displaying, in the effect display frame 22, an indication effect corresponding to a predetermined game result; and after the execution of the indication effect, displaying the reel at the effect display frame again so as to display the arrangement of at least one symbol on that reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 11069177
    Abstract: The user interface associated with the item is improved. The information processor 1 displays the first item display screen 22 in which the first item icons 221 corresponding to the types of the possessed items are displayed in a list correspondingly to the possessed number. The information processor 1 switches the second item display screen 23 to display in which the second item icons 231 corresponding to the possessed items are displayed in a list correspondingly to the expiration date when the first item icon 221 in the first item display screen 22 is operated by being pressed for a long time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Publication number: 20210178275
    Abstract: A game control method, a game server, and a game system with which a user can efficiently increase the number of friends in a game with a friend-up function are provided. When a friend candidate list image 230 of a recommended friend search screen 23 is generated in response to a request from an information processor 1 connected to a game server 10 over a communication line, the game server 10 generates a list of friend candidates with reference to a friend seeking flag. The friend seeking flag is stored in association with a user ID by which each user is identified, and indicates whether the user corresponding to the user ID is seeking friends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi KUMITA, Toshikazu JINNOUCHI
  • Patent number: 11004300
    Abstract: An information processor includes: a display configured to display a screen of a game; a storage device configured to store an amount of a gaming medium usable in the game; and a controller programmed to execute the process of: comparing an amount of the gaming medium stored in the storage device with an amount of the gaming medium at login to the game, and displaying a predetermined message on the display when a relation between these amounts becomes equal to a predetermined ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 11004309
    Abstract: The information processor executes the processes of: (a) setting a winning probability of second random determination based on a winning probability corresponding to a condition set by a setting unit which sets one of conditions associated with different winning probabilities; (b) determining whether to execute the first random determination by the second random determination based on the winning probability set in the process (a); (c) when a win is achieved in the second random determination in the process (b), executing the first random determination; and (d) when a result of the first random determination in the process (c) is different from a predetermined result, executing the first random determination again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 11004307
    Abstract: The information processor executes the processes of: (a) accepting a bet amount by a betting device; (b) executing random determination based on the bet amount accepted in the process (a); (c) when there is a payout as a result of the random determination in the process (b), calculating the ratio of the payout to the bet amount; (d) determining whether the ratio calculated in the process (c) falls within a predetermined range; (e) when the ratio falls within the predetermined range in the process (d), awarding the payout and terminating the unit game; and (f) when the ratio does not fall within the predetermined range in the process (d) or when there is no payout in the process (b), executing the processes (b) to (e) again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10991195
    Abstract: An information processor displays a slot game on a display and stores the detail of a bet in a flash memory in accordance with an input indicating the bet. When the slot game is finished, the information processor determines whether an item for automation is valid. When the item for automation is valid, the information processor starts the next execution of the slot game with the detail of the bet stored in the flash memory. When the item for automation is not valid, the information processor waits for an input of a bet on the next execution of the slot game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10964168
    Abstract: An information processor and a program, with which a control program for providing various payout amounts as a result of random determination in a game is simplified, are provided. While a slot game is repeatedly executed, a payout amount awarded in response to the total points which is the sum total of the points corresponding to the number of “RED V” symbols rearranged in the symbol display area 21 and the points corresponding to the number of “BLUE V” symbols rearranged in the symbol display area 21 increases each time the “UP” symbol is rearranged in the symbol display area 21. As such, a payout amount which may be awarded is increased little by little, and hence various payout amounts are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10964167
    Abstract: An information processor which provides a game in which a benefit is awarded as a result of random determination to a terminal device over a communication line executes the processes of: (a) receiving, from the terminal device, a result of the random determination of determining content of the benefit, which is sent each time the random determination is executed; (b) storing, in the storage unit, the result of the random determination received in the process (a); (c) when a game acceleration instruction for accelerating progress of the game is made in the terminal device, receiving results of a predetermined number of times of execution of the random determination, which are sent together from the terminal device; and (d) storing, in the storage unit, the results of the predetermined number of times of execution of the random determination, which are received in the process (c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10933332
    Abstract: An information processor comprises a terminal-side controller programmed to execute: (A1) a process of allowing a creation of a message to the information processor of a transmission destination; and (A2) a process of expanding a representable range of the message on condition of charging when the message is created, and a server comprises a server-side controller that calculates a charge amount charged for the message in the information processor by referring to a charge amount determination data, and a server-side memory that stores the charge amount correspondingly to each of the information processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi