Visual (e.g., Enhanced Graphics, Etc.) Patents (Class 463/31)
  • Patent number: 11557176
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a processor configured to at least display a plurality of reel strips located within a matrix of symbol display positions, and present a first oversized symbol associated with a first game award in the matrix, where the first oversized symbol occupies at least a first symbol display position and a second symbol display position. The processor is also configured to present a third symbol in a third symbol display position adjacent at least one of the first symbol display position or the second symbol display position, and divide the first oversized symbol display position to display separate symbols in at least the first symbol display position and the second display position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Gary Penacho, Bradley John Hendricks, Lorin Santucci, Patrick Finch, Casey Lyle Condron, Joseph Masinter
  • Patent number: 11554319
    Abstract: An operation pad (20) has an exterior plate (21) having a light-emitting unit (E1) and a touch sensor substrate (22) attached to the rear surface of the exterior plate (21). In addition, the operation pad (20) has a light source (S1) attached to the rear surface thereof and a light diffusion member (H1) that is an optical path through which light of the light source (S1) passes toward the light-emitting unit (E1). According to the structure, the structure for allowing the light-emitting unit provided on the operation pad to shine can be downsized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Masaho Morita, Kazuyuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11551510
    Abstract: An augmented reality method for providing a wagering game having real-world and virtual elements includes generating a live video signal of a scene associated with a field of view of a user. At least one first gaming element in the scene corresponds to a first outcome of the wagering game. The method further includes determining, based on the live video signal, at least one second gaming element in real time. The method further includes displaying the at least one second gaming element to the user in association with the at least one first gaming element as part of the scene so that the second gaming element is displayed as part of the wagering game, wherein the at least one first gaming element and the at least one second gaming element corresponds to a second outcome of the wagering game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Michael Russ, Lukas Angermayer, Gerhard Pichler, Elisabeth Kiss, Caprice Mitterhoefer, Martin Lasser, Julia Ines Lerchbaumer
  • Patent number: 11551507
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to electronic playing cards, each of the playing cards comprising opposing first and second planar playing card surfaces such that, when being viewed by the corresponding player, the first planar playing card surface faces the other players and the second planar playing card surface faces the corresponding player. The first and/or second planar playing card surface can comprise a digital display. A gaming system can assign an electronic playing card to each player in a card game and determine and provide to each of the electronic playing cards an assigned playing card parameter (e.g., card suit and rank) for depiction by a digital display of the respective playing card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Dwayne Nelson, Samantha Ascheri-Phillips, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11551512
    Abstract: A method includes storing multiple bet configurations for a gaming machine. Each bet configuration specifies a respective pay table and a set of bet levels including a minimum bet level. A payout percentage may be selected for each bet level. The pay tables each include a number N of prize levels and each prize level corresponding to a respective numerical prize value for a win on the gaming machine while the corresponding bet configuration is in an active state at the gaming machine. The minimum bets for the different bet configurations are unequal and are related by a translation ratio. The different numerical prize values for the different bet configurations are also related by that same translating ratio. A bet configuration may be placed in the active state at a gaming machine and plays are then resolved according to the bet configuration in the active state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Everi Games Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Watkins, Daniel Eulenfeld
  • Patent number: 11547946
    Abstract: A system includes a beverage sensor to distinguish one or more beverage states and to communicate the distinguished one or more beverage states to a processor as gameplay control inputs to the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Glitchbit LLC
    Inventor: Adam Wray
  • Patent number: 11544602
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may receive voice data corresponding to viewing information and a search command from a display device, convert the received voice data into text data, obtain a first query indicating intention of the converted text data, convert the first query into a second query based on the viewing information, obtain a search result corresponding to the converted second, and transmit the obtained search result to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Sangseok Lee
  • Patent number: 11544990
    Abstract: A method and a device for increasing the emotional involvement in games which provide for performing bets, wherein the result of the bets is determined by the occurrence of an event such as the output of a winning number. The method detects instant by instant the position of a small ball and represents the movement on a bets placement area. The device determines the winning number, performs bets, monitors the run of the small ball, and displays its trajectory on the betting platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: JJ Gaming S.R.L.
    Inventors: Pierangelo Conte, Christian Toini, Bruno Toini, Serena Corbellini
  • Patent number: 11537891
    Abstract: An intelligent target object detection and alerting platform may be provided. The platform may receive a content stream from a content source. A target object may be designated for detection within the content stream. A target object profile associated with the designated target object may be retrieved from a database of learned target object profiles. The learned target object profiles may be associated with target objects that have been trained for detection. At least one frame associated with the content stream may be analyzed to detect the designated target object. The analysis may comprise employing a neural net, for example, to detect each target object within each frame. A parameter for communicating target object detection data may be specified. In turn, when the parameter is met, the detection data may be communicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: AI Concepts, LLC
    Inventor: Johnathan Samples
  • Patent number: 11534682
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an input device including: a plurality of input members; an upper surface having a right region in which a part of the plurality of input members is disposed, a left region in which another part of the plurality of input members is disposed, and a center region that is a region between the right region and the left region; and a light emitting region formed along an outer edge of the center region. The light emitting region includes a first light emitting portion configured to indicate identification information assigned to a plurality of input devices connected to an information processing apparatus, and a second light emitting portion configured to emit light based on information different from the identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Ikuo Kobayashi, Takeshi Igarashi, Masaho Morita, Kazuyuki Suzuki, Akinori Ito
  • Patent number: 11534686
    Abstract: A game control device includes a processing module, at least one button, a signal transceiving module, a time pulse generation module, and a communication module, which are electrically connected to the processing module. When the button is pressed, the processing module generates a corresponding button code, and uses the current clocking time as absolute pressing time, and generates a button packet including a button code and a pressing time. The processing module sends the button packet via the communication module. A game system includes a server and a plurality of hosts, which are connected through the Internet. The hosts are connected to the abovementioned game control devices respectively. Each host receives the button packet sent from each game control device, and sends the button packet to the server. The server determines the press order of the each button according to the absolute pressing time in the received button packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: ZEROPLUS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chiu-Hao Cheng
  • Patent number: 11538312
    Abstract: A gaming machine identifies a first pattern within a first play area including a plurality of first positions arranged in a plurality of first columns, determines whether the first pattern satisfies a predetermined first threshold based on a first position and a first symbol, identifies a second position associated with the first symbol in a second play area including a plurality of second positions arranged in a plurality of second columns, and associates the second position with a second symbol. Each first position is associated with a respective symbol of a plurality of symbols including the first symbol and the second symbol. The first pattern is associated with the first position. The first position is associated with the first symbol. Each second position is associated with a respective symbol of the plurality of symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Video Gaming Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Peters, Zachary Thomas Schmid, Craig Ronald Kelly, Brandon Mason, Edgar Portigal
  • Patent number: 11534683
    Abstract: A game system is disclosed that enables users to play a multi-user game on their respective user devices while viewing a projection view on a separate screen, such as a movie theater screen. The projection view may be generated by a game control system by running game client that controls a special character in the game. The special character acts as a camera, generating a view that can be used as, or included in, the projection view. The game control system may control the position of the special character in a game world to generate views of selected game events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Super League Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: John Miller, David Steigelfest
  • Patent number: 11537227
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a controlling a shared virtual environment are provided. The systems and methods includes a public display connects to a reflector via a network. A shared virtual environment is replicated on the public display. A QR code is displayed on the public display for scanning by a mobile device. The QR code includes instructions to download a controller interface and location of the reflector. The mobile device provides inputs, via the reflector, to the shared virtual environment. This causes mirroring of computations on each of the plurality of objects across the shared virtual environment deterministically. Further, a new message from the reflector with an appended timestamp is transmitted to advance time within the public display. Inputs from the mobile device may include a touchscreen input corresponding to rendered joysticks and buttons, and/or an accelerometer input after position of the mobile device has been calibrated related to the public display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: CEO VISION, INC
    Inventors: Vanessa Ada Freudenberg, Aran Lunzer, Yoshiki Ohshima, David A. Smith, Brian Upton
  • Patent number: 11529559
    Abstract: A region adjustment method, a storage medium, and an electronic apparatus are provided. The region adjustment method includes: determining a region allowing a target object to move in a map, the region comprising a first region that allows the target object to move without being harmed and participate in a target task in the map; determining scene objects set in the map; obtaining object types of the scene objects in a plurality of sub-regions of the first region; based on a sub-region among the plurality of sub-regions in which an object type of a scene object meeting a target condition in the first region, determining the sub-region in which the object type meets the target condition as a second region; and switching the region allowing the target object to move from the first region to the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xin Sun
  • Patent number: 11527144
    Abstract: Apparatus for recognizing left-behind objects 2 has a sensor device 3 designed to generate sensor signals 4 upon sensing a left-behind object 2, a control unit 5 designed to receive and process the sensor signals 4 and generate control signals 6 in reaction to the processed sensor signals 4, and a warning device 7, designed to receive the control signals 6 and output a warning signal 8 in reaction to the received control signals 6. A module arrangement 13 of individual component units having pairs of LED sensors and emitters may be arranged in a vehicle 14 to scan a storage region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Moritz Martinius, Marcel Grein
  • Patent number: 11524234
    Abstract: A multiplayer game implementing a method for generating a plurality of training virtual areas; generating at least one GUI to display a list of the plurality of training virtual areas; using the at least one GUI, enabling a player to choose one of the plurality of training virtual areas, wherein said one of the plurality of training virtual areas is associated with at least one attribute; allowing the player to navigate a virtual character to said one of the plurality of training virtual areas; monitoring an activity of the virtual character in said one of the plurality of training virtual areas; determining a value of the at least one attribute based on the monitored activity; and updating a first attributes profile of the virtual character to a second attributes profile based on the determined value of the at least one attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Activision Publishing, Inc.
    Inventor: Omer Salik
  • Patent number: 11521366
    Abstract: A data processing device comprises an analyser to analyse successive images captured by a camera and to detect an optically detectable marker in the captured images, a first location detector to detect a location of the optically detectable marker with respect to a location of the camera according to a first detection mode and to generate a first detection result, a second location detector to detect the location of the optically detectable marker with respect to the location of the camera according to a second detection mode different to the first detection mode and to generate a second detection result, and a processor to select at least one of the first detection result and the second detection result and to generate data indicative of the location of the optically detectable marker with respect to the location of the camera based on the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Sharwin Winesh Raghoebardajal, Kenzo Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11517826
    Abstract: Systems and methods are directed to presenting, by one or more processors, a game result indicium and in response to a user-selection of the game result indicium, the system and method retrieves game play information related to a game play session. The system also generates, by the one or more processors, a game result overlay based on the game play information generated during the game play session, presents the game play overlay overlaid on a media content item to generate a composite media content item, and transmits the composite media item to a second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Laurent Desserrey, Dylan Shane Eirinberg, Matthew Colin Grantham, Patrick Mandia, David Whyte, William Wu
  • Patent number: 11513605
    Abstract: Examples of mixed reality computing devices that utilize remote sensors and local sensors as input devices are disclosed. In one example, a mixed reality computing device comprises an image sensor, a remote input device, a processor, and storage comprising stored instructions. The stored instructions are executable by the processor to perform object motion tracking and environmental tracking based on output from the image sensor, and in response to detecting that the remote input device is in use, adjust a parameter of the motion tracking while maintaining the environmental tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lori Ann Potts, Lev Cherkashin, David Rohn, Steven James Velat, Andrew C. Goris, Scott Francis Fullam, Travis Scott Legg, Craig Haskins, James Tichenor
  • Patent number: 11514604
    Abstract: An information processing device, an information processing method, and a program are provided. The information processing device includes a virtual object control unit that generates a control parameter that controls display of a first virtual object corresponding to a first real object and a second virtual object corresponding to a second real object on the basis of first posture information indicating a posture of the first real object and second posture information indicating a posture of the second real object, and a determination unit that makes a determination related to contact between the first virtual object and the second virtual object. The virtual object control unit generates the control parameter on the further basis of a result of the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naofumi Fukasawa, Yasutaka Fukumoto, Yoshitaka Suga, Takahiro Tsujii, Noriyuki Suzuki, Yu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11511192
    Abstract: An information processing method and apparatus in a Virtual Reality (VR) game, and a processor are provided. The method includes that: a first move operation of a VR controller in a real environment is acquired; a move of a virtual object in a VR game scene is controlled according to the first move operation, and a calculation factor is calculated according to the first move operation; and when the move of the virtual object in the VR game scene satisfies a preset attack damage trigger condition, damage to an attack target in the VR game scene is calculated according to the calculation factor. The present disclosure solves technical problems in the related art that an operation mode of swinging a weapon to launch an attack in a VR game scene is easy to cause fatigue of a game player and a calculation mode of damage lacks accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuwen Wang
  • Patent number: 11511186
    Abstract: Described herein are controllers with sensor-rich controls for enhanced controller functionality. An example control may include a pressure sensor that is configured to detect an amount of a force of a press on a cover of the control based at least in part on a proximity of a metal layer to the pressure sensor. This control may further include a touch sensor for detecting an object contacting the cover of the control. Additional embodiments disclose, among other things, integrated trackpads and D-pads, as well as backlighting features that indicate a functional state of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Judson VanWyk, Lucas Allen Whipple, Walter Petersen, Jeffrey Walter Mucha, Scott Dalton, Pierre-Loup Miguel Griffais
  • Patent number: 11504637
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adaptively modifying audio associated with a user. In an audio system configured to output audio to a user, one or more audio control settings, for adjusting audio in the audio system, may be determined, with at least one of the one or more audio control settings being configured to adjust or modify a voice associated with a user. Audio generated or handled in the audio system during operation of the audio system by the user may then be processed, with the processing including applying the one or more audio control settings. At least one of the audio control settings may be determined based on information obtained from a database associated with the operation of the audio system by the user. At least one of the audio control settings may be determined based on reference data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: VOYETRA TURTLE BEACH, INC.
    Inventor: Richard Kulavik
  • Patent number: 11507658
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for cybersecurity are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve receiving, by an application capable of JavaScript execution, code for execution; executing, before execution of the received code, an intercepting code, wherein the intercepting code is configured to intercept at least one application programming interface (API) invocation by the received code; intercepting, by the intercepting code, an API invocation by the received code; determining that the intercepted API invocation results in a manipulation of a backing store object; and modifying an execution of the intercepted API invocation, wherein the modified execution results in at least one of: a non-predictable memory layout, a non-predictable memory behavior, or a non-predictable property of an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Seraphic Algorithms Ltd.
    Inventor: Avihay Cohen
  • Patent number: 11506901
    Abstract: A method and a system for simultaneously tracking several 6 DoF poses of a movable object and a movable camera are provided. The method the following steps: A series of images are captured by a movable camera, several environmental feature points are extracted from the images and are matched to compute several camera matrixes of the movable camera, and the 6 DoF poses of the movable camera are computed using the camera matrixes. At the same time, several feature points of the movable object are inferred from the images captured by the movable camera, the coordinates of the feature points of the movable object are corrected using the camera matrixes corresponding to the images as well as the predefined geometric and temporal constraints. Then, the 6 DoF poses of the movable object are computed using the coordinates of the corrected feature points and their corresponding camera matrixes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Te-Mei Wang, Chung-Yang Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11508087
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for detecting a pose of a user. The program and method include operations comprising: receiving a monocular image that includes a depiction of a body of a user in a given pose; detecting a plurality of skeletal joints of the body depicted in the monocular image; generating an outline of the body of the user based on the plurality of skeletal joints; retrieving a mask that represents a target pose; comparing the outline of the body depicted in the monocular image with the mask that represents the target pose; and determining that the given pose of the body of the user matches the target pose in response to comparing the outline of the body with the mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Matan Zohar, Avihay Assouline, Gal Dudovitch, Itamar Berger
  • Patent number: 11504625
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining whether to enable color blind accessibility settings within the course of a user interactive narrative are described herein. Virtual color blindness indication objects containing colors that are visibly distinguishable within a single dichromatic visual spectrum can be utilized in objectives to determine a user's dichromatic visual deficiency type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.
    Inventor: Karen Elaine Stevens
  • Patent number: 11508207
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling a graphical user interface in a live-casino environment are provided. The method comprises, at a plurality of remote electronic devices, each having a display apparatus and at least one user input device: displaying a graphical representation comprising a live video stream of a physical table game surface upon which a turn-based live casino game involving betting is played. The game surface has a plurality of player areas. The graphical representation further comprises a plurality of graphical player elements for each player area. The method includes determining which of the player areas is associated with each remote electronic device, and for each launch of a game cycle of the live casino game, updating the graphical representation on each display apparatus. And digitally zooming in on one predefined area of the game surface based on the determined associated player area for the individual remote electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Inventors: Madina Dashinicha, Nikita Romanovskii
  • Patent number: 11501603
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses, computer-readable media, and/or methods that are configured to concurrently utilize presented game components in multiple games or game features within the same or different game. Accordingly, a gaming device can be configured to enable randomly-presented game components, such as slot game symbols, to be concurrently useable in one or more other games, and/or one or more other game features within the same overall game. Hence, one or more symbols presented in a first game segment are also available in a second game segment, where the game segments may be interrelated or alternatively independent from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Inventor: Brett Hawkins
  • Patent number: 11497992
    Abstract: A server includes drawing means for drawing an item by lottery from among an item group including a plurality of types of items with different scarcity values and providing the item to a user, and additional item providing means for providing an additional item to the user in accordance with a provision count of the number of times an item is provided by the drawing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Masahito Maeda
  • Patent number: 11497986
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method in conjunction with mixed reality gear (e.g., a headset) includes imaging a real scene encompassing a user wearing a mixed reality output apparatus. The method includes determining data describing a real context of the real scene, based on the imaging; for example, identifying or classifying objects, lighting, sound or persons in the scene. The method includes selecting a set of content including content enabling rendering of at least one virtual object from a content library, based on the data describing a real context, using various selection algorithms. The method includes rendering the virtual object in the mixed reality session by the mixed reality output apparatus, optionally based on the data describing a real context (ā€œcontext parametersā€). An apparatus is configured to perform the method using hardware, firmware, and/or software.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Michael Smith, Lewis Ostrover
  • Patent number: 11501459
    Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a determination unit that determines an input state of a user based on a captured image of a first imaging device and a sensor controller that determines an imaging position at which an input image is captured by a second imaging device different from the first imaging device, based on a positional relation between an input-related object related to input by the user and each of a plurality of imaging position candidates and the input state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Ikeda, Kentaro Ida, Yuri Kusakabe
  • Patent number: 11501605
    Abstract: Provided is a method for data processing. The method includes the following actions. Recognition data obtained by performing game object recognition on each frame of game image in a game image frame sequence is acquired. The recognition data includes type data of a game object and position data of the game object on a game table. At least one heat zone map corresponding to a surface of the game table is acquired. Each heat zone map represents a game region on the surface of the game table corresponding to each of respective at least one type of game object. Based on the type data, the position data, and the at least one heat zone map, recognition data of a game object that is located in a corresponding game region in each frame of game image in the game image frame sequence is filtered out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SENSETIME INTERNATIONAL PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiyang Guo, Xinxin Wang
  • Patent number: 11501606
    Abstract: In various embodiments, promotions are featured on mobile gaming devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Howard W. Lutnick, Kevin Burman, Dean P. Alderucci, Geoffrey M. Gelman, Joseph M. Asher
  • Patent number: 11503163
    Abstract: Enhancing group sound during a networked conference is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes generating an audio signal at a user equipment (UE), detecting a group sound in the audio signal, generating a group sound indicator that identifies the detected group sound, and transmitting the group sound indicator to a network server. The method also includes receiving, from the network server, a control signal that identifies a selected group sound, and reproducing, at the UE, the selected group sound identified by the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Qiyong Liu, Oded Gal, Lin Han
  • Patent number: 11498001
    Abstract: A computer system a plurality of user devices, each in communication with the server via a communication network. Each user device user plays a game and uploads game data. The user devices receive event data from the server and display an indicator of an event based on the event data at a navigable image rendered on the display. The event is associated with a location icon rendered on the display at the user device. The event data defines a game mode object accessible by a user at the location icon, the game mode object, when accessed providing a game mode which provides an interaction with other users at the user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: KING.COM LTD.
    Inventors: Dennis Gustafsson, Sebastian Knutsson, Bjorn Ritzl
  • Patent number: 11495095
    Abstract: A gaming system and method for a skill-based reel game that includes a sequence of letters and a game grid size are described. During a game session, a randomly selected plurality of letters are associated with a plurality of letter display elements. A game processor determines whether any of the plurality of letter display elements form a winning sequence of letter display elements that spell a word stored in a word database. The player then identifies the winning sequence with player input, such as selecting the sequence of letter display elements on a touchscreen. When the player input is received by the game processor within a preset time period, the player is awarded a game session prize.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventor: Gregory J. Cohen
  • Patent number: 11491398
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for increasing attention ability of a user using a gameplay. The system may include a display device configured to display a moving image comprising an object, a cursor and a points counter. Further, the system may include an audio device configured to produce acoustic waves based on a sound data associated with a level. Further, the system may include an input device configured to receive a spatial input data. Further, the system may include a processing device communicatively coupled to each of the display device, the audio device and the input device. Further, the system may include a storage device communicatively coupled to the processing device. Further, the storage device may be configured to store digital data corresponding to an object, a cursor, a current cursor location, a previous cursor location, a geometric shape and the sound data in association with the multiple level indicators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Inventor: Charles Tedesco
  • Patent number: 11488447
    Abstract: A networked computer system for providing promotional awards to casino property patrons is described herein. The networked computer system includes a promotions management computer server including a processor programmed to execute an algorithm to receive an activity signal from at least one player tracking server indicating corresponding patron activity. The processor is programmed to determine whether the patron activity data indicates a qualifying promotional event, and responsively select a promotional award, generate an escrowed award record associated with the corresponding patron activity, and modify the award escrow data file to include the generated escrowed award record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: STATION CASINOS LLC
    Inventors: William Chad Little, Jon Von Tobel
  • Patent number: 11484793
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for game control. A graphical user interface is generated and displayed on a display screen. The graphical user interface presents at least one user-controllable object and at least one target object. A user is enabled to provide a user input to control a movement of the at least one user-controllable object within the graphical user interface. A predetermined area is identified around the at least one user-controllable object in the graphical user interface. It is detected whether or not the at least one target object lies within the predetermined area in the graphical user interface. If it is detected that the at least one target object lies within the predetermined area, an action is executed on the at least one target object from the at least one user-controllable object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Supercell Oy
    Inventors: Jon Franzas, Touko Tahkokallio, Jonas Collaros, Patrick Corander, Rauli Laatikainen, Sergio CastaƱo
  • Patent number: 11484794
    Abstract: A game device including memory an operation device, and circuitry. The memory is configured to store information related to an image of a first object and a virtual space. The operation device is configured to output first operation information and second operation information, based on a motion of a player. The circuitry is configured to display an image of the first object moving in the virtual space, progress a first game when the first operation information is retrieved, determine whether a state of the first object moving in the virtual space satisfies a predetermined condition in the first game, and progress a second game when the second operation information is retrieved within a predetermined period after the state of the first object satisfies the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Imai, Gaku Kawamura, Yuzaburo Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11478703
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for controlling a game include: controlling a game based on gameplay of a game player; receiving instructions from the game player and forwarding the instructions for controlling the game; and setting respective viewpoints, from among a plurality of viewpoints, serving as bases for generating respective watching screens for viewing the game offered to respective watching players, among a plurality of watching players, different from the game player, where at least one of: (i) the setting includes employing watching player conditions regarding each of the plurality of watching players for each of the plurality of viewpoints; and (ii) the setting includes employing one or more predetermined conditions in setting one or more of the respective viewpoints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiya Ikenaga, Nobuaki Tanaka, Yasuhiro Watari, Toshiharu Sayano, Hiromasa Ohkubo
  • Patent number: 11481984
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for enhancing one or more publications by receiving live video captured by a user, the live video comprising video of a publication, the publication comprising copyrighted content; identifying at least one first trigger in the live video, identifying one or more first three-dimensional, interactive media associated with the at least one first trigger and pertaining to the copyrighted content, and presenting to the user the first three-dimensional, interactive media; and identifying at least one second trigger in the first three-dimensional, interactive media, identifying one or more second three-dimensional, interactive media associated with the at least one second trigger and pertaining to the copyrighted content, and presenting to the user the second three-dimensional, interactive media to progressively deepen and enrich the engagement with the copyrighted content of the publication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: A BIG CHUNK OF MUD LLC
    Inventor: J. Michelle Haines
  • Patent number: 11482071
    Abstract: Mechanism (which can include system, methods, and media) for removing a card from a gaming table are provided, the mechanisms comprising: detecting when a playing card is placed on a door on a table surface of a gaming table; and causing the door to automatically open downward when the playing card is detected as being placed on the door so that the playing card slides downward to a space below the table surface. In some embodiments, these mechanisms further comprise controlling the opening of the door using a hardware processor, and optionally using stepper motor to control the opening of the door. In some embodiments, these mechanisms further comprise generating a graphics version of the playing card; and presenting the graphics version of the playing card on a player's computer display after the playing card has slid below the table surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Evolution Malta Limited
    Inventors: Todd Haushalter, Alexander Goodman, Raivis Rengelis, Aleksejs Blinovs
  • Patent number: 11477432
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus having: a display control unit configured to display a plurality of virtual viewpoint images respectively corresponding to a plurality of virtual viewpoints on a display unit, wherein each of the plurality of virtual viewpoint images is generated based on image data obtained by a plurality of image capturing apparatuses performing image capturing from different directions; a reception unit configured to receive an input in accordance with a user operation for changing a virtual viewpoint corresponding to one virtual viewpoint image of the plurality of virtual viewpoint images displayed on the display unit; and a viewpoint control unit configured to perform control to change a plurality of virtual viewpoints respectively corresponding to the plurality of virtual viewpoint images based on the received input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 11471758
    Abstract: An illumination device according to one or more embodiments may include: a light guide plate unit having a front light guide plate and a rear light guide plate; a light projecting unit having an LED configured to supply light to the front light guide plate and the rear light guide plate; a moving mechanism configured to cause the light guide plate unit to reciprocate in a depth direction; and a detector having a detection region in front of the light guide plate unit in the depth direction and configured to detect the presence or absence of an object without contacting. The moving mechanism may move the light guide plate unit in accordance with a detection result of the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Onitsuka, Takahiro Ono, Tatsuya Adachi, Rei Asai, Takehiro Agata
  • Patent number: 11460697
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image generation device including: a space construction section that constructs a virtual world to be displayed on a head-mounted display; an image generation section that generates, based on a position and a posture of a head of a player wearing the head-mounted display, a display image representing the virtual world in a field of view corresponding to a point of view of the player, and causes the head-mounted display to display the generated display image; and a visitor information acquisition section that acquires information regarding presence of a visitor without a head-mounted display in a space where the player is able to move. While the visitor is present, the space construction section displays an object indicating the presence of the visitor at a corresponding position in the virtual world.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Junichi Muramoto
  • Patent number: 11452937
    Abstract: To provide a game program of high interest is an object. Switching between a manual control and an automatic control of a first player character. Performing an automatic control of a second player character acting as an ally of the first player character. The automatic control of the first player character is executed based on different action setting from the automatic control of the second player character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Hamaguchi, Teruki Endo
  • Patent number: RE49272
    Abstract: A method for operating a list in a mobile terminal is disclosed. An example method includes displaying a first set of items from an item list in the mobile terminal, changing the item list based on a received command, determining a direction of most recent movement in the item list before the receiving of the command, determining items from the item list to display according to the determined direction and the change of the item list, and displaying the determined items from the item list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ravindra Raj Mamadgi, Abraham Kang