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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8187065 | Video card gaming system for simulating a football game A video card gaming system for simulating a football game comprising a processor. At least one input device, display device, monetary acceptance feature, and database are in communication with the processor. The database comprises an electronic deck of playing cards... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8187066 | Online gaming system for simulating a basketball game An online system for simulating a basketball game comprising a server with a processor, a network in communication with the server, at least one client device in communication with the network, wherein the at least one client device has an input device, a display de... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8172657 | Game machine, game machine control method, and information storage medium Provided is a game machine capable of desirably demonstrating an “extent of field-of-view” of a player in a sports game. A field-of-view area setting unit (64) sets, based on a location and orientation of an operational target player character, a field-of... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8152612 | Online gaming system for simulating a football game An online gaming system for simulating a football game comprising a server with a processor, a network in communication with the server, at least one client device in communication with the network, wherein the at least one client device has an input device, a displ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8128469 | Media system and method An interactive media system configured to present a substantially real-time simulation of an actual live event involving a moveable object in an arena, the system comprising: a tag attachable to a moveable object involved in an actual live event in an arena; one or ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8123601 | Game device, game device control method, and information storage medium for realizing a reference trajectory To provide a game device capable of realizing a user interface that makes it easier for a player to realize a reference trajectory to input and a time to begin inputting of the reference trajectory. A display unit (74) displays a game screen including a movin... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8012004 | Computer-readable storage medium having game program stored thereon and game apparatus While a ball is rising, a point of attention of a virtual camera is set at the current position of the ball. At the instant when the movement of the ball is changed from rising to falling, the point of attention of the virtual camera is moved from the position of th... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7985126 | Game device, game device control method, and information storage medium To provide a game device for enhancing the excitement of a game in which a game parameter value changes, thereby changing the content of the game processing changes. A game processing execution unit (main game processing execution unit (72)) executes game pro... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7959501 | Method and apparatus for testing and/or improving agility and response time A method and apparatus for testing and/or training persons, particularly athletes, with regard to reaction time, peripheral vision, foot speed, agility and (in some cases) strength of hand punch/speed or impact. In addition to testing and training persons, the metho... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7927203 | Game device, game control method and information storage medium To provide a game device capable of evaluating and displaying progress in a more reliable manner in the case of implementing a soccer game or basketball game etc., there is provided means for determining which team is in possession of the ball, means for acquiring t... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7922570 | Fantasy sports auction system A fantasy sports game for a plurality of participants representing sports teams each wishing to form a fantasy sports team made up of actual athletes, and each operating a participant terminal operable to act as a client on a network, the system comprising: a host c... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7762878 | Method and system for operating and participating in fantasy leagues A fantasy server system operates a fantasy league including at least one fantasy player whereby one or more fantasy client devices participate in the fantasy league. In operation, the fantasy server system manages fantasy player information of a fantasy player and s... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7740532 | Recording medium storing game progress control program, game progress control program, game progress control method and game device each defining a key set having correspondence to game display areas each having plural sections A key reception processing unit 203 receives a key-designated area designated by means of a tenkey 211, a timing detector 205 detects a timing at which the key-designated area was received, a meet section detector 204 detects a meet secti... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7736219 | Method of playing an interactive fantasy boxing league game In the method of playing a professional boxing fantasy league game players select names of real professional boxers from a database to staff their fantasy gyms and manage the fantasy gyms during a season in which real boxing matches take place between the selected b... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7614944 | Systems and methods for providing multi-level fantasy sports contests in fantasy sports contest applications Systems and methods for providing multi-level fantasy sports contests in a fantasy sports contest application are provided. The fantasy sports contest application may provide multi-level fantasy sports contest in an award league. The fantasy sports contest applicati... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7588493 | Methods and apparatus for analyzing a game situation using positional information in a game space In a computer game, a game situation is analyzed using states of a plurality of game elements by determining a state for each of the plurality of game elements (10), generating a representation of a Voronoi diagram among the game elements using at least some ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7578505 | Electronic game device with hand and foot controls An electronic game device is disclosed that can simultaneously engage at least two players each at a user position arranged on opposite ends or sides of a display device so that the players are facing each other. At each user position there are hand controls such as... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7412348 | Storage medium storing a game program, game apparatus, and game controlling method A game system includes a game apparatus and a controller. The controller is furnished with an acceleration sensor for detecting accelerations in at least two axis directions. Game processing corresponding to the kind of an acceleration input by means of the controll... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7399224 | Method of game character movement control in game space Provided is a game performing method for executing a given game by controlling movements of characters in a game space. The generated image of the game space has a set plurality of sample points in the game space; calculated positions of the characters; calculated a... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7390254 | Soccer game method for use in game apparatus, involves recognizing areas pertaining to power of character group, based on calculated arrival times of characters up to sample points A game executing method for making a computer device execute a given game by generating an image of a game space, and for analyzing and outputting a power distribution of a character group in the game space, the character group including a plurality of characters mo... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7364508 | Gaming machine environment having controlled audio and visual media presentation A gaming machine system comprises a game cabinet, a processor, and an audio/visual effects system. The game cabinet receives inputs and displays outputs. The processor is located within the cabinet and randomly selects a game outcome in response to a wager. The proc... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361856 | Low impact switch apparatus A platform of the type holding a plurality of normally-open electric switches in position for activation of a selected individual switch by application of a force in a direction normal to a surface of the switch by a portion of a human body. An exemplary platform ac... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355134 | Practice switch apparatus A platform of the type holding a plurality of normally-open electric switches in position for activation of a selected individual switch by application of a force in a direction normal to a surface of the switch by a portion of a human body. An exemplary platform ac... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7313383 | System for regulating entrance/exit of person and communication of wireless communication terminal, entrance/exit regulating apparatus to be used for the system, and wireless communication apparatus whose communication is to be restricted Communication control is made which satisfies the needs of both an owner or manager of a communication place and users of wireless communication terminals. As a user of a cellular phone passes through an automatic ticket gate and enters a predetermined area, The tic... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7303472 | Interactive professional wrestling fantasy contest system In an interactive contest system which permits competition among a plurality of remote participants as a professional wrestling fantasy league, a method employing a database storage means for storing a preferred wrestling team roster and rating scores attributable t... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7300344 | Video game apparatus, a character training controlling method, and a readable storage medium storing character training control programs A character training control includes setting a character to be trained and its training initial values when a training mode is instructed; obtaining training values to be added to the training initial values of the character by causing the set character to take act... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300345 | Method and computer-readable medium for deploying characters in a game An object of the present invention is to deploy soccer players in optimum positions in a soccer game. As means for achieving this object, a base position and ability parameters of player characters are stored in memory as attribute data. Player character/formation s... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7275992 | Mobile gaming The present invention concerns an electronic gaming system configured to provide for end-user control of an on-screen gaining character, the system comprising means for generating an on-screen graphical element comprising first and second markers which are arranged ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7255641 | Liquid racing game A liquid racing game is described. The game preferably includes a liquid outlet such as a water spout and a vessel to catch a flow of a liquid, such as water, from the spout. A player controls the lateral motion of the vessel by a joystick. The spout moves laterally... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252588 | Sport video game machine and play control method of sport video game A large “hit range in offense” is applied to a player character 41 on an offense side, and a small “hit range in defense” is applied to player characters 42 and 43 on a defense side. When a ball is free, a “normal hit range” is appli... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7224403 | Televised scoreboard or statistics presentation with colors corresponding to players' uniforms A method and apparatus for allowing a television viewer to quickly and easily relate the teams' names and scores to the players are disclosed. The teams' names and scores are presented on a small scoreboard or banner on the television screen, and either the backgrou... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7199798 | Method and device for describing video contents An object of the present invention is to provide a description method for efficiently representing contents of motion picture with a small data volume. The organization of the present invention (1) represents a trajectory of how each object has moved over time by us... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199794 | Picture processing device, picture processing method, and game device and storage medium using the same The present invention provides a picture processing device capable of realizing the detailed shape and pattern of a display object which is far away from a viewpoint and which attracts a game player's attention. For example, a display object (or player) in a soccer ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7172508 | Multi-person parimutuel betting games based on sporting events A parimutuel betting game based on events unfolding during a live sporting event, a principal objective being to acquire the largest number of betting tokens by the end of the sporting event. An administrator conducts a plurality of betting events based on events oc... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170508 | Character display method in three-dimensional video game When a player instructs a movement of a player character from an input device, a control section obtains a position of the player character during a current frame period. The control section obtains a distance between the position of the player character during the ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7165973 | Method for non-verbal assessment of human competence A method of testing a subject's competence for operating machines by successively presenting a plurality of pages of scattered images to the subject, having the subject establish a path through the scattered images on each of the plurality of pages, recording the ab... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7153211 | Method and system to optimize group achievement employing group members' collective intelligence A method and system for a plurality of reporters to collectively self-organize, for the purpose of identifying, measuring and recording team-member activity that is causal to team achievement. The method includes steps of role selection, information discovery, infor... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7126290 | Light dimmer for LED and incandescent lamps The light output intensity of incandescent lamps and LEDs connected to a common lamp power bus are controlled using a composite waveform having two power components: a pulse-width modulated (PWM) component and a direct current DC component. The DC component is maint... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7126607 | Electronic game and method for effecting game features The system and method effects character interplay in a computer game having a primary character and at least one opposing character. An embodiment of the method has the steps of: identifying a relationship between the primary character and the at least one opposing ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7122751 | Switch apparatus A platform of the type holding a plurality of normally-open electric switches in position for activation of a selected individual switch by application of a force in a direction normal to a surface of the switch by a portion of a human body. An exemplary platform ac... | 10/17/2006 |
