# US 10,478,725 B2 · Game machine and program > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,478,725 B2 - Document ID: US10478725B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/671,297 - Filed: 2017-08-08 - Published: 2017-11-23 - Granted: 2019-11-19 - Earliest claimed: 2015-02-10 - Assignees: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Norifumi Kawai; Shinya Suga - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10478725B2 ## CPC - A63F 13/44: involving timing of operations, e.g. performing an action within a time slot - A63F 13/2145: the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens - A63F 13/25: Output arrangements for video game devices - A63F 13/426: involving on-screen location information, e.g. screen coordinates of an area at which the player is aiming with a light gun - A63F 13/69: by enabling or updating specific game elements, e.g. unlocking hidden features, items, levels or versions - A63F 13/837: Shooting of targets - G07F 17/3209: {Input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen} - G07F 17/3211: {Display means} - G07F 17/3246: {involving coins and/or banknotes} - G07F 17/3267: {Game outcomes which determine the course of the subsequent game, e.g. double or quits, free games, higher payouts, different new games} - G07F 17/3269: {Timing aspects of game play, e.g. blocking/halting the operation of a gaming machine} - A63F 13/792: for payment purposes, e.g. monthly subscriptions - A63F 13/798: for assessing skills or for ranking players, e.g. for generating a hall of fame - A63F: CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - G07F: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; {handling coins or paper currencies apart from payment activated apparatus G07D; payment architectures, schemes or protocols G06Q20/00}) ## Abstract A game machine includes a game operation acceptance device configured to accept one or more game operations. The game machine also includes a skill evaluating device configured to determine whether or not the one or more game operations that are accepted satisfy one or more predefined skill conditions. The game machine also includes a game value consuming device configured to consume a game value in case that the skill evaluating device determined that the one or more game operations that are accepted satisfy one or more predefined skill conditions. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A game machine comprising: one or more computer readable memories that store one or more software components that include computer executable program instructions; and one or more computers that execute the computer executable program instructions to cause the one or more computers to: accept one or more game operations; accept a bet operation specifying an amount of game value to be consumed; determine whether or not the one or more game operations that are accepted satisfy one or more predefined skill conditions; consume a game value in case that it is determined that the one or more game operations that are accepted satisfy the one or more predefined skill conditions; and change the one or more predefined skill conditions, wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to determine whether or not the one or more game operations that are accepted satisfy the one or more predefined skill conditions that have been changed. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The game machine according to claim 1, wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to: accept one or more game operations to game objects, accept one or more bet operations which each specify the consuming amount of the game value to be consumed for the game objects, and determine the consuming amount of the game value, using the amount of game value specified by the bet operation by the bet operation acceptance device for the game object to the one or more game operations that are accepted. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The game machine according to claim 1, further wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to: accept a bet operation which specifies an amount of the game value, accept one or more game operations to at least one of a plurality of operation acceptance regions, accept one or more bet operations which each specify the consuming amount of the game value to be consumed for each of the plurality of operation acceptance regions, and determine the consuming amount of the game value, using the amount of game value specified by the bet operation for the plurality of operation acceptance region on which the one or more game operations have been accepted by the game operation acceptance device. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The game machine according to claim 1, wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to determine the consuming amount of the game value, using information which represents a progress situation in the game. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The game machine according to claim 4, wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to reduce the consuming amount of the game value, in case that it is determined that a predefined game condition is satisfied using information which represents the progress situation in the game. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The game machine according to claim 1, wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to change the one or more predefined skill conditions by using information which represents the progress situation in the game. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The game machine according to claim 1, wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to change the one or more predefined skill conditions, depending upon the type of the game object. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The game machine according to claim 1, wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to: accept a setting operation to the one or more predefined skill conditions, set the one or more predefined skill conditions, based on the setting operation that is accepted. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The game machine according to claim 1, wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to: hold one or more histories of the one or more game operations that are accepted, and set the one or more predefined skill conditions, based on the one or more histories of the one or more game operations that are held. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The game machine according to claim 1, wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to: accept a plurality of game operations as a single group of game operations; determine whether or not the single group of game operations that are accepted satisfy the one or more predefined skill conditions; and consume a game value in case that the skill evaluating device determined that the single group of game operations that are accepted satisfy the one or more predefined skill conditions. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The game machine according to claim 1, wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to: determine a reward to the one or more game operations in a reward determination method based at least one of a result of the determination and a result of a random selection, in case that it is determined that the one or more game operations that are accepted satisfy the one or more predefined skill conditions. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The game machine according to claim 11, wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to: determine a reward to the one or more game operations in the reward determination method which is selected from a group of a first reward determination method based on the result of the determination and the result of the random selection, a second reward determination method based on the result of the random selection, and a third reward determination method based on the result of the determination. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The game machine according to claim 11, wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to: accept a reward determination method specifying operation that specifies the reward determination method which determines a reward to the one or more game operations, and determine a reward to the one or more game operations in the reward determination method specified by the reward determination method specifying operation that is accepted. ### Claim 14 A game machine comprising: one or more computer readable memories that store one or more software components that include computer executable program instructions; and one or more computers that execute the computer executable program instructions to cause the one or more computers to: accept one or more game operations; consume a game value either before or after the one or more game operations are accepted; determine whether or not the one or more game operations that are accepted satisfy one or more predefined skill conditions; and execute a game with a reward which corresponds to at least a part of the game value that has been consumed in case that it is determined that the one or more game operations that are accepted do not satisfy the one or more predefined skill conditions, wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to: execute a game with, as a reward, the amount of game value which varies depending upon the number of game operations which did not satisfy the one or more predefined skill conditions after the one or more game operations are accepted. ### Claim 15 A game machine comprising: one or more computer readable memories that store one or more software components that include computer executable program instructions; and one or more computers that execute the computer executable program instructions to cause the one or more computers to: accept one or more game operations; consume a game value either before or after the one or more game operations are accepted; determine whether or not the one or more game operations that are accepted satisfy one or more predefined skill conditions; and execute a game with a reward which corresponds to at least a part of the game value that has been consumed in case that it is determined that the one or more game operations that are accepted do not satisfy the one or more predefined skill conditions, wherein the one or more computers execute the computer executable program instructions to further cause the one or more computers to execute a game with a reward which varies depending upon the number of game operations which did not satisfy the one or more predefined skill conditions after the game operation acceptance device accepted the one or more game operations.