Abstract: A video game device allows a game player to set a degree of difficulty of a technique to be performed by a play character by continuously hitting a pair of buttons in a controller. A command guiding unit guides the input of a command which causes the play character to perform a technique corresponding to the set degree of difficulty, and a stick-shaped controller allows the game player to input commands in accordance with the guide given by the command guiding unit. Upon completion of the performance of the technique by the play character, an evaluating unit evaluates the technique performed in accordance with the commands inputted by the game player.

Abstract: In a game system, players' own horse trained by players in a horse racing game of an arcade game machine is allowed to participate in races of a horse racing game Web site managed by a Web server by using a password. The password includes a day of retirement, names of G1 races won, and so on. In the horse racing game Web site, if the day of retirement is within a term of validity, participation for an application related to the password is not allowed. Experience of winning a predetermined number of G1 race is required in order to participate in a specific race held in the horse racing game site, and horses without such experience are not allowed to participate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a play extension system enhancing a fun of a toy system by use of network. The play extension system is used by combination with the toy system in which a user can change the setting of parameters affecting motion control of a driving machine, for extending a playing method with the toy system. In the system, the setting information corresponding to the setting state of the parameters is received from a predetermined user terminal through a network, and estimation on the obtained setting information is created by referring to a database which stores the setting information and the information for estimating the setting state correspondingly. The created estimation is transmitted to a predetermined destination through the network.

Abstract: A background image generator 51 renders a first 3D model representing a landscape to generate a background image, an image generator 52 generates a second 3D model to be located between a camera viewpoint and the first 3D model, an image adhering unit 53 selects a specified range of the background image and adheres the background image within the selected range as a texture to the second 3D model, and a combined image generator 54 renders the second 3D model having the background image within the specified range adhered thereto and combines the rendered model with the background image to generate a combined image.

Abstract: The present invention provides a play extension system enhancing a fun of a toy system by use of network. The play extension system is used by combination with the toy system in which a user can change the setting of parameters affecting motion control of a driving machine, for extending a playing method with the toy system. In the system, the setting information corresponding to the setting state of the parameters is received from a predetermined user terminal through a network, and estimation on the obtained setting information is created by referring to a database which stores the setting information and the information for estimating the setting state correspondingly. The created estimation is transmitted to a predetermined destination through the network.

Abstract: A light receiving device 7 includes a sensor 10 for outputting a signal correlating to incident light on a detection surface 10a and a light receiving element 8 disposed in confrontation with the detection surface and capable of transmitting light. The light receiving element has a recessed portion 22 on the opposite surface of the surface confronting the detection surface. A wall surface 24 of the recessed portion reflects the light beam L2 from a lateral direction of the detection surface toward the detection surface 10a.

Abstract: This portable apparatus comprises a housing having a circuit built-in, and an input key, an ultraviolet receptive opening and a display, which are combined with the housing as one body. An ultraviolet sensor is provided in the interior of the ultraviolet receptive opening. This portable apparatus comprises means for receiving characteristic data about a characteristic of a user's skin against a suntan from the input key and measurement data about an ultraviolet ray quantity from the ultraviolet sensor, for predicting a user's suntanned skin condition from these data, and for generating image data for displaying an image about the prediction of user's suntanned skin condition. The image, which is based on image data generated by this means, is displayed on the display, making it possible for the user to confirm the user's skin condition.

Abstract: A play facility for a remote-control system including a transmitter 2 and a drive device 1 remote-controlled by drive data transmitted by the transmitter. The play facility includes a scramble signal generating device 106 which generates scramble signals to interfere with the remote control of the drive device by the transmitter, a scramble signal outputting device 55 which outputs the scramble signals to the play field, and a scramble signal control devices 100, 104 which switches between output and termination of the scramble signals from the scramble signal outputting device according to predetermined conditions.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for a game that makes it possible to freely establish a region by expanding or contracting various regions relating to a game with a simple operation. If a closed region for expansion or contraction is moved to a position adjacent to an already established expansion or contraction object region, and an expansion operation performed in a state where a boundary of the closed region for expansion or contraction and a boundary of the object region, the closed region for expansion or contraction is added to the original object region to enlarge the area of the object region. Thus, the boundary displayed overlapping on the object region and the closed region for expansion or contraction are removed, and a single linked boundary is formed on the new object region.

Abstract: A remote control system for operating a drive unit 2 and a peripheral unit 3 to be used together with the drive unit by remote control, has a transmitter 1 that generates data repeatedly including a first control information for a specific operation of the drive unit 2 and a second control information for controlling a specific operation of the peripheral unit 3. The drive unit 2 controls its specific operation on the basis of the first control information and the peripheral unit 3 controls its specific operation on the basis of the second control information.

Abstract: To display an image seen from a suitable camera viewpoint, the present invention comprises a viewpoint determination section 301 that finds a position of the camera viewpoint appropriate to a control operation of determining an action of the main character (main object), which control operation is assumed to be performed by the game player; a viewpoint movement section 302 that moves the camera viewpoint from its current position to the position found by the viewpoint determination section 301; and an image display section 303 that displays an image of the main character seen from the camera viewpoint.

Abstract: In a communication system which can privately inform each applicant of an outcome of a game or an examination, a cell phone with a cell phone number is used to transmit, to a center or a promoter, personal identification information including the cell phone number and a total personal password. The total personal password is obtained by producing the personal identification information, by producing the result of the game or examination as a parameter, and by encrypting both the personal identification information and the result. The center extracts the personal identification information from the total personal password decrypted and collates the extracted personal identification information with the received information so as to judge whether or not a person is authentic. When confirmation is made about the fact that the person is authentic, the parameter is extracted from the total personal password to be judged. An outcome of judgement is transmitted to each person by the use of the cell phone number.

Abstract: A gaming machine includes at least one reel to be rotated. A reel belt is attached onto an outer circumferential face of the reel. The reel belt includes a half mirror layer, and a print layer on which at least one symbol is printed. The print layer is placed behind the half mirror layer when viewed from a front face of the gaming machine.

Abstract: In a die which has a regular polyhedron form and which can be opened into a continuous polygonal form on a plane, boundary areas (Rb) between planes (11 through 16) on the inner side of the regular polyhedron have inclination angles determined according to the regular polyhedron. In addition, engaging portions (21a, 21b, 24a, 24b, 25a, 25b, 26a, 26b) not exceeding the respective boundary areas (Rb) are placed on the boundary areas (Rb) of predetermined planes (11 through 16). Such a die is formed by injecting plastic resin within a mold (31, 32) according to the form of the opened die. This realizes a three-dimensional die capable of being opened onto a two-dimensional plane, which has only been fictionally conceived, and further provides a manufacturing method thereof.

Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to obtain operation signals to enable operation of a more complex game by individually detecting movement in at least two axial directions. The present invention provides a pair of right and left controllers 21 and 22 that generate operation signals based on which game action is instructed, each controller having a main section 210 in the shape of a glove in which the hand is inserted, and in which is mounted an acceleration sensor 2124 that individually detects movement in three axial directions x, y and z (front/back, right/left, up/down). Each detection signal is deemed an operation signal for game action.

Abstract: A disk for identifying individual symbols on a reel displayed in a symbol display region of a mechanical slot machine, the disk being concentric with the rotational axis of the reel and rotatable along with the reel, the disk surface being provided with a plurality of convex members protruding radially around the rotational axis, and the plurality of convex members each having at the top a detection surface whose distance from the rotational axis is within a unique range.

Abstract: A game system comprises game execution apparatus to execute a game adapted to utilize a predetermined pseudovalue based on a game program, a memory card device, which records a pseudovalue obtained as a result of executing the game as a game data, and data reading apparatus to extract the pseudovalue from the game data recorded on the memory card device and transmit the extracted pseudovalue to the game execution apparatus. The memory card device comprises a record medium which is adapted to record the pseudovalue for each of a plurality of kind of the game, communication apparatus to communicate between another memory card device, and a control apparatus.

Abstract: Loudspeakers 12 are arranged at left and right sides at an upper part of a game machine casing 10 provided with a monitor 11, and a loudspeaker 21 is arranged in the center of the front surface of the casing 10. A hitting sound made in a distant position is outputted as a sound effect from the loudspeakers 12, whereas a sound of a bullet hurtling through the air when the bullet passes in a near position is outputted as a sound effect from the loudspeaker 21. Accordingly, an acoustic presence in response to an attacking result from a game machine side can be given.

Abstract: In a game system having a monitor, an input unit for supplying a signal corresponding to a player's operation, and a game controller for executing a predetermined card game on a game screen of the monitor with reference to the signal supplied from the input unit, the game controller decides a plurality of cards displayed on the game screen in a matrix. The game controller sets the number of lines of a plurality of lines formed by the cards on the game screen, each as an effective line and all of which are in a single, common direction, depending on the value of a play a player sets by operating the input device, and controls a dividend for the player according to a combination of the cards on any of the effective line and a combination of the cards in a direction different from the direction of the effective lines.

Abstract: A first display displays a predetermined number of symbols among a plurality of symbols including at least one special symbol. A storage stores a first number of times that a special symbol combination is appeared on the first display, the special symbol combination includes a first symbol combination in which at least one special symbol is included and a second symbol combination which is a predetermined combination of the symbols. A determinant determines whether the first number of times stored in the storage is not less than a second, predetermined number. A signal generator generates an award signal for causing the gaming machine to provide an award to a player in accordance with the special symbol combination displayed on the first display, when the determinant determines the first number of times is not less than the second number of times.