Abstract: Provided is an information providing system for a system administrator not highly skilled in the arts of natural language or artificial intelligence to be able to easily correct or add a response to an input from a user to arrange the response into an appropriate one if the response is not appropriate. When an input sentence does not hit any knowledge data, the system administrator is able to add a combination of the input sentence and a response thereto by opening a new QA quick addition screen from a knowledge maintenance screen by pressing a link of the input sentence. Furthermore, the system administrator is able to easily add the input sentence to knowledge data as a synonymous sentence of a candidate Q, which is determined to be semantically close to the input sentence, by clicking the candidate Q on the knowledge maintenance screen.

Abstract: Provided is a game system in which when a bonus game or the like is conducted, linkage presentation using player tracking devices (PTS terminals) is performed over a plurality of gaming machines. Upon the occurrence of winning in the bonus game, a bonus server 11 transmits a bonus winning notification to a gaming machine in a bank in which a gaming machine having won therein is included. A PTS terminal of the gaming machine which has received the bonus winning notification transmits a linkage presentation start request to a gaming machine which operates as a presentation control server in the bank. The PTS terminal of the gaming machine which has received the linkage presentation start request broadcasts a linkage presentation execution request to a network segment of the bank.

Abstract: Provided is a commercial information providing system that provides commercial information intended by the administrator in the commercial information suitable for a response to the user. The commercial information providing system includes a control device and an information providing device. The control device is connectable to a database and configured to perform processing of extracting a set of commercial information to be provided from a plurality of sets of commercial information and a response template to be used from a plurality of response templates based on question information input from a user interface and creating response information using the response template. The response information includes a set of commercial information selected from the extracted the set of commercial information based on the priority level. The information providing device is configured to provide the response information created by the control device to the user.

Abstract: [Object] To provide avoidance of a situation in which a player becomes addicted to a game. [Solution] An information providing system includes: a storage device that stores game information with respect to each player; an announcement device operable to announce information; and an information processing device communicable with the announcement device. Upon determination that the game information associated with the player exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the information processing device transmits predetermined instruction information to the announcement device. The announcement device announces information for guiding the player not to play a game, based on the predetermined instruction information.

Abstract: An information terminal which allows an increase in a manufacturing cost to be suppressed is disclosed. A ticket printer is held above a paper sheet processing device. A guide by which a ticket or the like ejected from a ticket ejection slot of the ticket printer is guided and an insertion slot of a paper sheet processing device are held in a state in which the guide and the insertion slot have a predetermined angle. A ticket or the like which is printed by the ticket printer is supplied from the ticket ejection slot of the ticket printer via the guide to an opening part of a bezel. On the other hand, a paper sheet which is inserted into the paper sheet processing device is supplied from the opening part of the bezel to the insertion slot of the paper sheet processing device.

Abstract: A gaming machine which makes it possible to avoid monotonous game play is provided. At the start of each game play, gaming machine executes processes of: randomly selecting one of symbol random determination tables in which a probability of rearrangement of each symbol on each reel is defined, based on a symbol random determination table determination table in which a probability of random selection of one of the symbol random determination tables for each of the random determination tables; a symbol random determination process of randomly determining symbols to be rearranged based on the selected symbol random determination table; and displaying the determined symbols on a display device by rearranging the reels.

Abstract: Equivalent exchange operation of exchanging a game medium for another type of game medium is performed in a shorter time. A game medium accommodation device includes: a tray mechanism configured to hold a plurality of accommodation cases stacked in an up-down direction along a reading surface continuing in the up-down direction, each of the accommodation cases accommodating a bundle of game media aligned in a horizontal direction; and an antenna board disposed on the reading surface. The game medium accommodation device reads electronic information relating to the game media and stored in the game media, by radio communication between the antenna board and the game media.

Abstract: An object is to achieve appropriate imaging of a fraud person. An imaging system includes: a gaming machine provided in a facility and including an imager; an imaging device provided in the facility and operable to image the gaming machine; and an information processing device communicable with the gaming machine and the imaging device. The imager images a person existing in front of the gaming machine. Upon obtaining information concerning a fraud in the gaming machine, the information processing device instructs the imaging device to perform imaging under a predefined imaging condition that covers surroundings of the gaming machine.

Abstract: An immersive head-mounted display (IHMD) system includes a control device communicatively coupled to one or more electronic appliances and operable to receive data indicative of alert data generated by the one or more electronic appliances. The system also includes an IHMD that is communicatively coupled to the control device. The IHMD includes a hardware data receiving component operable to receive the data indicative of alert data and a processing unit having one or more hardware processors communicatively coupled to the hardware data receiving component. The IHMD also includes a display device coupled to the processing unit, the display device operable to generate a graphical user interface featuring primary content and alert content, wherein the alert content identifies the one or more electronic appliances that generated the alert data and information describing the alert data.

Abstract: Provided is a game information analysis system which is operable to analyze player attributes and gaming machine attributes based on operation data of gaming machines and to conduct a matching analysis on the player attributes and the machine attributes. An analysis server 2012 of the game information analysis system 2001 receives game information from each slot machine 2014; obtains the player attributes and the machine attributes based on the game information; and conducts matching between a player and a gaming machine in response to an instruction issued by a user, thereby displaying correspondence relationship between the player attributes and the gaming machine attributes.

Abstract: Time required for exchanging game media for another type of game media can be shortened. A game medium exchange device includes: a display device; an arranging mechanism configured to hold one or more convertible game media and one or more inconvertible game media in such a manner that the convertible game media and the inconvertible game media are arranged in their respective sections of the arranging mechanism; an information acquiring mechanism configured to acquire game medium information including the currency values of the convertible game media and the inconvertible game media arranged in the arranging mechanism; and a control device configured to obtain total amounts of the currency values of the convertible game media and the inconvertible game media acquired by the information acquiring mechanism, and to display these total amounts on the display device in association with the convertible game media and the inconvertible game media.

Abstract: An immersive head-mounted display (IHMD) can include motion sensing detectors and a display. The IHMD can generate a first generate a first graphical field of view to present on the display. The IHMD can generate a request for a user input. The IHMD can generate one or more second graphical fields of view that are shifted in various directions from the first graphical field of view to present on the displays in response to receiving movement data, from the motion sensing detectors, indicative of the IHMD being moved in the various directions. The IHMD can analyze the movement data to determine a user reply to the request in response to receiving the movement data within a predetermined amount of time. The IHMD can determine the movement data corresponds to an affirmative head shake and perform an affirmative action or corresponds to a negative head shake and perform a negative action.

Abstract: A gaming machine that is capable of providing information relevant to a winning combination to a player before spinning of a respective one of reels stops in a unit game is provided. When the player's operation is made, in the case where the predetermined symbol is displayed in the effect reel display region 410, symbol arrays of the effect reels are scrolled in an upward direction or in a downward direction and then the predetermined symbol is displayed at the to-be-stopped position, or alternatively, in the case where the predetermined symbol is not displayed, scrolling is controlled so that a symbol displayed immediately after the above situation is replaced with the predetermined symbol and then the predetermined symbol appears from an upper part of the effect reel display region 410, and stops at the to-be-stopped position.

Abstract: The present invention is provides a novel electronic settlement technique which is capable of supplying a deposit so as to continue the play of a game after a deposit available in a game facility has been consumed. A negotiable-value providing device is transmits to a user terminal device a deposit supply demand message demanding supply of a premises deposit upon receipt of a transfer demand message. A user terminal device is transmits a transfer demand message to a management server upon receipt of the deposit supply demand message. Upon receipt of the deposit supply demand message, the management server is transmits to a financial institute system a transfer request message requesting a predetermined transfer of a predetermined amount of money from a user bank account. Upon receipt of a transfer completion message, a premises server is transmits a provision instructing message instructing provision of a negotiable-value to the negotiable-value providing device.

Abstract: To facilitate and shorten the work of changing displayed content on the topper display device 211, a slot machine 1 includes: a gaming machine main body 5 configured to run a game; a topper display device 211 accommodating a display plate module 2117 for displaying a game related information, in such a manner that the display plate module 2117 is detachable from a side; a topper support mechanism 215 rotatably supports the topper display device 211 so that the topper display device 211 is capable of rotating in a horizontal direction on the gaming machine main body 5.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a gaming machine configured to yield a rescue award according to the number of result determination areas on which the player has placed a bet, when games without any benefit are continued. To this end, a slot machine 1 executes a process of receiving a selection of ways bet through a control Panel 30, incrementing the game play count on a counter corresponding to the ways bet selected, upon start of the normal game, determining whether the game play count on the counter has reached the threshold game play count, and awarding the benefit when the game play count is determined as to have reached the threshold game play count.

Abstract: An immersive head-mounted display (IHMD) system including an IHMD that includes at least one gyroscope and a hardware data transmission component operable to transmit data received from the at least one gyroscope. The system includes a control device communicatively that includes an input interface operable to accept an input from an external controller interface and a processing unit having one or more hardware processors. The processing unit operative to: generate a graphic field of view using at least a portion of the graphical data; generate, based on data received from the at least one gyroscope, a modified graphic field of view within the portion of the graphical data; identify a specific target from a plurality of potential targets within the modified graphic field of view; receive an input from the input interface, wherein the input is directed towards the specific target.

Abstract: Provided is an information providing system capable of changing a response to an input from a user based on a predetermined response condition and further making a user terminal to perform a specified behavior (action) in outputting the response. An information providing server selects a reference text semantically closest to the input sentence from a user from knowledge data to determine a response text associated with the reference text. If a plurality of response texts are associated with the reference text, the information providing server determines the response in accordance with the response condition. Furthermore, the information providing server controls the user terminal to perform the behavior registered with the reference text.

Abstract: Objects of the present invention are to provide a player tracking device main body which can be stably located in various postures inside of a housing of a gaming machine; and a player tracking device which includes said player tracking device main body. A PTS main body 1700b includes a magnet cover 1801 formed as a protruding portion on a central upper side of a base panel 1803. Inside of the magnet cover 1801, magnets (1810, 1811, and 1812) which are sandwiched between the magnet cover 1801 and a base stopper 1815 are located.

Abstract: Provided is a game system which performs control so as to change a rank promotion condition in accordance with an amount of a donation made by a user. A donation management server 40 performs controls so as to change the rank promotion condition for said user in accordance with the donation amount when the donation is made by a user operation.