Abstract: A computer device has a display and a user interface which detects user input. A memory stores information about other users and their associated game progress information. When a game with a game parameter is started, the processor will change the game parameter depending on the stored information. The updated parameter is displayed.

Abstract: Devices and methods for generating and/or communicating using optically formatted image data are provided. One method includes receiving first gaming information from a first wager-based gaming device via a local area network. The method further includes receiving from the first wager-based gaming device a request to include the first gaming information in a machine readable optically formatted image data. The method further includes generating the machine readable optically formatted image data or instructions for creating the machine readable optically formatted image data. Data encoded in the machine readable optically formatted image data comprises a unique identifier and the first gaming information. The method further includes sending the generated machine readable optically formatted image data or the instructions for creating the machine readable optically formatted image data to the first wager-based gaming device. The machine readable optically formatted image data is output to a display device.

Abstract: Techniques described herein relate to performing diagnostic analyses including execution and evaluations of visual-spatial diagnostic content resources. A store of visual-spatial diagnostic content resources may be analyzed to determine the presence or absence of predetermined visual features, and mathematical modeling and/or machine-learning techniques may be used to calculate item parameter metrics for each visual-spatial diagnostic content resource. Thereafter, diagnostic sessions may proceed by selecting and presenting sequences of visual-spatial diagnostic content resources within an appropriate range of difficulty metrics, depending on the content recipient and performance on the previously-transmitted visual-spatial diagnostic content resources.

Abstract: A ticket management system including a gaming establishment management tool, a gaming device, and a virtual wallet stored on a mobile device. A printer is located in a back office of the gaming establishment to print, store, track, and easily locate tickets. The tickets include financial transactional data, such as a cashout transaction, including a cashout amount and a gaming machine associative identifier. The accounting management tool and the virtual wallet exchange financial transaction data to properly record and display gaming account balances, gaming credits, and identifiers. The gaming establishment management tool, the gaming device, and the printer each include scanners, configured as validators, to validate a ticket, a gaming machine transaction, or a virtual wallet transaction respectively.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to providing an online shooting game by a game server communicatively connected to a player terminal. The player terminal may display a virtual online shooting game environment based on information received from the game server. Providing an online shooting game may include: selecting a basic identification range within a virtual online shooting game environment displayed on the player terminal; detecting one or more enemy characters that are within the basic identification range; determining one of the detected one or more enemy characters as an automatic tracking object; and allowing an aiming point to automatically track movement of the automatic tracking object within the basic identification range.

Abstract: An instant lottery scratch ticket and method of playing a lottery instant scratch ticket game comprises a plurality of physical tickets, wherein each ticket provides a removable sticker that may provide wins or enhanced wins.

Abstract: A security support device installed within or affixed to an electronic gaming machine includes at least one network interface configured to inspect network traffic being generated by one or more components of the electronic gaming machine. The security support device also includes a security support component configured to receive network packets from the at least one network interface, the network packets are transmitted between a game controller of the electronic gaming machine and one of the external server, extract one or more components of operational data from the network packets, the operational data related to the operation of the electronic gaming machine, detect fraudulent player conduct based on the one or more components of operational data, and generate a security alert in response to the detected fraudulent player conduct.

Abstract: Methods of using a tool for improving language skills comprising selecting a language concept and then a word associated with the language concept; asking the patient to answer a question related to the language concept about the first word; scoring the patient's response to the based upon at least one or more of the following: the number of words given, the number of prompts the patient needed to be provided in order to illicit the first response, the amount of time the patient needed to produce the first response; and then moving the word to a first location, that physically represents to the patient the first word score they achieved. Further aspects involve calculating a total therapeutic session score by totaling up all the individual word scores from the therapeutic session and producing a therapeutic session report. As well as comparing results across sessions.

Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for palpation training. In one implementation, a system for medical procedure simulation includes an examination model, a sensor network, and a computing device. The examination model has a plurality of anatomical structure models, and the sensor network has a plurality of sensors. Each of the sensors is associated with one of the plurality of anatomical structure models and configured to capture examination data. The computing device is in communication with the sensor network and configured to generate feedback for an accuracy of a medical examination using the examination data.

Abstract: Training accessories and methods for improving athletic techniques, such as, for example, tackling form for football. A display can be coupled to a piece of athletic equipment, such as a tackling dummy, and the display depicts a symbol at a time at which a player is or is about to interact with the equipment or perform a movement or action. An input is provided of the player's identification of the depicted symbol and compared to the symbol that was actually depicted. The player's correct identification of the depicted symbol can indicate that the player performed the movement or action, or the interaction with the equipment, with appropriate form. A player's failure to correctly identify the depicted symbol can indicate to a coach that the player may need further instruction on proper technique or form with which the movement or action, or the interaction with the equipment, should be performed.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an item display method performed at a terminal. The method includes: controlling, by the terminal in response to a first target operation instruction generated by a user of the terminal, a virtual control object in a virtual scene displayed by a client running at the terminal to acquire a plurality of virtual items, each virtual item configured to increase an attribute value of the virtual control object; adjusting, by the terminal, the attribute value of the virtual control object according to current behavior of the virtual control object; and displaying, by the terminal in the virtual scene of the client, an identifier of a first virtual item matching a target condition in the plurality of virtual items in a case that the adjusted attribute value meets the target condition, the identifier of the first virtual item being configured for use in the virtual scene.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure present systems, devices, methods, and computer readable medium for contextual driver evaluation. The disclosed techniques allow for collecting trip data from various sensors integrated in a mobile device for a user. The techniques include segregating the trip motion data into one or more segments associated with one or more populations with distinct features and characteristics. The trip data can be processed to identify event and behavior features that can be used to evaluate a driver's abilities in a contextually appropriate way. The information for a plurality of drivers can be compared to score the driver's ability amount a plurality of drivers.

Abstract: An imaging method for a catheter having a heart model, the heart model being installed in a container in a state of having the container filled with a liquid, and being provided with coronary arteries and an aorta. The imaging method includes causing a chemical reaction between an injection agent injected into the coronary arteries through a catheter, and the liquid in the container, and changing the color of the injection agent to the same color as that of the liquid.

Abstract: A system, device, and wireless computer technology-implemented method for providing hearing healthcare education and communication for a patient, his/her communication partner, and a hearing care provider. The system provides the patient at least one educational and experiential module and a method for assessing the patient's comprehension of the module's lessons. The system further provides the patient with a method to select personal hearing aid and communication goals; a method to evaluate his/her progress on achieving each personal goal; and a method to report his/her hearing experiences. The system further provides a method to compare data reported by the patient to personalized thresholds. When one or more of the patient's reports do not meet the thresholds, the system sends automated alerts to the hearing care provider to encourage prompt remedial action and sends automated reminders to the patient to improve the patient's ability to achieve his/her personal goals.

Abstract: A simulated abdominal wall for laparoscopic surgical training and methods of making the wall are provided. The simulated abdominal wall is dome-shaped having a visual appearance of an insufflated abdomen. Also, the wall is strong enough to withstand penetration with surgical trocars without unrealistic buckling or deformation. The wall is supported by a frame along the perimeter without any support structures traversing the wall that would interfere with port placement. The wall includes multiple layers connected together to form a unitary wall to fit a laparoscopic trainer. In one method, a projection of a dome is cut from a flat layer of foam material and assembled within a mold cavity. Consecutive layers with the same or different projection pattern are laid up inside the mold cavity. In another method, a vacuum mold together with heat is used to deform each foam layer. Adhesive is applied between layers to simultaneously join the adjacent layers upon deformation.

Abstract: A medical simulator having a heat exchanger configured to transfer heat from electronics and other components of the medical simulator to simulated blood of a simulated vascular system of the medical simulator. The heated simulated blood can be circulated throughout the simulated vascular system to provide more realistic training for medical practitioners by increasing the temperature of the skin of the medical simulator to a more realistic temperature. Circulating the heated simulated blood can also serve to cool the electronics and other components, while simultaneously transferring the heat out from the vascular system into an environment outside of the medical simulator.

Abstract: A method for producing a simulated animal organ includes: a shaping step of mixing a raw material containing mannan as a main component and water for gelatinization and shaping a gelatinized substance into a shape of an animal organ to obtain a shaped body; and a low temperature step of keeping the shaped body in a low temperature environment lower than a normal temperature. As a result, a simulated animal organ in a state extremely close to an actual animal organ is provided.

Abstract: A personality-type training gamification system that includes a communications link configured to receive one or more communications, an analysis processor in bi-directional communication with the communications link with a plurality of non-transitory computer readable instructions stored in association therewith that are accessible to, and executable by, the processor, wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed receive the one or more communications from the communications link, analyze the one or more communications to identify personality types associated with the one or more communications, provide an overview of each identified personality type to a user; and provide one or more games or quizzes to the user and instructions to take the one or more games or quizzes to test the user's knowledge of the plurality of personality types provided; and a display device configured to display to the user at least a performance analysis for the user.

Abstract: Devices for simulating a transportation emergency are disclosed. The devices have a base with a framework of interconnected supports extending therefrom as a skeletal portion of a simulated transportation device and defining a chamber configured to receive a human or a medical-training manikin. Within the chamber a seat for receiving the human or the medical-training manikin is disposed. The framework defines one or more openings representative of access openings into the simulated transportation device such that a first responder in-training can receive instructions on how to assist a victim positioned in the simulated transportation device. The framework also defines one or more open frames representative of structural features of the simulated transportation device that block access to the victim such that realistic training occurs. The device may include one or more props such as a telescoping steering column, a prying simulator, a foot pedal unit, and a side impact bar.

Abstract: Disclosed are a Chinese character structuring member, a system of mortise and tenon joint structures of Chinese characters formed by the Chinese character structuring member and a method for inputting Chinese characters. An entity component of Chinese characters includes the following three structures: an entity component provided with a connecting mechanism at a middle and/or one end or both ends of the entity component configured to join with other entity components of the Chinese characters; an entity component provided with a connecting mechanism entity component extending from one end of the entity component to the other end of the entity component without exceeding the entity component of the Chinese characters; and an entity component provided with at least one connecting mechanism on the entity component that includes a plurality of sub entity components connected end to end and rotatable at the joint.