Abstract: A gaming device and method that allows a primary display and secondary display to be correlated to the extent that symbols of the primary display have vectors which direct that symbol associated with the vector onto the secondary display. The secondary display remains constant through successive games except to the extent modified by the provision of a symbol vector which mandates a change in the symbol depiction on the secondary game. A bonus screen is provided based on the certain outcome of the primary game.

Abstract: In a screen where score display is presented, a numeric value or mark responsive to a state of pins after a bowl is preliminarily displayed, and then the preliminary display is transformed or moved so that the numeric value or mark is displayed in the square. This allows an easier understanding of the correspondence between changes in the contents of score display on the display screen and actual progress of a bowling game.

Abstract: A communications network such as a Global Multi Service Network is provided with a management system which includes a distributed control system. The distributed control system is an open community of co-operation intelligent software agents which individually have control, or responsibility for managing, one or more nodes of the communications network. There are software agents of more than one type and the service management agents which have control over nodes of the network enter a negotiation process with customer agents in the provision of new services, so as to meet the constraints of both customer requirements and the interest of the relevant service provider. In the event of agent failure, the service management agents initiate a bidding process to reallocate the responsibilities of a failed agent.

Abstract: An instrumented golf club system having an instrumented golf club, an interface means and a computing means is disclosed herein. The instrumented golf club includes a plurality of sensors, an internal power supply, an angular rate sensor and an internal ring buffer memory for capturing data relating to a golf swing. The interface means is capable of transferring data from the instrumented golf club to the computing means for processing the data and presenting the data in a useful and informative format. The data may be used to assist a golfer's swing, or to design an appropriate golf club for a specific type of golfer.

Abstract: A progressive gaming system comprises a plurality of gaming machines, each of which is constructed to perform a predetermined main game in response to an operation of a player and gives a prize to the player when a winning combination is formed in the main game; and a progressive unit for counting an amount of a progressive bonus based on an amount of a bet in the main game played in each of the gaming machines and controlling a payment of the progressive bonus in association with a result of the main game. Each of the gaming machines or the progressive unit is provided with a judging device for judging whether or not the result of the main game played in each of the gaming machines meets a predetermined bonus chance condition for proceeding to a lottery game.

Abstract: A random prize awarding system associated with a gaming console is provided in which the gaming console is arranged to play a first game or a second game, the first game being a standard game normally offered on the console and the second game being a jackpot game offered for play when the player has achieved a trigger condition where the trigger means is arranged to test for the trigger condition and to initiate an instance of the second game when the trigger condition occurs. The second game is divided into a plurality of sub-games, each having an incremental prize such that a sum of the un-won incremental prizes equals the total currently available jackpot prize value of the second game. The player is awarded each sub-game after the first, only if the incremental prize was won in the previous sub-game. The jackpot prize value being decremented by the incremental prize value awarded with the occurrence of each winning sub-game.

Abstract: A combination pool cue stick and controller is provided which includes a housing adapted to move over a flat surface. The housing includes a receptacle member adapted to receive a pool cue, sensing means in the receptacle member to sense the position and movement of the pool cue, and circuit means receiving and processing this information for input into a computer having appropriate compatible software to display the effects of the pool cue activity.

Abstract: Computers sending IP datagrams over an ATM network are generally capable of operating multiple simultaneous virtual circuits over the network. However, in doing so, they normally only set up one virtual circuit to each destination IP address so that in order to test the simultaneous operation of N virtual circuits by a computer under test, N target computers are needed. To enable a single computer to provide the destination endpoints for multiple virtual circuits from a computer under test, both computers are allocated a plurality of virtual IP addresses and the target computer is additionally provided with a module running address-changing processes that avoids the IP layers of both computers from rejecting IP datagrams addressed with the virtual IP addresses. As a result, each computer can be addressed with any of a plurality of IP addresses and each will result in the creation of a respective virtual circuit between the computers.

Abstract: A computerized pool cue and a controller device are provided which are connected to a computer screen to simulate and display playing a game of pool or billiards. The pool cue is supported above an underlying surface for movement in at least two dimensions with respect to the underlying surface. Movement of the pool cue with respect to game balls in play is shown on the computer screen. A signal is generated from the pool cue to the computer for coaction with software to simulate the game of pool or billiards on the computer screen without using actual game balls.

Abstract: A driving game machine includes an image display processor for displaying on a display monitor a real-time three-dimensional image including a simulated player's automobile, general automobiles, and a three-dimensional road established in a game space in a three-dimensional coordinate system. The three-dimensional road has a running lane and an oncoming lane for the player's and general automobiles to run therealong. The player of the driving game machine operates a driving control assembly including a steering wheel, an accelerator pedal, a brake pedal, and a gear change lever to instruct the player's automobile to run on the three-dimensional road. A player's automobile control unit controls the player's automobile to run on the three-dimensional road in response to instructions from the driving control assembly. The image display processor displays general automobiles on the running lane and the oncoming lane within a visible range of the player's automobile.

Abstract: A device for proceeding a game in correspondence with the game scores. The game device (10) enables game play by moving a viewpoint arranged inside a three-dimensional virtual space, and comprises a storing unit (102) for storing a plurality of movement courses of the viewpoint branching off from a certain scene in the three-dimensional virtual space, together with the conditions for such branch-off, a picture processing unit (108-116) for performing data processing (101) to form pictures in accordance with the operation signals from an operating unit through the implementation of algorithms, and for performing picture conversion to form the image viewed from such viewpoint, and a course selecting unit (101) for selecting the movement course corresponding to the game score from among said plurality of viewpoint movement courses, and for moving the viewpoint along such selected movement course.

Abstract: A display for game is provided with a judgment foraging whether or not a specified game state is obtained in response to a predetermined input signal, a special pattern determination for determining a special pattern that represents the specified game state, a demonstration determination for determining a demonstration by selecting from a plurality of demonstrations that indicate display modes different from usual stop motion of the special pattern, a predictive image determination for determining a predictive image by selecting from a Plurality of predictive images representing expectation degrees for appearance of the specified game state, a display for displaying the special pattern, the demonstration and the predictive image determined by the special pattern determination, the demonstration determination and the predictive image determination, respectively; and a display controller for controlling the display to indicate the predictive image determined by the predictive image determination, then to indica

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a new pedometer with game mode which can be used as a game by a child to get some exercise such as walking and/or running without reluctance. When a vibration is detected by a vibration detector, the count values of a step-number counter and an integrating counter are incremented, and thereby a display state of a character displayed on an LCD is varied based on the count values of step-number counter and/or the integrating counter.

Abstract: The game pad 100 of the present invention allows a user 340 to control games requiring a keyboard 401 or a joystick, applications requiring a mouse input, and DVD-players 332. The game pad 100 provides complete application-specific programmability by the use of a translator module 368 and keymap files 362. A user 340 can customize the game pad 100 to generate the commands used by an application 366 by defining a keymap file 362 for the application 366. Then, the activation of a game or application 366 is detected, and the corresponding keymap file 362 is loaded into memory, thus allowing the game pad 100 to seamlessly control the application using the user-defined commands. Multiple keystrokes or commands may be assigned to each button 110, and multiple keymap files 362 may be created for each application 366.

Abstract: An electronic game board for a domino game has a flat playing surface for two to eight playing positions. A switch at each playing position is arranged to activate a corresponding light source. A dome is mounted to the board to provide a location for displaying a master domino tile and to provide a housing for a power source that is connected to the LED's.

Abstract: Although difficult game stages may not be cleared by unskilled players, by making the stages easy to be cleared, the degree of difficulty of the game would be lowered and the amusement of the game would be reduced. The present invention comprises: a storing device 102 capable of storing the number of certain marks displayed in an virtual space and which are in the player's hand, as well as displaying the position of such marks; a processing circuit 10 for advancing the respective steps of game control in sequence by referring to the operation signals supplied from an input device 2b, the number of marks in hand and positions thereof stored in the storing device, and for outputting displaying image data related thereto; a displaying circuit 11 for displaying a displaying image including the segment and marks on the basis of displaying image data supplied from the processing circuit.

Abstract: A system for dispensing collector's series cards to a collector includes a currency acceptor and card dispenser controlled by a computer. As a promotion to encourage the sale of the collector's cards, the system includes a game sub-system that provides the purchaser with an opportunity to play a game of chance with the credits that the person receives with each collector's series card purchased. The purchaser may then save such credits or play them, and to the extent that a person wins, a promotional prize will be awarded.

Abstract: A plurality of gaming machines are linked together and controlled by a central computer. A bonus system is incorporated into the play of the gaming machines and the central computer tracks the bonus system activity and makes the appropriates payouts. In the play of the gaming machines, a portion of the coins wagered are allocated to a bonus payout. Each player plays his gaming machines for a fixed time period (say 30 seconds) and the player with the highest payout during that time period wins the bonus jackpot. However, if two players tie during the time period, then the bonus payout money carries over to the next round of play. This allows the bonus payout to accumulate to a potentially large sum of money over a series of time periods if two or more players repeatedly tie each round of play. Eventually, a single player will have the highest winning amount during a time period and, not having been tied by another player, win a large bonus payout.

Abstract: A storytelling book with clear loose-leaf page holders is provided so that a person, such as a child, can illustrate and narrate with text a story of his or her own invention on a series of insertion pages and then present that story to an audience. A selected number of pages comprising the insertion pages created by the storyteller, and corresponding insertion pages, are arranged in book-like fashion and bound together so that the book may be disposed either with the pages flat on a support or in easel-like disposition. A first side of one of the pages is disposed in proximity to a second side of an adjacent page when the book-like arrangement is in a closed condition. The pages are disposed so that the person listening to the story sees the first sides and their respective illustrations or pictures while the storyteller or reader sees the second page sides and their corresponding text.

Abstract: An improved gaming machine having a touch screen applied to an outer face of a CRT display and a limited number of push-button actuators. Either the touch screen or the push-button actuators can be used for controlling play as well as selecting one of several games that can be played on the machine. By using a touch screen on the video display device, the player of the game of the machine can use either the touch screen or the push-button actuators to change the playable game elements, such as discarding and drawing new cards when playing poker. The touch screen and associated electronics are arranged and programmed so that multiple touch fields are defined on the surface of the screen, which, by manually touching, can be used for playing games, such as keno, which require more actuators than there are push buttons on the machine.