Abstract: A gaming machine has first and second control circuit boards. The first control circuit board has a unit for determining an internal win every unit game based on a signal from a start signal output device; a unit for starting variable display of symbols on a display device, based on a signal from the start signal output device; a unit for stop-controlling the variable display by the display device, based on the signal from the stop signal output device and the determined internal win; a unit for controlling a first information transfer device, based on information about a game; and a unit for transmitting the information about a game to the second control circuit board. The second control circuit board has a unit for controlling the second information transfer device, based on the information about a game transmitted by the information transmit unit.

Abstract: A gaming machine includes an operation controller, a processor, and a display. The operation controller accepts an operation of a player, and the processor controls a game based on the operation of the player accepted by the operation controller. The display simultaneously displays a first image that can be recognized visually from a first viewing angle direction and a second image that can be recognized visually from a second viewing angle direction different from the first viewing angle direction. The processor controls the display so as to display a game image relating to the game as the first image and to display game information based on a game process relating to the game controlled by the processor as the second image.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine which allows players to observe a gaming image which is displayed for one player without being influenced by a gaming image which is displayed for another player in perfoming a game in which a plurality of players can play, and to reduce an equipment cost and an installation space. A display device 2 which adopts dual view liquid crystal is mounted on an approximately center of the gaming machine 1, and a common screen showing a common gaming situation to both players is displayed for the first and the second players P1, P2 and, at the same time, corresponding to the gaming situation, a first image which shows a gaming situation on the first player P1 is displayed for the first player within an angle range of ?2 and, simultaneously, a second image which shows a gaming situation on the second player P2 is displayed for the second player within an angle range of ?2.

Abstract: A system providing greatly improved monitoring against wrong or fraudulent acts. A game facility monitoring system includes game machines or game-related devices provided with detectors that detect the state of a device and the operation of the device resulting from wrong or fraudulent acts, detects the state of the device and the operation of the device possibly resulting from wrong or fraudulent acts, and gives out a notification. The system may also include an anomaly warning unit that operates, when any of the detectors is triggered, a warning operation determined by an anomaly level corresponding to the detected contents of multiple anomaly levels.

Abstract: In the bill handling apparatus 100, there are provided the bill validating unit 10 which judges whether the bill received from outside is valid or not, the stacker 1 which is detachable with the main unit 2 and receives the bill judged as valid by the bill validating unit 10, the bill feed unit 30 which feeds the bill from the bill validating unit 10 in the length direction of the bill and the bill guide part 4 which temporarily holds the bill discharged from the bill feed unit 30. When the force P is exerted to the press force receiving plate 43, the push-in late 40 is contacted to the bill by the parallel crank mechanism 4P, thereby the bill is moved toward the bill support plate 50, thereafter the bill is stacked in the bill piling part 5 between the partition walls 4A, 4B and the bill support plate 50.

Abstract: A player terminal is configured as one of a plurality of player terminals, and provides a game in which the players participate simultaneously. The player terminal includes a processor that is operable to: (a) calculate total bet point by adding up bet points that are bet on the game by the players through the player terminals; (b) determine game results of the game being correlated with each of the players; (c) determine whether each of the game results satisfies a predetermined condition; (d) determine a winning award in accordance with the total bet point and the number of players who are correlated with game results that are determined to satisfy the predetermined condition; and (e) add the winning award to the player points of the players who are correlated with the game results that are determined to satisfy the predetermined condition.

Abstract: A gaming machine in which an effect to enable the hidden symbol to become visible is performed based on the player's operation is provided. In such a gaming machine, unpredictable game contents may be provided without giving the player stress or irritation, or preventing the player from feeling monotony. This gaming machine is characterized by comprising: an effect rotational reel configured with a array of symbols; a multiplication display part provided between the rotational reel and a player; a lower liquid crystal display being capable of turning a transmissive area covering at least part of the multiplication display area to an opaque area and restoring translucency of the opaque area; and a CPU or display controller to turn at least part of the opaque area to the transmissive area in responsive to the player's operation.

Abstract: A peripheral device of a gaming device operating in connection with a management server to manage a balance deposited by a player as a balance data is disclosed. The peripheral device has a reader unit for reading a characteristic peculiar to the player, a reception unit for receiving an instruction of deposition to the balance and a request for withdrawal of the balance by the player, and a controller. The controller is to convert the characteristic into a characteristic data, transmit the instruction or the request with the characteristic or the characteristic data to the management server in response to the instruction or the request, and receive the balance data from the management server.

Abstract: A teleconference system of the present invention has: a plurality of teleconference terminal apparatuses which conduct a teleconference with display of images and outputting of voices by transmitting and receiving image signals and voice signals; a communications network which connects the teleconference terminal apparatuses so that data can be communicated; and mode setting means for setting arbitrarily any apparatus of the teleconference terminal apparatuses to a chairperson terminal mode for managing a teleconference. Each of the teleconference terminal apparatuses has transmission control means for transmitting the image signals and voice signals only when permitted by an apparatus which is set to the chairperson terminal mode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a teleconference terminal apparatus for carrying out a teleconference by transmitting/receiving image and voice signals via a communications network. The teleconference terminal apparatus comprises: an image-capturing device which generates an image signal by capturing an image; an image processing section which converts the image signal to a signal mode corresponding to the communications network and outputs the converted signal; a microphone which performs detection of a voice along with the image capturing, and thereby generates a voice signal corresponding to the level of the voice; a voice processing section which converts the voice signal to a signal mode corresponding to the communications network and outputs the converted signal; and a computing section which increases or reduces the amount of data of the image signal outputted from the image processing section, on the basis of the level of the voice signal.

Abstract: There are disclosed an apparatus and a method for managing data of rental contracts with a plurality of customers. The apparatus is provided with a storage, an input device, and a controller. The storage stores a plurality of contract data, each of which includes a customer ID, item IDs, numbers of items to be applied to rental contracts, a data table of discount rates, dates of the rental contracts, and terms of the rental contracts. The input device receives input of new data, each of which includes a new customer ID, new item IDs, new numbers of items to be applied to new rental contracts, application dates of the new rental contracts, and new terms of the new rental contracts. The controller reads out and sums up the numbers of the items.

Abstract: A gaming machine of the present invention includes: output means capable of outputting an image or a sound; winning combination determination means for determining a winning combination by a lottery; means for generating a first special game state that is a game state advantageous to a player when the determined winning combination is a special winning combination; means for, when the number of games accumulatively counted each time a game is played reaches a set value that is an object of comparison with the number of games and that is selected from plural candidate values determined stepwise in advance, generating a second special game state that is a game state advantageous to a player and in which a degree of advantage corresponding to the set value is determined; and means for notifying that the second special game state has been generated based on the set value by outputting an image or a sound with the output means when the second special game state is generated.

Abstract: A gaming machine has a gaming machine body and terminal devices. Each terminal device includes an input unit, a sub controller, a seat for a player to sit on so that the player sitting thereon is capable of operating the input unit, and a movement unit provided below the seat to move the terminal device. The sub controller includes a movement controller that drives the movement unit based on an input made through the input unit, and an identifier attaching unit that attaches to the input data item an identifier for identifying each terminal device. When receiving the input data item, a main controller of the gaming machine body identifies which terminal device has transmitted the input data item based on the identifier attached to the input data item, and moves an operative character of the identified terminal device based on the input data item.

Abstract: A gaming machine of the present invention includes: winning combination determination means for determining a winning combination by a lottery; means for generating a first special game state that is a game state advantageous to a player when the determined winning combination is a special winning combination; means for determining the number of game media to be paid out according to a regular winning combination when the determined winning combination is the regular winning combination other than the special winning combination; and means for, when the number of games accumulatively counted each time a game is played reaches a set value set as an object of comparison with the number of games, generating a second special game state where the number of game media to be paid out is determined according to a number obtained by accumulatively counting a part of the number of game media to be paid out according to the regular winning combination.

Abstract: A gaming machine according to the present invention comprises output means capable of outputting an image or a sound, winning combination determination means for determining a winning combination by a lottery, means for generating a first special game state that is a game state advantageous to a player when the determined winning combination is a special winning combination, means for, when the number of games reaches a set value that is an object of comparison with the number of games, generating a second special game state that is a game state advantageous to a player and which is the same type as, or a different type from the first special game state, and means for notifying by outputting an image or a sound with the output means, after the number of games has reached a set value for preliminary announcement which is smaller by a predetermined value than the set value, a counting value which shows the required number of games to reach the set value, each time a game is played.

Abstract: A gaming machine of the present invention comprises: output means capable of outputting an image or a sound; winning combination determination means for determining a winning combination by a lottery; means for generating a first special game state that is a game state advantageous to a player when the determined winning combination is a special winning combination; means for, when the number of games reaches a set value, generating a second special game state that is a game state advantageous to a player and which is the same type as, or a different type from the first special game state; means for notifying that the second special game state has been generated based on the set value with the output means when the second special game state is generated; and means for providing notification that the first special game state has been generated according to the number of games with the output means, when the first special game state is generated.

Abstract: A connecting/holding machine 30 of a cash container according to the present invention holds a cash container 15 having a bottom portion 15a and a back face side portion 15d and provided with first terminal portions 22 and 23 and a fitting-in hole 47 in its back face side portion 15d. This connecting/holding machine 30 includes a holding base 70 in which a mounting portion 40 capable of mounting the cash container 15 and a back face portion 42 standing from the mounting portion 40 are constituted in conformity with an external shape of the cash container 15. The back face portion 42 includes second terminal portions 37 and 38 capable of being connected to the first terminal portions 22 and 23 at positions corresponding to the first terminal portions 22 and 23. The back face portion 42 also includes an engaging protrusion 45 capable of fitting in the fitting-in hole 47 at a position corresponding to the fitting-in hole 47.

Abstract: To reduce monitoring staff and reduce cost by automating monitoring, a card game monitoring system includes a wirelessly communicating, identifying information recording device embedded in a card for recording information for identifying itself; identifying information reading devices provided at a card takeout slot of a card distributor in contact with the card at the start of a game and in card distribution areas of a card game table in contact with the card in the middle of the game, for reading by wireless communication the identifying information; a control device for monitoring consistency between the identifying information read with the identifying information reading device at the start of the game and the identifying information read likewise in the middle of the game by comparing both pieces of the identifying information; a notifying lamp for issuing a notice of information inconsistency, if any; a recording device for recording identifying information and results of monitoring; and an invalidatin

Abstract: To provide a broadcast receiving apparatus which enables an enjoyment of a meticulous service when changing subscription contract details for a paid broadcast, even though a two-direction communication function is not furnished. A broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a broadcast receiver which receives limit broadcast data of a broadcast related to a program to a viewing of which a limit has been applied from a broadcasting station; a descrambler which enables the viewing of the program; and a transmitter which transmits code information, obtained by encoding limit release information for enabling the limit broadcast data received by the broadcast receiver to be made viewable by the descrambler, to a display.

Abstract: To provide a broadcast receiving apparatus which enables an effective use of information appended to a broadcast, even though a two-direction communication function is not furnished. A broadcast receiving apparatus includes: a memory storing ID data which identifies the broadcast receiving apparatus; an appended information receiver which receives appended information appended to a broadcast from a broadcasting station; a generator which generates code information obtained by encoding the ID data stored in the memory and the appended information received by the appended information receiver; and a transmitter which transmits the code information generated by the generator to a display connected outside.