Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a gardenia blue pigment which contains a product of a reaction between genipin and a compound having a primary amino group, and which offers a bright, fresh blue color tone having reduced redness; and a method for producing same. This gardenia blue pigment, which offers a bright, fresh blue color tone having reduced redness, is obtained by carrying out a first step in which genipin and at least one peptide selected from the group consisting of soybean peptides, sesame peptides, and rice peptides are reacted in a solvent without supplying an oxygen-containing gas, and a second step in which a reaction liquid obtained in the first step is processed under an oxygen-containing gas supply.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gardenia blue pigment that exhibits a vivid blue tone that is bright and has reduced redness, and a method for producing the gardenia blue pigment. A gardenia blue pigment that exhibits a vivid blue tone that is bright and has reduced redness is obtained by carrying out the following first and second steps: the first step of reacting at least one peptide selected from the group consisting of soy peptide, sesame peptide, and rice peptide with genipin in a solvent without the supply of a gas containing oxygen; and the second step of treating the reaction solution obtained in the first step with the supply of a gas containing oxygen.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gardenia blue pigment that can stably maintain the color tone even after heating under acidic conditions, and a method for producing the gardenia blue pigment. A gardenia blue pigment that can stably maintain the color tone even after heating under acidic conditions is obtained by carrying out the following first and second steps: the first step of reacting walnut peptide, bitter melon peptide, and/or soy peptide with genipin in a solvent without the supply of a gas containing oxygen; and the second step of treating the reaction solution obtained in the first step with the supply of a gas containing oxygen.

Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine which may increase the upper limit of the normal payout in the condition of keeping the payout rate. The slot machine 1 comprises a control panel 30 receiving a first bet which is used to start to conduct a first game, and a touch panel 114 receiving a second bet which is used to start conduct a second game. The slot machine 1 performs a random determination with a predetermined winning probability and output the result of the second game after the control panel 30 receiving the first bet, and output the result of the second game which is certainly not the lucky number after the lower image display panel 141 receiving the second bet.

Abstract: A gaming system of the present invention includes: a plurality of gaming machines; and a common display device connected to the gaming machines, each of the gaming machines, comprising: a display device for displaying a plurality of symbols; a controller, which performs processes of: (a) executing a base game in which symbols arranged on the display device are rearranged after a gaming medium has been betted, and thereafter a payment is made in accordance with the rearranged symbols; (b) counting number of times of executing the base game; (c) causing the display device to display a countdown effect image stored in a memory, while the counted number of times of executing the base game reaches a second predetermined value after reaching a first predetermined value; and (d) transferring the base game to a free game executed without betting a gaming medium, in a case where the number of times of executing the base game reaches the second predetermined value; and a communication interface for notifying to the com

Abstract: A gaming machine of the present invention has a memory for, after a predetermined number of cards have been extracted from among a plurality of cards, storing a plurality of predetermined values which serve as a condition for shuffling the plurality of cards. Then, a specific predetermined value is determined as a condition for shuffling a plurality of cards from among the plurality of predetermined values that are stored in the memory. In addition, a game is performed in such a manner that dealer cards and player cards which are used in a game are determined from among the plurality of cards and then the determined cards are compared with each other. Further, the number of cards that is used in the game is cumulatively counted and then the respective used cards are cumulatively stored as used cards in the memory.

Abstract: A slot machine 10 transmits a game information requesting command when being booted. An external controller 200, when receiving the game information requesting command, transmits common game information stored in a RAM 243, which information for use in running a common game, to the slot machine 10. The slot machine 10 runs the common game based on the common game information received from the external controller 200.

Abstract: A gaming system of the present invention includes: a plurality of gaming machines; and a common display device connected to the gaming machines; wherein each of the gaming machines has: a display device, which displays a plurality of symbols; a controller, which executes a process of rearranging symbols arranged on the display device, after a gaming medium is betted, and executing a first game of making a payment according to the rearranged symbols and a process of transferring to a second game which is different from the first game while it is triggered that a predetermined condition is met; a communication interface, which notifies an execution state of the second game to the common display device, and the common display device has: a communication interface, which receives notification from each of the gaming machine; a memory, which stores an effect image relating to the second game and an explanatory image explaining contents of the second game; and a control, which executes a process of judging whether

Abstract: A gaming system includes a plurality of gaming machines and a control device connected to the gaming machines. Each of the gaming machines has: a display device, which displays a plurality of symbols; a controller, which performs a process of rearranging symbols arranged on the display devices after gaming mediums are betted, and thereafter, executing a base game in which a payment is made in accordance with the rearranged symbols; and a communication interface, which transmits information pertinent to the betted gaming mediums to the control device, together with information for identifying a transmission source.

Abstract: A gaming machine of the present invention comprises: a ticket reader; and a controller, the controller programmed to execute the processing of (a) executing a game played against an other gaming machine, when the ticket reader has read a ticket issued from a ticket issuing terminal.

Abstract: A gaming machine of the present invention has a memory for, after a predetermined number of cards have been extracted from among a plurality of cards, storing a plurality of predetermined values which serve as a condition for shuffling the plurality of cards. Then, a specific predetermined value is determined as a condition for shuffling a plurality of cards from among the plurality of predetermined values that are stored in the memory. In addition, a game is performed in such a manner that dealer cards and player cards which are used in a game are determined from among the plurality of cards and then the determined cards are compared with each other. Further, the number of cards that is used in the game is cumulatively counted and then the respective used cards are cumulatively stored as used cards in the memory.

Abstract: A slot machine 10 transmits a game information requesting command when being booted. An external controller 200, when receiving the game information requesting command, transmits common game information stored in a RAM 243, which information for use in running a common game, to the slot machine 10. The slot machine 10 runs the common game based on the common game information received from the external controller 200.

Abstract: A roulette gaming machine comprises a roulette board, a ball, a rotatable portion, ball receiving parts, numerals, a driving motor and a main control CPU. The rotatable portion is rotatably provided at a center portion of the roulette board. The ball receiving parts receives the ball and circularly arranged on an inner periphery side of the rotatable portion. The numerals are circularly arranged on an outer periphery side of the rotatable portion so as to be opposed to the ball receiving parts respectively. The driving motor rotates the rotatable portion in a certain direction. The main control CPU selects a drive control pattern. The main control CPU varies a constant speed rotation period for rotating the rotatable portion at a certain rotation speed according to the drive control pattern, and controls the driving unit according to the constant speed rotation period and the certain rotation speed.

Abstract: A gaming machine of the present invention comprises: a ticket reader; and a controller, the controller programmed to execute the processing of (a) executing a game played against an other gaming machine, when the ticket reader has read a ticket issued from a ticket issuing terminal.

Abstract: To provide a technique of allowing a terminal device to operate by downloading not only an application program but also an OS from a network without providing any special unit or equipment. A system includes: an OS delivery server that has OS data previously stored therein; an application delivery server that has application data previously stored therein; an intra-LAN server that receives the OS data from the OS delivery server and stores the OS data, activates the OS data as the OS of its own, and receives the application data from the application delivery server and stores the application data; and a network terminal device that is capable of receiving the OS data and the application data from the intra-LAN delivery server, activating the OS data as the OS of its own, and activating an application contained in the application data on the OS.

Abstract: A gaming system includes a plurality of gaming machines and a control device connected to the gaming machines. Each of the gaming machines has: a display device, which displays a plurality of symbols; a controller, which performs a process of rearranging symbols arranged on the display devices after gaming mediums are betted, and thereafter, executing a base game in which a payment is made in accordance with the rearranged symbols; and a communication interface, which transmits information pertinent to the betted gaming mediums to the control device, together with information for identifying a transmission source.

Abstract: A gaming system of the present invention includes: a plurality of gaming machines; and a common display device connected to the gaming machines, each of the gaming machines, comprising: a display device for displaying a plurality of symbols; a controller, which performs processes of: (a) executing a base game in which symbols arranged on the display device are rearranged after a gaming medium has been betted, and thereafter a payment is made in accordance with the rearranged symbols; (b) counting number of times of executing the base game; (c) causing the display device to display a countdown effect image stored in a memory, while the counted number of times of executing the base game reaches a second predetermined value after reaching a first predetermined value; and (d) transferring the base game to a free game executed without betting a gaming medium, in a case where the number of times of executing the base game reaches the second predetermined value; and a communication interface for notifying to the com

Abstract: A gaming system of the present invention includes: a plurality of gaming machines; and a common display device connected to the gaming machines; wherein each of the gaming machines has: a display device, which displays a plurality of symbols; a controller, which executes a process of rearranging symbols arranged on the display device, after a gaming medium is betted, and executing a first game of making a payment according to the rearranged symbols and a process of transferring to a second game which is different from the first game while it is triggered that a predetermined condition is met; a communication interface, which notifies an execution state of the second game to the common display device, and the common display device has: a communication interface, which receives notification from each of the gaming machine; a memory, which stores an effect image relating to the second game and an explanatory image explaining contents of the second game; and a control, which executes a process of judging whether

Abstract: A roulette gaming machine comprises a roulette board, a ball, a rotatable portion, ball receiving parts, numerals, a driving motor and a main control CPU. The rotatable portion is rotatably provided at a center portion of the roulette board. The ball receiving parts receives the ball and circularly arranged on an inner periphery side of the rotatable portion. The numerals are circularly arranged on an outer periphery side of the rotatable portion so as to be opposed to the ball receiving parts respectively. The driving mortor rotates the rotatable portion in a certain direction. The main control CPU selects a drive control pattern. The main control CPU varies a constant speed rotation period for rotating the rotatable portion at a certain rotation speed according to the drive control pattern, and controls the driving unit according to the constant speed rotation period and the certain rotation speed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a game machine operation authentication system provided with an authentication function which can be surely performed without use of a physical key and without connection to a network, and a game machine. The operation authentication system has a game machine 1 provided with a PCB box for performing control for a game and a USB memory required for operation authentication. The game machine 1 has a connection terminal to which a USB memory can be connected. Furthermore, the game machine 1 generates target data to be encoded with the use of the connected USB memory, instructs encodement of the generated target data, performs decode processing of the generated encoded data and determines permission or refusal of operation authentication based on the result of the decode processing. In the USB memory, an encodement program for encoding the target data to generate encoded data is stored.