Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image mutual transfer and succession method between a virtual image and a real image capable of performing the smooth transfer between the display of a virtual image of a real item and the display of a real image, realizing the successful combination of the reality of the real item and the fantasy of the real image, and enabling a rich representation. The image mutual transfer and succession method between a virtual image and a real image according to the present invention performs take-over control of mutual images by structuring the real image of the display to be apparently identical to the virtual image, displaying the real image on the display in synchronization with the dimming of illumination to the real item when displaying the real image, and brightening the illumination to the real item in synchronization with the stoppage of the real image display on the display device when displaying the virtual image.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a display device which can provide both a slot game having realism and a colorful and rich display by mechanical reels. A superimposed display device according to the present invention comprises an image display section disposed in a position to face a player side, mechanical reels disposed on a line which intersects another line connecting the image display section and the player side, a lighting section for illuminating the mechanical reels, a half mirror which is inclined in a plane including a region where the above lines intersect, in which virtual images of designs on peripheries of the mechanical reels are shown in the same plane to a player, and images are shown by superimposing in the entire region or a part of the region of the virtual image display region.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a display device which can provide both a slot game having realism and a colorful and rich display by mechanical reels.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an image mutual transfer and succession method between a virtual image and a real image capable of performing the smooth transfer between the display of a virtual image of a real item and the display of a real image, realizing the successful combination of the reality of the real item and the fantasy of the real image, and enabling a rich representation.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a game machine which is capable of successfully combining a game having the realism of a mechanical reel and a display having colorful and rich expressions, which can be set up in an narrow area, and which yields high profitability.

Abstract: A thermal head for thermal recording or thermal transfer recording and a method of manufacturing the head. The head has a heat sink having an upper surface, a heating element substrate, disposed on the upper surface of the heat sink, having a projected convex portion on which an array of heating resistor elements are arranged, an electrical structure mounted on the same side as that of the upper surface of the heat sink and electrically connected to the heating resistor elements, and a protection structure for mechanically protecting the electrical structure. The substrate is constituted such that the height of the substrate from the surface of the heat sink is higher than the height of the protection structure, and the height of the projected convex portion is equal to or more than 0.6 mm.