Abstract: A display device has a liquid crystal panel that switches between a transparent state and an opaque state, a first light source, a light guide plate arranged on a back surface of the liquid crystal panel and made of a transparent material, the light guide plate having an incident surface facing the first light source and an outgoing surface facing the back surface of the liquid crystal panel, propagating light emitted from the first light source and incident through the incident surface, and outputting the light toward the liquid crystal panel from the outgoing surface, and a second light source configured to illuminate an object arranged on an opposite side to the liquid crystal panel with the light guide plate interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A display device has a liquid crystal panel that switches between a transparent state and an opaque state, a first light source, a light guide plate arranged on a back surface of the liquid crystal panel and made of a transparent material, the light guide plate having an incident surface facing the first light source and an outgoing surface facing the back surface of the liquid crystal panel, propagating light emitted from the first light source and incident through the incident surface, and outputting the light toward the liquid crystal panel from the outgoing surface, and a second light source configured to illuminate an object arranged on an opposite side to the liquid crystal panel with the light guide plate interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A mobile ratio of a customer is obtained to support a marketing strategy related to attracting customers. A population extraction unit extracts the number of persons, in which a game of one of the models of amusement machines installed in past times is recorded, as the number of persons of a population from pieces of information included in a biological information database. A mobile ratio calculation result output unit calculates a ratio of the number of persons, who use a model except the models of the amusement machines in which the population is obtained in the currently-installed amusement machines in the pieces of information included in the biological information database, to the population as the mobile ratio. The present invention can be applied to an apparatus that analyzes a trend of customers.

Abstract: A mobile ratio of a customer is obtained to support a marketing strategy related to attracting customers. A population extraction unit 281 extracts the number of persons, in which a game of one of the models of amusement machines installed in past times is recorded, as the number of persons of a population from pieces of information included in a biological information database 22. A mobile ratio calculation result output unit 283 calculates a ratio of the number of persons, who use a model except the models of the amusement machines in which the population is obtained in the currently-installed amusement machines in the pieces of information included in the biological information database 22, to the population as the mobile ratio. The present invention can be applied to an apparatus that analyzes a trend of customers.

Abstract: A migratory ratio of a customer is obtained to support a marketing strategy related to attracting customers. A population extraction unit extracts the number of persons, in which a game of one of the models of currently-installed amusement machines is recorded, as the number of persons of a population from pieces of information included in a biological information database. A migratory ratio calculation result output unit calculates a ratio of the number of persons, who use a model except the models of the amusement machines in which the population is obtained in the currently-installed amusement machines in the pieces of information included in the biological information database, to the population as the migratory ratio. The present invention can be applied to an apparatus that analyzes a trend of customers.

Abstract: The present invention decreases the processing load of a server related to a collation processing system which is implemented by a server which performs collation processing with a registered facial image.

Abstract: To prevent detection of facial images for whom detection is unnecessary, without reducing the detection ratio of registered players from facial images. An image acquisition unit acquires an image taken by a camera, and provides the image to a masking process unit. The masking process unit reads a masking pattern that has already been adjusted by a masking pattern adjustment unit and a movable masking area setting unit so that characteristic quantities of a facial image that does not need to be recognized as a facial image cannot be detected, from a masking pattern recording unit. A masking process is applied to the image provided, and the masked image is provided to a facial image extraction unit. The facial image extraction unit extracts a rectangular shaped facial image, and provides the facial image to a transmission unit. The transmission unit transmits the rectangular facial image provided to a face recognition server.

Abstract: The present invention decreases the processing load of a server related to a collation processing system which is implemented by a server which performs collation processing with a registered facial image.

Abstract: A camera that picks up images for the purpose of extracting facial images can be adjusted on the basis of images. The facial image extraction section extracts a facial image of a checking target person from an image that is picked up by the entrance camera and the facial detection judgment section judges whether a facial image can be extracted, by the facial image extraction section, from the image under predetermined conditions. In cases where, in accordance with the judgment result, a facial image cannot be extracted, by the processing of the facial image extraction section, from the image under predetermined conditions, the camera control section controls the image pickup state of the entrance camera. The present invention can be applied to a monitoring system.

Abstract: To prevent detection of facial images for whom detection is unnecessary, without reducing the detection ratio of registered players from facial images. An image acquisition unit acquires an image taken by a camera, and provides the image to a masking process unit. The masking process unit reads a masking pattern that has already been adjusted by a masking pattern adjustment unit and a movable masking area setting unit so that characteristic quantities of a facial image that does not need to be recognized as a facial image cannot be detected, from a masking pattern recording unit. A masking process is applied to the image provided, and the masked image is provided to a facial image extraction unit. The facial image extraction unit extracts a rectangular shaped facial image, and provides the facial image to a transmission unit. The transmission unit transmits the rectangular facial image provided to a face recognition server.

Abstract: In surveillance for the use of forged notes based on a genuine note determination program, and rapid updating of the genuine note determination programs, a dispensing machine receives a note inserted by a player, the characteristic information of the inserted note is extracted, and based on the characteristic information it is determined whether the note is genuine or not genuine. A flow line control server acquires the position of the player as position information, and the acquired position information is accumulated for each player. When the result of the genuine note determination is that the note is neither genuine nor not genuine, a surveillance control server controls a camera to take an image of the area corresponding to the position information of the player that inserted the note from among the position information accumulated in the flow line control server. The machine can be applied to a forged note determination system.