Abstract: A medal game machine has a fixed table for placing medals thereon, a medal acquisition opening defined alongside of the fixed table and communicating with a medal outlet slot accessible by the player, a pusher table for pushing a medal on the fixed table toward the medal acquisition opening, and a supply mechanism for supplying medals onto the fixed table. The supply mechanism includes a turntable for placing medals thereon, a drive mechanism for rotating the turntable, a medal supply mechanism for supplying medals onto the turntable, and a transfer mechanism for transferring medals from the turntable onto the fixed table.

Abstract: A rolling game machine includes: a rolling unit by way of which the player rolls a rollable object in a desired direction; an interference member movable in a direction intersecting the inertial direction of the rolling object; an opposite detector arranged opposite the rolling unit for detecting a rollable object which has been rolled across the interference member; an end detector arranged near a forward end of the interference member for detecting a rollable object which has fallen and moved by the interference member; a rating device which assigns a rate to a rollable object which has completed its rolling on the basis of detection of the first and second detectors; and a ticket issuing device which issues a ticket corresponding to an assigned rate.

Abstract: An image encoding and transmitting system is an image transmission system for transmitting digital data such as TV telephones. The system for dividing input frame data into a plurality of blocks before transmitting them comprises on its sending side an intra-frame/inter-frame determiner for receiving intra-frame data and inter-frame data and selecting either of them for output, and a difference collator for having the intra-frame/inter-frame determiner compulsorily output intra-frame data at the time of data input for the next frame when one or more data in each block forming inter-frame data are larger than a predetermined threshold. The system also comprises on its receiving side an picture element domain frame data storage for storing received data in the picture element domain, and a motion vector detector for detecting according to the contents in the storage a motion vector using the data in the block surrounding the discarded block in order to guess the data in the discarded block.

Abstract: A token game machine in which individual tokens are moved along a panel surface includes: a plurality of proximity sensors provided at different locations on the panel surface for detecting tokens passing nearby; a symbol assigner for randomly assigning different symbols to the individual proximity sensors; a symbol data output device for outputting data on a symbol assigned to a proximity sensor that has detected a nearby-passing token; and a game judgment device for judging whether a game has been won based on symbol data outputted from the symbol data output device.

Abstract: For an image data such as a motion picture image data composed of three hierarchical layers formed of slices, each of which having a plurality of macroblocks and one picture having a plurality of the slices, a synchronous word is adaptively inserted to each header of the slices and the picture according to a characteristic of the image data. It is possible to effectively perform the localization of errors. A synchronous word multiplexing system for coded image data inputs and codes image data, converts the coded data to a variable-length coded data, divides the image coded data into a plurality of data signals, and multiplies a synchronous word per a predetermined divided unit. Further, a timing signal for multiplexing synchronous words to the image coded data is generated based on a characteristic data, and the timing of multiplexing synchronous words is controlled based on characteristics of the image data.

Abstract: An image encoding and transmitting system is an image transmission system for transmitting digital data such as TV telephones. The system for dividing input frame data into a plurality of blocks before transmitting them comprises on its sending side an intra-frame/inter-frame determiner for receiving intra-frame data and inter-frame data and selecting either of them for output, and a difference collator for having the intra-frame/inter-frame determiner compulsorily output intra-frame data at the time of data input for the next frame when one or more data in each block forming inter-frame data are larger than a predetermined threshold. The system also comprises on its receiving side an picture element domain frame data storage for storing received data in the picture element domain, and a motion vector detector for detecting according to the contents in the storage a motion vector using the data in the block surrounding the discarded block in order to guess the data in the discarded block.

Abstract: Encoding and decoding systems for a digital image communication apparatus suppresses any reduction in the encoding efficiency due to leaky prediction. A range correcting unit (3) corrects the range of data of a preceding frame stored in a memory (1) according to a reference value outputted from a reference value outputting unit (2). Thereafter, a leak coefficient multiplying unit (4) multiplies the data by a predetermined leak coefficient and outputs the product data. The data outputted from the leak coefficient multiplying unit (4) are uncorrected by an uncorrecting unit (5) to restore the range corrected by the range correcting unit (3). A predictive error outputting unit (6) detects the difference between the digital image data of an inputted present frame and the data uncorrected by the uncorrecting unit (5), and outputs the difference as a predictive error.

Abstract: An image data transmission system performs a coding of a plurality of picture elements in units of blocks. In order to prevent a deterioration of an image quality caused due to a loss of a packet cell on a transmission line without increasing a volume of data to be transmitted, a unit for producing a signal designating a loss compensation method to be performed on a receiving side is provided to be performed on a transmission side. The receiving side provides a unit for detecting a loss of the packet or cell and a unit for compensating the lost block data by the loss compensating method designated by the transmission side.

Abstract: The invention provides a friction member having high heat resistance and wearing resistance useful as a brake shoe or brake block in traffic vehicles and industrial machines. The friction member is prepared by consolidating a fibrous base material, e.g. asbestos, with a resinous binder which is a phenolic resin modified with an organopolysiloxane which characteristically comprises, in a molecule, at least one tetrafunctional siloxane unit of the formula SiO.sub.2 and/or at least one trifunctional siloxane unit of the formula R.sup.1 SiO.sub.1.5, in which R.sup.1 is a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms.