Abstract: A screen transition aggregation device includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a degree of similarity between a transition destination screen and a transition source screen in order from an end screen in a screen transition diagram; and a generation unit configured to classify the transition destination screen and the transition source screen into groups based on a comparison between the degree of similarity and a threshold value, and to generate information indicating a transition relationship between the groups. Thus, the ease of grasping the specifications of an application that provides a function by screen transition is improved.

Abstract: A progressive jackpot (PJP) system of the invention increments two types of jackpot values. A PJP controller increments a first jackpot value by a percentage of each bet placed on gaming machines. The increment rate of the first jackpot value is predetermined from a payout percentage of the PJP system. A second jackpot value is incremented at a higher rate than the first jackpot value. Each gaming machine or the PJP controller may increment the second jackpot value. The actual amount of an award for a jackpot corresponds to the second jackpot value. The second jackpot value is reduced at appropriate intervals, even if no jackpot has been won. Preferably, the probability of the reduction of the second jackpot value is adjusted, and thereby, the average difference between the first and second jackpot values at the time a jackpot has been won is adjusted to be zero.

Abstract: The present invention is a gaming machine including a wager device for receiving a wager, an initiator for performing a primary game in response to the wager, a processor for implementing a secondary game independently of the primary game, a reel display for indicating outcome of the primary game and winning outcome of the secondary game on a reel and a payout device for awarding a reward according to the winning outcome of secondary game, wherein the initiator works independently of the processor.

Abstract: A video slot machine is disclosed in which a plurality of reel images comprising at least two types of arranged symbols are displayed on a monitor. The video slot machine includes a game controller configured to control a game including a unit game in response to a BET operation; a display controller configured to control the monitor such that the symbols of the reel images are successively changed and then stopped for display during the unit game; a change time determination unit configured to determine whether or not it is time to change the reel images; and a reel image changing unit configured to change at least one of the reel images to a different reel image having a different symbol arrangement when the change timing determination unit determines that it is time to change the reel images.

Abstract: A gaming machine comprises a display unit that displays video reels using computer graphics. Symbols are moved and stopped on each video reel. A game controller unit selects a type of symbols and an arrangement of symbols at random, and provides a player with an award if a winning combination appears on a payline in the arrangement of symbols and the player has placed a bet on the payline. A display controller unit causes the display unit to move symbols on each video reel, and then stop symbols in the arrangement. The display controller unit further causes the display unit to change a symbol of the selected type to a special symbol while moving symbols. Special symbols appear in a prominent form, e.g., in a background color complementary to a background color of other symbols, or in a metallic color, or in a blinking, flashing, or sparkling pattern.

Abstract: A progressive jackpot (PJP) system of the invention increments two types of jackpot values. A PJP controller increments a first jackpot value by a percentage of each bet placed on gaming machines. The increment rate of the first jackpot value is predetermined from a payout percentage of the PJP system. A second jackpot value is incremented at a higher rate than the first jackpot value. Each gaming machine or the PJP controller may increment the second jackpot value. The actual amount of an award for a jackpot corresponds to the second jackpot value. The second jackpot value is reduced at appropriate intervals, even if no jackpot has been won. Preferably, the probability of the reduction of the second jackpot value is adjusted, and thereby, the average difference between the first and second jackpot values at the time a jackpot has been won is adjusted to be zero.

Abstract: In a gaming machine of the present invention, a memory unit stores main and sub-credit data. The console unit accepts first or second bet data. The controller unit executes first and second game program when the console unit has accepted the first and second bet data, respectively. The controller unit determines whether or not to provide the player with an amount of credits in first and second games conducted by the first and second game programs, respectively. The credit processing unit updates the main and sub-credit data to reduce an amount of credits by an amount of a bet represented by the first and second bet data, respectively. The credit processing unit further updates the sub-credit data to increase an amount of credits by a predetermined amount each time the controller unit determines to provide an amount of credits in the first game.

Abstract: In a video slot machine according to the present invention, a display unit displays video reels. Each video reel includes first or second series of symbols, which are equivalent except for the types of wildcard symbols. A console unit allows a player to add an extra bet to normal bets. A display control unit causes the display unit to use the first or second series of symbols when the console unit has accepted normal bets with or without an extra bet, respectively. Thus, the different types of wildcard symbols appear on the video reels depending on the types of bets. If a winning combination is formed in the arrangement of the stopped symbols, an award processing unit changes the amount of an award depending on which type of wildcard symbol the winning combination includes.

Abstract: A gaming machine having bonus games which start depending upon game outcomes of a normal game, the gaming machine comprises a display control unit for displaying visual information including plural symbols on a display monitor, an array determination unit for determining symbol arrays to be displayed on the display monitor by a lottery at the time of stationary reel display, a judgment unit for judging the game outcomes to compare determined symbol arrays with predetermined judgment data, a bonus game number determination unit for determining the total number of the bonus games to be output when the determined game outcomes give a trigger to start the bonus games and a bonus game number allocation unit for dividing the determined total number of the bonus games and allocating the number of the bonus games every divided unit respectively.

Abstract: A video slot machine is disclosed in which a plurality of reel images comprising at least two types of arranged symbols are displayed on a monitor. The video slot machine includes a game controller configured to control a game including a unit game in response to a BET operation; a display controller configured to control the monitor such that the symbols of the reel images are successively changed and then stopped for display during the unit game; a change time determination unit configured to determine whether or not it is time to change the reel images; and a reel image changing unit configured to change at least one of the reel images to a different reel image having a different symbol arrangement when the change timing determination unit determines that it is time to change the reel images.

Abstract: A game device is disclosed which includes a game controller configured to control the execution of a game, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the same player has continuously played the game executed by the game controller, and a game auxiliary process unit configured to execute a first game auxiliary process that will provide effects or information to the player when a predetermined process execution condition is satisfied before a predetermined time, and execute a second game auxiliary process that is different from the first game auxiliary process when the predetermined process execution condition is satisfied after the predetermined time.

Abstract: A cluster type rolling mill comprises a pair of work rolls, intermediate rolls, backing rolls, backing roll chock movable in the up and down directions, intermediate roll chocks held by the backing roll chocks work roll chocks held by the intermediate roll chocks hydraulic cylinders for shifting the intermediate rolls in the axial direction and hydraulic cylinders for applying bending force to the intermediate rolls and work rolls.

Abstract: In forming a thin film pattern, first a seed material film is formed on a substrate and then exposed using electron beam lithography, for example, in the shape of the pattern. The latent image is then removed and an oriented material is deposited on one of the seed material and the substrtate, which have different hydrophilicity properties, to form the pattern. The oriented film is formed by an LB film forming method, in one example, and in another example the LB film material is a cresol novolak resin having a proportion of p-cresol novolak to m-cresol novolak of at least 20%.

Abstract: A high density storage medium which stores predetermined information by matching it on one-to-one basis with multiple levels of depth or height formed in predetermined plural areas of substrate surface, a storing method, a reading method and various systems using them have been disclosed.

Abstract: A very thin oxide film is formed at an opening formed in an insulator film and a conductor layer, on a substrate, and impurity-containing polysilicon is formed on the sidewall of the opening. Impurity diffusion from the from the silicon into the substrate through the very thin oxide film causes a lowering in effective concentration of the diffused impurities, resulting in the formation of shallower source/drain region. Thereafter, a gate insulator film and a gate electrode are formed on the substrate surface in an area bounded by an insulator film formed on the sidewall of the opening. The gate electrode smaller than the opening, the size of which corresponds to the limit of processing, and the shallower source/drain region afford a miniaturized MOSFET.

Abstract: A semiconductor field effect transistor is provided which permits controlling of the phase of carriers between a source region and a drain region formed in a first semiconductor layer. Such control can be used to modulate characteristics such as the electric conductivity and drain current of the transistor. To accomplish this control, a gate electrode is formed over a portion of said first semiconductor layer between the source and drain regions. The gate electrode splits to form first and second branches at a first location adjacent to the source region. These first and second branches subsequently rejoin one another at a second location adjacent to said drain region. When a potential is applied to the gate electrode, it will produce first and second two-dimensional carriers conduction paths at a surface of the portion of the first semiconductor layer under the first and second branches.