Universal Entertainment Corporation

Aruze Gaming America, Inc.

Aruze Corporation

Fujifilm Corporation

Aruze Gaming (hong Kong) Limited

Akira Osawa

Kenta Kitamura

Tatsuya Teranishi

Takeshi Iso

Kenji Enokido

Akira Shimizu

Hiroshi Ito

Yukinori Inamura

Shoji Hara

Jun Hirato

Yasuhiko Kaneko

Hiroatsu Ike

Yoshinori Kondo

Sakiko Kojima

Hideaki Iwamoto

Kaoru Kuroiwa

Keiki Inoue

A classification unit classifies a lung region, which is included in each of two three-dimensional images having different imaging times for the same subject, into a plurality of types of case regions. A mapping image generation unit generates a plurality of mapping images corresponding to the three-dimensional images by labeling each of the classified case regions. A change calculation unit calculates the center-of-gravity position of each case region for case regions at corresponding positions in the mapping images, and calculates the movement amount and the movement direction of the center-of-gravity position between the mapping images as a change of each case region. A display control unit displays information regarding the change on a display.

Medical image display device, method, and program

A finding classification unit classifies a target region included in an examination image into a plurality of lesion regions indicating a plurality of findings to generate a finding classification result. A first search unit searches for a case image similar to an examination image as a first similar case image from a case database DB based on the finding classification result. A display controller displays the examination image and the first similar case image. A key finding specification unit receives designation of a position of a key finding to the displayed examination image to specify a position of the key finding and specifies a finding name of the key finding having the position specified. A second search unit further searches for a case image associated with the specified position and the finding name of the key finding from the first similar case image to acquire a second similar case image.

Image search device, image search method, and image search program

In one aspect, improved gaming machines are disclosed herein, which provides a first projection display for each gaming machine, and a second projector for displaying video on a plurality of the gaming machines.

Gaming system and method for providing a gaming machine with dual projection displays

A gaming machine stores a plurality of notification patterns of the backlight unit displayable at least in the symbol rearrangement regions of the reel unit including the regions where the symbols are rearranged, a notification pattern being assigned to each of the notification patterns. The gaming machine randomly determines the symbols to be rearranged on the reel unit. The gaming machine determines a combination formed by the determined symbols. The gaming machine selects a notification pattern based on the determined combination. The gaming machine executes a selected notification pattern by the backlight unit, at a notification timing which is before the rearrangement of the symbols on the reel unit.

Gaming machine conducting indication effect

A gaming machine stores an effect combination table in which each of predetermined combination conditions of symbols has probabilities associated with respective effect combinations each constituted by one or more indication effect. The gaming machine executes a process of randomly determining the symbols to be rearranged on the reel unit. The gaming machine executes a process of determining to which one of the combination conditions the combination of the determined symbols corresponds. The gaming machine executes a process of selecting an effect combination table based on the corresponding combination condition and randomly selecting one effect combination from a plurality of effect combinations based on the probabilities in the selected effect combination table. The gaming machine executes a process of executing an indication effect indicated by the selected effect combination, by means of the notification device.

The present invention provides a gaming machine capable of improving amusingness of a game by varying the continuity of the main game. According to the present invention, a normal mode game in the normal mode is started based on an input of the bet information from the bet input device; the mode is entered from the normal mode to the chance mode when an enter condition is satisfied as a result of referring to the predetermined symbol determination table in the normal mode; a free game is started as a chance mode game in the chance mode; and the mode is returned from the chance mode to the normal mode when an end condition is satisfied as a result of referring to the specific symbol determination table in the chance mode.

Gaming machine capable of improving amusingness

A gaming machine which can control the tempo of the game to refresh the player while maintaining continuity of the game, enhancing entertainingness and amusement of the game, and encouraging the player's sense of achievements. The input unit receives an instruction related to a game. The memory stores a first symbol determination table causing that a specific symbol appears among rearranged symbols on the symbol display unit with a first probability and a second symbol determination table causing that the specific symbol appears among the rearranged symbols with a second probability higher than the first probability. The controller starts the game in response to the instruction received through the input unit to execute the game in a normal mode and shifting the normal mode to a chance mode according to the game result in the normal mode.

Gaming machine having plural gaming modes

A gaming machine randomly determines symbols to be rearranged on a reel unit in a game in a normal mode, based on a predetermined probability. The gaming machine determines whether the determined symbols include a chance symbol. When it is determined that the symbols include a chance symbol, the gaming machine randomly determines an expecting degree and conducts the shifting to a chance mode. In the game in the chance mode, the gaming machine randomly determines the symbols to be rearranged on the reel unit based on the probability corresponding to the determined expecting degree. When the game is run for a predetermined number of times, the gaming machine ends the chance mode.

The present invention provides a gaming machine provided with a mechanical reel, which expands the variation of the pattern of rearrangement of symbols. The gaming machine includes a reel assembly Mincluding a plurality of reels bearing a plurality of symbols on the outer surface thereof, and a backlight device Mfor illuminating each of the reels from inside. The plurality of symbols includes a variable symbol CS for representing various symbols in response to the color of light emitted from the backlight device M. The variable symbol CS represents a first symbol upon the backlight device Memitting first color light, and represents a second symbol upon the backlight device Memitting second color light.

Gaming machine representing various symbols in response to color of light emitted from backlight

A gaming machine executes a process of randomly determining symbols to be rearranged on a reel unit. The gaming machine executes a process of determining a combination formed by the symbols. The gaming machine executes a process of selecting from a plurality of choices an indication effect which is executed before the rearrangement of the symbols on the reel unit, based on the determined combination. The gaming machine executes a process of executing the selected indication effect by a notification device.

A gaming machine and a controlling method thereof are provided. The gaming machine includes a mechanical symbol display unit which includes: a rotatable reel having a peripheral face with a plurality of symbols thereon; an illuminating device that is provided within a space on an inner periphery side of the rotatable reel and is controlled to emit light of at least two different colors; and an illumination controller. The symbols include a special symbol having at least two translucent portions each having a unique color that is the same as one of the at least two different colors. The at least two colors are selected in a way that, the special symbol is observable as a symbol in one single color or a symbol with a pattern of at least two colors according to the color of the emitted light.

Gaming machine and control method thereof

A gaming machine according to an embodiment includes a symbol display and a controller. The symbol display configured to display an arrangement and a rendering movement of a plurality of symbols for a game, and the plurality of symbols including first and second symbols different from each other. The controller is configured to receive an input from a player, to determine whether a time of the input from the player is within a predetermined time duration during the rendering movement when the rendering movement satisfies a first condition, the predetermined time duration starting at a predetermined frame before the first symbol reaches at a predetermined position, and to stop a group of the symbols including the first symbol in response to the input from the player when the time of the input is within the predetermined time duration.

Gaming machine and gaming method

There is provided a medical information processing system including a diagnosis information storing section that stores thereon frequency information in association with an initial diagnosis and a conclusive diagnosis, where the frequency information indicates a frequency with which a combination of the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis that is different from the initial diagnosis is observed, a diagnosis receiving section that receives a diagnosis during a diagnosis process, and a disease information presenting section that presents, to a diagnosis-making person, one of the conclusive diagnosis and the initial diagnosis which is stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with one of the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis which is the same as the diagnosis received by the diagnosis receiving section, in a manner according to the frequency information stored on the diagnosis information storing section in association with the initial diagnosis and the conclusive diagnosis.

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Tokyo, Japan

Akira Osawa