Universal Entertainment Corporation

International Business Machines Corporation

Aruze Gaming America, Inc.

Nuance Communications, Inc.

Jt Co., Ltd.

Hiroaki Kashima

Daisuke Tomoda

Hiroki Nakamura

Kazuo Okada

Yoichi Kato

Masumi Fujisawa

Yoshinori Tahara

Takeshi Aoki

Naoya Shirai

Hideo Takeda

Shigeki Takeuchi

Hidehiko Sakamoto

Jong Hak Choi

Masami Tada

Hayato Uenohara

Yoshinori Ogawa

Akito Inoue

Yoshihisa Tanaka

Yuhko Yamauchi

Yuta Kikuchi

Takashi Mega

Yuki Hamamoto

Masao Hagino

Rui Kaga

Takaaki Hirama

Nobuyuki Matsutani

Noriyuki Ikarashi

Provided is a game machine system including a game machine capable of progressing different kinds of games and a table games with different kinds of the games, the game machine system including an administration controller connected to a plurality of game machines and the game machine capable of displaying progress of a game selected from a plurality of kinds of games and a result of the game, in which the game machine includes an operating device with which a player operates the progress of the game, and the progress of the game connected to the administration controller is performed by operation of the operating device of the game machine selected by the administration controller.

Game machine system

Disclosed is an operating device of a game machine which is installed in the game machine including a display portion which displays the progress of a game in accordance with a control of a body controller and a result of the game and operates the progress of the game in conjunction with a display on the display portion. This operating device includes a rotation operation portion capable of being rotated by a player, a rotation operation detecting portion which detects a state of rotation operation of the rotation operation portion, a decoration display portion which displays any one of a pattern, a symbol and a letter, or a combination thereof, and a connection portion which outputs a signal of the rotation operation detecting portion to the body controller and inputs a signal for controlling a display of the decoration display portion from the body controller.

Operating device of game machine and game machine

Provided is a slot machine capable of reducing unfairness which may result between a player who has made an investment and a player who has not made an investment and allowing a player to proceed with a game by making an investment in expectation of a jackpot at ease. Each money amount which is constant is accumulated independently of a number of bets each time betting is conducted, and upon winning a jackpot, a money amount calculated by multiplying a money amount accumulated until then by a multiplying factor based on the number of bets is provided.

Slot machine including a plurality of video reel strips

A method for delivering an instant message in a server connected to two or more computers via a network is provided. The two or more computers include groupware clients in which a user can perform login at the same time, using the same user ID, and for which status that may be different from each other can be set. Embodiments of the method includes authenticating a user of a groupware client who attempts to perform login using a user ID, recording the user ID and status information in association with an instant messaging user ID, receiving an instant message addressed to the user ID, and determining, on the basis of the status information, which of two or more client computers the instant message is sent to.

Instant messagings

A gaming machine which determines establishment/non-establishment of a shift condition for shifting a game mode from a normal game mode to a special game mode, shifts to the special game mode based on the determination result, and allows an instruction of A player to be inputted thereto, extracts predetermined number of card data to be used in the special game mode, selects a first and a second card data on the gaming machine side and a player side from among the extracted card data, and determines right/wrong of a designating instruction according to a result of comparison between the card data. Upon win, this gaming machine determines establishment/non-establishment of a winning combination based on the extracted card data, and when a winning combination is established, the machine performs payout corresponding to the established combination.

Gaming machine and control method of gaming machine

The present invention discourages effective illegal use of compromised biometric information in biometric authentication and allows biometric authentication to be securely continued even when some biometric information is compromised. A user authentication system compares extracted user features with a previously registered combination of features and authenticates the user on the basis of the result of the comparison. If the authentication is successful, the previously registered combination is replaced with a new combination of features that are registered for use in the subsequent authentication of the authentication object.

Technique for authenticating an object on basis of features extracted from the object

Embodiments of the present invention include a specific sentence generator for generating a piece of sentence data specific to an application from a grammar stored in a grammar storing unit and correction information stored in a correction information storing unit and then storing the piece of data in specific sentence storing unit, a topic shift unit for shifting a general topic stored in a general topic storing unit to a topic specific to an application on the basis of the piece of sentence data and then storing the topic in a shifted topic storing unit, a natural speech recognition unit for recognizing speech by dictation with a shifted topic and then storing the recognition result in a recognition result storing unit, a candidate sentence generator for generating candidate sentences from a grammar and then storing the sentences in a candidate sentence storing unit, and a matching unit for determining a final recognition result by matching candidate sentences with a recognition result.

Speech recognition device using statistical language model

The present invention includes specific sentence generatorfor generating a piece of sentence data specific to an application from a grammar stored in grammar storing unitand correction information stored in correction information storing unitand then storing the piece of data in specific sentence storing unit, topic shift unitfor shifting a general topic stored in general topic storing unitto a topic specific to an application on the basis of the piece of sentence data and then storing the topic in shifted topic storing unit, natural speech recognition unitfor recognizing speech by dictation with a shifted topic and then storing the recognition result in recognition result storing unit, candidate sentence generatorfor generating candidate sentences from a grammar and then storing the sentences in candidate sentence storing unit, and matching unitfor determining a final recognition result by matching candidate sentences with a recognition result.

A speech recognizing device. Natural speech recognizing means recognizes speech input in an application program by dictation. Recognition result converting means converts a recognition result from said natural speech recognizing means into a final recognition result processable by said application program on the basis of a grammar to he used for recognizing said input speech in a grammar method. The recognition result converting means further comprises candidate sentence generating means for evolving said grammar to generate candidate sentences that are candidates for said final recognition result: and matching means for selecting a candidate sentence as said final recognition result among the candidate sentences by matching said candidate sentences generated by said candidate sentence generating means against the recognition result by said natural speech recognizing means. The candidate sentence comprises a sentence having an associated highest score calculated according to the formula '(ngramWords&#x2212;replacedWords&#x2212;rejectedWords&#x2212;insertedWords)/ngramWords.'

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Hiroaki Kashima