Konami Co., Ltd.

Konami Corporation

Hirofumi Fujimoto

Kojiro Minami

Hideki Kotani

Akihisa Yamashita

Katsunori Hirasawa

Toshimitsu Oishi

Hiroyuki Muraki

Yuji Tamura

Shigenobu Matsuyama

Makiko Otomi

Tatsuya Kobayashi

Nobuya Okuda

Masatoshi Mukai

Noriyoshi Chikui

Yutaka Tsuji

Hiroshi Hanatani

A 3D game machine includes a monitor for displaying images, a game control unit for controlling progress of a game, and an image control unit for generating and displaying a 3D image viewed from a viewing point of a simulated camera on a screen of the monitor. A transverse position and a height position of the head of a game player located in a play area before the screen of the monitor are detected using one ultrasonic transmitter and two ultrasonic receivers, and the viewing point of the simulated camera is so moved as to follow a displacing direction and a displacing amount of the detected position of the game player's head, thereby allowing the viewing point of the simulated camera to follow free movements of the game player so that images viewed from the viewing point intended by the game player are actively displayed.

Method for controlling movement of viewing point of simulated camera in 3D video game, and 3D video game machine

A rotary device for a game machine, comprises a rotatable member rotatable by a game player, a rotatable shaft having the rotatable member mounted thereon, a bias unit for biasing the rotatable shaft to its neutral position thereof, and a braking unit having a contacting member and a contacted member which are opposed to each other and adapted to give a rotational resistance to the rotatable shaft based on a contact resistance created by a variation of a distance between the contacting member and the contacted member.

Rotary device for game machine and game machine with rotary device

There is provided a light-emitting display device which is resistive to shock and vibration and a display switching method comprising: a forward transparent plate having a light scattering portion for a predetermined design pattern relative to a surface direction thereof, a backward transparent plate having a light scattering portion for a predetermined design pattern relative to a surface direction in which the second-mentioned design pattern is different from the first-mentioned design pattern of the light scattering portion of the forward transparent plate, a light source for the forward transparent plate for supplying incidence of light into the forward transparent plate from an end surface of the forward transparent plate, and an other light source for the backward transparent plate for supplying incidence of light into the backward transparent plate from an end surface of the backward transparent plate, so that switching is made from and to emitting and quenching of the backward transparent plate. At the time of luminescence (emitting), the design pattern of the backward panel is synthesized and deleted at the time of quenching.

Light-emitting display device, target game apparatus using light-emitting display device, display switching method and target hit display method

A table tennis apparatus includes a ball projecting section disposed rearward of one playing surface of a table for projecting balls towards the other playing surface, a moving mechanism for allowing ball projecting section to be moved laterally, a detecting unit for detecting which side the balls have dropped on one playing surface in the lateral direction, and a driving and controlling unit for driving the moving mechanism according to the drop positions of the balls detected by the detecting unit, and for moving the ball projecting section towards the drop positions of the balls. The moving mechanism includes a guide rail disposed along a lateral direction, and a base having the ball projecting section mounted thereon, and slidably disposed on the guide rail.

Table tennis apparatus

In a table tennis ball-sorting device, a plurality of rails are disposed side by side in substantially a horizontal direction along the side of at least one playing surface of a table tennis table at intervals that are capable of having passed therethrough only deformed balls, and a plurality of rails are disposed side by side in substantially a horizontal direction along the rear part of the playing surface at intervals that are capable of having passed therethrough only deformed balls. The former rails are disposed to be inclined towards downstream, while the downstream side thereof is overlapped on the upstream part of the latter rails so that balls can be transferred. A table tennis apparatus using the table tennis ball-sorting device is also disclosed.

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Kobe, Japan

Hirofumi Fujimoto