Aruze Corporation

Universal Entertainment Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Aruze Gaming America, Inc.

Hiroyuki Nagano

Shinya Tanaka

Satoshi Takano

Hideomi Fujimoto

Atsushi Hagiwara

Jun Hirato

Yu Suzuki

Mutsumi Namba

Isao Nishimura

Masataka Atsuki

Kouichi Iimura

In order to determine a monitoring circuit having a leak current equal to or more than a predetermined reference, the monitoring deviceincludes the determination unitthat determines whether a leak current of a specific monitoring circuit, among a plurality of monitoring circuitsthat are driven using electric power stored in two or more battery unitsassociated as a monitoring target, is equal to or more than a first reference using: a comparison result of comparison between a proportion of the specific monitoring circuitbeing associated with a low-voltage battery unit having the lowest voltage value among the plurality of battery unitsand a predetermined threshold value; and information indicating whether or not the number of low-voltage battery units associated with the specific monitoring circuitis 2 or more.

Monitoring device, monitoring system, and monitoring method

A display control device includes a display part, an indication part to indicate a position on the display part and output a value of residual electric energy thereof, a coordinate detection part to detect coordinates of the position on the display part, a rendering data production part to produce rendering data based on the coordinates of the position on the display part, a determination part to determine whether or not the value of residual electric energy is less than a threshold value, a rendering data processing part to process the rendering data to produce data for notification of electric energy reduction in a case where the determination part determines that the value of residual electric energy is less than the threshold value, and a display control part to display the rendering data and the data for notification of electric energy reduction on the display part.

Display control device and display control method

The gaming system of the present invention comprises: a plurality of gaming machines; a control device; a single pedestal having an installation surface for installing the gaming machines, and having a hollow space communicated with external air; a supporting member provided such that a first end thereof is supported by the pedestal and the second end thereof is oriented upwardly; a common image display being supported by the second end side of the supporting member, and communication cables for communication between the plurality of gaming machines and the control device.

Gaming system having large display and plural gaming machines

An image processing apparatus includes a data output control unit to output image data on a line-by-line basis in response to a line synchronizing signal, and a data output interface circuit to transfer via a bus the image data that is output from the data output control unit on a line-by-line basis in response to the line synchronizing signal, wherein the data output interface circuit makes a transition, together with the bus, from a normal state to a power saving state when a predetermined check period next following completion of transfer, by the data output interface circuit, of image data for one line output from the data output control unit passes before transfer of image data for a next one line, and returns, together with the bus, from the power saving state to the normal state for transfer of image data for the next one line.

Transfer of image data using power saving state

The gaming system of the present invention comprises: a plurality of gaming machines; a single pedestal having an installation surface for installing the plurality of gaming machines; a common image display supported by a supporting member provided such that a first end thereof is supported by the pedestal and the second end thereof is oriented upwardly; a secondary supporting member that is provided in the common image display and formed so as to extend toward the side of the common image display; and a display board that is secured by a holding member provided in the secondary supporting member.

The present invention provides a gaming system that can allow a game to be appropriately advanced even by an inexperienced dealer by way of navigating the dealer in game advancement, thereby allowing fraud to be avoided and cost to be reduced. An image input device, which captures images for displaying to players playing the game at a plurality of stations, captures an image of a side of a game portion on which the dealer is positioned to include card placement areas. Then, a controller performs image recognition processing of comparing image data of the card placement areas captured by the image input device with comparative image data stored in memory. Thereafter, in a case in which image recognition processing results in an image showing a card being included, the score of the card game is calculated based on recognition results of the images showing cards.

Gaming system that navigates dealer in game advancement and prevents fraud

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an image; a status conversion unit for converting the multi-value pixel data into status values; plural reference look-up tables each indicating an association between an arrangement of the status values of a target pixel and adjacent pixels in a pixel window and an output data value of the multi-value pixel data to be output; a determining unit for determining a target reference look-up table based on the arrangement; and a generating unit configured to change an input data value of the multi-value pixel data, into the output data value of the determined target reference look-up table, and for outputting the multi-value pixel data to the image forming unit.

Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and image forming program product for processing pixels of vertical and diagonal lines expressed by input multi-value pixel data

The gaming system of the present invention comprises: a plurality of gaming machines; a control device; a single pedestal having an installation surface for installing the gaming machines; a supporting member provided such that a first end thereof is supported by the pedestal and the second end thereof is oriented upwardly; a common image display supported at a position above the upper surfaces of the gaming machines by the supporting member, and communication cables for communication between the plurality of gaming machines and the control device.

The gaming system of the present invention comprises: a plurality of gaming machines; a single pedestal having an installation surface for installing the gaming machines; a supporting member provided such that a first end thereof is supported by the pedestal and the second end thereof is oriented upwardly; a common image display having an internal space inside thereof, having openings communicated with external air respectively at an upper portion and a bottom portion thereof, and being supported by the second end side of the supporting member.

The present invention provides a gaming system that can allow a game to be appropriately advanced even by an inexperienced dealer by way of navigating the dealer in game advancement, thereby allowing fraud to be avoided and cost to be reduced. A gaming systemgives an instruction to a dealer by operating indicators of card placement areas in which a card is to be placed based on a game advancement program. When a card is placed in a predetermined card placement area, the gaming systemreads at least one face of the card being placed by image input devices and determines whether the card is placed in a right place and a right orientation and whether the card is appropriate. After that the abovementioned processing is repeated for a predetermined number of times, a score is calculated based on image data and finally a game result is output.

Gaming machine that navigates dealer in game advancement

The gaming system of the present invention comprises: a common image display having a common-image-display cabinet provided with an opening over substantially the entire front surface thereof, and a common flat display panel portion that is provided in the opening, and allowing the common flat display panel portion to rotate upwardly and downwardly with respect to the floor surface with a hinge as a shaft by having an upper end of the common flat display panel portion mounted on an upper end of a front surface of the common-image-display cabinet via the hinge.

An apparatus and a method of controlling a light level of a light beam irradiated by a light source are provided. The light source is caused to irradiate the light beam having a light level determined based on a light level correction value for a specific main scanning position. The light level correction value is calculated based on light level change information indicating the change in the light level correction value for the specific main scanning position changes with respect to an initial light level correction value or a preceding light level correction value.

Apparatus and method of controlling light level of a light source, and recording medium storing program of controlling light level of a light source

An image processing apparatus includes a detecting unit that detects whether image data for each of the lines in generated image information is chromatic or achromatic; and a determining unit that determines whether the original is chromatic or achromatic based on a detection result of the detecting unit for a first area of the image information, excluding a detection result for a predetermined second area of the image information, the predetermined second area including an end line among the lines in a scanning direction of the original.

Image processing apparatus and image forming apparatus

A gaming machine is provided with a cabinet; a door (), provided on the front face of the above-mentioned cabinet; a bill insertion slot (), provided on the door (); and a bill guide plate (A), which extends outwards from the lower end of the bill insertion slot () and is for guiding a bill into the bill insertion slot (). The bill guide plate (A) has a plurality of substantially rectilinear slit openings () formed in rows. Even when a drink or other foreign matter is spilled onto the bill guide plate (A), it can be prevented from getting on the various devices inside the cabinet via the bill insertion slot () and thus breakage of the various devices can be prevented.

Gaming machine

In the slot machine, it is provided the hinge construction for rotatably supporting the frame plateof the frameagainst the door, and the hinge construction is basically constructed from: the lower bracketarranged at the lower position in one side of an openingwhich is formed in the doorcorresponding to the frame; the support holeformed in the ceiling platepositioned at the upper side of the doorand the support holeformed in the lower bracket; and the support shaftthat the upper end thereof inserted in the through holeof the upper support plateis rotatably supported in the support holeof the ceiling plateand the lower end thereof inserted in the through holeof the lower support plateis rotatably supported in the support holeof the lower bracket

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Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Nagano