Seikosha Co., Ltd.

Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.

Akatsuki Inc.

Kunio Hashimoto

Hiroshi Yamazaki

Kenji Oshima

Ken Kanai

Shigeru Shimozono

Shinya Tamura

Koji Tezuka

Teruo Takane

Genki Shiota

Shohei Sekii

An information processing apparatus erases, on the basis of a chained state of a plurality of pieces arranged on a game field, the pieces in the chained state. The arrangement of the pieces in the game field is controlled such that, in a predetermined region on the game field, an odd number of pieces and an even number of pieces are alternately arranged on imaginary lines in an advancing direction on the game field. For example, the information processing apparatus erases a serial piece group formed as a chain by determining, starting from operation for any one piece on the imaginary line corresponding to a frontmost row among the imaginary lines, whether a piece of a same kind as the one piece is present in left and right pieces adjacent to the one piece present on a next imaginary line in the advancing direction from the operated one piece.

Information processing apparatus and processing method

An hour chime clock has an hour-indicating hand and a plurality of display units disposed circumferentially around the hour-indicating hand at different hour positions. The display units are displaceable between two positions to display either an ornament or an hour numeral. At each hour, a melody chimes and the display units undergo a predetermined pattern of movements. After chiming the hour, the display unit at the present hour position is placed in a different display state from the display state of all the other display units.

Hour chime clock

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Kunio Hashimoto