Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix

Square Co., Ltd.

Motoharu Tanaka

Atsuyuki Watada

Toshiaki Tokita

Hazime Machida

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Hitoshi Nakamura

Toyoshi Sawada

Masashi Nagayama

Keiko Shiraishi

Nobuyuki Koinuma

Tadashi Saitoh

Yoshiko Kurosawa

Fumiya Omi

Akira Suzuki

Takashi Yano

Kazuo Kobayashi

Hiroaki Takahashi

Akihiro Kotsugai

Hiroshi Deguchi

Kimitoshi Yamaguchi

Hajime Yuzurihara

Norihiko Inaba

Masaetsu Takahashi

Naoki Imahashi

Hajime Machida

Hisao Yuyama

Uee Myong Hwang

A game apparatus executes a game in which a player character is moved between different fields through a given traveling route according to an instruction input from a player. When the player character moves to a first area close to a door, a symbol '!' is displayed. When the character moves to a second area, a symbol set '!!' is displayed. In the second area, if unlocking conditions for the door are satisfied, a method of manipulation for opening the door is displayed. If the conditions are not satisfied, a method of manipulation for displaying a hint for opening the door is displayed. If the conditions for unlocking the door are satisfied, when the player performs the manipulation for opening the door, an action of the player character to open the door is displayed. Map data of the destination room is loaded into a temporary storage from a recording medium and then the player character moves to the opposite room through the door.

Game apparatus, game progressing method, program, and recording medium

An image removing method including bringing an outermost layer of a removing member into contact with an image fixed on an image support without applying a liquid to the image while heating the image and the outermost layer; and separating the removing member from the image support to remove the image from the image support, wherein the removing member includes a substrate and the outermost layer which is located overlying the substrate and which includes a thermoplastic resin, and wherein the image includes a removing agent which can decrease adhesion force of the image to the image support when heated.

Image removing method, image removing device, and image forming apparatus

A carrier develops latent electrostatic images in corporation with a toner and one particle of the carrier includes a magnetic particle, and a coating layer covering the magnetic particle. The coating layer includes a crosslinked condensation product of a composition containing (i) an N-alkoxyalkylated polyamide and (ii) at least one resin that is reactive with the alkoxyalkylated polyamide and includes a silicone having a silanol group and/or a hydrolyzable group.

Carrier and developer for developing latent electrostatic images

A method of processing an interactive game, and a program product and game system for the same, which enables a character other than the player character to act separately from the player character in the game virtual space, sets an event which a character other than the player character can execute when a condition in the progress of the game is satisfied, displays on the screen the existence of that event for the character other than the player character acting separately from the player character when the condition in the progress of the game enabling execution of that event is satisfied, selectively accepts execution of the event displayed on the screen by an operation of the player in the screen display, and selectively executes and displays on the screen the event for the character other than the player character acting separately from the player character in accordance with the acceptance of the selection and execution of that event.

Method of processing interactive game, program product and game system for the same

A magneto-optical recording medium includes a recording layer which is composed of A memory layer comprising a ferromagnetic layer with perpendicular anisotropy, and an auxiliary layer comprising antiferromagnetic layer which exhibits an antimagnetic phase at room temperature, and a ferromagnetic phase at temperatures near the Curie temperature of the memory layer which is higher than room temperature, because of the occurrence of magnetic phase transformation, with the memory layer and the auxiliary layer being overlaid. A magneto-optical recording method using this magneto-optical recording medium is described.

Magneto-optical recording medium and recording method using the same

A magneto-optical recording method for recording information in an overwrite mode in a magneto-optical recording medium by the application of a laser beam is disclosed. The magneto-optical recording medium includes a substrate, and at least two magnetic recording layers overlaid thereon, with an exchange force working at least between the two magnetic recording layers, and the Curie temperature of each of the two magnetic recording layers being substantially the same. The magneto-optical recording method includes the step of conducting overwriting information by changing the power of the laser beam to be applied to at least two different levels, one at which the magnetic recording layers are heated to a temperature near or higher than the Curie temperature, and the other at which the magnetic recording layers are heated to a temperature lower than the Curie temperature, while a magnetic field is applied to the magneto-optical recording medium in one direction, in accordance with signals to be recorded in the magneto-optical recording medium, and this recording method requires only one initialization by the application of the magnetic field, but does not require any further initialization thereafter.

Magneto-optical recording medium having two magnetic layers with the

A magneto-optical recording method is capable of carrying out overwriting on a magneto-optical recording medium including a single perpendicular magnetic layer serving as a recording layer, by applying laser beams thereto, thereby controlling the formation and erasure of magnetic domains, in which a magnetic domain with a desired length can be formed or erased by the application of a plurality of laser beams during the formation and erasure of the magnetic domains.

Magneto-optical recording method

A magneto-optical recording method capable of overwriting on a magneto-optical recording medium is disclosed. The magneto-optical recording medium includes a recording layer comprising a single magnetic layer with magnetic anisotropy and the magneto-optical recording methods includes the step of applying a laser beam with a light power level P.sub.1 to the recording layer when a binary coded signal '1' is written therein under a fixed external magnetic field; and the steps of applying a laser beam with a light power level Poh to the recording layer and successively applying a laser beam with a light power level Pol to said recording layer when a binary coded signal '0' is written therein under a fixed external magnetic field, wherein Pol, P.sub.1 and Poh are in the relationship of O&lt;Pol&lt;P.sub.1 &lt;Poh.

Magneto-optical recording medium

A magneto-optical recording medium is composed of a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer, which are overlaid, each having a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, and the first magnetic layer having a Curie temperature of Tc.sub.1, a saturation magnetization of Ms.sub.1, a coercive force of Hc.sub.1, and a thickness of t.sub.1, the second magnetic layer having a compensation temperature of Tcomp.sub.2, a Curie temperature Tc.sub.2, and a coercive force of Hc.sub.2, and which satisfies the relationships:

Magneto-optical recording medium having first and second magnetic layers

Magneto-optical recording method and magneto-optical recording medium

A magneto-optical recording method capable of overwriting on a magneto-optical recording medium is disclosed. The magneto-optical recording medium includes a recording layer comprising a single magnetic layer with magnetic anisotropy and the magneto-optical recording methods includes the step of applying a laser beam with a light power level P.sub.1 to the recording layer when a binary coded signal '1' is written therein under a fixed external magnetic field; and the steps of applying a laser beam with a light power level Poh to the recording layer and successively applying a laser beam with a light power level Pol to said recording layer when a binary coded signal '0' is written therein under a fixed external magnetic field, wherein Pol, P.sub.1 and Poh are in the relationship of 0&lt;Pol&lt;P.sub.1 &lt;Poh.

Magneto-optical recording method and recording medium for use in the same

A magneto-optical recording method is disclosed, by which a magnetic recording pattern is formed in an overwriting mode, utilizing demagnetizing field, by directing a light beam onto a perpendicularly magnetized film layer of a magneto-optical recording medium, wherein when recording is being carried out by the application of a light beam onto the perpendicularly magnetized film layer, on switching the direction of magnetization for recording from downward to upward or from upward to downward, when required, with respect to the surface of the magnetized film layer, a light beam application mode for a light-beam applied portion in the magnetized film layer to which the light beam has been applied, and a light beam application mode in a portion in the magnetized film layer immediately after the light-beam applied portion to which the light beam is yet to be applied, are changed.

Magneto-optical recording method with switching and maintaining

A three-dimensional magnetic memory medium which comprises a substrate, a plurality of magnetic layers and a plurality of nonmagnetic layers. The magnetic layers and the nonmagnetic layers are alternately stacked one above the other on the substrate. Each magnetic layer comprises a transfer area, wherein assuming that n is a positive even whole number, the (n-1)th magnetic layer (the 3rd layer, the 5th layer, the 7th layer, . . .) has a transfer pattern different from that of the nth magnetic layer (the 2nd layer, the 4th layer, the 6th layer, . . .). An uppermost magnetic layer is used as a signal writing area and as a signal reading area. A position corresponding to a signal '1' and a position corresponding to a signal '0' are arranged in the signal writing area at a position superposed on a position of '1' and on a position of '0' in a transfer pattern of the (n-1)th magnetic layer, respectively. A guide line is provided in the signal writing area so that a magnetic bubble is movable between the position of a signal '1' and the position of a signal '0' along the guide line.

Three-dimensional magnetic memory medium and method for initial setting

The present invention provides a metal oxide magnetic substance represented by the general formula I:

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Mishima, Japan

Motoharu Tanaka