Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Konami Corporation

Konami Gaming, Inc.

Takashi Uchiyama

Ryoichi Suzuki

Tokuichi Tsunekawa

Zenzo Nakamura

Yukio Mashimo

Tetsuya Taguchi

Nobuhiro Goto

Mutsuhide Matsuda

Kazuhiro Kusuda

Masanori Uchidoi

Hiroshi Aizawa

Shohei Ohtaki

Shinji Sakai

Masaharu Kawamura

Masayoshi Yamamichi

Kikuo Momiyama

Hiroyasu Murakami

Yukio Iura

Masato Okuaki

Tadashi Ito

Fumio Ito

Seiichi Matsumoto

Susumu Kozuki

Yoshiaki Watanabe

Akio Sunouchi

Yoji Sugiura

Takashi Amikura

Takao Kinoshita

Hiroshi Furukawa

Yukio Ogawa

Toshikazu Ichiyanagi

Syuichiro Saito

Noriaki Sanada

Shogo Azuma

Hideo Yokota

Nobuaki Date

Youichi Okuno

Mutsunobu Yazaki

Kanehiro Sorimachi

Shingo Yasuda

Norifumi Kawai

Syohei Ohtaki

Shyohei Ohtaki

Masayuki A Suzuki

Kazuya Hosoe

Shinya Ito

Nobuaki Sakurada

Nobuo Tezuka

Tomonori Iwashita

Michio Hirohata

Takehiko Kiyohara

Isao Harigaya

Naoki Ayata

Kazuo Fujibayashi

Yusuke Ono

Kaoru Watanabe

Toyotosi Suzuki

Yukitoshi Ohkubo

Hiroshi Tomaru

Ryosuke Toriyama

Yusuke Kitakaze

Syozo Yoshida

Yoji Matsufuji

Hirokatsu Yamaguchi

Hiroto Nakamoto

Wataru Nagasaka

Makoto Nakano

Teruo Otaka

Yoshio Komiya

Zenso Nakamura

Hiroki Nakasato

Osamu Okubo

Kenta Ito

Toyostosi Suzuki

Yukio Mashino

Hiroyoshi Kawana

Keiji Fujimori

Nobuhito Muto

Genichiro Okitani

A ball lottery apparatus include a discharger adapted for discharging individually multiple lottery balls, a lottery field including multiple holes in which the discharged lottery balls can enter, a host controller for executing various controls, a retrieval mechanism adapted for retrieving the lottery balls. When a bingo game is played, the host controller can set the ball lottery apparatus to a normal mode in which an input time point at which each of the lottery balls discharged from the discharger is input to the lottery field depends on a predetermined rule, and to a dealer mode in which the input time point depends on human action.

Ball lottery apparatus

A game system has plural game devices and a storage device that stores attribute information and location information of a pet in association with a player ID. Each game device obtains a player ID of a player who plays at the game device, and obtains attribute information corresponding to location information identifying a game device identified by the obtained player ID, and controls a game to cause the game device to display a pet according to the obtained attribute information. In a case in which location information stored in association with a player ID of a first player who plays at a first game device is changed to that which identifies a second game device identified by a player ID of a second player, the first game device does not display a pet of the first player, but the second game device displays the pet of the first player.

Game system

A reference strength (P) is set at a game device () as a received signal strength enabling stable communication in a range in which radio waves reach from a wireless relay device () (radio wave coverage range), and permits a game play at a portable terminal (), for which the received signal strength reaches the set reference strength (P). Thus, it is possible to permit players in an area satisfying store manager's wishes to perform remote play under a stable communication environment, without being influenced by a decrease in an effective communication speed.

Game device

A game system includes a management apparatus and a game device. The management apparatus includes an authentication section for obtaining results of authentications using first and second identifiers that should correspond to a user. When the results of the authentications are affirmative, a validity time limit is associated with the first identifier. In addition, the game device includes a confirmatory identifier acquirer for acquiring a confirmatory identifier that should correspond to the user, and an inquiry maker for making an inquiry asking the management apparatus to check whether or not the first identifier conforming to the confirmatory identifier is stored in the management apparatus. The inquiry inquires the management apparatus to check whether or not the validity time limit corresponding to the first identifier is a time after the present time when the first identifier conforming to the confirmatory identifier is stored in the management apparatus. A permitter of the management apparatus permits execution of a service associated with the first identifier used in the inquiry when results of checks by the manager in response to the inquiry are affirmative.

Game system and management apparatus having a convenient authentication process for ensuring security

In a game system or a drawing machine for a jackpot game, a drawing unit of the drawing machine for a jackpot game performs jackpot drawing in a manner that a player who plays a particular game apparatus among a plurality of game apparatuses is not determined as a winning player of a jackpot award, when a sum of an apparatus-specific jackpot balance amount indicated by game apparatus's own apparatus-specific jackpot balance amount data stored in an apparatus-specific jackpot balance amount storage unit and an apparatus-specific maximum loss amount indicated by a game apparatus's own apparatus-specific maximum loss amount data stored in the apparatus-specific maximum loss amount storage unit, is equal to or more than a payout amount indicated by payout amount data stored in a payout amount storage unit.

Game system, and jackpot drawing apparatus and game apparatus constituting the same

In order to prevent a situation where a winner for a jackpot award is consequently concentrated on a player who plays by using a particular game apparatus, the game system includes a jackpot drawing apparatus wherein when a drawing unit determines winning of the jackpot award, the drawing unit carries out the jackpot drawing by carrying out a group drawing to determine whether one winning group is selected or neither group is selected according to a predetermined group drawing condition, from previously determined two or more groups each configured by two or more game apparatuses, and by carrying out, when the winning group is selected by the group drawing, a winner drawing carried out for determining whether the player who wins the jackpot award is selected or neither player is selected, from the players who play by using the two or more game apparatuses belonging to the winning group.

Game system and jackpot drawing apparatus constituting the same

A pool amount (payout amount) of a jackpot award is adjusted without deteriorating individual game attractiveness of all game apparatuses even in a game system in which game apparatuses of different models are mixed. Each game progress control unit of a plurality of game apparatuses controls the progress of a game in such a manner that a ratio of an amount of payout objects paid out to a player by a payout process of the payout processing unit to an amount of bet objects received by the bet object receiving unit within a predetermined period comes closer to a normal preset payout ratio obtained by deducting a player's own pool ratio indicated by the pool ratio data stored in the pool ratio storage unit of the game apparatus concerned from a total preset payout ratio indicated by the preset payout ratio data stored in the preset payout ratio storage unit of the game apparatus concerned. These game apparatuses are provided with a pool ratio changing unit for changing the pool ratio data stored in a player's own pool ratio storage unit independent from each other.

Game system including drawing machine for jackpot game

A game system includes: a jackpot drawing apparatus for performing a payout process for paying out to a winning player at least part of an amount indicated by payout amount data when the drawing unit determines winning of the jackpot award; and a notification processing apparatus for performing, when performing the jackpot award winning notification process for notifying the player who has won the jackpot award, of winning of the jackpot award, prior to issuing the same, an advance notification process for issuing an advance notification to the effect that a player who plays by using each game apparatus belonging to a predetermined group configured by two or more game apparatuses including the game apparatus with which the player who wins the jackpot award plays is notified that the player who plays by using either game apparatus belonging to the predetermined group wins the jackpot award.

Game system and notification processing apparatus constituting the same

Where a drawing machine for jackpot game is utilized in a game system in which a plurality of game apparatuses are divided into a plurality of groups for management, a payout ratio is easily managed for each group. The drawing machine for jackpot game performs a group drawing for selecting one winning group among a plurality of groups and performs a winner determining process for determining a winner among players who play game apparatuses belonging to the winning group, thereby performing a jackpot drawing. Then, the drawing machine for jackpot game performs the group drawing in a manner that, among the plurality of groups, a particular group in which a total amount of an own group-specific jackpot balance amount obtained by deducting from a group-specific accumulated pool amount obtained by summing up for each group pool amounts of game apparatuses belonging to each group from a predetermined point in time a total amount from the predetermined point in time covering amounts of payout object paid out when a player who played a game apparatus belonging to the group concerned wins a jackpot award and an own group-specific maximum loss amount set for each group is equal to or more than a jackpot retention amount is not determined as a winning group.

A system comprises: a receiving unit for receiving information of a user; a first notifying unit for notifying the user of a first challenge in a first game apparatus a first output unit for outputting first clear information when a progress result of a game controlled by the first game apparatus becomes the first result relating to the first challenge; a second notifying unit for notifying the user of a second challenge in a second game apparatus; a second output unit for outputting second clear information when a progress result of a game controlled by the second game apparatus becomes the second result relating to the second challenge; and a processing unit for performing predetermined process for determining whether a predetermined process condition is satisfied, and for performing, when the predetermined process condition is satisfied, predetermined process that is not performed when the predetermined process condition is not satisfied.

Game system, and game apparatus and challenge notifying apparatus constituting the game system

The present invention is to be capable of inhibiting the occurrence of an instance where the enjoyment of a player who plays with the game apparatus by the total event is decreased when a single total event is carried out among two or more game apparatuses. The present game system includes: two or more game apparatuses, each of which comprises a game progress control unit for performing game progress control; and an event processing apparatus for performing a process for carrying out a single total event at the same timing by the plurality of game apparatuses. The event processing apparatus and each game apparatus are connected in a manner to enable communication. The event processing apparatus comprises: an event timing determining unit for determining an event timing at which the total event is carried out according to a predetermined event timing determining condition; and a control command transmitting unit for transmitting to each game apparatus an event control command used for carrying out the total event at the event timing determined by the event timing determining unit. The game progress control unit of each game apparatus performs the game progress control so that at the event timing relating to the event control command from the event processing apparatus, a game progress situation of each game apparatus is caused to be a previously set situation where the total event can be carried out.

Game system, and game apparatus and event processing apparatus constituting the game system

The present invention is to be capable of carrying out an unusual performance beyond type of machine. The present game apparatus includes: two or more types of game apparatuses having hardware configurations different from each other, each of the game apparatuses including a performance unit for carrying out a performance visually and audibly appealing to a player, and a game progress control unit for controlling game progress and performing game performance control according to the game progress by controlling the performance unit; and a total performance processing apparatus for executing a process for carrying out a total performance in the two or more types of game apparatuses by using the performance unit provided in each of the two or more types of game apparatuses. The total performance processing apparatus and the two or more types of game apparatuses are connected and capable of communicating with each other. The total performance processing apparatus includes a control command transmitting unit for transmitting a total performance control command for carrying out the total performance at a predetermined total performance timing to each of the two or more types of game apparatuses. Each of the two or more types of game apparatuses includes a total performance control unit for controlling the performance unit according to the total performance control command from the total performance processing apparatus and executing total performance control for carrying out a performance assuming part of the total performance at the predetermined total performance timing.

Game system, and game apparatus and total performance processing apparatus constituting the game system

In a random number selector using a selection ball, a first selector is provided with a passage and a plurality first pockets each associated with a symbol and operable to receive the selection ball. A second selector is provided with a plurality of second pockets each associated with a jackpot and operable to receive the selection ball. A guide member guides the selection ball which has been passed through the passage in the first selector to the second selector. In a bingo game machine, a first bingo game using only the first selector and a second bingo game using both of the first selector and the second selector are performed.

Random number selector, and bingo game machine incorporating the same

In a slot machine, when a player actuates a start lever, three reels spin, thereby effecting internal drawing operation and determining a winning combination. When the player actuates stop buttons, predetermined stop control operations are performed. A combination of symbols corresponding to the winning combination are achieved along anyone of winning lines. A plurality of image data sets which can be displayed on a liquid-crystal display () are recorded in an image data ROM () provided in a liquid-crystal display unit () of the slot machine. When the player actuates a changeover switch (), switch setting information is sent to a CPU (). An image display LSI () reads out from the image data ROM image data corresponding to the setting information, thereby using the thus-read image data for display contents of the liquid-crystal display.

Display device, and game machine

A virtual image/real image superimposing and displaying apparatus for displaying a virtual image and an actual substance includes image display ( ) for displaying an image from which a virtual image originates; a half mirror ( ) which forms the virtual image ( ) on the basis of the image displayed by the image display ( ); a communications section ( ) which enables movement of an actual substance from a back side of the virtual image to a front side of the same so as to penetrate therethrough; and a mechanical reel portion ( ) having a plurality of spinning drums ( and ) which have marks, such as numbers and symbols, printed on a circumferential surface thereof and spin independently of each other. The actual substance is paid out so as to penetrate through a virtual image from its back to front and becomes visible only when the actual substance is moved to the front side of the virtual image.

Virtual image/real image superimposing and displaying apparatus, and slot machine

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Yokohama, Japan

Takashi Uchiyama