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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2012
Applicants:
Masato Okuaki, Zama, JP;
Tomoaki Hirai, Zama, JP;
Toshiaki Shimizu, Zama, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
KONAMI GAMING, INC., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F 17/32 (2006.01); A63F 13/45 (2014.01); A63F 13/213 (2014.01); A63F 13/60 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63F 13/45 (2014.09); A63F 13/213 (2014.09); A63F 13/60 (2014.09); G07F 17/322 (2013.01); G07F 17/3297 (2013.01);
Abstract
A game machine gives a predetermined favor when at least one ball moves on a table and the ball arrives at a ditch. And, the game machine includes a camera that acquires object information for distinguishing a state of the ball on the table, distinguishes the state of the ball on the table, based on the object information acquired by the camera, evaluates the state of the ball on the table based on a result of the distinguishing, and gives a change to the state of the ball on the table based on an evaluation result so that the evaluation result changes.