| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6220452 |
Table tennis ball-sorting device and table tennis apparatus |
April 24, 2001 |
| In a table tennis ball-sorting device, a plurality of rails are disposed side by side in substantially a horizontal direction along the side of at least one playing surface of a table tennis table at intervals that are capable of having passed therethrough only deformed balls, and a plur |
| 6217445 |
Driving game machine and computer-readable medium storing driving game program |
April 17, 2001 |
| A driving game machine includes an image display processor for displaying on a display monitor a real-time three-dimensional image including a simulated player's automobile, general automobiles, and a three-dimensional road established in a game space in a three-dimensional coordinat |
| 6217444 |
Simulative golf game system and a method for providing a simulative golf game and a storage medi |
April 17, 2001 |
| A simulative golf game system provides a game image having a guide image indicating a stance setting, enabling the game player to easily recognize based on which stance is used, how the game is going to play. The guide image represents a power meter whose scale increases and decreases |
| 6203426 |
Character movement control in a competition video game |
March 20, 2001 |
| In a competition video game machine, the speed for moving a character is variable according to the operation timing. A controller's operation determining function determines the on/off operation of a left trigger button and a right trigger button. An operation control function controls |
| 6201703 |
Security cage for game machine and game machine using the same |
March 13, 2001 |
| A security cage which is installed in a housing of a game machine so as to accommodate various types of electric components. The security cage includes: a cage main body having an opening provided at the front thereof; a partition wall for dividing the inside of the cage main body in |
| 6200236 |
Table tennis apparatus |
March 13, 2001 |
| A table tennis apparatus includes a ball projecting section disposed rearward of one playing surface of a table for projecting balls towards the other playing surface, a moving mechanism for allowing ball projecting section to be moved laterally, a detecting unit for detecting which side |
| 6196919 |
Shooting game apparatus, method of performing shooting game, and computer-readable recording med |
March 6, 2001 |
| A CPU of a control system controls a signal processor to effect various calculations to move a player's spaceship on a projection display screen, orient the player's spaceship toward a shooting direction, move a camera position at a rear viewpoint toward the player's spaceship, and orien |
| 6177623 |
Music reproducing system, rhythm analyzing method and storage medium |
January 23, 2001 |
| In a music reproducing system, each of characters is allocated in advance a favorite rhythm component and a peculiar figure expressing ability. A sound pressure data producing section produces sound pressure data for each of a pluralty of frequency bands from musical data. A frequency ba |
| 6173594 |
Locking apparatus for use in game machine |
January 16, 2001 |
| A locking apparatus of a game machine has the following components: a locking bar provided with a plurality of first engaging portions; engaging members having second engaging portions engageable with the first engaging portions; and a locking bar actuating member for actuating the locki |
| 6166718 |
Video game system with vertical array of cursor images |
December 26, 2000 |
| A cursor is displayed in a three-dimensionally displayed field as a plurality of cursor images three-dimensionally in a vertical array in the field. A plurality of different types of cursor images may be prepared as each of said cursor images, and displayed as each of said cursor images. |
| 6164646 |
Ball game machine |
December 26, 2000 |
| To provide a ball game machine which can prevent unevenness of the drawing result by improving a way of allotting property to each of the ball holding portions provided on a wheel device, the ball game machine includes: a wheel device rotatable along a circumferential direction there |
| 6162124 |
Control lever device |
December 19, 2000 |
| A control lever device suited for use as a hand brake or the like in a driving game machine and capable of achieving a realistic game machine. In the control lever device, a lever is mounted at one end of a shaft so that it turns together with the shaft, and a gear support plate is mount |
| 6162120 |
Competitive video game apparatus, method of playing video game, and computer-readable recording |
December 19, 2000 |
| A control system registers effective combat actions of competitive characters in a RAM and learns the effective combat actions of the competitive characters. The control system also selects one of the combat actions stored in the RAM depending on the combat situation, and controls a |
| 6155924 |
Video game machine, video game method, and computer-readable medium on which video game program |
December 5, 2000 |
| Motivation is provided for a game character in accordance with the situation or the progress of a game, and is reflected in the character's operation. In a game machine, a character displayed on a monitor screen performs various game-related operations in response to an instruction p |
| 6152821 |
Video game machine, method for guiding designation of character position, and computer-readable |
November 28, 2000 |
| A video game machine runs a game on a monitor display screen by enabling a user to control the motion of at least one character assigned to one of a plurality of positions that require the character to play a role peculiar to the position. The game machine has the following component uni |
| 6149520 |
Video game method and apparatus for effecting character movement and ball control determination |
November 21, 2000 |
| A video game method and apparatus provides a video soccer game between two soccer teams. A game player of the video game operates a manual controller with a directional controller and a non-directional controller to control a player's game character of one of the soccer teams. In the vid |
| 6146278 |
Shooting video game machine |
November 14, 2000 |
| A shooting video game machine includes a monitor screen, a light source near the monitor screen, and a mock gun having an image sensor with a pixel array for capturing an image including the monitor screen and the light source. A light source position detection unit detects as image |
| 6146277 |
Command input method and recording medium |
November 14, 2000 |
| This invention relates to a game system. The game system has a window image including an action command frame and a non-action command frame. When it is a player's turn to designate an action parameter, the window image including the action command frame and the non-action command frame |
| 6142871 |
Apparatus, method and recorded programmed medium for simulating driving using mirrors displayed |
November 7, 2000 |
| An image display processor displays a three-dimensional image within a visible range of a player's automobile on a display monitor depending on the position and direction of the player's automobile which is controlled by a player's automobile control unit. A mirror display processor |
| 6142870 |
Simulation game machine |
November 7, 2000 |
| A simulation game machine relatively moves a virtual character displayed on a monitor in a game space in accordance with control by a player using an operation unit. The simulation game machine includes a pair of dummy skis, jump switches for instructing the character to initiate jumping |
| 6132313 |
Manipulating device having three degree freedom |
October 17, 2000 |
| A manipulating foot pedal device is used for a video game machine or the like which is operable to provide a three-dimensional operation. The device includes a base member movable in a forward/backward direction relative; a rotatable member mounted on a top of the base member and rot |
| 6126547 |
Competitive video game system and method of displaying images in competitive video game system |
October 3, 2000 |
| A competitive video game system has a plurality of display units and a plurality of manual controllers for a plurality of game players to play a competitive video game such as a soccer game. The game players select respective viewpoints, and image data representative of images to be |
| 6126544 |
Video game machine, machine readable storage medium storing a computer program, and event select |
October 3, 2000 |
| A video game machine presents an attractive game that even those people who do not have enough time can enjoy. A CPU of the video game machine specifies one of a plurality of events related to the ending of a story in a game world. The CPU then determines whether the specified event is |
| 6117014 |
Video game machine, action scoring method in video game, and recording medium on which action sc |
September 12, 2000 |
| In a video game machine, a character's action is scored according to whether or not a game player operates an operation unit at a suitable timing. An action selecting control function urges the game player to select an action. A command specifying control function specifies a command |
| 6117008 |
Driving game machine |
September 12, 2000 |
| A course coordinate system processor has a general automobile control unit, a movement decision unit, and a position decision unit. The general automobile control unit controls the running of a plurality of general automobiles on a straight road in a course coordinate system. The movemen |
| 6110039 |
Shooting game machine |
August 29, 2000 |
| A shooting game machine includes: a display device having a display screen for displaying a target; a hitting device which hits the target; a reference disposed in the vicinity of the display screen; an image pick-up device which picks up an image in an image area located in a hitting |
| 6093105 |
Fighting-type television game machine and a storage medium for storing a program of such a game |
July 25, 2000 |
| To enable an easy grasp of a positional relationship of the respective characters within a fighting field.A specified fighting field and two character images are displayed on a monitor 7 by a control of a controller 8 based on an image data stored on a storage 6, and the motions of the r |
| 6093104 |
Video game system for playing video game for removing displayed like objects from game field whe |
July 25, 2000 |
| A video game is played on a video game system by moving objects successively introduced into a game field in one direction on a display screen, determining whether a leading object or a leading cluster of objects introduced into the game field reach a predetermined position in the di |
| 6082734 |
Ball game machine |
July 4, 2000 |
| To provide a ball game machine that may simplify the structure by improving the position of balls, the ball game machine includes: a wheel device which has a plurality of ball holding portions along an inner circumference thereof and which is rotatably provided along a predetermined |
| 6080061 |
Game machine for randomly selected information comparison with sets of selected, randomly select |
June 27, 2000 |
| A video game machine has a mechanism extracting balls, a display unit having a display area which displays a matrix composed of boxes, and a CPU. The CPU implements a function enabling the player to appoint a ball type in terms of color and number to boxes of a second line of the matrix. |
| 6066046 |
Video game apparatus, prediction guide displaying method in video game, and computer readable re |
May 23, 2000 |
| Disclosed is a video game apparatus which enhances a realism of a ski-jumping competition by displaying a changing wind direction as a prediction guide. In the video game apparatus, a wind data operating unit obtains a wind direction and a wind speed. The amount of change in the wind |
| 6050897 |
Rotary manual controller for use with game machine |
April 18, 2000 |
| A rotary manual controller for use with a game machine has a steering wheel manually operable by the game player to rotate a shaft in one direction or the other between a neutral position and a manipulated position, for entering information about a game player's rotary control action to |
| 6045446 |
Object-throwing video game system |
April 4, 2000 |
| An object-throwing video game system displays at least an image of a throwing body and an image of an object to be visually hurled from the throwing body in a game space. The object may be a hammer, a shot, or a discus, and the throwing body may be a contestant who hurls the hammer, |
| 6030291 |
Manual control device for use with amusement machine |
February 29, 2000 |
| A manual control device for use as a joystick with a amusement machine has a control lever tiltably mounted on a support plate by a bearing and a detecting mechanism for detecting a tilting displacement of the control lever to control a displayed character or object in a video game playe |
| 6030289 |
Video game apparatus, method of displaying models in video game apparatus, and computer-readable |
February 29, 2000 |
| An inverted polygon data memory stores inverted polygon data generated in advance, among models to be considered for reflection on a water surface, of those models whose polygon data are stored in a polygon data memory. Based on an image display graphic command from a CPU, an image displ |
| 6029537 |
Multi directional shift mechanism |
February 29, 2000 |
| This invention relates to a shift lever mechanism used in driving a simulative running machine. The shift lever mechanism has a first shaft extending along a first axis and a second shaft extending along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis. An operation lever is pivotable about |
| 6028596 |
Image creation apparatus |
February 22, 2000 |
| An image creation apparatus is connected with a display device on which a plurality of pixels are arranged in matrix form. The image creation apparatus comprising:a video memory having addresses corresponding to the individual pixels of said display device;a dot pattern data memory for s |
| 6023261 |
Translucent-image display apparatus, translucent-image display method, and pre-recorded and comp |
February 8, 2000 |
| A translucent-image display apparatus and method performs a process for displaying a translucent image. In the process, lower image data to be displayed on a screen, and upper image data to be displayed on the lower image are read. Color-palette data of the lower image and color-palette |
| 6019681 |
Simulative quick-firing gun |
February 1, 2000 |
| A simulative quick-firing gun includes a shooting detector and an impact generator for generating an impact in accordance with detection of a shooting. The impact generator includes a motor, an impacter movable reciprocatingly in a specified direction of the housing, and a conversion |
| 6019369 |
Competitive game simulation machine |
February 1, 2000 |
| A competitive game simulation machine includes a plurality of moving objects; a game board on which the plurality of moving objects are to be placed; and a controller for controlling motions of the moving objects on the game board. The game board includes a main area used for moving |
| 5993317 |
Apparatus for holding slip verification unit in a game machine and game machine incorporating th |
November 30, 1999 |
| A holding apparatus incorporated in the housing of a game machine holds a slip verification unit which includes a slip checkup device and a stacker disposed under the slip checkup device and combined therewith through a pair of mating connectors. The holding apparatus includes a stac |
| 5989094 |
Boxing game machine |
November 23, 1999 |
| A boxing game machine in which a pair of boxer dummies are opposed to each other, each boxer dummy having at least one extensible arm, includes: an extender which drives the extension of the arm; a rotary unit which is rotatable about a substantially horizontal axis and carries at least |
| 5967894 |
Gaming apparatus and method that indicates odds for winning card hands |
October 19, 1999 |
| An image display game apparatus has a display screen which displays randomly selected five cards with their faces up. Based on the player's evaluation of the cards, the player selectively presses a first group of push buttons to select unwanted cards and indicate replacement of the c |
| 5954581 |
Psychological game device |
September 21, 1999 |
| A plurality of questions and a plurality of alternative answers to each of the questions are stored in a ROM, and outputted to a display monitor for display. A psychological game player selects and inputs one of the alternative answers to each of the questions using operation switches. |
| 5951404 |
Riding game machine |
September 14, 1999 |
| A riding game machine for playing the game of a jet ski race, for example has a display unit for displaying a simulated image of an object on a wavy surface, and a riding device swingable depending on the simulated image displayed by the display unit. The riding device has a riding unit |
| 5951018 |
Simulative driving game machine |
September 14, 1999 |
| This invention relates to a simulative driving game machine. A slide cylinder is driven in accordance with an acceleration of an accelerator or a deceleration of a brake to slide a connector provided at a lower rear position of a forward/backward moving unit along a guide rail and move a |
| 5947824 |
Flight simulation game apparatus |
September 7, 1999 |
| A flight simulation game apparatus allows a game player to simulate hang glider maneuvers through physical sensations. A control lever which can be gripped by the hands of the game player is mounted on a framework and extends in transverse directions of the frame work. The control lever |
| 5947819 |
Object-throwing video game system |
September 7, 1999 |
| An object-throwing video game system displays at least an image of a throwing body and an image of an object to be visually hurled from the throwing body in a game space. The object may be a hammer, a shot, or a discus, and the throwing body may be a contestant who hurls the hammer, |
| 5924927 |
Racing game apparatus |
July 20, 1999 |
| A horse racing game apparatus for simulating horse races has a game board with race courses established thereon and a plurality of simulated racehorses movable along the race courses for ranks. A central field is disposed on the game board and defines an inner circumferential path for |
| 5922053 |
Method for effecting mutual transmission of data between individual machine units using simultan |
July 13, 1999 |
| A method for transmitting data of one of three or more unit machines to another unit machine, each unit machine including a computer provided with a memory for storing data. The method includes connecting the respective computers of all the unit machines in parallel with one another; and |
