Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Perceptible output or display
Patent
1996-06-27
1998-09-22
Manuel, George
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Perceptible output or display
A63F 924
Patent
active
058106650
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
This invention relates to a gaming machine and in particular to an image display gaming machine comprising an image display control section for controlling image display or an image display section.
TECHNICAL BACKGROUND
For example, video game machines, slot machines, pachinko (Japanese pinball) machines, etc., are available as gaming machines for controlling image display for playing games. Character and background images are controlled with the video game machines, and symbol pattern display is controlled with the slot machines and pachinko machines.
Hitherto, such gaming machines have utilized image data previously stored as game software for the images displayed in the games. Thus, when repeating games more than once, the player may get tired of the same screen and lose interest in the games.
To solve this problem, an technique for enabling a player to change the appearances of characters displayed on a screen, and the background, as he or she desires, is disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 4-259480. In the related art, an image of a person is captured with a television camera, and an image signal of the person is converted into image data by AD conversion means. Image data in game software stored in a memory is read, the image data portion corresponding to the area where a person would be displayed is discriminated from the image data and erased, and the image data from the AD conversion means is edited and assigned to the erased image data. At this time, the player specifies the image type (person or background) by pushing a push button on the television camera, whereby an image type signal is output.
In the related art, the positional relationship between the television camera and object and image processing are not discussed in detail. For example, image processing may become complicated for replacing the image data in game software depending on the size of the object captured with the television camera. The image taking-in time and the switching time into image of appearances are not particularly considered.
DISCLOSURE OF INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the invention to provide an image display gaming machine which enables a player to have a sense of taking part in a game and to enjoy playing a game. It is another object of the invention to provide a gaming machine which can perform image processing. It is a further object of the invention to provide a gaming machine which can input an image at a specific time. It is another object of the invention to provide a gaming machine which can change image information at a specific time.
To solve the above mentioned problems, according to the invention, there is provided an image display gaming machine comprising: games; information source from which image information can be output; through the image input section; stored in the game image storage section and the image information stored in the specific image storage section in response to the game executed by the execution section; and section.
Since the display control section changes between read of the image information stored in the game image storage section and read of the image information stored in the specific image storage section for controlling display of the read image information, the image information stored in the game image storage section need not be erased.
The function when such means for solving problems is provided will be discussed below:
The image input section inputs image information. As the image input section, image pickup means such as a CCD camera may be provided or image information may be read from a storage medium storing the image information. The specific image storage section stores image information input through the image input section. The game execution section executes a predetermined game in accordance with the image information concerning the game stored in the game image storage section. The display control section controls display of the image information stored in the game image storage section and the image informatio
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Takemoto Takatoshi
Tsurumi Masayuki
Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken
Manuel George
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