Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a chance application
Patent
1996-06-26
1999-11-16
Martin-Wallace, Valencia
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a chance application
463 31, A63F 922, A63F 700, G07F 1734
Patent
active
059847808
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 system 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 an image display gaming system which can perform image processing and a gaming house management system.
To these ends, according to the invention, there is provided an image display gaming system comprising: up an image of an object and inputting image information, image processing means for performing image processing for image information of the image picked up by the image pickup means, write means for writing the image information processed by the image processing means onto a storage medium, and issuing means for issuing the storage medium on which the image information is written by the write means; which the storage medium is inserted, a read section for reading the image information from the storage medium inserted through the insertion section, a game execution section for executing a game, and a display control section for controlling display of image information concerning games; gaming machine; and wherein storage medium read by the read section and the image information stored in the game image storage and perform display control.
A storage medium issuing system for issuing storage media used in a gaming house may comprise: information; information of the image picked up by the image pickup means to obtain a specific size of image information; processing means into a predetermined area of the storage medium; and is written by the write means.
The function of such means is described below:
In the storage medium issuing system, the image pickup means such as a CCD camera having an automatic focusing function picks up an image of an object for inputting image information. The image processing means performs image processing for the image information of the image picked up by the image pickup means. The w
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Takemoto Takatoshi
Tsurumi Masayuki
Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken
Martin-Wallace Valencia
Sager Mark A
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