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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7824260 | Gaming device for determining a re-drawing group for following games To display a plurality of symbols in a plurality of display regions, upon starting a game, and in a case where trigger symbols are stop displayed in any of the plurality of display regions, to draw for specific display regions where trigger symbols are displayed, fr... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7798904 | Billiard game input device, billiard game system, game input device, and computer program Provided is an input device for a billiard game comprising: a simulative ball provided as an object to be shot by a player; a link portion having a ball axis on which the simulative ball is mounted; a support portion for movably supporting the link portion; and a se... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7670226 | Method for managing game using communication line A game is divided into a plurality of charged playing sections which a player can play by paying a point and the thus divided charged playing sections are set. Game cards to which proper passwords are respectively assigned are distributed. The password is transmitte... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7601056 | Music game software and music game machine Music game program stored in a computer readable medium for causing a computer to output music data that corresponds to music, selected by a player, through an input device from a sound output device. The program also causes the computer to execute a procedure for d... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7591727 | Rotation structure of operating member for game machine, and video game device A game-machine operation-member rotation structure 3 is provided in which an operation member 31 attached to a rotation shaft 34 supported so as to rotate is turned right and left, including: a moving body 352 which protrudes in the radia... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7555126 | Game apparatus managing system, game apparatus, controlling method, computer program and recording medium A license managing apparatus comprises an inputting device, an encrypting device for encrypting information inputted from the inputting device to produce encrypted information, and an outputting device for outputting the encrypted information. The encrypting device ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7479055 | Running device for model, and model and remote control toy having the running device In a running device for a model (6) comprising a pair of motors (7), a pair of left and right wheels (8) which are independently driven by the pair of motors (7), and a control device (20) which controls operations of the pair of m... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7458893 | Billiard game input device, billiard game system, game input device, and computer program Provided is an input device for a billiard game comprising: a simulative ball provided as an object to be shot by a player; a link portion having a ball axis on which the simulative ball is mounted; a support portion for movably supporting the link portion; and a se... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7452277 | Center server, game machine, methods of controlling the center server and game machine, and network game system including the center server and game machine A network game system includes a center server and game machine. The center server includes a first transmitter, which transmits, to the game machine, first data indicating a settled play amount out of a played amount which is represented by either an accumulated nu... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7434490 | Turning drive apparatus for model, and slip gear apparatus In a turning drive apparatus (10) for turning a movable portion (3) of a model (1) by transmitting power from a drive source to the movable portion (3) through a gear train (11), a pair of gears (16, 17) included in the gear... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7410169 | Random number selector, and bingo game machine incorporating the same 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 e... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7397482 | String display system, string display method and storage medium A string display system for displaying display target strings includes a storage unit 50 that correlates and stores detection target strings and display numbers, a display time determination unit 56 that provisionally determines display times of the di... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7379794 | Remote control system and moving machine thereof A remote control system to remote control a plurality of moving machines and to cause interaction based on communication among the moving machines without complexity and an increase in electric power consumption. A transmitting device of data containing operation co... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7367882 | Game system and computer program for permitting user selection of game difficulty and setting of control character ability parameter The preset invention provides a game system wherein data is prepared for each stage to execute plural stages separately. When a user has made a predetermined result in one stage, the user progresses to the next stage. The game executes each stage in a predetermined ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367533 | Point switching device A point switching device that is disposed at a diverging point on tracks on which a movable body travels is provided. This point switching device includes: a point that rotates around a support point on one end, and can move between a first position and a second pos... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7328900 | Impact simulator actuating restraint belt using belt path displacing member and game apparatus including the impact simulator An impact simulation apparatus is provided which allows a player to feel an impact simulation according to an impact image on a monitor screen. This apparatus includes: a seat belt as a body fixing member which fastens the player; an impact simulation giving portion... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327359 | Computer-readable recording medium recording image display control program, and image display control device and method To achieve a display across a broad display area, without losing polygons projected towards the foreground of the screen, in particular. An image display control device divides a virtual three-dimensional space consisting of a plurality of three-dimensional models i... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7320640 | Game software and game machine Game software for raising interest on a card game by adding an unexpected element thereto without losing fun of thinking out a strategy. After determining an appearing face of a dice by a procedure of determining face in a turn for a player, a card attached to the d... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318772 | Game program and game machine with an obtained character attributes block arrangement Game program is comprised of a procedure for setting a block arrangement space 20 having a plurality of block locations 20a so as to correspond to each character, a procedure for instructing to insert a skill block 21 corresponding to a s... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313319 | Information storage medium, video recording method and information reproducing device The video data including the unit compressed video data, each reproducible independently of each other, are recorded on the video data recording areas as the divided video data. The divided video data includes one or more integer number of unit compressed video data... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7303459 | Toy system The toy system includes: a pair of motors; an operating device having a throttle lever for velocity direction and a steering device for course direction; a driving control device for controlling driving velocities of the respective motors so that the driving velocit... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7294037 | Remote-control toy and field for the same A remote-control toy is provided that includes: a controller (2) that transmits a control signal according to an operation by a user; a movable body that is controlled to drive based on the control signal from the controller; and a field in which the movable ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7291064 | Game program and game apparatus Game program has a procedure for determining item price (IVD), for respectively computing price for transfer of a plurality of items to be used in a game every each item, and a procedure for executing the procedure for determining item price when possession state of... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7277583 | Game software and game machine A first image producing program perspectively transforms each polygon in a virtual space onto a plane on the basis of a view position in order to produce a first image, and a second image producing program deteriorates a quality of the first image to produce the sec... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276702 | Light receiving device for model, model, and signal light detecting method for model A light receiving device 7 includes a sensor 10 for outputting a signal correlating to incident light on a detection surface 10a and a light receiving element 8 disposed in confrontation with the detection surface and capable of tr... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270602 | Keyboard game program and keyboard game device A game program KGP for playing a game by operating a keyboard connected with a computer in response to a picture displayed on a monitor 9 has a procedure for detecting and computing number of keys (S2 through S9), for detecting and computing num... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7235013 | Game machine using self-propelled members In a game machine, platen dots are provided on a traveling field. A plurality of self-propelled members are provided on the traveling field. Each self-propelled member includes a first linear motor and a second linear motor for respectively propelling the self-prope... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7210998 | Electronic game that provides messages when limits are exceeded and inhibits the game In a gaming machine provided with operating members actuated by human, a game processor proceeds a game in accordance with the actuation of the operating members. An inhibition requirement determinant determines whether a predetermined inhibition requirement is sati... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207886 | Game system, game data exchange control method, game machine, and computer readable storage medium There is provided a game system which makes it possible to implement a transaction desired by a side which receives a game element. When delivering a game element from a user of a first game machine 1 to a user of a second game machine 1, transaction i... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7199801 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method To provide an image processing apparatus that enables display of a situation where all or a part of a display image changes using simple image processing. A first texture image, a second texture image, display priority of each pixel constituting the first texture im... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7162334 | Remote control system and transmitter and drive for the same A system for remote controlling a drive in accordance with data transmitted to the drive includes a data generator, for generating data, including identification information data, for distinguishing the transmitter from among a plurality of transmitters, and drive-s... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7144013 | Card game Provided herein is a card game involving two or more players that is intended to readily increase overall attack power and allows the players to get familiar with the game in a relatively short time and the game to be completed also in a relatively short time. The g... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7140962 | Video game apparatus, image processing method and program It is an object of the present invention to increase the game operability, and to increase the feeling of pressure and feeling of actual presence on the scene, by making it possible to display partial enlarged images of the scope displays or each of a plurality of p... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7128649 | Game machine, game processing method and information storage medium A music-oriented game machine with a feature to increase a feeling of competitiveness between players. Based on an evaluation of a performance of the first and second players based on their steps, the number of times step timing is presented as guidance is varied. S... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7128648 | Game machine and method for controlling the game machine A game machine includes a first display, a second display and a game changer. A plurality of spinning reels, each reel having a plurality of symbols of a combination game are displayed on the first display. A role playing game in which a character as an object of op... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7121945 | Combined representation display method A combined representation display method is provided in which a main display and a representation display are combined whereby various combination displays with enormous representation effects and great funs are made possible. The combined representation disp... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123272 | Game machine, game title display control method and program A game machine capable of causing a player to pay attention to a game title image. The game machine comprises a default game title image storing section (52), an optional game title image storing section (54), an operation input section (60), a ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7108604 | Game machine, method of controlling operation of the game machine, and computer readable medium having recorded thereon operation control program for controlling the game machine A CPU (30) sets a plurality of stages in which a plurality of opposing characters which are to become opponents in a battle become able to appear, and causes a player to advance to a next stage after having won over respective opposing characters in a certain... | 09/19/2006 |
| D527900 | Case for cards and card packs | 09/12/2006 |
| 7097559 | Game system and method for assigning titles to players based on history of playing characteristics The CPU 161 of the video game apparatus comprises a performance determination unit 161b that determines the order of finish of the players each time a game is completed, a parameter calculation unit 161g that calculates parameters ... | 08/29/2006 |
