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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7613180 | Media communication apparatus and media communication method There is provided a media communication apparatus including an automatic selection unit which automatically selects a telecommunications carrier by preset criteria on the address of a speech terminal serving as a communication destination input at the time of call o... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7258612 | Game facility monitoring system and game facility A system providing greatly improved monitoring against wrong or fraudulent acts. A game facility monitoring system includes game machines or game-related devices provided with detectors that detect the state of a device and the operation of the device resulting from... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7172507 | Card game monitoring system, card game table and monitoring method To reduce monitoring staff and reduce cost by automating monitoring, a card game monitoring system includes a wirelessly communicating, identifying information recording device embedded in a card for recording information for identifying itself; identifying informat... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7090581 | Point management system and server A point management system has a game terminal mounted to a vehicle, a server including a point memory for storing user ID and the number of points, which are associated with one another, an authenticator for authenticating user ID inputted via the game terminal usin... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7004381 | Cash dispensing machine A cash dispensing machine includes a validation unit 13 for validating cash inserted through an insertion slot 8, a detachable storage unit 30 for storing cash validated by the validation unit 13, communication means provided in each of t... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6856966 | Product delivery methods A method and system for delivering data, goods, or services, by which additional data such as purchase history data, purchaser inherent data and accounting data, which correspond to a purchaser, are recorded in a rewritable medium, to which primary data is, rewritte... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6814283 | Individual identification card system An individual identification card system providing improved security includes (1) a random number generator; (2) individual identification cards having recorded on them respective individual identification codes made by affixing a random number generated by the rand... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6790142 | Advertisement distribution system and server An advertisement distribution system includes servers and a terminal. The servers prepare distribution information containing game information and advertisement information and transmits the prepared distribution information to the terminal. The terminal displays a ... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6329988 | Picture-drawing method and apparatus, and recording medium A picture drawing method capable of expressing a three-dimensional feeling on a diffuse reflection surface of an object by considering indirect reflection from a ground surface with a simple algorithm. In this method, a diffuse reflection quantity a surfa... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6238291 | Cartridge, game machine and bi-directional communication type game system A game which two or more players can play, such as cards and mahjong, is played by connecting a home TV game machine with portable game machines having displays, where images for a common field are displayed on the TV, and private hands of a player, which... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6018720 | Data delivery method and system therefor A purchaser purchases a purchaser record medium, to which game software is rewritten or reloaded, at a shop. The purchaser writes data representing a predetermined amount of money to the purchaser record medium. At that time, the purchaser also writes pur... | 01/25/2000 |
