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A gaming machine symbol-bearing reels which are used to play a main game involving, the selection and display of a symbol combination. Bonus events or modifiers are also selected and displayed. This may be an automatic machine function, or the player may have the opportunity to operate a further selection reel, or control buttons. The selected bonus event or modifier may be applied to features associated with or separate from the main game, such as a feature game display to which play can transfer from the main game, or may be applied to subsequent main games which may consist of free spins of the reels, or may be paid for by the player.

Methods and systems are provided to enable the exploration of event data captured from video feeds, such as from sporting event venues, the discovery of relevant events (such as within a video feed of a sporting event), and the presentation of novel insights, analytic results, and visual displays that enhance decision-making, provide improved entertainment and provide other benefits.

The invention discloses a personalized video generation method and system. The method includes: obtaining a user image containing a face; extracting the face image in the user image; obtaining a target video; and using the face image to replace the face of a figure to be matched in the target video, and dynamically adjusting the face image after replacement according to a change of a video scene, thereby obtaining a personalized video. By utilization of the personalized video generation method, interaction between the personalized video and the user and entertainment can be improved, thereby improving user experience.

A special effect implementation method in video communication and a video user terminal are provided. The method is applied to the video user terminal and comprises the steps of choosing source video to be sent and collected by a user camera or source video provided by an opposite side user terminal, acquiring source video frame data, accepting user-defined special effects applied to the source video by a user, overlapping special effect data on the source video frame data, outputting the overlapped and combined special effect video in real time and displaying the special effect video through a display device. The special effect implementation method enables the user to change people appearance displayed in a display screen at random in a video communication process, can send changed video to the opposite side user and enhances playability and entertainment. Video data are overlapped and recombined in real time to be sent so as to reduce network load and prevent video communication data transmission to be unsmooth.

A karaoke apparatus includes a sound effect processing system provided in a microprocessor. The system decodes standard song data from an internal storage or an external storage connected to an extended system interface by a song decoding module; corrects pitches of sing voices by a pitch correcting system, so the pitches of the singing voices are corrected to the pitches of the standard song or close to the pitches of the standard song. The singing voices are processed with harmony adding, tonal modification and speed-changing by a harmony adding system to produce an effect of chorus being composed of three voice parts. A pitch evaluating system is used for comparing the pitch sequence of the singing voices with the pitch sequence of the standard song to draw a voice graph so as to visually show a difference between the pitches of the singing voices and the pitches of the standard song, while providing score and comment of the singing voices. Therefore, a singer can be aware of the effect of his/her performance to immediately so as to increase the amusement in a karaoke singing.

A gaming device with a bonus scheme which includes a plurality of sets and associated sets. The gaming device enables the player to select a set. The player can accept an award associated with the selected set or instead select another set which may or may not include a value in the selected set. This type of bonus scheme adds excitement to bonus rounds and increases player entertainment.

A roulette device including: a roulette plate having a plurality of marks arranged thereon; a ball which rolls on the roulette plate; a plurality of ball receiving parts which are formed corresponding to the marks in a circumferential direction of the roulette plate to receive the ball; a bank passage which is provided on an outer periphery of the ball receiving parts of the roulette plate and on which the ball rolls along a circumferential orbit; a compressor which compresses air; and a first discharge hole which is provided in each ball receiving part and through which the air compressed by the compressor is discharged to the bank passage.

A gaming machine includes: a variable display means for producing variable display of a plurality of symbols; a front display means being provided in front of the variable display means for enabling a player to see symbols on the variable display means through the front display means, the front display means being capable of displaying various images; and a display scaling means for making it possible to scale up or down display on the front display means and/or the variable display means.

A video control method and a system based on an XML comprises: 1) expanding a description scheme of a video stream, a program, a frame, a layer and an object in an MPEG-7 standard; 2) defining an XML video resource description file format; 3) processing the video file, creating an XML video description file corresponding to a video content, and implementing the control for the video internal resource and/or the video external resource based on the XML video resource description file; 4) responding the video in a web page, and parsing the corresponding XML video description file; 5) implementing interaction with the video during the video play process. The invention provides the video resource description file format based on the XML, and provides a video control method based on the XML and a system thereof, so that the user can interact with the corresponding objects in the video during watching video process. The invention not only increases the video entertainment, but also provides a technique support for other value-added application, and has great commercial value.

The invention relates to a mobile phone and a system capable of controlling a computer game, the system comprises the mobile phone and a computer, wherein the mobile phone is used for sending operation information to the computer and controlling an operation target displayed on the computer, and the mobile phone comprises a processing unit, a wireless transceiving module connected with a baseband control unit and a motion sensor; the computer comprises a wireless communication module which corresponds to the wireless transceiving module and is used for realizing the wireless connection of the mobile phone with the computer; and the motion sensor is used for detecting real-time motion of the mobile phone and carrying out real-time control on the operation target displayed on the computer, and the operation target in the computer can be operated through the position change and the acceleration of the mobile phone in three-dimensional space via an interaction system of using the mobile phone for controlling the computer game. The mobile phone and the system are particularly designed for game players and can do exercises while increasing the fun, be convenient to carry, have no need of additionally purchasing a game operation device and reduce the using cost.

A gaming machine of the present invention detects positional information that is inputted, recognizes sign information based on detected positional information, makes comparison between at least one preliminarily stored sign data and recognized sign information to discriminate whether or not the sign information and the sign data are correlated, and executes at least one preliminarily stored game processing associated with the sign data when the sign information and the sign data are correlated.

Collapsible furniture assemblies having resilient locking barbs are provided. The furniture assemblies are comprised of plurality of panels that are interlockable by a plurality of registerable slots defined by the panels. The panels are further positively locked together in an assembled configuration by the incorporation of locking barbs into at least one panel of the furniture assembly which are received by at least one additional panel of the assembly. In multiple applications, several locking barbs are incorporated into different panels to positively lock the panels is an assembled configuration. Additionally, collapsible furniture assembles such as chairs, rocking chairs, beach chairs, desks, toy boxes, and cradles are provided, which include locking barbs. Panels of the furniture assemblies can be formed to simulate the profiles of animals and furniture sets comprising multiple different collapsible furniture assemblies and collapsible furniture assemblies which can be constructed into different types of furniture are provided.

An image processing system includes a fixed-type game machine and a hand-held type game machine. To the hand-held type game machine, an imaging cartridge is attached, and therefore, when an operator photographs a face image of a desired object, for example, face image data corresponding thereto is produced. In addition, by operating an operating switch of the hand-held type game machine, the operator can input feature data representing a feature of the object. The hand-held type game machine transmits the face image data and the feature data to the fixed-type game machine. The fixed-type game machine deforms provisional three-dimensional character data selected by the operator based on the feature data, and attaches the face image data to the deformed provisional three-dimensional feature data so as to compose an image. A composed image is displayed on an image display device by an animation based on the feature data.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method for sensing an electronic magic square, the electronic magic square and a magic square game system. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring sensing data of the electronic magic square, wherein the sensing data comprises any one or more of acceleration sensing data, geomagnetic field sensing data, gyro sensing data and touch screen sensing data; acquiring motion information and/or positioning information of the electronic magic square according to the acquired sensing data, wherein the motion information comprises the motion information of the whole body of the electronic magic square and relative motion information of each sub square, and the positioning information comprises the positioning information of the whole body of the electronic magic square and the relative positioning information of each sub square; and sending the acquired motion information and/or the positioning information of the electronic magic square in a wireless transmission mode. The embodiment of the invention achieves the effective interactions between the electronic magic square and the electronic magic square, and between the electronic magic square and other game terminals or devices, thereby greatly strengthening the interactivity and the entertainment of a magic square game.

The invention provides a vote interaction method and device based on live broadcast room video stream bullet screens. The method comprises the steps of receiving a vote request which is sent by a live broadcast room anchor user and comprises bullet screen information; synthesizing a drawn bullet screen layer into to-be-uploaded video stream of the anchor user according to the vote request, and displaying vote options corresponding to the bullet screen information and vote result information of live broadcast room member users associated with the vote options, in the bullet screen layer; determining the volte result information obtained by accumulating the vote information corresponding to the selected vote options sent by the live broadcast room member users in a live broadcast room, and correspondingly updating the vote result information to the bullet screen layer in to-be-uploaded video stream; and pushing the to-be-uploaded video stream into which the bullet screen layer is synthesized to the member users. According to the method and the device, the timeliness of the data is improved, the machine load of the live broadcast room member users is reduced, the interaction experience among the users is improved, and the great innovation is achieved.

The invention relates to a dynamic cinema seat equipment which is sequentially provided with a fixed platform, a reciprocating displacement platform, a lifting platform, a swaying platform and seats from bottom to top, wherein the fixed platform is provided with at least one translation driving device; at least two lifting driving devices are arranged between the reciprocating displacement platform and the lifting platform; at least one swaying supporting column is arranged on the lifting platform; and a plurality of seats are arranged on the swaying platform in parallel. The dynamic cinema seat equipment adopts a multi-frame structure of the fixed platform, the reciprocating displacement platform, the lifting platform and the swaying platform, thus being capable of realizing multidirectional movement of the seat equipment to the maximum and increasing the entertainment when spectacles watch kinetic movies; and the design of arranging an environment effect device on the seat is adopted, therefore, the multidirectional scene simulation effect of the seat equipment is achieved, and the pleasant sensation of sensory organs is increased.