A method for playing a stand-alone and a bonus casino poker dice having X dice, each of the X dice having F faces with a different symbol thereon so as to form a set {S} of symbols on each of the X dice. The method of the present invention includes the steps of placing a wager; rolling the dice; holding none, any, or all of the rolled dice; ending the casino poker dice game when the dice are all held or when re-rolling occurs Y times; paying any winning combinations of symbols based on the placed wager and in response to the step of ending the game; re-rolling the non-held dice when less than all the X dice are held; and repeating various of these steps until the game ends. Variations on this basic method are set forth for stand-alone games, bonus games, used in conjunction with underlying gaming machines, and playing a bonus game of the present invention in parallel with an underlying game so that a number of hands are played.

Poker dice casino game method of play

An electronic microcopier apparatus includes a reading head, an electronic memory and a writing head, all contained within a small case that may be held in the hand. In the reading mode the instrument is passed over images, such as written text, where photosensors read the optical information and transmit that information to the electronic memory. The electronic memory stores the information until the device is used in the writing mode. In the writing mode, the information from the electronic memory is fed to a writing head and is faithfully reproduced on a piece of paper. A wheel with angular markings rolls as the copier is displaced over the textural material in both reading and writing modes and thereby makes it possible to ascertain the position of the copier. The invention has the advantage of extreme portability. Several alternative embodiments of the invention are disclosed.

Electronic microcopier apparatus

A scanner comprising a frame assembly for supporting a movable carriage for scanning movement in a scanning path in a first direction, a sheet transport to transport a sheet through the scanner, means to move the carriage across the sheet to perform an operation on the sheet and a single source of electromechanical power to drive all of the transport and means to move in the scanner. In a preferred embodiment the carriage includes a reading head and a printing head and the scanner has a document transport path and a copy sheet transport path.

Scanner with single source mechanical power

In a handy reader/printer apparatus for reading recorded information from a desired portion of a medium to be read and printing read information on a desired portion of a medium to be printed, the apparatus has a housing having an opening in a lower surface thereof and placed on the medium to be read or printed such that the desired portion of the medium can be fitted in the opening, a reader unit, arranged in the housing, for reading the recorded information of the desired portion of the medium to be read fitted in the opening while the housing is placed on the medium, a printer unit, arranged in the housing, for printing data in the desired portion of the medium to be printed fitted in the opening while the housing is placed on the medium, a memory for storing data read by the reader unit upon operation of the reader unit, and a readout unit for reading out the storage data from the memory as the printing data to the printer unit upon operation of the printer unit

Handy reader/printer apparatus

Driver apparatus and methods of driving at least a portion of a cholesteric liquid crystal ("CLC") panel to a state having a given reflectivity. One of the methods includes the steps of: (1) initially driving the portion to a nematic phase, (2) subsequently driving the portion to a cholesteric phase focal-conic state, the cholesteric phase focal-conic state providing a known reference state for subsequent driving of the portion and (3) thereafter driving the portion to the state having the given reflectivity.

Apparatus for and method of driving a cholesteric liquid crystal flat panel display

A small, light-weight copying machine which is capable of being carried and which includes none of the bulky components ordinarily found in a copying machine. A light receiving element mounted upon a moving element is manually scanned over an original document. The light receiving element produces an image signal which in turn controls a thermal recording head which records upon a heat-sensitive recording sheet. The thermal recording head and light receiving element are both mounted upon a single moving element with the thermal recording head being stationarily mounted thereon and the light receiving element being movable therealong in a longitudinal scanning direction. The heat-sensitive recording sheet is moved in correspondence with lateral movement of the light receiving element.

Portable copying machine

A display device particularly adapted for use with a microfilm reader, in which an illuminating light source need be activated only in an initial reading stage. A first transparent electrode, a liquid crystal layer, a semiconductor layer and a second transparent electrode are stacked together in the stated order. A voltage is applied between the first and second transparent electrodes which is switched in a polarity between an initial reading mode and a display mode.

Voltage polarity switching means for cholesteric liquid crystal displays

A one-dimensional scanner for use in an image reader in which the pitch of the electrode elements is reduced to increase the image density. An upper electrode array has a plurality of upper electrode elements arranged at a predetermined pitch and spacing in a one-dimensional scanning direction while a lower electrode array similarly has a plurality of lower electrode elements arranged at a predetermined pitch and spacing in the one-dimensional scanning direction in an opposed, spaced and staggered relation with respect to the upper electrode elements wherein each lower electrode element is positioned across two adjacent upper electrode elements thereby defining a picture element region therebetween. A layer of material such a photosensitive material, a layer having an electro-optical effect, or a layer of electric-radiant-energy-converting material is disposed between the upper and lower electrode arrays. A scanning device is provided which selects respective pairs of the upper and lower electrode elements which overlap each other sequentially in the one-dimensional scanning direction. At least one of the upper and lower electrodes is light transmissible.

Souichi Sekimoto

Papers

Portable copying machine

Voltage polarity switching means for cholesteric liquid crystal displays

One-dimensional scanner

One-dimensional scanner having staggered and overlapping electrodes

One-dimensional liquid crystal scanner