Gaming machine

• US 10,242,533 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2016
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Original Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Inventors: Okada, Kazuo, Toyoda, Hirobumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hylinski, Steven J
• Application Number:
  US15/294,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20170039809A1
• Time in Patent Office: 893 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2250/142 with pay-out or rewarding with a prize
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1075 using a touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6045 for mapping control signals received from the input arrangement into game commands
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3209 Input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3213 Details of moving display elements, e.g. spinning reels, tumbling members
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3246 involving coins and/or banknotes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3262 Player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be achieved, game to be played
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

Abstract

A gaming machine having a display that displays a determined screen including a character, during execution of a game, a touch panel sensor, disposed above the display, that is capable of detecting the contact position, the position of the character contacted by a player, and a CPU that determines the contact position of the character as well as the contact mode, and that displays an image on the display, that is changed based on the result of this determination.

Claims

1. A method for controlling the depiction of a character on a touch-sensitive display screen of an electronic device, comprising:

selecting one of a plurality of predefined regions of the character by bringing a selecting member next to a to-be-selected region of the character on the touch-sensitive display screen; and

moving the selecting member in one of a plurality of predefined movement modes relative to the touch-sensitive display screen to cause the appearance of the character to vary in a manner that depends directly on the selected region, per se, and the utilized movement mode;

wherein the character is animated and moving the selecting member in said one of the plurality of predefined movement modes while the character is moving causes the manner in which the character is moving to change.

2. A method for controlling the animation of a character having a plurality of predefined regions on a touch-sensitive display screen of an electronic device, comprising:

bringing a selecting member next to a to-be-selected one of the predefined regions of the character on the touch-sensitive display screen; and

moving the selecting member in one of a plurality of predefined movement modes relative to the touch-sensitive display screen to cause the animation of the character to vary in a manner that depends directly on the selected one of the predefined regions, per se, of the character and the utilized movement mode;

wherein moving the selecting member in said one of the plurality of predefined movement modes while the character is moving causes the manner in which the character is moving to change.