Electronic gaming device with external lighting functionality

• US 10,431,036 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2018
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AGS LLC (PlayAGS, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AGS LLC (PlayAGS, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lee, Sigmund, Zedell, Jr., Karl Frederick, Calhoun, Rachel Marie, Scott, Ian Robert, Gu, Wei, Turgel, Ariel David, Harden, Daniel Kendall
• Primary Examiner(s): Yen, Jason T
• Application Number:
  US15/992,617
• Publication Number:
  US 20180276940A1
• Time in Patent Office: 489 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3202 Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3204 Player-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3216 Construction aspects of a gaming system, e.g. housing, seats, ergonomic aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3227 Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/323 wherein the player is informed, e.g. advertisements, odds, instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/326 Game play aspects of gaming systems
• 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

Abstract

Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, a plurality of display areas located on the display, and a plurality of external lights located at an outer area of a front surface of the electronic gaming device. The plurality of external lights forming a u-shape with a left side, a right side, and a bottom where each of the left side, the right side, and the bottom includes a first light column, a second light column, and a third light column. The gaming device including a processor that initiates a base game via the plurality of display areas located on the display.

Claims

1. A gaming machine comprising:

a cabinet having a top and bottom, a first side and a second side, and a front and a rear;

a deck area projecting from the front of the cabinet, the deck area being disposed below the top of the cabinet;

an electronic video display located above said deck area at said front of said cabinet, said electronic video display having a front;

said cabinet further comprising a first cabinet portion located at a first side of said electronic video display and a second cabinet portion located at a second side of said electronic video display;

a plurality of spaced apart lights located at said first and second cabinet portions;

a light strip extending along at least said first side of said electronic video display between said electronic video display and said plurality of spaced apart lights located at said first cabinet portion and along at least said second side of said electronic video display between said electronic video display and said plurality of spaced apart lights located in said second cabinet portion, wherein said light strip and said front of said electronic video display extend outwardly towards said front of said cabinet beyond said first and second cabinet portions;

at least one player input device;

a memory device;

a controller; and

machine-readable code stored in said memory device executable by said controller to, in response to a wager placed by said player from a player credit balance via said at least one player input device, cause said main electronic video display to display wager game information.

2. The gaming machine in accordance with claim 1 wherein said electronic video display has a top which extends above said top of said cabinet.

3. The gaming machine in accordance with claim 1, further comprising a second electronic video display which is positioned above said first electronic video display.

4. The gaming machine in accordance with claim 1 wherein said plurality of spaced apart lights located at said first cabinet portion of said cabinet aligns with a first plurality of spaced apart lights located below said button deck area along said first side of said cabinet and said plurality of spaced apart lights located at said second cabinet portion aligns with a second plurality of spaced apart lights located below said button deck area along said second side of said cabinet.

5. The gaming machine in accordance with claim 1 wherein said first and second plurality of spaced apart lights located at said first and second cabinet portions each comprise light walls.

6. The gaming machine in accordance with claim 5 wherein said light walls each comprise a plurality of rows of lights, each row of lights comprising a plurality of lights.

7. The gaming machine in accordance with claim 6 wherein each of said plurality of rows of lights contains at least 3 lights.

8. The gaming machine in accordance with claim 1 wherein said first and second cabinet portions are concave.

9. The gaming machine in accordance with claim 8 wherein said electronic video display is concave in shape.