Gaming machine

• US 20050239525A1
• Filed: 04/20/2005
• Published: 10/27/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Inventors: Sato, Osamu
• Application Number:
  US11/109,698
• Publication Number:
  US 20050239525A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/13
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3209 Input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen

Abstract

The present invention provides a gaming machine which can obtain a position of a player'"'"'s hand even with less machine power or processing ability. A gaming machine includes a game screen with which a player indicates a given position to a gaming machine with his/her hand, a sensor which detects the position which the hand of the player indicates by performing scanning above the game screen, a DVC which photographs the game screen and an image of the hand of the player and generates the whole image data, a position detecting unit which obtains a regional image data from the whole image data based on the position detected by the sensor and determines the position of the hand of the player by performing image processing of image data of the region, and a game control part which performs a control of the game based on the position detected by the position detecting unit.

Claims

1. A gaming machine which specifies a position of a hand of a player and performs a control of a game based on the position, the gaming machine comprising:

a game table unit with which a player indicates a position to a gaming machine with his/her hand;

a first position detecting unit which detects the position which the hand of the player indicates by performing scanning above the game table unit;

a photographing unit which photographs the game table unit and an image of the hand of the player and generates image data;

a second position detecting unit which specifies a region of the image data based on the position detected by the first position detecting unit and determines the position of the hand of the player by performing image processing of image data of the region; and

a control unit which performs a control of the game based on the position detected by the second position detecting unit.

2. A gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the gaming machine further includes a player terminal unit which receives an input of the number of bets from the player and the game table unit displays an image corresponding to the number of bets at the positioned detected by the second position detecting unit.

3. A gaming machine comprising:

a projecting unit which projects an image;

a screen unit which focuses the image projected by the projecting unit and to which a shade of an indicator which indicates a position of the image is projected;

a first position detecting unit which detects the position indicated by the indicator by scanning above the screen unit;

a photographing unit which photographs a back surface of the screen unit and outputs image data including the shade of the indicator;

a second position detecting unit which specifies a region of the image data based on the position detected by the first position detecting unit and determines the position indicated by the indicator by performing image processing of image data of the region; and

a control unit which performs a control of the game based on the position detected by the second position detecting unit.