MULTIPLE-STATE DISPLAY FOR A GAMING APPARATUS

• US 20080020816A1
• Filed: 07/29/2007
• Published: 01/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IGT (International Game Technology)
• Original Assignee: IGT (International Game Technology)
• Inventors: Wilder, Richard, Mattice, Harold, Griswold, Chauncey
• Application Number:
  US11/829,917
• Publication Number:
  US 20080020816A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/16
• 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 17/34 depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine, e.g. "fruit" machines

Abstract

A gaming apparatus may include a display system, a value input device and a controller operatively coupled to the display system and value input device. The display system may include a first display unit, a second video display unit disposed in front of the first display unit and a light valve disposed between the first and second display units. The second display unit may include an opening. The controller may include a processor and a memory operatively coupled to the processor. The controller may be programmed to cause the display system to generate a game display on the first display unit, cause the light valve to become substantially transparent so that the first display unit is visible through the opening, cause the display system to generate a video display on the second display unit, and determine a value payout associated with an outcome of the game.

Claims

1. A gaming apparatus, comprising:

a display system comprising a first video display unit, a second video display unit disposed in front of said first video display unit, and a light valve disposed between said first display unit and said second video display unit;

a value input device;

a controller operatively coupled to said display system and said value input device, said controller comprising a processor and a memory operatively coupled to said processor,

said controller being programmed to cause said display system to generate a game display on said first video display unit,

said controller being programmed to cause said light valve to become substantially transparent when said game display is generated on said first video display unit,

said controller being programmed to cause said display system to generate a bonus game display on said second video display unit, and

said controller being programmed to cause said second video display unit to partially obscure said first video display unit when said bonus game display is generated on said second display unit.