Gaming machine and image alteration control method of gaming machine

• US 20080132333A1
• Filed: 07/10/2007
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Inventors: Kogo, Junichi
• Granted Patent: US 9,996,253 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/37
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1075 using a touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means

Abstract

A display area of a selection image becomes larger when two locations corresponding to the selection image on a touch panel are pressed simultaneously by hands of a player and a space between the hands is widened while the hands maintain a state of contact to the touch panel. This enables touch panel operability to be diversified.

Claims

1. A gaming machine, comprising:

a display that displays an image;

a touch panel arranged covering a display screen of the display; and

a controller that, in a case where position signals corresponding to positions pressed by a player and outputted from the touch panel are received and two of simultaneously received position signals correspond to positions on the image respectively and a space between the position signals continuously changes, enables alteration of a size of the image based on the space between the position signals.

2. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the controller varies a display area of the image based on a space between two position signals corresponding to positions on the image.

3. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to make the image into a rectangular display area such that a space between two position signals corresponding to positions on the image forms a diagonal line.

4. The gaming machine according to claim 1, wherein:

selection of the image is achieved by the controller in an operation of selecting from a plurality of selection images displayed in a predetermined region of the display screen; and

the operation of selecting specifies the selection image based on position signals corresponding to pressed positions on the touch panel, moves the specified selection image on the display screen in response to a continuous change in output of the position signals due to continuous change in the pressed positions on the touch panel, and stops movement of the specified selection image on the display screen based on a stop in output of the position signals in response to a release of the pressing operation on the touch panel.

5. An image alteration control method of a gaming machine, wherein

a size of the image is altered based on a space between position signals when the position signals are received from a touch panel, which is arranged covering a display screen of a display that displays an image and which outputs position signals corresponding to pressed positions, and when simultaneously received two position signals correspond to positions on the image respectively and the space between the position signals changes continuously.

6. The image alteration control method of a gaming machine according to claim 5, wherein a display area of the image is varied based on a space between two position signals corresponding to positions on the image.

7. The image alteration control method of a gaming machine according to claim 5, wherein the image is made into a rectangular display area such that a space between two position signals corresponding to positions on the image forms a diagonal line.

8. The image alteration control method of a gaming machine according to claim 5, wherein:

selection of the image is achieved by an operation of selecting from a plurality of selection images displayed in a predetermined region of the display screen; and

the operation of selecting specifies the selection image based on position signals corresponding to the pressed positions on the touch panel, moves the specified selection image on the display screen in response to a continuous change in output of the position signals due to continuous change in the pressed positions on the touch panel, and stops movement of the specified selection image on the display screen based on a stop in output of the position signals in response to a release of the pressing operation on the touch panel.