Slot Machine

• US 20090227358A1
• Filed: 06/11/2008
• Published: 09/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp.
• Inventors: YOSHIZAWA, Kazumasa
• Application Number:
  US12/137,104
• Publication Number:
  US 20090227358A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/21
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3248 involving non-monetary media of fixed value, e.g. casino chips of fixed value
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3258 Cumulative reward schemes, e.g. jackpots
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3267 Game outcomes which determine the course of the subsequent game, e.g. double or quits, free games, higher payouts, different new games

Abstract

A slot machine which: reads, from among the symbol image data stored in the memory, two symbol image data including symbol image data that may be combined with each other on condition that the side-BET is input; reduces the read symbol image data so that the two symbol images are displayed in a region for displaying a single symbol; generates combined symbol image data based on the reduced symbol image data; rearranges the generated combined symbol in the first display region and rearranges symbols corresponding to the plural types of symbol image data in the second display region; changes scaling ratios of the symbol image data so that area ratios of respective symbol images of the combined symbol are changed according to the number of times in executing the basic games; and selectively executes one bonus game from among a plurality of bonus games according to types of the combination of the combined symbol displayed in the first display region and the single symbols displayed in the second display region.

Claims

1. A slot machine, comprising:

a display device for displaying a symbol matrix display region having a first display region and a second display region;

an input device for accepting an input of a normal BET and that of a side-BET different from the normal BET;

a memory for storing plural types of symbol image data; and

a controller for controlling the display device and the input device, the controller being programmed to;

(a) execute a basic game;

(b) read, from among the symbol image data stored in the memory, at least two symbol image data including symbol image data that may be combined with each other on condition that the side-BET is input, during the basic game,

reduce a horizontal or vertical direction of the read symbol image data so that said at least two symbol images are displayed in a region for displaying a single symbol, and

generate, based on the reduced symbol image data, combined symbol image data for displaying a combined symbol to be displayed in the first display region;

(c) rearrange the combined symbol combined corresponding to the combined symbol image data in the first display region within the symbol display region and rearrange symbols corresponding to the plural types of symbol image data in the second display region within the symbol display region, during the basic game;

(d) generate the combined symbol image data obtained by changing scaling ratios of the symbol image data so that area ratios of respective symbol images of the combined symbol are changed according to the number of times in executing the basic games, and

rearrange the combined symbol in the first display region according to the changed combined symbol image data; and

(e) selectively execute one bonus game from among a plurality of bonus games according to types of the combination, in a case where a combination of the combined symbol displayed in the first display region and the single symbols displayed in the second display region matches a predetermined combination.

2. The slot machine according to claim 1, wherein

the controller, in the itemized (d), gradually changes the area ratios of the respective symbol images of the combined symbol according to the number of times in executing the basic games to transform the combined symbol into the single symbols, thereby rearranging the single symbols based on the combined symbol in the first display region, and

the controller, in the itemized (e), selectively executes one bonus game from among a plurality of bonus games according to types of the combination, in a case where the single symbols transformed from the combined symbol displayed in the first display region and the single symbols displayed in the second display region matches a predetermined combination.

3. The slot machine according to claim 1, further comprising a memory for cumulatively storing a progressive value, wherein

the controller, in the itemized (b), reads the symbol image data from the memory with referring to the progressive value of the memory so that one jackpot symbol from among the plurality of jackpot symbols is added to the combined symbol in response to a jackpot becoming a predetermined progressive value.

4. A slot machine, comprising:

a display device for displaying a symbol matrix display region having a first display region and a second display region;

an input device for accepting an input of a normal BET and that of a side-BET different from the normal BET;

a memory for storing plural types of symbol image data; and

a controller for controlling the display device and the input device, the controller being programmed to;

(a) execute a basic game;

(b) read, from among the symbol image data stored in the memory, at least two symbol image data including symbol image data that may be combined with each other on condition that the side-BET is input, during the basic game,

reduce a horizontal or vertical direction of the read symbol image data so that said at least two symbol images are displayed in a region for displaying a single symbol, and

generate, based on the reduced symbol image data, combined symbol image data for displaying a combined symbol to be displayed in the first display region;

(c) rearrange the combined symbol combined corresponding to the combined symbol image data in the first display region within the symbol display region and rearrange symbols corresponding to the plural types of symbol image data in the second display region within the symbol display region, during the basic game;

(d) gradually change area ratios of respective symbol images of the combined symbol according to the number of times in executing the basic games to transform the combined symbol into the single symbols, thereby rearranging the single symbols based on the combined symbol in the first display region, and

(e) selectively execute one bonus game from among a plurality of bonus games according to types of the combination, in a case where a combination of the single symbols transformed from the combined symbol displayed in the first display region and the single symbols displayed in the second display region matches a predetermined combination.

5. The slot machine according to claim 4, further comprising a memory for cumulatively storing a progressive value, wherein

the controller, in the itemized (b), reads the symbol image data from the memory with referring to the progressive value of the memory so that one jackpot symbol from among the plurality of jackpot symbols is added to the combined symbol in response to a jackpot becoming a predetermined progressive value.

6. A slot machine, comprising:

a display device for displaying a symbol matrix display region having a first display region and a second display region;

an input device for accepting an input of a normal BET and that of a side-BET different from the normal BET;

a memory for storing plural types of symbol image data and for cumulatively storing a progressive value;

a controller for controlling the display device and the input device, the controller being programmed to;

(a) execute a basic game;

(b) read the symbol image data from the memory with referring to the progressive value of the memory so that one jackpot symbol from among the plurality of jackpot symbols is added in response to a jackpot becoming a predetermined progressive value, out of at least two symbol image data including the symbol image data that may be combined with each other on condition that the side-BET is input, from among the symbol image data stored in the memory, during the basic game,

reduce a horizontal or vertical direction of the read symbol image data so that said at least two symbol images are displayed in a region for displaying a single symbol, and

generate, based on the reduced symbol image data, combined symbol image data for displaying a combined symbol to be displayed in the first display region;

(c) rearrange the combined symbol combined corresponding to the combined symbol image data in the first display region within the symbol display region and rearrange symbols corresponding to the plural types of symbol image data in the second display region within the symbol display region, during the basic game;

(d) gradually change area ratios of respective symbol images of the combined symbol according to the number of times in executing the basic games to transform the combined symbol into the single symbols, thereby rearranging the single symbols based on the combined symbol in the first display region, and

(e) selectively execute one bonus game from among a plurality of bonus games according to types of the combination, in a case where a combination of the single symbols transformed from the combined symbol displayed in the first display region and the single symbols displayed in the second display region matches a predetermined combination.