GAMING MACHINE THAT DISPLAYS INSTRUCTION IMAGE OF GAME INPUT OPERATION ON DISPLAY

• US 20100062851A1
• Filed: 08/31/2009
• Published: 03/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Interblock DOO
• Original Assignee: Aruze Gaming America Incorporated (Aruze Gaming America, Inc. /Okada/)
• Inventors: Kido, Katsuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,187,091 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/31
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3202 Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/322 Casino tables, e.g. tables having integrated screens, chip detection means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3269 Timing aspects of game play, e.g. blocking/halting the operation of a gaming machine
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3288 Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking

Abstract

A gaming machine displays a bet start instructional image on a dealer used display, displays a bet end instructional image in response to a predetermined lapse of time after receiving a bet start instruction signal from a touch panel, and controls an oscillation motor to cause a playing board to oscillate after receiving a bet end instruction signal from the touch panel.

Claims

1. A gaming machine comprising:

a plurality of stations;

a controller that controls advancement of a game; and

an input device that accepts a game input operation from a dealer and transmits a signal, which corresponds to the game input operation thus accepted, to the controller,

wherein the controller performs control to advance a game based on a game input operation signal accepted from the input device.

2. A gaming machine comprising:

a playing unit on which a plurality of dice rolls and comes to rest;

an oscillation device that causes the playing unit to oscillate;

a plurality of stations;

a display that is disposed so as to be visually recognizable to a dealer, disposed to be visually unrecognizable to all players among a plurality of players playing a game at a plurality of stations, and displays an instructional image of a game input operation to a dealer;

an input device that accepts a game input operation from the dealer and outputs a signal corresponding to the game input operation thus accepted; and

a controller that executes the following processing of;

(a) displaying on the display an instructional image of an input operation to start accepting a bet from the plurality of stations;

(b), displaying on the display an instructional image of an input operation to end accepting a bet from the plurality of stations, in response to a predetermined lapse of time after receiving a signal that indicates accepting an input operation to start accepting a bet; and

(c) after receiving a signal that indicates accepting an input operation to terminate accepting a bet, controlling the oscillation device to cause the playing board to oscillate.

3. A gaming system comprising:

a plurality of stations;

a composite unit that transmits and receives, with the plurality of stations, information relating to a game, and performs advancement of the game; and

an operation unit in which a dealer can input a game operation,

wherein the composite unit includes a controller that controls the advancement of the game;

wherein the operation unit is detachable from the composite unit, and includes;

a lid;

a switch that detects whether the lid is opened; and

an input device that accepts a game operation input from a dealer and transmits a signal corresponding to the game operation input thus accepted to the controller, and

wherein, for a case in which the operation unit is mounted to the composite unit, when the controller receives a signal indicating that the switch has detected that the lid is opened from the switch, the controller performs control to advance the game based on a game operation input signal received from the input device, and

when the controller receives a signal indicating that the switch has detected that the lid is closed from the switch, the controller performs control to advance the game independently from the game operation input from a dealer.

4. The gaming system according to claim 3, wherein

when the controller has received a signal indicating that the switch detected that the lid is opened from the switch, in a case where a unit game subsequent to a unit game executing at a reception time is started, the controller performs control to advance a game based on the game operation input signal received from the input device.

5. The gaming system according to claim 4,

wherein the controller further comprises an instructional device that indicates a game operation input to a dealer, and

wherein, in a case a game being advanced based on the game operation input signal received from the input device, the controller transmits to the instructional device a signal for indicating the game operation input to the dealer.

6. The gaming system according to claim 3, wherein:

the composite unit further comprises an image output device that outputs live image data of a game;

the operation unit further comprises a microphone terminal that accepts audio data that has been converted to data from sounds spoken by a dealer, and transmits the audio data thus accepted to the image output device;

the image output device outputs the live image data as well as the audio data received from the microphone terminal; and

the controller transmits the audio data and the live image data thus received, or the live image data thus received, to the plurality of stations.

7. The gaming system according to claim 6, wherein,

in a case of a game being advanced based on the game operation input signal received from the input device, the controller transmits the audio data and the live image data thus received to the plurality of the stations, and

in a case of a game being advanced independently from a game operation input from a dealer, the controller transmits the live image data received to the plurality of stations.