GAMING MACHINE, GAMING SYSTEM, AND GAMING METHOD

• US 20140335946A1
• Filed: 05/13/2013
• Published: 11/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Empire Technological Group Limited, Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Original Assignee: Aruze Gaming America Incorporated (Aruze Gaming America, Inc. /Okada/), Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Inventors: FUJISAWA, Masumi, Munakata, Hiroki, Enokido, Kenji, Itagaki, Takehisa, Honda, Masaya, Okamoto, Daisyun
• Granted Patent: US 9,520,027 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/27
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3258 Cumulative reward schemes, e.g. jackpots
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/326 Game play aspects of gaming systems
• 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

In a gaming machine, a display displays a jackpot challenge for providing a progressive payout. A controller executes each round of a game, determines an event to be performed in each round, determines whether a determined event belongs to predetermined events capable of providing any one icon of a plurality of icons, performs the determined event and determine a result of a performed event, obtains an icon of the performed event when the performed event belongs to the predetermined events and the result of the performed event is to award the icon of the performed event to a player, triggers the jackpot challenge when the plurality of icons are obtained, and executes the jackpot challenge to determine whether to award the progressive payout to the player.

Claims

1. A gaming machine, comprising:

a display configured to display a jackpot challenge for providing a progressive payout; and

a controller configured,

to execute each round of a game,

to determine an event to be performed in each round,

to determine whether a determined event belongs to predetermined events capable of providing any one icon of a plurality of icons,

to perform the determined event and determine a result of a performed event,

to obtain an icon of the performed event when the performed event belongs to the predetermined events and the result of the performed event is to award the icon of the performed event to a player,

to trigger the jackpot challenge when the plurality of icons are obtained, and

to execute the jackpot challenge to determine whether to award the progressive payout to the player.

2. The gaming machine of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured

to receive a bet betted by the player in each round,

to determine a selection probability of the progressive payout based on an average bet per round until the jackpot challenge is triggered, and

to determine whether to award the progressive payout to the player based on the selection probability.

3. The gaming machine of claim 2, wherein the controller is further configured to calculate the average bet per round based on a value that is obtained by dividing a sum of bets betted by the player until the jackpot challenge is triggered by a number of the rounds executed until the jackpot challenge is triggered.

4. The gaming machine of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to calculate the average bet per round by dividing the value by predetermined credits corresponding to a default bet.

5. The gaming machine of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured

to receive a bet betted by the player in each round,

to determine a selection probability of the progressive payout based on a sum of bets betted by the player until the jackpot challenge is triggered, and

to determine whether to award the progressive payout to the player based on the selection probability.

6. The gaming machine of claim 1, wherein the display is further configured to display a plurality of icon areas that correspond to the plurality of icons, respectively, and

wherein the controller is further configured to fill a corresponding icon area of the icon areas with an obtained icon when obtaining the icon of the performed event.

7. The gaming machine of claim 1, further comprising a second display, and wherein the controller is further configured

to execute a battle between the character of the player and a character corresponding to the icon of the performed event in the second display when the performed event belongs to the predetermined events, and

to obtain the icon of the performed event when the character of the player defeats the character corresponding to the icon.

8. The gaming machine of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to move a character of the gaming machine to a destination cell in each round and to determine the event of each round.

9. The gaming machine of claim 8, further comprising a second display, and wherein the controller is further configured

to display a wheel including a plurality of digits in the second display when each round is executed,

to determine any one digit from among the plurality of digits when the wheel is slid by the player on the second display,

to stop the wheel in the display to indicate the determined digit, and

to move the character by the determined digit.

10. The gaming machine of claim 1, wherein the display is shared by a neighbor gaming machine of the gaming machine.

11. A gaming system, comprising:

a plurality of main displays for a plurality of players, each main display configured to display images of a game for a corresponding player;

a common display provided for the main displays; and

a controller configured

to execute each round of the game for each player,

to determine an event to be performed for the corresponding player in each round,

to determine whether a determined event belongs to predetermined events capable of providing any one icon of the plurality of icons,

to perform the determined event and determine a result of a performed event,

to award an icon of the performed event to a player of the performed event when the performed event belongs to the predetermined events and the result of the performed event is to award the icon of the performed event,

to trigger the jackpot challenge for a certain player when the certain player obtain the plurality of icons, and

to execute the jackpot challenge on the common display to determine whether to award the progressive payout to the certain player.

12. The gaming system of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured

to receive a bet betted by the certain player in each round,

to determine a selection probability of the progressive payout based on an average bet per round of the certain player until the jackpot challenge is triggered, and

to determine whether to award the progressive payout to the certain player based on the selection probability.

13. The gaming system of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured

to receive a bet betted by the certain player in each round,

to determine a selection probability of the progressive payout based on a sum of bets betted by the certain player until the jackpot challenge is triggered, and

to determine whether to award the progressive payout to the certain player based on the selection probability.

14. The gaming system of claim 11, wherein the common display is further configured to display a plurality of icon areas each of the player, the plurality of icon areas corresponding to the plurality of icons, respectively, and

wherein the controller is further configured to fill a corresponding icon area of the icon areas for the player of the performed event with an obtained icon when the icon of the performed event awarded to the player of the performed event.

15. The gaming system of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured

to execute a battle between the character of the player and a character corresponding to the icon of the performed event in the main display for the player of the performed event when the performed event belongs to the predetermined events, and

to obtain the icon of the performed event when the character of the player defeats the character corresponding to the icon.

16. A gaming method by a controller of a gaming machine, the method comprising:

executing each round of a game;

determining an event to be performed in each round;

determining whether a determined event belongs to predetermined events capable of providing any one icon of the plurality of icons;

performing the determined event and determining a result of a performed event;

obtaining an icon of the performed event when the performed event belongs to the predetermined events and the result of the performed event is to award the icon of the performed event to a player;

triggering the jackpot challenge when the plurality of icons are obtained; and

executing the jackpot challenge to determine whether to award the progressive payout to the player.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving a bet betted by the player in each round;

determining a selection probability of the progressive payout based on an average bet per round until the jackpot challenge is triggered; and

determining whether to award the progressive payout to the player based on the selection probability.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving a bet betted by the player in each round;

determining a selection probability of the progressive payout based on a sum of bets betted by the player until the jackpot challenge is triggered; and

determining whether to award the progressive payout to the player based on the selection probability.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

displaying on a display a plurality of icon areas that correspond to the plurality of icons, respectively; and

filling a corresponding icon area of the icon areas with an obtained icon when obtaining the icon of the performed event.

20. The method of claim 16, further comprising

executing a battle between the character of the player and a character corresponding to the icon of the performed event when the performed event belongs to the predetermined events, and

obtaining the icon of the performed event when the result of the performed event is the character corresponding to the icon defeated by the character of the player defeats.