Device and method for displaying a final gaming result

• US 5,766,074 A
• Filed: 08/06/1996
• Issued: 06/16/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: IGT (International Game Technology)
• Original Assignee: Video Gaming Technologies Incorporated (Aristocrat Leisure Limited)
• Inventors: Cannon, Lee, O'Donovan, John
• Primary Examiner(s): MANUEL, GEORGE C
• Application Number:
  US08/692,575
• Time in Patent Office: 679 Days
• Field of Search: 463/8, 463/16, 463/30, 463/31, 463/33, 273/138.1, 273/139, 273/269
• US Class Current: 463/16
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means

Abstract

A device and method for displaying a final gaming result, in one embodiment, displays on a video monitor the winning results in a complete manner and all non-winning results in a faded manner. In an alternate embodiment, when a game produces winning results, only the winning results of the game are displayed. Specifically, a video game device has a processor, a video monitor with display screen, and a memory for storing a bit map of the screen. Non-winning results in one embodiment are not displayed or are replaced with a background display. In another embodiment, non-winning results are displayed in a faded manner by substituting selected pixels of a collection of pixels defining an non-winning indicia to be displayed with a background or neutral display. The desired results are achieved by storing data indicative of the desired display in address locations corresponding to pixels on the screen.

Claims

1. A gaming device for playing a game, said device comprising:

a processor for generating a plurality of indicia when said game is played;

a memory having stored therein data representative of a selected winning combination of indicia;

a monitor having a screen for displaying said plurality of generated indicia wherein, when said plurality of generated indicia includes said selected winning combination of indicia, each indicia of said plurality of generated indicia that is not in said winning combination is displayed by said processor in a faded manner on said screen of said monitor.

2. The gaming device as set forth in claim 1 wherein each said generated indicia is defined by a plurality of address locations corresponding to pixels on a display screen of said display monitor, and wherein a portion of the address locations of each said indicia not associated with a winning combination are stored with data indicative of, and for displaying, a background display.

3. The gaming device as set forth in claim 1 wherein each said generated indicia that is associated with a winning combination is displayed fully in a display of the results of the game played.

4. The gaming device as set forth in claim 1 wherein said screen comprises a pixel matrix and each said indicia of said plurality of generated indicia is comprised of a collection of selected pixels, wherein said processor fades each said indicia not associated with said winning combination is faded by displaying a selected plurality of the pixels in its said collection of pixels with a background display.

5. The gaming device as set forth in claim 4 wherein said processor fades each said indicia not associated with said winning combination by displaying alternate pixels in its said collection of pixels with said background display.

6. The gaming device as set forth in claim 1 wherein said processor initially fully displays each said indicia of said plurality of generated indicia that is not in said winning combination on said screen along with the full display of each indicia included in a winning combination, and then said processor displays said non-winning indicia in a faded manner on said screen.

7. A gaming device for playing a game, said device comprising:

a processor for generating final results when said game is played;

a screen for graphically displaying said final results wherein, when said final results include a winning result and a non-winning result, said non-winning result is displayed on said screen in a manner that is less dominant than the display of said results;

wherein said processor displays non-winning results in a faded manner on said screen.

8. A gaming device for playing a game, said device comprising:

a processor for generating final results when said game is played;

a screen for graphically displaying said final results wherein, when said final results include a winning result and a non-winning result, said non-winning result is displayed on said screen in a manner that is less dominant than the display of said results;

wherein said non-winning results are outline on said screen.