Gaming machine that displays instruction image of game input operation on display

• US 8,187,091 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2009
• Issued: 05/29/2012
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Suhol, Dmitry
• Assistant Examiner(s): SKAARUP, JASON M
• Application Number:
  US12/551,085
• Publication Number:
  US 20100062851A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,002 Days
• Field of Search: 463/25, 463/29, 463/31, 463/44, 463/45, 463/46
• 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 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 the dealer and transmits a signal corresponding to the game operation input thus accepted to the controller, and

wherein, when the operation unit is mounted to the composite unit, (a) if the switch has detected that the lid is open, the controller;

(i) receives a first signal from the switch indicating that the switch has detected that the lid is opened, and (ii) advances the game based on the game operation input signal received from the input device, and

(b) if the switch has detected that the lid is closed, the controller;

(i) receives a second signal from the switch indicating that the switch has detected that the lid is closed, and (ii) advances the game independent from the game operation input from the dealer.

2. The gaming system according to claim 1, wherein if the controller has received the first signal from the switch while a first unit game of the game is being executed, the controller advances the game based on the game operation input signal received from the input device when a second unit game subsequent to the first unit game of the game is started.

3. The gaming system according to claim 2,

wherein the controller further comprises an instructional device that indicates the game operation input to the 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.

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

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

the operation unit further comprises a microphone terminal that accepts audio data that has been converted to data from sounds spoken by the 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.

5. The gaming system according to claim 4, 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 the dealer, the controller transmits the live image data received to the plurality of stations.