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Enhanced electronic gaming machine with electronic maze and eye gaze display

  • US 9,691,219 B1
  • Filed: 12/11/2015
  • Issued: 06/27/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/11/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An electronic gaming machine comprising:

  • at least one data storage unit to store game data for a game, the game data comprising at least one game condition and an interactive network of intercommunicating paths, the at least one game condition being associated with traversal of the interactive network of intercommunicating paths;

    a graphics processor to generate an interactive game environment, wherein the interactive game environment provides graphical game components for the interactive network of intercommunicating paths and an electronic player token;

    a display unit to display, via a graphical user interface, the graphical game components in accordance with the game data to graphically display the interactive network of intercommunicating paths;

    a data capture camera unit to continuously collect player eye gaze data relative to the display unit;

    a game controller for detecting, using the collected player eye gaze data, a plurality of points of eye gaze relative to the displayed graphical game components for the interactive network of intercommunicating paths; and

    continuously computing a player pathway based on the plurality of points of eye gaze to generate a graphical animation representative of movement of the electronic player token relative to the graphical game components for the interactive network of intercommunicating paths; and

    a display controller to control the display unit, via the graphical user interface, to trigger the graphical animation for the electronic player token representative of movement of the electronic player token as a mapping of the player pathway to the interactive network of intercommunicating paths, and to determine whether the at least one game condition has been satisfied to trigger a notification message or transfer of an award to a token.

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