Gaming device and method for display control therein

• US 8,403,738 B2
• Filed: 07/28/2006
• Issued: 03/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Original Assignee: Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Inventors: Toyoda, Hirobumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuff, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kim, Kevin Y
• Application Number:
  US11/494,726
• Publication Number:
  US 20070004512A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,433 Days
• Field of Search: 463 11- 13
• US Class Current: 463/13
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3293 Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack

Abstract

A gaming device having a card game using a card set is provided with: an input device configured to receive an input by a player; a display device configured to display one or more cards selected from the card set in any of face-up and face-down states; a controller configured to control the display device to show a face of a target card selected from the cards in the face-down state in part to an extent determined by the input.

Claims

1. A gaming device having a card game using a card set, comprising:

a main controller configured to determine a target card from the card set and generate a data to specify the target card; and

a terminal configured to receive the data from the main controller, the terminal including;

an input receiver configured to store a plurality of squeezing values for determining an extent of an area of a portion of a face-down target card to be revealed and an extent of an area of a face-up portion of a target card to be returned to a face-down state;

an input device configured to receive an increment operation and a decrement operation and to select one of the plurality of squeezing values stored in the input receiver;

a display device configured to display an extent of an area of a face-down target card to be revealed and an extent of an area of a face-up portion of a target card to be returned to a face-down state determined by the squeezing value selected by the input device;

wherein,

the terminal is configured to store orientation data, the orientation data continuously updated in response to a selection of one of a plurality of target card orientations, the orientation data specifying the selected orientation; and

the display device is configured to display an extent of an area of a face-down target card to be revealed and an extent of an area of a face-up portion of a target card to be returned to a face-down state in an orientation specified by the orientation data.

2. The gaming device of claim 1, wherein the input device includes a touchscreen superposed on the display device.

3. The gaming device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of orientations includes a lengthwise orientation and a crosswise orientation of the target card.

4. The gaming device of claim 1, wherein the display device is configured to hide a corner of a face of the target card with an image different from an image of the face of the target card when showing a portion of the face-down target card.

5. A method for display control in a gaming device having a card game using a card set, the method comprising:

accepting a data to specify a target card from the card set;

receiving an operation and selecting one of a plurality of squeezing values for determining an extent of an area of a portion of a face-down target card to be revealed and an extent of an area of a face-up portion of a target card to be returned to a face-down state in response to an increment operation and a decrement operation; and

displaying an extent of an area of a portion of a face-down target card and an extent of an area of a face-up portion of a target card to be returned to a face-down state based on the selected squeezing value;

updating orientation data in response to a selection of one of a plurality of target card orientations, the orientation data specifying the selected orientation;

displaying an extent of an area of a portion of a face-down target card and an extent of an area of a face-up portion of a target card to be returned to a face-down state in an orientation specified by the orientation data;

changing a first orientation to a second orientation for turning over the target card in response to a selection; and

further displaying an extent of an area of a portion of a face-down target card and an extent of an area of a face-up portion of a target card to be returned to a face-down state in the second orientation after displaying an extent of an area of a portion of a face-down target card and an extent of an area of a face-up portion of a target card to be returned to a face-down state in the first orientation for the identical target card.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the plurality of orientations includes a lengthwise orientation and a crosswise orientation.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the displaying step comprises hiding a corner of a face of the target card with an image different from an image of the face of the target card when showing a portion of the face-down target card.