Applying graphical characteristics to graphical objects in a wagering game machine
View Patent ↗Systems and methods for providing programs on wagering game machine peripherals are described. The programs may be shader programs for execution by one or more programmable shaders on a graphics processing unit. The programs may provide a graphical result, e.g. an output on a display, or may provide a non-graphical result of a computation to a general purpose processor on the wagering game machine.
1. A method comprising:
presenting on a first processor a wagering game upon which monetary value may be wagered;
providing a video processing peripheral coupled to the first processor, the peripheral having a memory and a plurality of processors; and
loading a program into the memory for execution by at least one of the plurality of processors.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the program comprises a shader program.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the shader program is operable to control the rendering of a graphical object presented as part of the wagering game.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the program comprises a program operable to provide a non-graphical result to the first processor.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the program comprises a random number generator.
6. A system comprising:
a first processor operable to present a wagering game upon which monetary value may be wagered;
a video processing peripheral coupled to the first processor, the peripheral having a memory and a plurality of processors; and
a program loaded into the memory by the first processor for execution by at least one of the plurality of processors.
7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the program comprises a shader program.
8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the shader program is operable to control the rendering of a graphical object presented as part of the wagering game.
9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the shader program comprises a vertex shader.
10. The system of claim 7 , wherein the shader program comprises a pixel shader.
11. The system of claim 7 , wherein the shader program comprises a geometry shader.
12. The system of claim 7 , further comprising an audio peripheral having a memory and a plurality of processors and operable to receive a program for execution by at least one of the plurality of processors.
13. The system of claim 6 , wherein the program comprises a program operable to provide a non-graphical result to the first processor.
14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the program comprises a random number generator.
15. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having machine-executable instructions for causing one or more processors to perform a method, the method comprising:
presenting on a first processor of a wagering game machine a wagering game upon which monetary value may be wagered; and
loading into a memory of a video processing peripheral on the wagering game machine a program for execution by at least one of a plurality of processors on the video processing peripheral.
16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the program comprises a shader program.
17. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the shader program is operable to control the rendering of a graphical object presented as part of the wagering game.
18. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the program comprises a program operable to provide a non-graphical result to the first processor.
19. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the program comprises a random number generator.