IP Library Granted Patent US 8,951,112
Granted Patent B2
US 8,951,112 · App. 13/354,519 · Granted Feb 10, 2015

Gaming machine

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Patent No.
US 8,951,112
App. No.
13/354,519
Granted
Feb 10, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device having bet areas where a plurality of bet objects are displayed and a unit bet buttons where a plurality of bet amounts are displayed and a touch panel which is provided on the front surface side of the display device to be able to receive a touch input from the outside and detect a touched position of the touch input are included. When the touched position of the touch input corresponds to any bet amounts in the unit bet buttons, a bet amount is determined based on this touched position. When the touched position of the touch input continuously moves at least in the bet areas, betting on each bet object on the moving path among the bet objects in the bet areas is received with the bet amount determined using the unit bet button.

Claims (26)

1. A gaming machine comprising:

a display device which has a bet object display area where a plurality of bet objects are displayed and further has a bet amount display area where a plurality of bet amounts are displayed;

a touch panel which is provided on the front surface side of the display device to be able to receive a touch input and detect a touched position of the touch input; and

a controller which is programmed to execute the processes of:

(a1) determining a bet amount based on a touched position of a first touch when it is determined that the touched position of the first touch corresponds to one of the bet amounts in the bet amount display area;

(a2) determining a first set of bet objects which are on a single moving path of a second touch among the plurality of bet objects in the bet object display area when it is determined that the second touch drags the first set of bet objects without being removed from the touch panel to form the single moving path; and

(a2-1) applying the bet amount determined in the process (a1) to each bet object in the first set of bet objects determined in the process (a2),

wherein a number of bet objects in the first set of bet objects increases as a length of the single moving path increases,

a first image showing the determined bet amount is displayed in the bet amount display area when the bet amount is determined based on the touched position of the first touch, and

color of each of the first set of bet objects is changed and a second image showing the determined bet object being betted to each of the first set of bet objects is displayed in the bet object display area when the first set of bet objects are determined based on the second touch.

2. The gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein,

the display device further includes a cancellation operation area, and

the controller further executes the processes of:

(a3) determining whether a touched position of a third touch is positioned in the cancellation operation area; and

(a4) receiving cancellation of the betting on each of a second set of bet objects which are on a single moving path of a fourth touch among the plurality of bet objects in the bet object display area when the fourth touch drags the second set of bet objects in the bet object display area after it is determined that the touched position of the third touch is positioned in the cancellation operation area.

3. The gaming machine according to claim 2 , wherein,

the controller executes the process of: (a5) displaying, on the display device, a total of the bet amounts received in the process (a2).

4. The gaming machine according to claim 2 , wherein

the controller is further configured to execute the process of:

(a6) receiving cancellation of the betting on each of a third set of bet objects which are on a single moving path of a fifth touch among the first set of bet objects in the bet object display area when the fifth touch drags the third set of bet objects in the bet object display area after it is determined that the touched position of the third touch is positioned in the cancellation operation area.

5. The gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein,

the controller executes the process of: (a5) displaying, on the display device, a total of the bet amounts received in the process (a2).

6. The gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein the second image shows a number denoting the determined bet amount.

7. The gaming machine according to claim 1 , wherein the second image shows a word “SELECTED.”

8. The gaming machine according to claim 1 , further comprising a memory storing a program,

wherein the controller is configured to retrieve the program to execute the processes of (a1) and (a2).

Assignments (4)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 2, 2023
From: INTERBLOCK USA L.C.
To: ACQUIOM AGENCY SERVICES LLC
Reel/Frame 065430/0971 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 17, 2023
From: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
To: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.
Reel/Frame 065254/0238 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 2, 2023
From: INTERBLOCK USA L.C.
To: INTERBLOCK D.O.O.
Reel/Frame 065101/0673 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 25, 2023
From: ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.
To: INTERBLOCK USA L.C.
Reel/Frame 064719/0441 →