Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Perceptible output or display
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-26
2006-09-26
Hotaling, II, John M. (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Perceptible output or display
C463S020000, C381S057000, C381S094100, C381S071100
Reexamination Certificate
active
07112139
ABSTRACT:
A gaming machine in a gaming establishment enhances its game sounds by attenuating ambient noise in the establishment. The gaming machine includes a microphone, processing circuitry, and an audio speaker. The microphone detects ambient noise and generates a noise signal from the sensed ambient noise. The processing circuitry generates an anti-noise signal from the noise signal and adds the anti-noise signal to a game sound signal generated by the gaming machine to produce an output signal. The audio speaker is driven with the output signal.
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Hotaling II John M.
Jenkens & Gilchrist
WMS Gaming Inc.
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