Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – In a chance application
Patent
1996-01-31
1998-07-07
Harrison, Jessica
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
In a chance application
463 31, 463 22, A63F 500
Patent
active
057759936
ABSTRACT:
An electronic gaming machine that closely emulates the actions, look and feel of a live action roulette game including betting table layout, roulette wheel operation and croupier interactions with the game players is accomplished by a CRT displayed game table and a tower CRT displaying the graphic image of a roulette wheel and the video appearance and speech of the dealer. The roulette game consists of five player stations surrounding a simulated game table consisting of two large horizontal CRT monitors which display the roulette betting field. The game is firmware controlled from a game table chassis which communicates with each player station and with the tower video system. Each player via a track ball and control buttons, places or deletes bets on the displayed betting field during the wagering phase. As the game progresses announcements to the players appear on the CRT betting table and on the tower video monitor by the live video appearance of the current game dealer. The game tower monitor displays a spinning roulette wheel, and a computer graphics overlay ball (sprite) which rotates on the roulette wheel rim, drops from the rim, bounces and eventually stops at a randomly selected winning number on the spinning roulette wheel in a manner closely emulating the operation of an actual roulette wheel. Developed and prerecorded video graphic images from a laser disk player or from a PC hard disk drive together with computer controlled overlay graphics provides the roulette wheel, roulette ball, croupier appearance and her/his voice announcements. Moreover, selection of one of a plurality of bounce patterns reduces repetitive ball movements during different rounds, thereby providing more realistic simulation of an actual roulette game.
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Fentz Barry W.
Hanscom Cory James
Lovely Donald F.
Olah D. Bradly
Harrison Jessica
Innovative Gaming Corporation of America
Schaaf James
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