Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Reexamination Certificate
2011-05-17
2011-05-17
Elisca, Pierre E (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
C463S042000, C463S008000, C463S007000, C463S025000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07942744
ABSTRACT:
For a user having a user input actuator, a virtual interface device, such as for a gaming machine, for determining actuation of a virtual input by the input actuator is disclosed. The device comprises a position sensing device for determining a location of the user input actuator and a controller coupled to the position sensing device, the controller determining whether a portion of the user input actuator is within a virtual input location in space defining the virtual input.
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Elisca Pierre E
IGT
Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP
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