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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182339 | Wagering game machine with three-dimensional wagering game effects Systems and methods provide three-dimensional transformations on graphical images. The transformations may vary in accordance with various wagering game functions. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8172677 | Wagering games using multi-level gaming structure According to one aspect of the present invention, a gaming system is disclosed including at least one community display and a plurality of personal media terminals. The at least one community display is adapted to display a community event thereon. The plurality of ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8167714 | Puzzle game apparatus and computer readable storage medium having puzzle game program stored thereon In a solution area which has a plurality of cells arranged in a matrix thereof, a connective cell, which is obtained by interrelating a predetermined plurality of cells with one another, is displayed. Further, a normal numerical clue, which is caused to correspond t... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167715 | Adjustable playing area for electronic gaming terminal A gaming terminal includes a gaming cabinet, at least one display, an adjustable playing area, and a player-input button. The at least one display is mounted to the gaming cabinet and configured to display a randomly selected outcome from a wagering game. The random... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8162751 | Gaming machine with color changing cabinet A gaming machine for conducting a wagering game comprises a gaming machine cabinet having one or more colorable or color-changeable exterior sections. The color-changeable exterior sections comprise a translucent material that glows or shines when light is diffused ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8133114 | System and methods for controlling an overhead sign for a gaming system Systems and methods for controlling an overhead sign in a system of gaming machines and a sign controller are described. One aspect of the systems and methods includes allowing a gaming machine to send events comprising a script to a sign through a sign controller. | 03/13/2012 |
| 8113951 | Achievement incentives within a console-based gaming environment A computer-implemented method is disclosed for encouraging downloads of a game. The method includes displaying an achievement advertisement and subsequently receiving input indicative of the achievement advertisement. The input is responded to by displaying a downlo... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8105158 | Game service method for providing online game using UCC and game server therefor Provided are a game service method, where UCC can be used in an online music game that uses music as an element, and a game server therefor. The game service method includes receiving user created contents (UCC) data in which accompaniment music data and a song sung... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8088003 | Audio/visual display toy for use with rhythmic responses A game having a base structure including an array of lights with associated music. A player must respond to the illumination and music issued by the game by pressing a series of sensors located on the game at specific beats according to the rhythm and illumination o... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8083587 | Gaming machine with dialog outputting method to victory or defeat of game and control method thereof A slot machine 1 of the present invention makes a control so as to: sequentially store the number of game values consumed per unit game; sequentially store the number of game values given per unit game; calculating a difference between the total number of gam... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8062126 | System and method for interfacing with a computer program A method for triggering commands of a program executed on a computing system is provided. In this method, an interface object first is provided. One interface object is defined by an object coupled to a handle, whereby the handle includes an elongated member that is... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8062127 | Methods and systems for intelligent dispute resolution within next generation casino games A dispute resolution model for next generation action/skill casino games comprising a variety of friendly onscreen methods to demonstrate the fairness of a disputed game or simply to allow the player to eliminate confusion created by fast action wagering. Such metho... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8029362 | Gaming device methods and apparatus employing audio/video programming outcome presentation In a first aspect, a method (e.g., of operating a gaming device) is provided. The method includes the steps of (i) receiving audio/video content; (ii) associating a plurality of sets of outcome values with the audio/video content; (iii) determining a play session; (... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8025569 | Simulating real gaming environments with interactive host and players Techniques for simulating real (or live) gaming environments are disclosed. A virtual gaming environment effectively connects a number of people together by connecting a number of computing devices (e.g., personal computers, gaming machines). The virtual gaming envi... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8025568 | Gaming machine with an overhanging touch screen A gaming machine controlled by a processor in response to a wager comprises a display and a unitary touch screen. The display includes a video portion and a non-video portion. The unitary touch screen overlaps both the video portion and the non-video portion. The vi... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8021232 | Video game method and apparatus for state-based scrolling A game apparatus CPU turns on a scroll operating flag when it detects that a player object exists at a predetermined position, that is, within a scroll operating range while performing a predetermined action on a contact object. If the scroll operating flag is turne... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8016670 | Virtual glass for a gaming machine Various virtual glasses for providing visual and audio displays in a gaming machine are disclosed. Such virtual glasses may replace traditional gaming machine displays such as silk-screened glasses and secondary video screens. A virtual glass system comprises at lea... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016672 | Device and method to control game where characters are moved on map A game device includes a player's character controller operative to control the movement of a player's character on a map, a non-player character controller operative to cause, of those non-player characters located on the map, non-player characters located within a... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016671 | Game apparatus and storage medium storing game program A game apparatus includes two LCDs, and a touch panel is provided in relation to the one LCD. When an action game is started, a game screen is displayed on the other LCD, and a still image (capture screen) obtained by copying the game screen according to a capture o... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016669 | Gaming machine During a slot machine game, game effects are also displayed on a liquid crystal panel 39d provided in a reel display window unit 39, and thus the liquid crystal panel 39d serves as a new machine component for performing game effect... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7988554 | Game development architecture that decouples the game logic from the graphics logic A disclosed gaming machine is designed to execute a modular gaming software architecture. A plurality of gaming software modules may be loaded into RAM on the gaming machine and executed to play a game of chance. Many of the gaming software modules are designed to c... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7980949 | Guard condition system A guard condition system for determining whether to block an attack against a character in a multi-character party within an entertainment game is disclosed. A multi-character party may be divided into multiple lines of battle, such that all characters in more forwa... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7967679 | Tactile wearable gaming device A tactile garment, such as a gaming vest (420) or other garment or body-enveloping device. A pneumatic force-generating device (425) is embedded in the vest in multiple cell zones for selectively applying a modulated force to a user wearing the multi-l... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7967678 | Computer game development factory system and method A system and method are disclosed for facilitating development of computer games that depict or represent actual geographic locales or imaginary locales as part of the play scenarios of the games. A computer game factory system includes inventories of map data produ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7931534 | Control program for action game A control program for an action game according to the present invention in which one of a plurality of characters moving in a game space is selected to be an attack target, in response to an operation of a game player, comprises: a selectable candidate object judgin... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7922582 | Hand-held game apparatus and game program A hand-held game apparatus and a game program allow a user to play a game while going back and forth between a narrow-range map and a broad-range map. The player can manipulate a touch panel mounted on a display for displaying the broad-range map. If the player mani... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7905779 | Video game including effects for providing different first person experiences of the same video game world and a storage medium storing software for the video game In a video game, various effects are used to convey the experience of a game world of different kinds of game characters and game objects. For example, if a game character is a dog, a visual effect may be used to convey a dog's red-green color blindness. If a game c... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7901288 | Embedded advertising enhancements in interactive computer game environments Advertisements may be selected for display to a user in a computer game environment based at least in part on one or more of a personality trait of the user as determined from monitoring a behavior of the user as the user is participating in the computer game enviro... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7883414 | Battle system Methods and apparatus for presenting information in a video game. In one implementation, an entertainment system includes: a game console; a display device connected to said game console; and a video game application program; wherein when said game console executes ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7867085 | Gaming machine environment having controlled audio and visual media presentation A gaming machine system comprises a plurality of multimedia output devices, including audio, visual, and/or tactile devices strategically mounted around a casino. The multimedia devices may be used to present celebratory sights, sounds, and/or other sensations throu... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7854655 | Obtaining input for controlling execution of a game program Methods of obtaining input for controlling execution of a game program are disclosed. Controller input information can identify a current position of a user-movable control stick in relation to a rest position of the control stick. Supplementary input information fr... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7841943 | Video game processing apparatus, a method and a computer program product for processing a video game An added value is set to a battle tool for customizing the battle tool stored as battle tool information in a battle tool information managing table in response to customization request by operations of a player. A plurality of battle tools are stored in the battle ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7837556 | Decoupling of the graphical presentation of a game from the presentation logic A disclosed gaming machine is designed to execute a modular gaming software architecture. A plurality of gaming software modules may be loaded into RAM on the gaming machine and executed to play a game of chance. Many of the gaming software modules are designed to c... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7828655 | Application programming interface for geographic data in computer games A computer game depicts or represents actual or imaginary geographic locales as part of the play scenarios of the games. The computer game uses a map database that contains data that represent geographic features, such as roads, in a locale. A game engine program pr... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7811169 | Game program An object (OB1) displayed on a second display screen (12a) is allowed to move according to input coordinates on a touch panel. When a control target object collides with an obstacle, the control target object is allowed to stop immediately befor... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7798902 | Gaming machine with an improved touch screen assembly A gaming machine controlled by a processor in response to a wager comprises a main display, a secondary display, and a touch screen assembly overlying the secondary display. The secondary display touch screen assembly has an inner bezel frame, an insulated touch scr... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7785198 | Game apparatus and game program providing lead character and sub character group movement A plurality of slots are set in a game space with reference to the current location of a leader character, and one slot is correlated with one sub character. Each sub character is controlled so as to move it from the current location toward the corresponding slot. A... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7785197 | Voice-to-text chat conversion for remote video game play A multi-player networked video game playing system including for example video game consoles analyzes speech to vary the font size and/or color of associated text displayed to other users. If the amplitude of the voice is high, the text displayed to other users is d... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7780527 | Gaming machine having three-dimensional touch screen for player input In one embodiment, a gaming machine includes a separate touch screen located in an area where buttons are typically located. The touch screen virtual buttons may be both configurable by the player and configurable by the gaming machine. In one embodiment, the touch ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7762890 | Game device, game processing method and recording medium having a program recorded thereon An object of this invention is to provide a game device that can add much to the production of the game. The invention is a game device for displaying a game image which expresses a virtual three-dimensional space, which is characterized in that it displays the firs... | 07/27/2010 |
