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US 10,593,148 B1Granted
Electronic gaming machine having a reel assembly with a supplemental image display
AssigneeIgt
InventorsTai Rosander, Allan C. Snippen, Scott H. Jones, Michael T. Garamendi
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Abstract
A gaming system including a housing and a reel assembly supported by the housing, the reel assembly including a frame, a plurality of individually rotatable reels supported by the frame, and one or more supplemental image displays supported by the frame and associated with the rotatable reels.
Claims20
A gaming system comprising:
- a housing;
- a reel assembly positioned in and supported by the housing, the reel assembly comprising:
- a frame,
- multiple individually rotatable reels supported by the frame, and
- a first rotatable supplemental image display supported by the frame, the first rotatable supplemental image display comprising a first light arm transversely extending exterior to an outer surface of a first one of the reels, the first light arm comprising a plurality of selectively illuminable first lights;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate with the first rotatable supplemental image display to:
- cause the first rotatable supplemental image display to rotate such that the first light arm rotates in a first orbit exterior to the first one of the reels, and
- selectively cause the first lights to illuminate while the first light arm rotates in the first orbit around the first one of the reels such that the first lights cause a player perceivable image to be displayed exterior to the first one of the reels.
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A gaming system comprising:
- a housing;
- a reel assembly positioned in and supported by the housing, the reel assembly comprising:
- a frame,
- multiple individually rotatable reels supported by the frame,
- a first rotatable supplemental image display supported by the frame, the first rotatable supplemental image display comprising a first light arm transversely extending exterior to an outer surface of a first one of the reels, the first light arm comprising a plurality of selectively illuminable first lights, and
- a second rotatable supplemental image display supported by the frame, the second rotatable supplemental image display comprising a first light arm transversely extending exterior to an outer surface of a second one of the reels, the second light arm comprising a plurality of selectively illuminable second lights;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- operate with the first rotatable supplemental image display to cause the first rotatable supplemental image display to rotate such that the first light arm rotates in a first orbit exterior to the first one of the reels, and
- operate with the second rotatable supplemental image display to cause the second rotatable supplemental image display to rotate such that the second light arm rotates in a second orbit exterior to the second one of the reels, and
- selectively cause the first lights and the second lights to illuminate while the first light arm rotates in the first orbit around the first one of the reels and the second light arm rotates in the second orbit around the second one of the reels such that the first lights and the second lights cause a player perceivable image to be displayed exterior to the first one of the reels and the second one of the reels.
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A gaming system comprising:
- a housing;
- a reel assembly positioned in and supported by the housing, the reel assembly comprising:
- a frame,
- multiple rotatable reels supported by the frame, and
- multiple rotatable supplemental image displays supported by the frame respectively associated with the multiple rotatable reels, each rotatable supplemental image display comprising a plurality of light arms transversely extending exterior to an outer surface of the respective one of the reels, the plurality of light arms each comprising a plurality of selectively illuminable lights;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory device that stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate with the multiple rotatable supplemental image displays to:
- cause each of the rotatable supplemental image displays to rotate such that the light arms of said rotatable supplemental image display rotate in an orbit exterior to the respective one of the reels, and
- selectively cause the lights to illuminate while the light arms rotate in the respective orbits to cause a player perceivable image to be displayed exterior to the reels.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.