Controlling roulette highlight features
AssigneeLNW Gaming, Inc.
InventorsLyal Atkinson, William Jones
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Abstract
A method and/or system to perform operations associated with a roulette game. The operations include detecting, by a processor, a position at which a token is placed upon a betting layout for a roulette game and accepting the token as a bet for the roulette game. The operations can further include determining, by the processor based on the position, a bet type for the bet. The operations can further include selecting, by the processor based on the bet type, a highlight effect from a plurality of different highlight effects. The operations can further include animating, by the processor, the highlight effect on one or more portions of a roulette wheel associated with one or more bet-upon values for the bet type.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- detecting, by a processor associated with a gaming machine, a position at which a token is placed upon a betting layout for a roulette game;
- accepting, by the processor, the token as a bet for the roulette game;
- determining, by the processor based on the position, a bet type for the bet from a plurality of distinct bet types, wherein the plurality of distinct bet types includes at least a single-value bet type and a multi-value bet type;
- selecting, by the processor prior to an outcome of the roulette game and based on the determined bet type, a specific highlight effect from a plurality of different visual highlight effects, wherein each of the plurality of different visual highlight effects has a different shape predefined to visually distinguish a respective one of the plurality of distinct bet types;
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- animating, by the processor, the highlight effect on one or more portions of a roulette wheel associated with one or more bet-upon values for the bet type.
A gaming system comprising:
- a display configured to present an image of a roulette wheel for a roulette game;
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- a processor configured to execute instructions, which when executed perform operations that cause the gaming system to
- detect a position at which a token is placed upon a betting layout for the roulette game;
- accept the token as a bet for the roulette game;
- determine, based on the position, a bet type for the bet from a plurality of distinct bet types, wherein the plurality of distinct bet types includes at least a single-value bet type and a multi-value bet type;
- select, prior to an outcome of the roulette game and based on the determined bet type, a specific highlight effect from a plurality of different visual highlight effects, wherein each of the plurality of different visual highlight effects has a different shape predefined to visually distinguish a respective one of the plurality of distinct bet types;
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- animate the highlight effect, via the display, at one or more portions of the roulette wheel associated with one or more bet-upon values for the bet type.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium (MRM) storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- detecting a position at which a token is placed upon a betting layout for a roulette game;
- accepting the token as a bet for the roulette game;
- determining, based on the position, a bet type for the bet from a predefined plurality of distinct bet types, wherein the predefined plurality of distinct bet types includes at least a single-value bet type and a multi-value bet type;
- selecting, prior to an outcome of the roulette game and based on the determined bet type, a specific highlight effect from a predefined plurality of different visual highlight effects, wherein each of the plurality of different visual highlight effects has a different shape predefined to visually distinguish a respective one of the predefined plurality of distinct bet types;
- deemphasizing portions of a roulette wheel for non-bet-upon values by dimming a lighting effect on the portions of the roulette wheel for the non-bet-upon values;
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- animating, concurrently with the deemphasizing, the selected specific highlight effect on one or more portions of the roulette wheel associated with one or more bet-upon values for the determined bet type.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.