Gaming machine having enhanced emotive lighting
AssigneeLNW Gaming, Inc.
InventorsNicholas Banas, Jerad Deitrick, Kay Vetter, Michael Corristine
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Abstract
Disclosed is a gaming machine including a cabinet with an emotive lighting system coupled to the cabinet and logic circuitry. The emotive lighting system includes a plurality of light transmitting fibers, each end of which is positioned adjacent to a light-emitting device aligned to emit light into its respective fiber end. The light-emitting devices are arranged in an array and the logic circuitry causes each light-emitting device of the array to selectively emit light such that its associated fiber is illuminated. A method of assembling such an emotive lighting system and attaching it to the gaming machine is also disclosed.
Claims21
A gaming machine comprising:
- a cabinet;
- and
- an emotive lighting system coupled to the cabinet, the emotive lighting system comprising:
- a plurality of translucent fibers, each fiber comprising a first end, a second end, two legs, and an apex extending between the two legs;
- an array of light-emitting devices, wherein a pair of light-emitting devices from the array of light-emitting devices is associated with each fiber of the plurality of fibers;
- a shutter plate having a plurality of receiving holes, wherein the first end and the second end of each fiber are attached to the shutter plate within a respective pair of the receiving holes to align one of the pair of associated light-emitting devices with the first end and to align the other of the pair of associated light-emitting devices with the second end;
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- logic circuitry configured to cause each light-emitting device of the array of light-emitting devices to selectively emit light such that each fiber of the plurality of fibers is selectively illuminated by its pair of associated light-emitting devices.
A method of assembling an emotive lighting assembly for a gaming machine, the gaming machine comprising a cabinet, the method comprising:
- positioning a printed circuit board assembly comprising a plurality of light-emitting devices between a shutter plate and a bracket;
- attaching the shutter plate and the printed circuit board to the bracket;
- attaching a first end and a second end of each of a plurality of fibers to the shutter plate;
- attaching the bracket to the cabinet;
- and
- attaching a transparent lens to the cabinet.
A method of operating an emotive lighting system for a gaming machine, the emotive lighting system comprising a plurality of translucent fibers comprising a first end and a second end, wherein each of the plurality of fibers comprises two legs and an apex extending between the two legs, an array of light-emitting devices, a shutter plate having a plurality of receiving holes, wherein the first end and the second end of each of the plurality of fibers is attached to the shutter plate within a respective pair of the receiving holes such that a pair of light-emitting devices from the array is aligned with the first end and the second end of each fiber, and logic circuitry configured to cause each light-emitting device of the array of light-emitting devices to selectively emit light such that each fiber of the plurality of fibers is selectively illuminated by one or both of its associated light-emitting devices, the method comprising the operations of:
- for a given one of the plurality of fibers:
- emitting light of a first color into the first end of the given fiber by a first light-emitting device of the array associated with the given fiber;
- and
- emitting light of a second color into the second end of the given fiber by a second light-emitting device of the array associated with the given fiber, the second color being different from the first color, to produce a range of colors axially along the given fiber based on a mixing of the first and second colors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.