US 2009/0264196 A1Published application

Gaming device

AssigneeAruze Corp.

InventorJun Fujimoto

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Abstract

A gaming device according to the present invention has: a plurality of stations which can be played by respective ones of a plurality of players; a detection section which detects a motion of the player at the respective one of the stations; and a controller which can be communicated with the plurality of stations. This gaming device includes processes of: (i) receiving acceptance information of a game from the plurality of stations; (ii) causing the display section to display the BET image corresponding to the respective one of the stations; (iii) causing the detection section to detect a motion of the player when a gaming medium is BET-operated on the BET image displayed at the display section; (iv) causing the image acquisition section to acquire an image of the player who is present at the respective one of the stations and to image-process the acquired image information; (v) judging whether or not the notification section performs notification based upon a result of the detection of the process (iii) and a result of the image processing of the process (iv); and (vi) causing the notification section to perform notification in accordance to a result of the judgment of the process (v).

Claims9

Dependent claims

A gaming device, comprising:

(a) a plurality of stations which can be played by respective ones of a plurality of players;
(b) a display section which displays an image for a game and a BET image corresponding to a respective one of the stations;
(c) a detection section which detects a motion of the player when the player who is present at a respective one of the stations makes a BET operation for the BET image displayed at the display section;
(d) an image acquisition section which is capable of acquiring an image of the player who is present at the respective one of the stations;
(e) a notification section which performs notification, based upon a predetermined condition;
and
(f) a controller which can be communicated with the plurality of stations, the controller being configured to:
(i) receive acceptance information of a game from the plurality of stations;
(ii) cause the display section to display the BET image corresponding to the respective one of the stations;
(iii) cause the detection section to detect a motion of the player when a gaming medium is BET-operated on the BET image displayed at the display section;
(iv) cause the image acquisition section to acquire an image of the player who is present at the respective one of the stations and to image-process the acquired image information;
(v) judge whether or not the notification section performs notification based upon a detection result of the process (iii) and an image processing result of the process (iv);
and
(vi) cause the notification section to perform notification in accordance with a judgment result of the process (v).

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.