Gaming machines having primary front and ancillary side displays
AssigneeAgs LLC
InventorGerald Francis Wasinger
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Abstract
An ancillary display for a gaming environment having one or more gaming machines each having a respective primary display that displays respective gaming action and/or gaming enticements includes a subarea image capturing circuit configured to capture video subarea signals corresponding to a predetermined subportion of imagery presented by at least one of the primary displays of at least one of the gaming machines, and one or more image output driver circuits configured to output ancillary imagery that is responsive to at least one of the captured video subarea signals.
Claims20
An electronic gaming machine (EGM) comprising:
- a secured cabinet having front, rear, left and right sidewalls and an interior;
- a regulated power supply, disposed within the interior of the cabinet, receiving power from an external power source;
- a gaming machine controller, including a processor and a memory, disposed within the interior of the cabinet, coupled to the regulated power supply;
- a frontal display, mounted as part of the front sidewall of the cabinet, coupled to the regulated power supply and communicatively coupled to the gaming machine controller to display primary imagery comprising primary gaming action content associated with a play of a game at the EGM;
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- at least one cabinet sidewall display mounted as an integral exterior portion of at least one of the front, rear, left and right sidewalls of the cabinet, coupled to the regulated power supply and communicatively coupled to the gaming machine controller to output secondary imagery comprising secondary action content in synchronism with the primary gaming action content displayed by the frontal display;
- wherein the at least one cabinet sidewall display comprises a semi-transparent exterior having light-absorbing particles distributed and configured to reflect no more than 25% of exterior light.
A gaming machine comprising:
- a cabinet having front, rear, left and right walls and an interior;
- a regulated power supply, disposed within the interior of the cabinet, receiving power from an external power source;
- a gaming machine controller, including a processor and a memory, disposed within the interior of the cabinet, coupled to the regulated power supply;
- a frontal display, formed as an integral part of the cabinet front wall, coupled to the regulated power supply and communicatively coupled to the gaming machine controller to display dynamic gaming action content associated with a play of a game at said gaming machine;
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- at least one cabinet sidewall display formed as an integral part of a respective one of cabinet walls, coupled to the regulated power supply and communicatively coupled to the gaming machine controller to display dynamic content synchronized with at least part of the dynamic gaming action content displayed by the frontal display;
- wherein the at least one cabinet sidewall display comprises a semi-transparent exterior having light-absorbing particles distributed therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.