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US 7,677,572 B2Granted
Pattern display device and game machine
AssigneesDenso Corporation, Yamasa Corporation
InventorsMasaaki Ozaki, Takahisa Kaneko, Ken Nishioka, Tsuneo Uchida, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yoshio Aoki, Takashi Yamaguchi
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Abstract
A game machines has a back side display unit composed of reels for displaying back patterns, and a front side display unit composed of transparent EL panels for displaying overlapping patterns overlapping with the back patterns. The back side display unit and the front side display unit are disposed not to produce blind spot regions of the back patterns. The game machine can provide various overlapping patterns with good visibility and a high game selection capability to a player.
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A game machine comprising:
- a control unit;
- a back side display unit that includes at least one display device, which is controlled by the control unit to variably display a back pattern, wherein the back pattern includes a plurality of symbols;
- a front side display unit that includes at least one matrix display device, which is at least partially transparent and is disposed in front of the at least one display device of the back side display unit, wherein
- the at least one matrix display device of the front side display unit is controlled by the control unit to variably display a front pattern, which includes one or more symbols, and thereby to enable a player of the game machine to view the front pattern over the back pattern, and
- the control unit notifies the player through at least one of the back pattern and the front pattern when a winning condition of a game is established;
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- a display data memory that stores display data for displaying the front pattern.
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