Wagering game machine cabinet memory
AssigneeWMS Gaming Inc.
InventorsStephen A. Canterbury, Victor Mercado, Charles R. Bleich, Timothy C. Loose, Jorge Luis Shimabukuro
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Abstract
Systems described herein include wagering game machines having a cabinet memory mounted or affixed to a cabinet or cabinet component. The cabinet memory provides configuration data and manufacturing data for the cabinet and cabinet components. The configuration data may be used during operation of the wagering game machine to properly configure the components and operation of the wagering game machine.
Claims22
A gaming machine operable to configure resident hardware components by implementing hardware configuration data stored in the gaming machine, the gaming machine comprising:
- a cabinet;
- one or more hardware components including a transmissive LCD display device;
- one or more processors;
- one or more system memory devices storing executable instructions;
- and
- a cabinet memory device mounted on the cabinet or mounted on a first cabinet component mounted to the cabinet, the cabinet memory device coupled to at least one of the one or more processors via a cabinet memory interface, the cabinet memory device storing hardware configuration data for the one or more hardware components, the hardware configuration data including a facing angle for the transmissive LCD display device;
- wherein the stored executable instructions, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause the gaming machine to:
- read the hardware configuration data from the cabinet memory device;
- configure at least one of the one or more hardware components according to the hardware configuration data read from the cabinet memory device, wherein configuring the one or more hardware components includes determining a parallax correction based on the facing angle;
- and
- display graphics, via the transmissive LCD display device, in accordance with the parallax correction.
A method of operating a wagering game machine, the method comprising the acts of:
- reading, by at least one of one or more processors, configuration data from a cabinet memory mounted on a wagering game machine cabinet or mounted on first cabinet component of a wagering game machine, the configuration data including a facing angle for a transmissive LCD display device of the wagering game machine;
- determining, via at least one of the one or more processors, a parallax correction based on the facing angle;
- and
- dividing graphics on the transmissive LCD display device in accordance with the parallax correction.
A computer-implemented method of configuring hardware components in a gaming machine according to hardware configuration data stored separately from system and application programs, the method comprising:
- storing, via at least one of one or more processors, hardware configuration data for one or more hardware components of the gaming machine in a cabinet memory device mounted to the cabinet, the hardware configuration data including a facing angle for a transmissive LCD display device;
- reading the hardware configuration data from the cabinet memory device;
- (ii) configuring the one or more hardware components according to the configuration data read from the cabinet memory device, wherein configuring the one or more hardware components includes determining a parallax correction based on the facing angle;
- and
- executing, via at least one or the one or more processors, a wagering game application to conduct a wagering game for a player, wherein executing the wagering game application includes displaying graphics on the transmissive LCD display device in accordance with the parallax correction.
A machine-readable, non-transitory medium storing executable instructions for configuring one or more hardware components in a gaming machine, the gaming machine further including a transmissive LCD display device, a cabinet, and a cabinet memory device fixed to the cabinet, the cabinet memory device storing hardware configuration data including a facing angle for the transmissive LCD display device, the instructions, when executed by at least one of one or more processors, causing the gaming machine to:
- read the hardware configuration data from the cabinet memory device;
- configure at least one of the one or more hardware devices according to the hardware configuration data read from the cabinet memory device, wherein configuring the one or more hardware components includes determining a parallax correction based on the facing angle;
- and
- execute, a wagering game application to conduct a wagering game for a player, wherein executing the wagering game application includes displaying graphics on the transmissive LCD display device in accordance with the parallax correction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.