Remote live game
AssigneePlaytech Software Limited
InventorRaul Tammesoo
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for enabling a player Io participate in a live online card game. After a card is drawn, and before all players can see it, it is optionally squeezed, i.e. slowly revealed to one or more players, such as the players who placed the highest bet for a particular side. The gradual revealing of the cards is performed by capturing and broadcasting a representative of the particular side showing the cards to a capturing device, by broadcasting pre-recorded image streams, or by broadcasting an image stream generated by a computing platform after a card was scanned by a scanning device. The player can choose the part of the card being revealed, and its orientation.
Claims23
A computerized gaming system enabling participation of one or more players in a card game from one or more locations other than a location of a game scene, the system comprising:
- at least one capturing device operatively coupled to a server,
- wherein the capturing device is operable to transmit to the server at least a first image stream, said first image stream representative of the game scene;
- wherein the server is operable to transmit said first image stream to destination devices associated with all of said one or more players;
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- wherein the server is further operable to transmit one or more second image streams representative of a gradually revealed card, the server is operable to transmit said one or more second image streams only to destination devices associated with one or more players placed the highest bets,
- wherein the server is further operable to enable individual configuring any of the one or more second image streams before transmitting to a given destination device, such configuring provided in accordance with one or more instructions related to presenting the gradually revealed card and received from a player associated with the given device, wherein only the one or more players placed the highest bets are enabled to provide the one or more instructions, and
- wherein at least one of said one or more instructions are selected from a group comprising instructions related to orientation of gradually revealing the at least one card and instructions related to a part of the at least one card to be gradually revealed.
A server operable in conjunction with a computerized gaming system enabling participation of one or more players in a card game from one or more locations other than a location of a game scene, the server operable to:
- receive a first image stream, said first image stream representative of the game scene and transmit one or more second image streams representative of a gradually revealed card, wherein the server is operable to transmit the one or more second image streams only to destination devices associated with one or more players placed the highest bets, the server is further operable to enable individual configuring any of the one or more second image streams before transmitting to a given destination device, such configuring provided in accordance with one or more instructions received from a player associated with the given device and related to presenting the gradually revealed card, wherein only the one or more players placed the highest bets are enabled to provide the one or more instructions, wherein at least one of said one or more instructions are selected from a group comprising instructions related to orientation of gradually revealing the at least one card and instructions related to a part of the at least one card to be gradually revealed.
A method of operating a computerized gaming system in a manner enabling participation of one or more players in a card game from a location other than a location of a game scene, the method comprising:
- capturing by a capturing device at least a first image stream, said image stream representative of the game scene;
- transmitting said first image stream to a server, and further transmitting said image stream from the server to destination devices associated with all of said one or more players;
- individually configuring at said server one or more second image streams representative of a gradually revealed card and to be transmitted to respective destination devices;
- and transmitting from said server one or more individually configured second image streams, wherein said second image streams are transmitted only to destination devices associated with the one or more players placed the highest bets,
- wherein configuring any of the one or more second image streams is provided in accordance with one or more instructions related to presenting the gradually revealed card and received from a player associated with a respective destination device, and wherein only a player out of one or more players placed the highest bets is enabled to provide the one or more instructions, and
- wherein at least one of said one or more instructions are selected from a group comprising instructions related to orientation of gradually revealing the at least one card and instructions related to a part of the at least one card to be gradually revealed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.