Electronic gaming device with icon selection removal feature utilizing a special effects animation

US12211338B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited · AU

Inventors

• Alessandro Sidoti · Hornsby, AU
• Dinh Toan Tran · Parramatta, AU
• Hanson Santoso · Parramatta, AU
• Upinder Dhaliwal · Richmond, AU
• Saurabh Kalra · Greater Noida, IN
• Gaurav Goel · Noida, IN
• Sunil Singh · Palo Alto, US
• Romit Aggarwal · Parramatta, AU
• Nicholas O'Sullivan · Wirraminna, AU
• Emily Chew · Sydney, AU

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 2022
• Grant date: Jan 28, 2025
• Expiry date: Aug 1, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F17/34
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An electronic gaming device comprising a display device, at least one input mechanism, a processor, and a memory storing a plurality of reel strips, and instructions which cause the processor to: select symbols from the reel strips for display at a plurality of symbol positions; display the symbols selected at the symbol positions; in response to a trigger condition being met, initiate an icon selection instance from which one prize of a set of prizes may be awarded, wherein each prize has an associated prize symbol; determine whether to remove one or more prizes from the set of prizes; display a plurality of selectable icons, each of the icons representing a prize; visually remove the one or more prizes; receive selections of the icons until an end condition of a plurality of end conditions is met; and provide an award.