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Gaming machine having a persistence-of-vision display

US7708640B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 27, 2003
Grant dateMay 4, 2010
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Expiry dateMar 27, 2023

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG07F17/3213
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A gaming machine for conducting a wagering game includes a controller for selecting a game outcome from a plurality of game outcomes and a persistence-of-vision display for displaying the game outcome. The wagering game may, for example, be slots, poker, keno, bingo, blackjack, or roulette, and may be a basic game or a bonus game. The POV display may, for example, be a 360 degree display or a display employing a rapidly moving structure such as a wand, a hoop, a fan, or a disc. A 360 degree display is shaped generally like a cylinder and displays the game outcome with 2D imagery that is generated by selectively illuminating LEDs spinning in a circular direction about a surface of the cylinder. A display employing a rapidly moving structure has disposed about the periphery of the structure a plurality of LEDs that are selectively illuminated as the structure is moved in a direction that is cyclical, orbital, horizontal, vertical, arced, circular, or rotational.

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