Patents Assigned to Aruze Gaming (Hong Kong) Limited
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Patent number: 11037395Abstract: Gaming devices, gaming systems, gaming device display systems and methods for providing enhanced lighting features in gaming devices and systems are provided. In one example, a front or player-facing flexible LED light strip is positioned to follow a curved contour portion of a video display device. A diffuser may be positioned to cover the flexible LED light strip. The flexible LED light strip may be positioned on a display frame attached to the video display device and the display frame may include a curved contour portion that conforms to the curved contour portion of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Aruze Gaming (Hong Kong) LimitedInventors: Shun Ozaki, Masumi Sakamoto, Yoko Aikawa, Satoshi Joko
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Patent number: 10964157Abstract: An electronic table game (“ETG”) system in which a sequence of cards dealt by a common dealer is used to generate a real-time data stream of card identities communicated to a plurality of different player terminals, thereby allowing the different player terminals to provide different games utilizing the same card identities.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: Aruze Gaming (Hong Kong) LimitedInventor: Kelvin Morin
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Patent number: 10922927Abstract: In one aspect, an improved gaming table, such as a craps table, is disclosed herein, which combines electronic displays and wagering interfaces with traditional craps tables having physical dice and allowing players to physically throw the dice.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: ARUZE GAMING (HONG KONG) LIMITEDInventors: Eric Persson, Kenji Enokido, Hiroki Munakata, Aaron Huang, Motoya Nakamura, Kenji Hamao
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Patent number: 10839652Abstract: An improved coin pusher machine includes at least one player station. The at least one player station includes at least one memory device and processor, a pusher field configured to hold a plurality of tokens, a win slot configured to accept tokens that fall from the pusher field, and omitting any lose slot. The at least one player station includes a pusher mechanism configured to move in a reciprocating motion, a token launching mechanism configured to launch tokens onto the pusher field, and a token counter configured to count a number or value of tokens that fall into the win slot. The processor is configured to calculate a total value, including a base win value and a feature win value, of tokens falling into the win slot from the pusher field, and cause an indication associated with a game cycle to be transmitted to an external host computer.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: ARUZE GAMING (HONG KONG) LIMITEDInventor: Katsuhiro Kido
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Patent number: 10573123Abstract: In one aspect, an improved roulette gaming system is disclosed herein, which provides visual effects for a roulette wheel, a roulette ball, or both.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Aruze Gaming (Hong Kong) LimitedInventors: Yoichi Kato, Katsuhiro Kido
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Patent number: 10546458Abstract: In one aspect, an improved gaming table, such as a craps table, is disclosed herein, which combines electronic displays and wagering interfaces with traditional craps tables having physical dice and allowing players to physically throw the dice.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Aruze Gaming Hong Kong LimitedInventors: Shunichi Fujita, Kazuyuki Endo
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Patent number: 10546453Abstract: A system apparatus and method which provides a player of a gaming system the ability to increase their wager for a guaranteed wild reel. The system apparatus and method may increase the number of reels that may become a wild reel based on the player increasing their wager. A system apparatus and method which provides a player of a non-wagering or social gaming system the ability to increase their virtual wager for a guaranteed wild reel is also contemplated.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Aruze Gaming (Hong Kong) LimitedInventor: Yukinori Inamura
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Patent number: 10540853Abstract: In one aspect, an improved gaming table, such as a craps table, is disclosed herein, which combines electronic displays and wagering interfaces with traditional craps tables having physical dice and allowing players to physically throw the dice.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: Aruze Gaming (Hong Kong) LimitedInventors: Eric Persson, Kenji Enokido, Hiroki Munakata, Aaron Huang, Motoya Nakamura, Kenji Hamao
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Patent number: 10510212Abstract: A gaming machine which makes it possible to avoid monotonous game play is provided. At the start of each game play, gaming machine executes processes of: randomly selecting one of symbol random determination tables in which a probability of rearrangement of each symbol on each reel is defined, based on a symbol random determination table determination table in which a probability of random selection of one of the symbol random determination tables for each of the random determination tables; a symbol random determination process of randomly determining symbols to be rearranged based on the selected symbol random determination table; and displaying the determined symbols on a display device by rearranging the reels.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING (HONG KONG) LIMITEDInventors: Masumi Fujisawa, Yukinori Inamura, Kenta Kitamura
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Patent number: 10510206Abstract: In one aspect, improved gaming machines are disclosed herein, which provides a first projection display for each gaming machine, and a second projector for displaying video on a plurality of the gaming machines.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Aruze Gaming (Hong Kong) LimitedInventors: Akira Shimizu, Akira Osawa
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Patent number: 10304281Abstract: An electronic table game (“ETG”) system in which a sequence of cards dealt by a common dealer is used to generate a real-time data stream of card identities communicated to a plurality of different player terminals, thereby allowing the different player terminals to provide different games utilizing the same card identities.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Aruze Gaming (Hong Kong) LimitedInventor: Kelvin Morin
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Patent number: 10290181Abstract: The present invention provides a reception device, which comprises an operation device which is used to perform a variety of operations, a camera device which is used to take dynamic images for the peripheral area of the operation device, and a control device analyzing the action of the personage presented in the peripheral area according to the dynamic images of the peripheral area taken by the camera device and performing a control to cause the operation device to perform the operation corresponding to the analysis result.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING (HONG KONG) LIMITEDInventors: Junpei Sato, Yoshihiro Nagasaki, Satoshi Joko
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Patent number: 10275982Abstract: The present invention provides a reception device, which comprises an operation device performing a variety of operations, an obstacle checking device checking the obstacle in the monitoring area which includes the motion range of the operation device, and a control device simulating the operation path of the operation device in advance before the operation device performs an action and during the process of performing the action, and if there is an obstacle in the simulated operation path, a control is performed to cause the operation device to perform the operation corresponding to the abnormal state.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING (HONG KONG) LIMITEDInventors: Junpei Sato, Yoshihiro Nagasaki, Satoshi Joko
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Patent number: 10192399Abstract: The present invention provides an operation device, which comprises a face-formed-body which forms a shape of face by the translucent resin, a light emitting device which is configured inside of the face-formed-body and is able to project the light with a variety of color switchably to any area of the face-formed-body, and a light emitting control device which controls the light emitting device and causes it to select the color of the light and the irradiation area of the face-formed-body according to the different situation and project the light of the selected color into the selected irradiation area.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING (HONG KONG) LIMITEDInventors: Junpei Sato, Yoshihiro Nagasaki, Satoshi Joko
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Patent number: 10186107Abstract: There is provided a gaming machine capable of providing new gaming characteristics: the number of active lines is changeable to vary a winning probability. A slot machine controls a lower image display panel having a symbol display area in which some of symbols arranged in symbol arrays are respectively rearranged in display blocks in accordance with the game. The slot machine rearranges, on a one to one basis, the symbols in the display blocks arranged in a matrix of M columns by N rows. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, the slot machine adds display blocks to the matrix in the symbol display area to form a matrix of M columns by N+? rows, and sets additional active lines in the expanded display frame, the number of the additional active lines being calculated by multiplying the number of the added rows ? by a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING (HONG KONG) LIMITEDInventors: Kenta Kitamura, Hiromoto Yamauchi, Yuki Terada, Kensaku Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 10187618Abstract: A projection mechanism including a projector emitting projection light by which a game effect image is generated and a projection target mechanism including a projection surface which generates a three-dimensional structure corresponding to a game content, in association with the game effect image generated by projection of the projection light are included.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignees: Universal Entertainment Corporation, Aruze Gaming (Hong Kong) LimitedInventors: Takashi Izawa, Keita Shimura
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Patent number: 10134237Abstract: A gaming machine which makes it possible to improve monotonous game play is provided. A gaming machine includes: a display device configured to display a game result by rearranging symbols arranged on video reels; a storage device configured to store a normal mode video reel on which the symbols including a predetermined symbol are arranged and a chance mode video reel on which the number of the predetermined symbol is larger than the number of the predetermined symbol on the normal mode video reel; and a controller configured to perform switching between a game in a normal mode using the normal mode video reel and a game in a chance mode using the chance mode video reel, when a predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING (HONG KONG) LIMITEDInventors: Masumi Fujisawa, Yukinori Inamura, Yoichi Kato, Hiromoto Yamauchi, Yukihiro Kawakami, Masahiro Yoshida
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Patent number: 10121323Abstract: A gaming machine comprises a terminal device which runs a game, and a storage device which stores a point value generated in games run in the terminal device and a game play count. The gaming machine stores, in a game play count storage area, a total game play count incremented in each game; accumulatively stores a portion of a total point value in a first storage area; accumulatively stores the remaining portion of the total point value in a second storage area of the storage device; adds the point value stored in the first storage area to the point value stored in the second storage area, when the total game play count reaches a certain value; and awards a benefit to the terminal device, when a total point value stored in the second storage area reaches a certain value.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2017Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING (HONG KONG) LIMITEDInventors: Hiroki Munakata, Tatsuya Teranishi, Kensaku Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 10068424Abstract: The present invention provides a reception device, which comprises an operation device which is used to perform a variety of operations, a camera device which is used to take dynamic images for the operation area of the operation device, and a control device determining whether there is an abnormal state in the operation area according to the dynamic images taken by the camera device, and if it is determined that there is an abnormal state, performing a control to cause the operation device to perform an operation corresponding to the abnormal state.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING (HONG KONG) LIMITEDInventors: Junpei Sato, Yoshihiro Nagasaki, Satoshi Joko
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Patent number: 10013851Abstract: A gaming machine runs a normal game, and runs a free game when the right to run the free game is awarded. In the free game, symbols are rearranged on a display device and a benefit is awarded based on a combination of the rearranged symbols, bonus random determination is executed based on a bonus random determination table for a number of times corresponding to the number of specific symbols rearranged, the right to run the bonus game obtained as a result of the bonus random determination is accumulatively stored in the running right stocking area of the storage device, and the bonus random determination is repeated for the awarded number of times of the free game. After the end of the free game, the bonus game is serially executed for the number of times of the bonus game accumulatively stored in the running right stocking area.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING (HONG KONG) LIMITEDInventors: Yukinori Inamura, Susumu Mio, Bungo Matsumura, Takehisa Itagaki, Fumihiro Watabe