Patents Assigned to Novomatic AG
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Publication number: 20140029795Abstract: A method for identifying a selected playing ball from a prescribed number of playing balls, wherein each of the playing balls is provided with a different symbol, wherein: a) the selected playing ball is moved from a starting position past an image recording unit pickup, b) the mass centre of the depiction of the selected playing ball in the image is kept unaltered for a prescribed, c) the image position and size of the depiction of the playing ball is ascertained, and a check is performed to determine whether portions of the depiction of the playing ball are situated outside a lateral of the image, and d) if portions of the depiction of the playing ball are situated outside said lateral edge, the playing ball is returned to the pickup area of the image recording unit and/or is repositioned and steps b) to d) are repeated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: NOVOMATIC AGInventor: Christian Rommer
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Publication number: 20130339739Abstract: A device for handling sensitive data comprises a first integrated circuitry forming a first trust zone and a second integrated circuitry forming a second trust zone. The first circuitry comprises a secure processing unit adapted for processing sensitive data, the second circuitry comprises a persistent memory area within its trust zone for storing sensitive data. The second integrated circuitry is separated from the first integrated circuitry, the processing unit of the first circuitry transfers sensitive data from the first trust zone to the second trust, the second circuitry transfers sensitive data stored in its persistent memory area to the processing unit of the first trust zone. The first and the second integrated circuitry comprise crypto means for securely transferring sensitive data based on a symmetrical crypto method using a secure key. The second integrated circuitry comprises means for initiating a new key generation to replace the active secure key.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: NOVOMATIC AGInventors: Andreas HUEBER, Gerhard NAGL, Robert NOWAK, Igor MUDRY
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Publication number: 20130333340Abstract: The present invention relates to an air cleaner for the removal of pollutants from an air flow by a filter module, the filter module of which includes at least one permeable filter layer for the accumulation of pollutants on the filter layer. A bypass channel will be provided and established such that part of the unfiltered air flow may bypass any filter layer. Such a bypass channel does not compromise the cleaning effect of the filter module, at least as long as the filter layer has not yet been clogged with pollutants since in this case the biggest part of the air flow will take the major path through the filter layer due to lack of resistance. Only if the filter layer is clogged and if resistance for the air flow increases, air will obviously flow through the mentioned bypass channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: Novomatic AGInventor: Heinz Winkler
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Publication number: 20130299312Abstract: A ball guide having a body for receiving and guiding balls of a specified size along a specified path that is defined by the body. At least one vibration generator is provided which is connected to the body in a vibration-transmitting manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: NOVOMATIC AGInventor: Wolfgang Polleres
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Patent number: 8556731Abstract: A doorframe is provided that uses angled display areas in a single frame to allow more than one display means to be mounted or placed behind the door with the viewing area facing outward. This allows a player to more comfortably view a multiple-display gaming machine from a single location while at the same time, allows attendants or engineers working on a gaming machine to more readily access the internal workings of the gaming machine by having to only open a single door.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2004Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Novomatic AGInventors: Marek Gawel, Johann F. Graf
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Patent number: 8540565Abstract: A gaming machine having standard and bonus game play features. During standard game play mode, the interface displays a matrix of symbols representing an arrangement of reels, and the computer calculates payouts based on the symbols, within the matrix. When a predetermined number of scatter symbols appear in the matrix of symbols in standard game play mode, bonus game play commences and at least some of the scatter symbols are transformed into wild symbols during bonus game play. Bonus game play mode includes multiple reel spins. The wild symbols presented during bonus game play mode occupy more than one location in the matrix of symbols and move during each reel spin to a random location in the matrix of symbols. The random location in the matrix of symbols excludes matrix locations previously occupied by a wild symbol during an immediately previous reel spin during bonus game play.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2012Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Novomatic AGInventors: Berndt Burghard, Jan Degenhart
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Patent number: 8535401Abstract: The present invention relates to an air cleaner for the removal of pollutants from an air flow by a filter module, the filter module of which includes at least one permeable filter layer for the accumulation of pollutants on the filter layer. According to the invention, a bypass channel will be provided and established such that part of the unfiltered air flow may bypass any filter layer. Surprisingly, such a bypass channel does hardly compromise the cleaning effect of the filter module, at least as long as the filter layer has not yet been clogged with pollutants since in this case the biggest part of the air flow will take the major path through the filter layer due to lack of resistance. Only if the filter layer is clogged and if resistance for the air flow increases, air will obviously flow through the mentioned bypass channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Novomatic AGInventor: Heinz Winkler
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Publication number: 20130217494Abstract: The present invention is a gaming machine such as a slot machine having a housing with a light-effect arrangement for creation of light effects. The gaming machine has at least one reflector arranged on the housing such that the reflector is positioned with respect to a remote light source to reflect a light beam from the remote light source at least partly towards the front of the housing. The housing may include a light source, which may be a strip of LED lights that emits a light beam. This arrangement is particularly beneficial in modern gaming devices. A higher degree of design freedom relative to light source arrangement is achieved through the use of reflectors and the light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2013Publication date: August 22, 2013Applicant: NOVOMATIC AGInventor: NOVOMATIC AG
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Publication number: 20130190068Abstract: A gaming machine having standard and bonus game play features. During standard game play mode, the interface displays a matrix of symbols representing an arrangement of reels, and the computer calculates payouts based on the symbols, within the matrix. When a predetermined number of scatter symbols appear in the matrix of symbols in standard game play mode, bonus game play commences and at least some of the scatter symbols are transformed into wild symbols during bonus game play. Bonus game play mode includes multiple reel spins. The wild symbols presented during bonus game play mode occupy more than one location in the matrix of symbols and move during each reel spin to a random location in the matrix of symbols. The random location in the matrix of symbols excludes matrix locations previously occupied by a wild symbol during an immediately previous reel spin during bonus game play.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: NOVOMATIC AGInventors: Berndt Burghard, Jan Degenhart
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Publication number: 20130184076Abstract: The present invention relates to a gaming machine and/or entertainment machine, in particular in the form of slot machines and/or gambling machines operable by coins and/or by monetary equivalents, having a plurality of screens for the presentation of information, in particular of game contents and/or of game information, which are directed toward a machine operating position, and having a control device for the control of the screens and/or for the control of game procedures. It is proposed to arrange a plurality of screens staggered behind one another and overlapping one another so that the viewing window onto at least one screen remains behind the actual screen surface of the screen with respect to format and/or size in order to accommodate a maximum number of screens in a compact arrangement, on the one hand, and in order not to be restricted to the desired field of view with respect to the formats of the screens to be used.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2013Publication date: July 18, 2013Applicant: NOVOMATIC AGInventor: NOVOMATIC AG
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Publication number: 20130175756Abstract: A device for inserting bank notes into a bank note processing device. The bank note processing device has a main body, a support surface for supporting a bank note to be inserted on a flat side, and at least one lateral positioning edge for laterally positioning the slot on the bank note processing device and/or for connecting the slot to the bank processing device in an accurately fitting manner. The device for inserting bank notes into a bank note processing device is characterized by a setting mechanism for variably setting the position of the positioning edge transversely to the insertion direction of the bank note through the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2011Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: NOVOMATIC AGInventors: Marek Gawel, Heinz Fridrich
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Patent number: 8388444Abstract: The present invention relates to a gaming machine and/or entertainment machine, in particular in the form of slot machines and/or gambling machines operable by coins and/or by monetary equivalents, having a plurality of screens for the presentation of information, in particular of game contents and/or of game information, which are directed toward a machine operating position, and having a control device for the control of the screens and/or for the control of game procedures. It is proposed to arrange a plurality of screens staggered behind one another and overlapping one another so that the viewing window onto at least one screen remains behind the actual screen surface of the screen with respect to format and/or size in order to accommodate a maximum number of screens in a compact arrangement, on the one hand, and in order not to be restricted to the desired field of view with respect to the formats of the screens to be used.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Novomatic AGInventors: Johann F. Graf, Marek Gawel, Alexander Legat
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Patent number: 8337289Abstract: The present invention relates to a gaming and/or entertainment device having a plurality of wager fields which can be covered individually or group-wise by a wager of a player, as well as having a plurality of winning fields of which one or more can be selected by means of a winnings determination means. Bet display means are provided at the winning fields for marking the winning fields which produce a win according to the bets made, with a detection apparatus being associated with the wager fields for the detection of the wager fields respectively covered by a bet and with a control apparatus being provided for the control of the bet display means at the winning fields in dependence on the wager fields covered by bets and detected by the detection apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2012Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Novomatic AGInventor: Oliver Bartosik
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Publication number: 20120267215Abstract: Device for the acceptance of coins which allows the acceptance of individual coins as well as the acceptance of various coins for further processing of the coins, whereby the device is a drawer-like, laterally moveable holding fixture (5, 10, 14), which is characterised by the drawer-like holding fixture (5, 10, 14) having a on the one side a coin insertion slot (4) and an receptacle area (10, 13, 14) for the reception of a plurality of coins.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2010Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicant: Novomatic AGInventors: Roland Mührenberg, Danis Shageev, Marko Zander
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Publication number: 20120255468Abstract: A cash machine having a device housing with a first door for accessing valuables and a printer housing affixed within the device housing. The printer housing isolates the printer from the device housing. The printer housing has a second door. A printer and a paper roll mount on the second door either directly or with a holding fixture. The second door moves from a closed configuration where the door is closed to an open configuration where the door is open to enable access to the printer and the paper roll. When the second door is in the open configuration at least a portion of the printer and the printer roll extend out from the device housing to facilitate maintenance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2010Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: NOVOMATIC AGInventors: Roland Muhrenberg, Helmut Ochs, Marco Zander
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Publication number: 20120255467Abstract: The invention refers to a device for management, collection, and/or dispensing of valuables, in particular money, with a locked vault area and an operator and service area, wherein all of the valuables as well as the vault area's controlling units are essentially arranged completely within the vault area, preferably in a certified vault, and essentially all control electronics is arranged in the operator and service area, whereby the vault area and the operator and service area exhibit separate locking systems. According the invention, a second vault area is provided in which the control electronics for controlling the controlling units in the first vault area is arranged wherein said second vault area is separated both from the first vault area for collecting the valuables and from the remaining operator and service area, and exhibits a locking system separate from that of the first vault area and of the operator and service area.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2010Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: NOVOMATIC AGInventors: Sven Kamrath, Marc Rinderspacher, Marco Zander, Tom Brey
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Patent number: 8282467Abstract: An innovative approach is provided to cashless gaming providing extra security already offered by a gaming console. On a player withdrawing stored credits on a first gaming console, the value of credits are stored in a non-playable account on the first gaming console, while dispensing a ticket with information on the ticket linking the ticket to the non-playable credit account and the stored credit amount. A player may then insert or scan the ticket into a second gaming console which, using information on the ticket, queries the first gaming console to transfer the stored non-playable credits to the second gaming console for the player to continue using the credits.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2006Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Novomatic AGInventors: Martin Visocnik, Stuart Wills
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Publication number: 20120252549Abstract: The present invention relates to a gaming and/or entertainment device having a plurality of wager fields which can be covered individually or group-wise by a wager of a player, as well as having a plurality of winning fields of which one or more can be selected by means of a winnings determination means. Bet display means are provided at the winning fields for marking the winning fields which produce a win according to the bets made, with a detection apparatus being associated with the wager fields for the detection of the wager fields respectively covered by a bet and with a control apparatus being provided for the control of the bet display means at the winning fields in dependence on the wager fields covered by bets and detected by the detection apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: NOVOMATIC AGInventor: Oliver BARTOSIK
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Patent number: 8277300Abstract: A method of playing a poker game comprising the steps of: providing a number N of card-boxes at a player's instance; providing for selection of at least one of a predetermined number n of card-boxes from said number N of card-boxes as a player's card-box selection; dealing a card to each of the number N of card-boxes; determining a player's hand based on the cards of the player's card-box selection; dealing as dealer's cards a number of cards determined by the number of player's card-box selection; determining a dealer's hand based on the dealer's cards; and determining a winning hand over the player's and dealer's hand according to a predetermined paytable.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2010Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Novomatic AGInventor: Florian Kirnstötter
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Patent number: 8216047Abstract: The present invention relates to a gaming and/or entertainment device, in particular in the form of a roulette game device, having a game field comprising a plurality of wager fields which can be covered individually and/or group-wise by a wager of a player and/or of a plurality of players, as well as having a playing field, in particular in the form of a roulette wheel, comprising a plurality of winning fields of which one or, optionally, more can be selected by means of a winnings determination means.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2010Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Novomatic AGInventor: Oliver Bartosik