Patents by Inventor Gilbert J. Q. Burak
Gilbert J. Q. Burak has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8926421Abstract: A multi-player gaming system sensing multiple simultaneous contacts on a surface of a gaming table, differentiating contacts by different players. Privacy controls selectively display private information visible to only one of the players on or near the display surface of the gaming table. The gaming system also detects physical objects placed on the surface of the gaming table, causing wagering game functions or peripheral functions to be performed as a result of the placement of the object on the display surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: WMS Gaming Inc.Inventors: Vladimir I. Arezina, Gilbert J. Q. Burak, Mark B. Gagner, Benjamin T. Gomez, Joel R. Jaffe, James V. Palermo, James M. Rasmussen, Gene Rigsby, Richard T. Schwartz, Craig J. Sylla, Alfred Thomas, Timothy C. Loose
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Patent number: 8882575Abstract: A method of conducting a wagering game on a gaming machine includes the steps of displaying a selectable game element on a display and associating each potential outcome associated with the selectable game element with a predetermined haptic output selected from a plurality of predetermined haptic device outputs. The method also includes the steps of selecting the selectable game element to reveal an outcome associated therewith and causing a haptic device to output the predetermined haptic output corresponding to the outcome of the selectable game element.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: WMS Gaming Inc.Inventors: James M. Rasmussen, Alfred Thomas, Gene Rigsby, Gilbert J. Q. Burak
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Publication number: 20130296053Abstract: A method of conducting a wagering game on a gaming machine includes the steps of displaying a selectable game element on a display and associating each potential outcome associated with the selectable game element with a predetermined haptic output selected from a plurality of predetermined haptic device outputs. The method also includes the steps of selecting the selectable game element to reveal an outcome associated therewith and causing a haptic device to output the predetermined haptic output corresponding to the outcome of the selectable game element.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: WMS Gaming Inc.Inventors: James M. Rasmussen, Alfred Thomas, Gene Rigsby, Gilbert J.Q. Burak
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Patent number: 8500534Abstract: A method of conducting a wagering game on a gaming machine includes the steps of displaying a selectable game element on a display and associating each potential outcome associated with the selectable game element with a predetermined haptic output selected from a plurality of predetermined haptic device outputs. The method also includes the steps of selecting the selectable game element to reveal an outcome associated therewith and causing a haptic device to output the predetermined haptic output corresponding to the outcome of the selectable game element.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2007Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: WMS Gaming Inc.Inventors: James M. Rasmussen, Alfred Thomas, Gene Rigsby, Gilbert J. Q. Burak
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Patent number: 8348747Abstract: A multi-player gaming system sensing multiple simultaneous contacts on a surface of a gaming table, differentiating contacts by different players. Privacy controls selectively display private information visible to only one of the players on or near the display surface of the gaming table. The gaming system also detects physical objects placed on the surface of the gaming table, causing wagering game functions or peripheral functions to be performed as a result of the placement of the object on the display surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2012Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: WMS Gaming Inc.Inventors: Vladimir I. Arezina, Gilbert J. Q. Burak, Mark B. Gagner, Benjamin T. Gomez, Joel R. Jaffe, James V. Palermo, James M. Rasmussen, Gene Rigsby, Richard T. Schwartz, Craig J. Sylla, Alfred Thomas, Timothy C. Loose
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Patent number: 8323114Abstract: A gaming system comprises a wager input device, a display for displaying at least a portion of a wagering game, and a divider overlying the display and dividing the display into at least a first display region and a second display region. An actuator is coupled to the divider, the actuator for moving the divider relative to the display. The system includes a controller operative, in response to a triggering event, to cause the actuator to move the divider from a first position to a second position and thereby alter the size of at least the first display region.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: WMS Gaming Inc.Inventors: Gilbert J. Q. Burak, Timothy C. Loose, Larry J. Pacey, Frank E. Rodriguez
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Publication number: 20120157193Abstract: A multi-player gaming system sensing multiple simultaneous contacts on a surface of a gaming table, differentiating contacts by different players. Privacy controls selectively display private information visible to only one of the players on or near the display surface of the gaming table. The gaming system also detects physical objects placed on the surface of the gaming table, causing wagering game functions or peripheral functions to be performed as a result of the placement of the object on the display surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2012Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: WMS Gaming Inc.Inventors: Vladimir I. Arezina, Gilbert J.Q. Burak, Mark B. Gagner, Benjamin T. Gomez, Joel R. Jaffe, James V. Palermo, James M. Rasmussen, Gene Rigsby, Richard T. Schwartz, Craig J. Sylla, Alfred Thomas, Timothy C. Loose
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Patent number: 8147316Abstract: A multi-player gaming system sensing multiple simultaneous contacts on a surface of a gaming table, differentiating contacts by different players. Privacy controls selectively display private information visible to only one of the players on or near the display surface of the gaming table. The gaming system also detects physical objects placed on the surface of the gaming table, causing wagering game functions or peripheral functions to be performed as a result of the placement of the object on the display surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2007Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: WMS Gaming, Inc.Inventors: Vladimir I. Arezina, Gilbert J. Q. Burak, Mark B. Gagner, Benjamin T. Gomez, Joel R. Jaffe, James V. Palermo, James M. Rasmussen, Gene Rigsby, Richard T. Schwartz, Craig J. Sylla, Alfred Thomas, Timothy C. Loose
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Patent number: 8118674Abstract: A gaming machine including a controller coupled to a 3D display that displays true 3D or virtual 3D imagery associated with a basic or a bonus wagering game. 3D displays can display true 3D imagery or virtual 3D imagery that is displayed in 2D but perceived by the viewer to be 3D. True 3D displays include a volumetric 3D display, a multi-layer display, and a holographic display. Virtual or stereoscopic displays include a lenticular display employing cylindrical or spherical lenslets, a parallax illumination display employing light lines to create a parallax effect, or non-autostereoscopic displays requiring a special viewing aid to complete the 3D effect.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2003Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: WMS Gaming Inc.Inventors: Gilbert J. Q. Burak, Peter Dorn, Jacob C. Greenberg, Francisco J. Paz
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Publication number: 20100210354Abstract: A gaming system comprises a wager input device, a display for displaying at least a portion of a wagering game, and a divider overlying the display and dividing the display into at least a first display region and a second display region. An actuator is coupled to the divider, the actuator for moving the divider relative to the display. The system includes a controller operative, in response to a triggering event, to cause the actuator to move the divider from a first position to a second position and thereby alter the size of at least the first display region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2008Publication date: August 19, 2010Inventors: Gilbert J. Q. Burak, Timothy C. Loose, Larry J. Pacey, Frank E. Rodriguez
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Publication number: 20100130280Abstract: A multi-player gaming system sensing multiple simultaneous contacts on a surface of a gaming table, differentiating contacts by different players. Privacy controls selectively display private information visible to only one of the players on or near the display surface of the gaming table. The gaming system also detects physical objects placed on the surface of the gaming table, causing wagering game functions or peripheral functions to be performed as a result of the placement of the object on the display surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2007Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: WMS GAMING, INC.Inventors: Vladimir I. Arezina, Gilbert J.Q. Burak, Mark B. Gagner, Benjamin T. Gomez, Joel R. Jaffe, James V. Palermo, James M. Rasmussen, Gene Rigsby, Richard T. Schwartz, Craig H. Sylla, Alfred Thomas, Timothy C. Loose
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Patent number: 7708640Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2003Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: WMS Gaming Inc.Inventors: Gilbert J. Q. Burak, Daniel P. Fiden
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Publication number: 20080132313Abstract: A method of conducting a wagering game on a gaming machine includes the steps of displaying a selectable game element on a display and associating each potential outcome associated with the selectable game element with a predetermined haptic output selected from a plurality of predetermined haptic device outputs. The method also includes the steps of selecting the selectable game element to reveal an outcome associated therewith and causing a haptic device to output the predetermined haptic output corresponding to the outcome of the selectable game element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Inventors: James M. Rasmussen, Alfred Thomas, Gene Rigsby, Gilbert J.Q. Burak
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Publication number: 20040192430Abstract: A gaming machine including a controller coupled to a 3D display that displays true 3D or virtual 3D imagery associated with a basic or a bonus wagering game. 3D displays can display true 3D imagery or virtual 3D imagery that is displayed in 2D but perceived by the viewer to be 3D. True 3D displays include a volumetric 3D display, a multi-layer display, and a holographic display. Virtual or stereoscopic displays include a lenticular display employing cylindrical or spherical lenslets, a parallax illumination display employing light lines to create a parallax effect, or non-autostereoscopic displays requiring a special viewing aid to complete the 3D effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2003Publication date: September 30, 2004Inventors: Gilbert J. Q. Burak, Peter Dorn, Jacob C. Greenberg, Francisco J. Paz
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Publication number: 20030176214Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2003Publication date: September 18, 2003Inventors: Gilbert J.Q. Burak, Daniel P. Fiden