Patents Assigned to Aruze Corp.
  • Publication number: 20090239653
    Abstract: A gaming terminal includes: a base game; a chance game offering a chance of obtaining a chance flag which qualifies a player to join a special game; an ID data input device through which ID data specifying a player is inputted; a terminal storage unit that associates the number of chance flags with the ID data inputted to the ID data input device and stores therein the number and the ID data; a terminal display which displays an image; and a terminal controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090239654
    Abstract: A gaming terminal runs a base game and a special game simultaneously; awards a payout according to a result of the base game; awards the number of chance flags according to a result of the chance game; accumulatively stores, in a terminal storage unit, the number of chance flags in association with ID data and a PIN code; when ID data is newly inputted, determines whether the ID data is correct, referring to the original ID data stored; when the ID data is incorrect, determines whether the PIN code inputted through a PIN code input device is correct, referring to the PIN code stored; when the PIN code is incorrect, initializes the number of chance flags associated with the original ID data stored; when the PIN code is correct, stores the ID data newly inputted, replacing the original ID data stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090239617
    Abstract: A slot machine of the present invention has a controller for controlling a display device, an input device, and a display unit. The controller is operable to: (a) store in the memory a predetermined combination of the input numbers via the input device; (b) execute a process of displaying the combination of the numbers stored in the memory on the display unit; (c) execute a basic game; (d) rearrange in the display region the plurality of symbols with a plurality of numbers assigned thereto during the basic game; (e) pay out a payment in a case where a combination of the rearranged symbols is a predetermined combination; and (f) pay out a payment, in a case where a combination of numbers assigned to the symbols rearranged on a winning line of the display region coincides with the combination of numbers stored in the memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Norio HOSOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20090239619
    Abstract: A gaming machine 1 of the present invention includes: a common display 201; terminal devices 3A, 3B, and 3C; a mother board 40 and a central control board 210. The common display 201 arranges symbols in a matrix 236. Each of the terminal devices 3A, 3B, and 3C has a lower image display panel 16A, 16B, 16C which arranges symbols 180 in a matrix 156, and a side-bet button 90 which selects to or not to participate in a game played on the common display 201. The terminal device 3A, 3B, 3C rearranges the symbols 180 in the matrix 156 on the lower image display panel 16A, 16B, 16C and runs a game to award a payout in accordance with a relation among the rearranged symbols 180.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Yukinori INAMURA
  • Publication number: 20090239659
    Abstract: A gaming machine of the present invention offers a special payout when a specific card is included in the player's cards, in a case where a side BET has been placed in a card game using player's cards and dealer's cards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Kazumasa Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20090239643
    Abstract: A slot machine executes a slot game in a following manner. First, the slot machine receives an external input, then rearranges symbols arranged in a display region, and awards a winning if a predetermined number of symbols of a predetermined type are displayed. In the rearrangement of the symbols, a display is controlled so as to change targeted-symbol display regions according to the amount of bet received by a bet switch. The targeted-symbol display regions are targeted for counting a number of symbols of the predetermined type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Yoichi KATO
  • Publication number: 20090239602
    Abstract: The gaming machine of the present invention places player's cards face down when a bonus game is determined to be executed in a normal game that uses the player's cards and dealer's cards; and offers a special payout in the case where a card selected by an input device out of the placed player's cards is a specific card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090239629
    Abstract: In the gaming machine 1, concurrently run are a base game offering a chance of winning a payout according to a predetermined combination and a chance game offering a chance of obtaining a JP chance which qualifies a player to join a JP game offering a chance of winning a higher payout than the base game. A payout is determined according to a result of the base game and awarded. In accordance with a result of the chance game, there is determined whether a JP chance is awarded. When a JP chance is awarded, the number of awarded JP chances is stored in the RAM 243 in association with the time of awarding the JP chance specified by the IC 280. A timing to run a JP game is determined in accordance with the timing to award the JP chance. A pointer image 167 based on the timing to run the JP game is displayed on the shared display 203. At the timing to run the JP game, the JP game is run in which a player participates by consuming a JP chance stored in the RAM 243.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090239639
    Abstract: A gaming machine 10 starts a game, advances the game to a free game under a predetermined condition, and in a case where a specific symbol is consecutively displayed in a symbol display area for providing an award during the free game, increases (by addition or multiplication) an award based on the number of consecutive games in which the specific symbol is rearranged. Regarding providing an award, a base award is cumulatively increased when the specific symbol is consecutively rearranged in each round of the free game, or the base award is multiplied (or added) by a value corresponding to the number of consecutive games in which the specific symbol is rearranged during the previous game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20090239600
    Abstract: In a racing game, a main controller 20 accepts bet from each of a plurality of terminal devices 30, during a bet accepting period. In a case where final odds, calculated after the expiration of the bet accepting period, is not greater than a predetermined threshold, the main controller 20 executes a recompense processing for bets on the final odds and disqualify the bets from an award, and, when a race is determined to be finished, provides an award by calculating payout for bets qualified for the award.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Tomoaki OOMORI
  • Publication number: 20090239607
    Abstract: According to the above gaming machine of the present invention, a plurality of kinds of rearrangement pattern data showing symbols rearranged during a bonus game or combination patterns of those symbols, and a plurality of kinds of effect pattern data for use in executing an effect are previously stored in a memory, each of the rearrangement pattern data and the effect pattern data being corresponded to a total payout amount in the bonus game. Also, the total payout amount in the bonus game is determined, and the rearrangement pattern data and the effect pattern data corresponding to the determined total payout amount are selected. In the bonus game, symbols are rearranged based on the selected rearrangement pattern data, while an effect based on the selected effect pattern data is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Nakayasu TSUKAHARA
  • Publication number: 20090239642
    Abstract: According to a slot machine of the present invention, the first special award is offered in the case that the specific symbol is not stop-displayed in a game, is stop-displayed in the next game, and is not stop-displayed again in the following game, that is, in the case that the specific symbol is not stop-displayed in the successive games. On the other hand, the second special award is offered in the case that the specific symbol is stop-displayed in successive games. The second special award is larger than the first special award.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090239625
    Abstract: The gaming machine 1 includes: a base game offering a chance of winning a payout according to a predetermined combination; a chance game offering a chance of obtaining a JP chance which qualifies a player to join a JP game offering a chance of winning a higher payout than the base game; a display displaying information which is based on a timing to run the JP game; a memory which stores the number of JP chances; and a controller 100 which is programmed to operate as below. The controller 100 displays information which is based on a timing to run a JP game, runs a base game and a chance game at the same time, determines and awards a payout according to a result of the base game, determines the number of JP chances according to a result of the chance game and awards them, accumulatively stores in the memory the number of awarded JP chances, and awards a payout determined according to a result of a JP game which is run at a predetermined timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20090239646
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes: a plurality of first video reels 31, 31, . . . on which partial pictures of one entire sheet are arranged, respectively; and a plurality of second video reels 32, 32, . . . on which plural types of symbols are arranged, respectively. Operating a start button starts a base game. After the first video reels 31 and the second video reels have been displayed in a rotating manner on a first liquid crystal display panel 11, each of the first video reels 31 is displayed in a stopped state. Completing one entire sheet by the partial pictures displayed in a stopped state starts a second game corresponding to the competed picture. In the second game, like the base game, symbols arranged on the second video reels are employed. Thus, players can intuitively comprehend that a second game associated with the base game is started. Thereafter, an activated area is determined, and a prize is established if specific symbols have stopped in the determined activated area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090239630
    Abstract: In the gaming machine 1, concurrently run are a base game offering a chance of winning a payout according to a predetermined combination and a chance game offering a chance of obtaining a JP chance which qualifies a player to join a JP game offering a chance of winning a higher payout than the base game. A payout is determined according to a result of the base game and awarded. In accordance with a result of the chance game, there is determined whether a JP chance is awarded. When a JP chance is awarded, the number of awarded JP chances is accumulatively stored in the JP chance memory. At a predetermined timing, the JP game is run in which a player participates by consuming the JP chance stored in the JP chance memory. A chance image 170 based on chance image data corresponding to the number of JP chances is displayed on the lower image display panel 16 at the start of the JP game. A payout is determined according to a result of the JP game and awarded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090239658
    Abstract: A gaming machine of the present invention is configured to count the number of side BETs, which is the number of placement of a side BET, every time a side BET is placed. Further, the gaming machine of the present invention is configured to offer a special payout in an amount varying in accordance with a count value of the number of side BETs, when a side BET is placed and a predetermined condition is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090239627
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes a common display, terminal devices and a controller. The common display arranges symbols in a matrix of arrangement areas. The terminal devices arrange symbols in a matrix of arrangement areas and rearrange symbols in arrangement areas on the terminal displays and run games to award base payouts based on relationships among the rearranged symbols. The controller rearranges symbols on the terminal devices, awards base payouts based on the relationship among the symbols, allows selection, on a line basis, of symbols rearranged in the arrangement areas for a predetermined time, and awards a bonus payout in accordance with the relationship among the symbols on the common display. If the symbols are selected within the predetermined time, the controller rearranges the lines of symbols in the common display. If not, the controller randomly rearranges the lines of symbols on the common display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Yukinori INAMURA
  • Publication number: 20090239621
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes a common display; terminal devices; a mother board and a central control board. The common display arranges symbols in a matrix. Each of the terminal devices has a lower image display panel which arranges symbols in a matrix, and a side-bet button which selects to participate in a game played on the common display. The terminal device rearranges the symbols in the matrix and runs a game to award a payout in accordance with a relation among the rearranged symbols. The mother board and the central control board are configured to: rearrange the symbols in the matrix; award a base payout; accumulatively store a base payout; rearrange predetermined symbols; rearrange the predetermined symbols thus rearranged; and award a portion of the base payouts accumulatively stored in the terminal devices, to the terminal devices selected, in accordance with a relation among the rearranged symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Yukinori Inamura
  • Publication number: 20090239649
    Abstract: When a game-number addition symbol is rearranged in arrangement areas, a value determined based on the number of game-number addition symbols rearranged is added to a bonus game-number. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, executed is a bonus game of which scale depends on the bonus game-number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090239616
    Abstract: A slot machine of the present invention comprises a symbol display capable of stop-displaying an odds-change symbol. An amount of payout is determined, when the odds-change symbol has been stop-displayed, based on special odds different from normal odds, in a game subsequent to the game in which the odds-change symbol has been stop-displayed. Namely the odds are changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Tomoaki Oomori