Patents Assigned to Aruze Corp.
  • Publication number: 20090227319
    Abstract: A roulette game machine has a plurality of stations. The roulette game machine accepts a side bet operation carried out by players at the plurality of stations. The roulette game machine accumulatively adds one portion of the gaming values on which a side bet was placed, as a progressive payout. In case of granting a progressive payout, the roulette machine determines a station to which the progressive payout will be granted, from the stations at which the side bet operation has been carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Katsuhiro KIDO
  • Publication number: 20090227346
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gaming machine which: displays a moving symbol on a main display in a case where a plurality of specific symbols are displayed; displays a plurality of score symbols associated with scores on a second display from one side edge to another side edge of the second display; displays the moving symbol in a direction that intersects with a moving direction of the score symbols displayed on the second display in response to an input from an input device; and, in a case where the moving symbol is determined to overlap any one of the plurality of score symbols, provides an award corresponding to a score of the score symbol being overlapped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090227353
    Abstract: The gaming machine includes: a game requiring a player's bet; a reel used in the game and mechanically driven to rotate; a plurality of symbols on the reel; a display capable of generating a video image; an input device which receives an input by the player; and a controller which is programmed to carry out the steps of: (a1) receiving an input inputted through the input device; (a2) when the input is a rotation command related to the reel, rotating the reel while the rotation command is being inputted; and (a3) successively displaying, on the display, a video image of at least one of the symbols on the reel in sync with the rotation of the reel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Kazumasa Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20090227310
    Abstract: A game machine of the present invention includes: a plurality of first display devices provided corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of players; a second display device provided in common by the plurality of players; and a controller for controlling the first display devices and the second display device, the controller being operable to: execute a side game in a case where a predetermined condition is met in the basic game; determine, on the plural-players basis, card combinations in which payments are paid out, from among plural kinds of cards in the basic game, and then, display the determined card combination on at least one of each of the first display devices and the second display device; display, on the first display devices, a plurality of cards after dealt on the plural-players basis and display, on the second display device, a plurality of cards displayed on the first display devices and owned by the players, from among the plural kinds of cards in the side game; and pay out a payment, b
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090227376
    Abstract: A game system of the present invention has a plurality of gaming machines capable of communicating with each other via a communication line. The plurality of gaming machines each have an input device operable to input an insurance BET. The plurality of gaming machines carry out the following processing. The plurality of gaming machines store a first predetermined value in a memory and count the insurance BET input from the input device in an accumulative manner. Then, the plural types of symbols displayed on the display are automatically re-arranged. As result of repeating a game, if it is judged that the insurance BET number accumulatively counted at least two or more gaming machines from the plurality of gaming machines has reached the first predetermined value, the accumulated insurance BET numbers are summed up.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Tomoaki OOMORI
  • Publication number: 20090227344
    Abstract: The gamine machine 10 executes the following processing of: starting a basic game; starting scrolling of symbols displayed on the liquid crystal display 30; determining symbols to display stationarily; rearranging the stationary symbols thus determined on the liquid crystal display 30; in a case where the symbol combination rearranged on winning lines L1 to L8 which combine symbols included in the first symbol group set on the crystal display 30 in advance matches a predetermined combination, providing a predetermined award to a player; and furthermore, in a case where a symbol of the second symbol group which indicates a payout rate of an award is rearranged on the extended line of the winning line on which the predetermined combination is formed, further providing an award to a player which equals the predetermined award multiplied by the payout rate indicated by the symbol
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090227333
    Abstract: A gaming machine 13 that determines symbols to be rearranged on a liquid crystal display 30 corresponding to a random number generated, extracts from ROM 108 rearrangement pattern data corresponding to the number of identical symbols when at least a predetermined number of the identical symbols are rearranged, rearranges symbols based on the extracted rearrangement pattern data, and provides an award corresponding to the identical symbols of which at least the predetermined number are rearranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090227321
    Abstract: A slot machine includes: a display device having a plurality of symbol display regions in which plural types of symbols are displayed; a memory for storing positional information of the symbol display regions in which predetermined symbols are arranged; and a processor for controlling the display and the memory, the processor being programmed to (a) execute a basic game; (b) execute a free game in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied during the basic game; (c) rearrange the plural types of symbols during the free game; (d) store in the memory the positional information of the symbol display regions in which the predetermined symbols are arranged during the free game; and (e) rearrange the plural types of symbols during a last free game based on the stored positional information of the symbol display regions so that the predetermined symbols are arranged again in the symbol display regions in which the predetermined symbols have been arranged during past free games.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Hiroki SAITO
  • Publication number: 20090227309
    Abstract: A method of playing card games, according to the present invention, includes the steps of: (a) dealing a predetermined number of cards as player's cards and dealing a predetermined number of cards as banker's cards from among plural types of cards; (b) varying a predetermined card included in the player's cards to another kind of card at a predetermined timing in a case where the player's cards include the predetermined card for a duration from dealing of cards to an end of a game in (a); and (c) determining a winner or a loser by comparing hands of the player's cards with hands of the banker's cards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090227335
    Abstract: A gaming machine comprises: a plurality of gaming terminals capable of running a game independently from each other, each of which terminals includes a terminal display having a matrix of arrangement areas, and each of which terminals arranges a plurality of symbols in the arrangement areas; and a shared display for arranging therein a plurality of symbols. In the gaming machine are performed the following steps of: combining one symbol arrangement of one gaming terminal with another symbol arrangement of another gaming terminal, and rearranging, on the shared display, symbols identical to those in the one symbol arrangement and the other symbol arrangement, determining whether to award a payout according to a relation among the symbols rearranged on the shared display; when the payout is determined to be awarded, determining one of the gaming terminals, based on a predetermined condition; and causing the determined one gaming terminal to award the payout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Yukinori INAMURA
  • Publication number: 20090227350
    Abstract: A gaming machine comprises: a plurality of gaming terminals capable of running a game independently from each other, each of which terminals includes a terminal display having a matrix of arrangement areas, and each of which terminals arranges a plurality of symbols in the arrangement areas; and a shared display for arranging therein a plurality of symbols. In the gaming machine are performed the following steps of: combining one symbol arrangement of one gaming terminal with another symbol arrangement of another gaming terminal, and rearranging, on the shared display, symbols identical to those in the one symbol arrangement and the other symbol arrangement; determining whether to award a payout according to a relation among the symbols rearranged on the shared display; and when the payout is determined to be awarded, determining a distribution of the determined payout for each of the gaming terminals, based on a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Yukinori INAMURA
  • Publication number: 20090227359
    Abstract: A method of playing card games, according to the present invention, includes the steps of: (a) accepting participation of players; (b) determining banker's cards and players' cards, the players' cards being dealt to the players having accepted participation, from a first card set consisting of plural types of cards; (c) dealing the players' cards determined at the step (b) to the players having accepted participation; (d) in a case where the number of players having accepted participation exceeds a predetermined number of players, determining the players' cards to be dealt to the players having accepted participation in excess of the number of players, based upon cards excluding the banker's cards dealt based upon the first card set among a second card set that consists of cards identical to those of the first card set; (e) dealing the players' cards determined at the step (d) to the players having accepted participation in excess of the number of players; and (f) determining a winner or loser after comparing
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090227330
    Abstract: A gaming machine 13 determines a plurality of symbols to be rearranged on a liquid crystal display 30 in a unit game, corresponding to a random number generated. When each of the plurality of symbol groups determined is sequentially arranged, in a case in which a symbol identical with a symbol that has already been rearranged in a display position, among symbols in the display positions adjacent to the symbols thus arranged, is rearranged, the gaming machine 13 rearranges a symbol so as to be identical with the symbol thus arranged in a display position in an extended line extending from the display position at which symbols have already been rearranged toward the display position at which the symbol thus arranged was positioned, and provides an award corresponding to the number of identical symbols rearranged on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Hiroki SAITO
  • Publication number: 20090227351
    Abstract: When a predetermined number of scatter symbols of a same kind are rearranged in any row in a row direction, these scatter symbols of the same kind are replaced to WILD symbols. Each of the WILD symbols is increased in a column direction and then fixed. In this situation, scatter symbols which are not fixed are rearranged. Then, a payout is given according to the number of the WILD symbols fixed and the number of scatter symbols rearranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090227328
    Abstract: A slot machine according to the present invention includes a symbol matrix display area, second reels having second symbols arranged in a superimposed manner on first symbols of first reels, and a processor for controlling rotation of the first and second reels. The plurality of first reels each has an independent rotation axis. Rotation axis of each second reel is positioned closer to a rear side compared to that of each first reel when viewed from the symbol matrix display area. The processor awards a prize in the case where a combination of the first symbols of the first reels rearranged in the symbol matrix display area and the second symbols of the second reels rearranged in a superimposed manner on the first symbols of the first reels is a winning combination on an activated line in a column, row, or diagonal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Hiroki SAITO
  • Publication number: 20090227327
    Abstract: A slot machine includes a display device having a controller for controlling the display device, the input device, the first memory, and the second memory. The controller is programmed to add the bonus point to a cumulative value of the first memory during the basic game; add the credit to a cumulative value of the second memory during the basic game; execute a free game, in a case where a predetermined condition is met during the basic game; execute a bonus game by a number of times equal to the cumulative value of the bonus points stored in the first memory, during a predetermined period from before start to after termination of the free game; and award a prize determined based on the cumulative value of the second memory, in a case where a second symbol displayed in the symbol display region met a predetermined condition during the bonus game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20090227307
    Abstract: A gaming machine according to the present embodiment, a plurality of lucky numbers are set in a one game unit or a plurality of games unit. Then, if it is judged that the total value of the numbers on the two cards that were initially dealt to the player equals the lucky numbers, the selection as to whether to place an additional bet is displayed on the liquid crystal display. If the player has selected to place an additional bet, a processor accepts the additional bet operation. And a processor awards to the player a prize based on the total bet amount obtained by adding the additional bet amount to the bet amount on which a bet was placed before the start of the game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090227348
    Abstract: Herein disclosed is a gaming machine, comprising: a memory for storing image data of a plurality of reels each having a plurality of symbols arranged thereon; a display for displaying the image data of a plurality of reels stored in the memory; an instruction input device for causing the outside to select one or more of the plurality of reels displayed by using the image data of the plurality of reels stored in the memory; and a controller for, by using the image data of the plurality of reels selected by the instruction input device, carrying out a slot game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090227308
    Abstract: A gaming machine according to the present embodiment, one or a plurality of lucky numbers are set in a one game unit or a plurality of games unit based on a player's operation prior to the start of the game. Then, if it is judged that the total value of the numbers on the two cards which were initially dealt to the player equals the lucky numbers, a selection as to whether to place an additional bet is displayed on the liquid crystal display. If the player has selected to place an additional bet, a processor accepts the additional bet operation. And a processor awards to the player a prize based on the total bet amount obtained by adding the additional bet amount to the bet amount on which a bet was placed before the start of the game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: Aruze Corp.
    Inventor: Kazumasa YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20090227323
    Abstract: A slot machine of the present invention includes a symbol matrix display area, first reels, second reels that are provided in an outer peripheral side of the first reels so as to enclose a plurality of the first reels, and a processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: ARUZE CORP.
    Inventor: Hiroki SAITO