公开(公告)号：US11620873B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-04

申请号：US17530637

申请日：2021-11-19

Applicant: IGT

Inventor： Elisabeth Kiss ,  Susanne Kiss ,  Julia-Ines Lerchbaumer ,  Bruno Rittner ,  Michael Russ

IPC: G07F17/34 ,  G07F17/32

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing reel-spin game enhancement features. A player enrolled with a subscription service server is presented with an opportunity to enhance game features associated with a gaming device after a result of a game played on the gaming device is determined. The gaming device determines that only when the result of the game played corresponds to a predetermined outcome, a respin option becomes available for the player. This option is rendered as an offer for the player to activate a game enhancement feature for a respin during a subsequent play of the reel-spin game. The game enhancement features include holding or locking a symbol in the reels of the reel-spin game, adding a score multiplier, or adding a modified symbol to a particular position or reel, during the respin of the subsequent play of the reel-spin game.

公开(公告)号：US11574521B2

公开(公告)日：2023-02-07

申请号：US17225694

申请日：2021-04-08

Applicant: IGT

Inventor： Sven Aurich ,  Michael Russ ,  Stefan Keilwert

IPC: A63F9/24 ,  A63F11/00 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F17/00 ,  G07F17/32 ,  G06V40/20

Abstract: A player distraction detector for gaming environments configured to determine player distraction level data usable to cause a change an output by a gaming system based on the player distraction level data.

公开(公告)号：US20230033912A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-02

申请号：US17443657

申请日：2021-07-27

Applicant: IGT

Inventor： Michael Russ ,  Daniel Landry ,  David Small ,  Lukas Angermayer ,  David Froy ,  Bruno Rittner ,  Sven Aurich

IPC: G07F17/32 ,  G06F7/58

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to gaming devices, systems, and methods. As an example, a gaming device is disclosed to generate game outcomes based on game instructions applying game rules to user inputs; cause gameplay graphics to be rendered by the user interface in accordance with the game outcomes; receive, from a sensor, information that enables the processor to identify a number of players positioned in proximity of the user interface; dynamically modify the game rules based on the identified number of players being greater than one; generate additional game outcomes based on the game instructions applying the modified game rules to user inputs; and cause additional gameplay graphics to be rendered by the user interface in accordance with the additional game outcomes.

公开(公告)号：US20230005337A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-05

申请号：US17901533

申请日：2022-09-01

Applicant: IGT

Inventor： Michael Russ ,  Daniel Landry ,  David Froy ,  Fayez Idris ,  Sven Aurich ,  Stefan Keilwert ,  Susanne Kiss

IPC: G07F17/32 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to systems, methods, and devices that enable interactions between a tag having conductive, coded ink and a gaming environment. As an example, a method is disclosed that includes providing a tag with an encoded physical medium that is readable by a touch-capable user interface, determining that the tag has been read by a touch-capable user interface of a gaming device in combination with detecting a gesture of the user at the touch-capable user interface of the gaming device, enabling the gaming device to provide a predetermined game feature in response to determining that the tag has been read by the touch-capable user interface of the gaming device in combination with detecting the gesture of the user at the touch-capable user interface of the gaming device, and updating an electronic record associated with the tag to indicate that the predetermined game feature has been enabled.

公开(公告)号：US11527126B1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-13

申请号：US17374703

申请日：2021-07-13

Applicant: IGT

Inventor： Michael Russ ,  David Froy ,  Sven Aurich

IPC: G07F17/32 ,  G06F3/04883 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming device or system that detects, at each input electrode location of a plurality of elastically deformable input electrode locations, an amount of pressure applied to an elastically deformable outer layer at a corresponding input electrode location in response to deformation of the elastically deformable outer layer by physical contact with a player of a gaming device; determines that the player has applied pressure to the plurality of elastically deformable input electrode locations continuously over at least a predetermined time interval; determines a pressure pattern corresponding to the plurality of elastically deformable input electrode locations; compares the pressure pattern to a plurality of different pressure patterns corresponding to a plurality of different player gestures to determine a player gesture corresponding to the pressure pattern; and determines, based on the determined player gesture and a comparison of the amount of applied pressure to a threshold magnitude, an operation of the gaming device.

公开(公告)号：US11430291B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-30

申请号：US15672560

申请日：2017-08-09

Applicant: IGT

Inventor： Michael Russ ,  Stefan Keilwert ,  Lukas Angermayer ,  Klaus Achmüller ,  Dieter Goriup ,  Elisabeth Kiss ,  Caprice Mitterhöfer ,  Martin Lasser ,  Stefan Koller ,  Gerhard Pichler ,  Julia-Ines Lerchbaumer ,  Petra Wagner

IPC: G07F17/00 ,  G07F19/00 ,  G07F17/32

Abstract: A method of displaying player information in a casino using alternate reality includes generating a live video signal of a gaming environment using a camera on an electronic device; determining an identity of a player who is visible in the live video signal; retrieving information about the player from a database of registered players in response to the determined player identity; and displaying information about the player to a user of the electronic device so that the information appears to the user to be adjacent or on the player.

公开(公告)号：US11367095B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-21

申请号：US16161844

申请日：2018-10-16

Applicant: IGT

Inventor： Michael Russ ,  Sven Aurich ,  Elisabeth Kiss ,  Julia-Ines Lerchbaumer ,  Gernot Hoefler ,  Roland Krainz

IPC: G06Q30/00 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G07F17/32 ,  G06Q50/34

Abstract: A system sends the identification of an electronic incentive award that a player may into a mobile device. The electronic incentive award may be sent in response to the player performing an action to complete an incentive objective on an electronic gaming machine (EGM). The system receives incentive progress data that corresponds to the action to complete the incentive objective. The incentive progress data indicates player progress towards completing the incentive objective. In response to the incentive progress data indicating that the player has completed the incentive objective, the system provides the electronic incentive award to the mobile device for the player to use on the mobile device.

公开(公告)号：US20220076535A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-10

申请号：US17530637

申请日：2021-11-19

Applicant: IGT

Inventor： Elisabeth Kiss ,  Susanne Kiss ,  Julia-Ines Lerchbaumer ,  Bruno Rittner ,  Michael Russ

IPC: G07F17/32

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing reel-spin game enhancement features. A player enrolled with a subscription service server is presented with an opportunity to enhance game features associated with a gaming device after a result of a game played on the gaming device is determined. The gaming device determines that only when the result of the game played corresponds to a predetermined outcome, a respin option becomes available for the player. This option is rendered as an offer for the player to activate a game enhancement feature for a respin during a subsequent play of the reel-spin game. The game enhancement features include holding or locking a symbol in the reels of the reel-spin game, adding a score multiplier, or adding a modified symbol to a particular position or reel, during the respin of the subsequent play of the reel-spin game.

公开(公告)号：US11238701B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-01

申请号：US16821717

申请日：2020-03-17

Applicant: IGT

Inventor： Elisabeth Kiss ,  Susanne Kiss ,  Julia-Ines Lerchbaumer ,  Bruno Rittner ,  Michael Russ

IPC: G07F17/34 ,  G07F17/32

Abstract: A gaming device determines that only when a result of a game played corresponds to a predetermined outcome, a respin option becomes available for a player. This option is rendered as an offer for the player to activate a game enhancement feature for a respin during a subsequent play of the reel-spin game. The game enhancement features include holding or locking a symbol in the reels of the reel-spin game, adding a score multiplier, or adding a modified symbol to a particular position or reel, during the respin of the subsequent play of the reel-spin game.

公开(公告)号：US11200775B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-14

申请号：US16785965

申请日：2020-02-10

Applicant: IGT

Inventor： Fayez Idris ,  Stefan Keilwert ,  Sven Aurich ,  David Froy, Jr. ,  Michael Russ ,  David Small ,  Yue Hang Tang

IPC: G07F17/32 ,  G07F17/34

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to gaming machines, systems, and methods. As an example, a method is disclosed that includes enabling a user to interact with a game of chance via a user interface device of the electronic gaming machine, storing an amount of credit available for the player to play the game of chance in a credit meter, presenting the amount of credit available to the user via the user interface device, providing information from the credit meter to a wireless communication assembly, and transmitting, with the wireless communication assembly, the information from the credit meter to a game management system.