Enhanced electronic gaming machine with gaze-based popup messaging

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10089827-B2
Application number	US-201514966836-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 11, 2015
Priority date	Dec 11, 2015
Publication date	Oct 2, 2018
Grant date	Oct 2, 2018

Abstract

An electronic gaming machine is provided. The computer device comprises at least one data storage unit storing game data for a game, a display unit to display graphical game components to a player of the game, at least one data capture unit, such as a camera, to collect data about the player's gaze, and a processor to process the player gaze data, determine if a player gaze condition is satisfied, determine whether a game condition is satisfied. If both the player gaze condition and the game condition are satisfied, the processor modifies at least some of the graphical game components based on the player gaze condition and the game condition.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic gaming device, comprising:
at least one data storage unit to store game data for a game played by a player, the game data comprising at least one game condition and at least one player gaze condition;
first and second display units to display, via a shared graphical user interface, graphical game components to the player in accordance with the game data;
at least one data capture unit to collect player gaze data representative of a gaze of the player, the data capture device comprising a camera; and
at least one processor, configured to:
process the player gaze data to determine whether the player is looking at a bonus game indicator displayed on the first display unit;
if the player is looking at the bonus game indicator, determine whether the at least one game condition is satisfied while the player gaze condition is satisfied; and
if the at least one game condition is satisfied while the player gaze condition is satisfied, display a bonus game on the second display unit, the bonus game selected based on the at least one satisfied game condition.

2. The electronic gaming device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to modify at least some of the graphical game components displayed on the first display unit.

3. The electronic gaming device of claim 2 , wherein modifying at least some graphical game components displayed on the first display unit comprises overlaying a message over the at least some graphical game components.

4. The electronic gaming device of claim 2 , wherein modifying at least some graphical game components displayed on the first display unit comprises altering a duration of a timeout timer.

Assignees

• Igt Canada Solutions Ulc

Inventors

• Froy David
• Bowron Edward
• Dupuis Reuben
• Leblanc Vicky
• VAN NIEKERK Karen
• Spurrell Christopher

Classifications

• G07F17/3255

  Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes, e.g. comps, gaming associated with a purchase, gaming funded by advertisements · CPC title

• G07F17/3209

  Input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen · CPC title

• G07F17/3211

  Display means · CPC title

• G07F17/3239

  Tracking of individual players · CPC title

• G07F17/3246

  involving coins and/or banknotes · CPC title