Gaming apparatus and method of controlling image display of gaming apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10580249-B2
Application number	US-82273707-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 9, 2007
Priority date	Jul 10, 2006
Publication date	Mar 3, 2020
Grant date	Mar 3, 2020

Abstract

A gaming apparatus includes a display, a touch panel, and a controller. The touch panel is disposed so as to cover a display screen of the display, and outputs a position signal corresponding to a position touched by a player. The controller displays an image on the display, and moves the image based on the position signal on either one of conditions that the position signal is continuously received from the touch panel for a predetermined period of time and that the position signal is received from the touch panel a predetermined number of times.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A gaming apparatus comprising:
a display that includes a display screen for displaying a plurality of images;
a touch panel that outputs a position signal corresponding to a touch position touched by a player; and
a controller that receives a touch operation on any of the plurality of images displayed on the display, determines whether the touch position of the touch panel is touched during a predetermined period of time, and controls the display to change a display content of the display screen by moving a display position of a predetermined image, which has been previously determined without being selected by the player, to a desired position in accordance with the position signal received from the touch panel, thereby showing an image which has been hidden behind the predetermined image at a position different from the desired position, to the player, when detecting that a period of time during which the desired position of the touch panel is continuously touched reaches the predetermined period of time, the predetermined image being a movable image among the plurality of images.

2. The gaming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of images further include an image which cannot be moved to the desired position.

3. The gaming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein in a case where the controller moves the predetermined image to the desired position corresponding to the touch position, the controller stops to move the predetermined image when the controller does not receive the position signal corresponding to the touch position.

4. A method of controlling image display of a gaming apparatus, comprising:
displaying a plurality of images on a display screen of a display;
receiving a position signal corresponding to a touch position from the touch panel when a touch operation of a player on any of the plurality of images displayed on the display is performed;
determining, by a controller, whether the touch position of the touch panel is touched during a predetermined period of time; and
controlling, by the controller, the display to change a display content of the display screen by moving a display position of a predetermined image, which has been previously determined without being selected by the player, to a desired position in accordance with the position signal received from the touch panel, thereby showing an image which has been hidden below the predetermined image at a position different from the desired position, to the player, when detecting that a period of time during which the desired position of the touch panel is continuously touched exceeds the predetermined period of time, the predetermined image being a movable image among the plurality of images.

5. The method according to claim 4 , wherein the plurality of images further include an image which cannot be moved to the desired position.

6. The method according to claim 4 , further comprising, in a case where the predetermined image is moved to the desired position corresponding to the touch position, stopping to move the predetermined image when the position signal corresponding to the touch position is not received.

7. An image display apparatus comprising:
a display that displays a plurality of images including an operation window image which has been previously determined without being selected by the player;
a touch panel that outputs a position signal corresponding to a touch position; and
a controller that receives a touch operation on the operation window image, determines whether the touch position of the touch panel is touched during a predetermined period of time, and controls the display to change a display content of the display by selectively moving a display position of the operation window image to a desired position in accordance with the position signal received from the touch panel, thereby showing another image which has been hidden behind the operation window image at a position different from the desired position, to the player, when detecting that a period of time during which the desired position of the touch panel is continuously touched reaches the predetermined period of time.

8. A gaming apparatus comprising:
a display that includes a display screen for displaying an image;
a touch panel that outputs a position signal corresponding to a touch position touched by a player; and
a controller that receives a touch operation for inputting a desired position of a moving destination of the image, and controls the display to change a display content of the display screen by moving a display position of the image to the desired position of the moving destination in accordance with the position signal received from the touch panel when detecting that a period of time during which the desired position of the touch panel is continuously touched reaches a predetermined period of time,
wherein the image includes an operation window image, and
wherein the desired position of the moving destination is a position for allowing another image which has been hidden behind the operation window image at a position different from the desired position, to not be hidden by the operation window.

Assignees

• Kogo Junichi
• Universal Entertainment Corp

Inventors

• Kogo Junichi

Classifications

• G07F17/3211

  Display means · CPC title

• G07F17/3202 Primary

  Hardware aspects of a gaming system, e.g. components, construction, architecture thereof · CPC title