Gaming machine reel having a rotatable dynamic display

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9129488-B2
Application number	US-201213683747-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 21, 2012
Priority date	Sep 27, 2001
Publication date	Sep 8, 2015
Grant date	Sep 8, 2015

Abstract

A gaming machine reel having a motor capable of rotating the reel operatively coupled to a controller to control a reel rotation speed, a support mechanism coupled to the motor having an outer circumferential region, a rotatable display mounted on the outer circumferential region operable to rotate about an axis of the reel. The rotatable display may be used to display game play indicia utilized in a wager-based game of chance. A game controller coupled to the rotatable display may be configured to determine a portion of the rotatable display that is visible through a viewing window on the gaming machine at a particular, determine pixel locations associated with the visible portions and map visual content to the visible portions as a function of time while the rotatable display is rotating.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A gaming machine, comprising:
a cabinet;
a plurality of reels mounted within the cabinet, each reel comprising a physical reel structure rotatable about an axis and having an outer perimeter region;
at least one display mounted on the outer perimeter region configured to rotate with the physical reel structure, said at least one display comprising an array of addressable pixels;
a memory device configured to store a sequence of game play indicia utiliz…

Assignees

• Igt Reno Nev

Inventors

• Paulsen Craig A
• Griswold Chauncey W
• Hedrick Joseph R
• Wilder Richard L
• Mattice Harold E

Classifications

• G07F17/3213

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/3202 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/3216

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/34 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G07F17/3211

  Physics · mapped topic