550 results about "Virtual game" patented technology

A disclosed gaming machine provides method and apparatus for presenting a plurality of game outcome presentations derived from one or more virtual 3-D gaming environments stored on the gaming machine. While a game of chance is being played on the gaming machine, two-dimensional images derived from a three-dimensional object in the 3-D gaming environment may be rendered to a display screen on the gaming machine in real-time as part of the game outcome presentation. To add excitement to the game, a 3-D position of the 3-D object and other features of the 3-D gaming environment may be controlled by a game player. Nearly an unlimited variety of virtual objects, such as slot reels, gaming machines and casinos, may be modeled in the 3-D gaming environment.

A first controller includes a first operation data generation section for generating first operation data in accordance with a motion of a first controller body included in the first controller. A second controller includes a second operation data generation section for generating second operation data in accordance with a direction input operation performed by a player. A game apparatus includes a game process means for obtaining the first operation data and the second operation data and subjecting a virtual game world to a predetermined game process in accordance with the obtained operation data, and a display process means for causing the display device to display, on a display area, an image of the virtual game world having been subjected to the game process.

Physical objects may be employed with a virtual game layout to enhance wager and non-wagered based gaming. Displays subsystems may provide a changeable or selectable virtual game layout with demarcations appropriate to a selected game. A sensor subsystem may detect physical aspects of game related pieces (e.g., playing cards, chips, markers, dice, spinners, tokens, tiles) as well as media (e.g., identity media, financial media). All gaming functions may occur through interaction with a playing surface, as well as functions such as order food, beverages and services. Automated tracking of players, dealers and games may be realized along with bonusing and promotions.

Physical objects may be employed with a virtual game layout to enhance wager and non-wagered based gaming. Displays subsystems may provide a changeable or selectable virtual game layout with demarcations appropriate to a selected game. A sensor subsystem may detect physical aspects of game related pieces (e.g., playing cards, chips, markers, dice, spinners, tokens, tiles) as well as media (e.g., identity media, financial media). All gaming functions may occur through interaction with a playing surface, as well as functions such as order food, beverages and services. Automated tracking of players, dealers and games may be realized along with bonusing and promotions.

A system for cross-platform virtual asset creation and management comprises a first computer game having a first set of virtual assets denominated in a first currency, a second computer game having a second set of virtual assets denominated in second currency and a gamer set of virtual assets denominated in a third currency. The games are accessible through a centralized server connected to a communications network. The system includes a currency exchange engine which permits the gamer to play a first game denominated in the first currency, win assets in that first currency and then exchange those assets for assets denominated in the third currency. Therefore, the gamer can play one game, win assets and then exchange the assets using the currency exchange engine for assets used on a second game and denominated in another currency.

Some implementations of the invention provide methods and devices for various types of adventure sequences that preferably involve, at least in part, wagering games. Such sequences may involve wagering and/or other games at a plurality of gaming devices, tables and/or gaming establishments. Some implementations provide a virtual gaming experience wherein one or more other environments (e.g., environments that include gaming establishments) are simulated at a single location. Accordingly, adventure sequences described herein may comprise stages in one or more virtual environments, stages in one or more real environments or a combination of the two. Virtual players, also referred to herein as player game agents (“PGAs”), may act on behalf of real players. A PGA may be able to play games autonomously, e.g., when the associated player is at a different location and/or is not aware of the PGA's current activities. PGAs may be enabled to negotiate on behalf of real players, e.g., for comps, better pay table percentages, etc.

A game process is performed by obtaining control data from a game controller. Distance data associated with the distance between the game controller and a predetermined measured reference provided in a real space is calculated by using the control data obtained from the game controller. Then, a predetermined game process is performed on a virtual game world through an operation based on the value of the distance data. Then, the virtual game world after the game process is displayed on a display device.

The present invention presents a method for providing mobile gaming in a wireless communication network. The method includes provisioning a virtual game space operable for use with a virtual game. The virtual game space includes a plurality of virtual fields that correspond with cells in at least one wireless communication network. At least one notification of a real world event received from a mobile device of a player of the virtual game is processed, wherein state changes in the virtual game are related to the process events.

A video game includes a peripheral device that senses the presence and identity of toys near or on the peripheral. Each of the toys includes an identification device such as an RFID tag. Each of the toys is also associated with a corresponding game character or object. The interactive video game presents a play pattern such that when a toy is detected in a detection area of the peripheral, the virtual game system may process the placement of the toy so as to effectuate a video game control action such as an attack or a maneuver to evade an enemy.

A CPU determines the position of a ball in a virtual game space, and moves a viewpoint based on viewpoint data and the position of the ball. The CPU displays on a monitor TV a portion of a volleyball court in a visible range based on the viewpoint and the direction of an axis thereof. The CPU determines a landing position of the ball, displays a first cursor at the landing position, and displays a player character as it receives the ball when the distance between the player character and the first cursor becomes a predetermined distance before the ball reaches the landing position. When a served ball is received by a player character, the CPU selects a player character to make an attacking action. The CPU assigns a button to the selected player character. When the ball is set by a player character as a setter, the CPU assigns an attack button, and controls the selected player character to perform the attacking action in response to an input signal from the attack button.

A method and system is provided for a virtual game world in which multiple players may play a plurality of games. Each player has a persistent and dynamic virtual identity that is relevant to and affected by the player's activity in each of the games. The games provide the opportunity for the various players to interact with each other, regardless of the actual physical location of the respective players. Preferably, the games provide the opportunity for players to cheat, including conspiring to cheat among multiple players, and accuse other players of cheating. Cheating and accusation of cheating may have positive or negative consequences to the respective players. The games, which are located at specific locations in the virtual world, are preferably provided with location-specific information from corresponding locations in the real world.

A toy device is provided, which is interoperable with a virtual game application enabling a player for playing in a virtual gaming environment. The virtual game application comprises at least one game object controllable by the player. The game object has game specific characteristics, which are developable during playing. The toy device is provided to the player for playing in a real-world environment. The toy device represents a real-world analog of the game object and has one or more sensors, which are arranged to detect how a player a game plays of the player with the toy device. Sensor information is registered by the means of the one or more sensors. The sensor information is detected in consequence to how a game play of the player plays with the toy device in the real-world environment and is transferred to the game application to adjust the game specific characteristics of the game object in accordance with the game play in the real-world environment.

A game machine is provided with two display units, that is, a first LCD 11 and a second LCD 12. On the second LCD 12, feature information unique to each object located in a virtual game space is displayed. When a player selects, based on information displayed on the second LCD 12, one of the objects provided in the virtual game space, a focus point of a virtual camera provided in the virtual game space is set so that the virtual camera is oriented to a direction of the selected object, and the state of the virtual game space captured by the virtual camera is displayed on the first LCD 11. With this, the virtual game space can be displayed without impairing its worldview. Also, the player can be allowed to easily specify a desired focus target in the virtual game space.

A novel networked game, such as poker, having one or more jackpots, includes a lobby screen display from which a player can request to be seated at one or more of a plurality of virtual game tables which are identified as jackpot game tables. Playing cards are electronically dealt to players at the jackpot game tables from an electronic game deck, thereby forming player hands. A dynamic game table screen display presented to each player includes a representation of a game table and players, and, at one or more times: a representation of the playing cards forming the player's hand, an indication of a fee to be collected from a pot containing amounts wagered by players for funding a jackpot, a jackpot counter for indicating the cumulative funds in the jackpot, and a message identifying one or more players at the table who have won funds from the jackpot, and the amounts which they have won.

Methods and systems relating to virtual playing instruments generated from physical playing instruments are provided. In one embodiment, a child deck may be created using one or more rules to resequence a parent virtual deck created from physical playing instruments, such as cards. In one embodiment, a player may be allowed to “cut” the deck of virtual playing instruments before a virtual deck is assigned to a game session. In another embodiment, a copy of the child (or parent) virtual deck is created before the child (or parent) virtual deck is transmitted for use in a game session, and a game may be electronically recreated using the copy of the virtual child deck to confirm the outcome of the game. Further aspects relate to allowing a player of a game to request a secondary audit of the game.

There is described a player terminal for use with a gaming server over a distributed communications network for facilitating the playing of a distributed multi-player on-line game involving interactions between different players in a virtual playing environment. The player terminal comprises: receiving means for receiving from the server, information specifying a virtual playing environment and on-line players in that environment, and update information relating to game-playing events occurring within that environment during the playing of an on-line game; generating means for generating a graphical representation of the virtual playing environment from the received information, graphical representations of each on-line game player and graphical representations of game-playing events occurring within the virtual environment; interaction means for interacting with the game playing events, the interaction means generating information relating to the actions of the on-line player during the playing of the on-line game, which are reflected in the behavior of the graphical representation of that on-line player; and transmitting means for transmitting to the server, game-playing commands generated at the player terminal in response to the displayed game-playing events; such that other on-line players can ultimately see the actions of the on-line player.

In a game system in which two related virtual game spaces are separately displayed on a first display device and a second display device, an object, contained in a first game space represented by a three-dimensional coordinate system, is displayed on the first display device, and an object, contained in a second game space represented by a two-dimensional coordinate system, is displayed on the second display device. A coordinate conversion process is performed in which coordinates indicating a current location of the object in the first game space are mathematically projected onto a two-dimensional plane within the first game space that corresponds to the second game space, so as to determine coordinates in the second game space, that are indicative of a location where a shadow of the object would occur in the two-dimensional plane of the second game space when produced by a light source positioned at a predetermined location in the first game space.

The invention discloses a myoelectricity feedback based upper limb training method and system. The myoelectricity feedback based upper limb training system orderly combines signal acquisition, mode identification, biological feedback and real-time fatigue evaluation, thereby being capable of helping a user train the movement function of the upper limb. The upper limb training method includes steps of acquiring movement signals and myoelectric signals of the upper limb joint of the user when the user acts correspondingly such as forearm rotation and wrist bending/stretching as completing virtual game tasks, adjusting movement parameters of virtual control targets on the basis of the movement signals acquired by the users, identifying several muscle contraction modes of the user according to the characteristic parameters of the myoelectric signals, and utilizing the identified modes as selection basis for a myoelectric feedback control method. In addition, the upper limb training system is capable of extracting fatigue characteristics in real time according to the acquired myoelectric signals, analyzing fatigue states of muscles so as to judge muscle fatigue and send an alarm during the whole interaction system.

In one embodiment, a peripheral management device may have a controller configured to communicate with a gaming machine and a portable electronic device. The controller may be configured to: (i) receive a peripheral data packet from a gaming machine processor, the peripheral data packet including at least one command; (ii) determine whether to process the peripheral data packet on at least one peripheral device of the gaming machine or at least one virtual peripheral device of the portable electronic device; (iii) generate an instructional data packet for the at least one virtual peripheral device if the peripheral data packet is determined to be processed on the at least one virtual peripheral device; and (iv) transmit the instructional data packet to the portable electronic device.

A gaming system of the present invention is arranged in a location like a hotel and casino, wherein a server connects virtual gaming machines with mobile gaming terminals that customers can carry in any of the areas in the location. The server selects one mobile gaming terminal in a lottery process, and stores customer ID data for the player in possession of the selected mobile gaming terminal. The server detects the mobile gaming terminals that are located in a specific area, and checks the customer ID data received from the detected mobile gaming terminals. If the received customer ID data is the same as the customer ID data stored in the server, the server will allow the player who input the detected customer ID data to play a special game on the mobile gaming terminal located in the specific area, or on a gaming machine installed in the specific area.

A wagering game community environment is described herein. In some embodiments, the environment includes a community server to provide services for a wagering game community. In some embodiments, the community server comprises a communications controller configured to receive communications from community terminals and to send the communications to wagering game machines. In some embodiments, the community server also includes a promotions controller configured to award promotional material to members of the virtual gaming community based on their use of the community terminals, the promotional material being for use in wagering games available on the wagering game machines.