EP0599769B1 - Electronic system for the game of roulette and gambling table usable with said system - Google Patents

Electronic system for the game of roulette and gambling table usable with said system Download PDF

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EP0599769B1
EP0599769B1 EP93500154A EP93500154A EP0599769B1 EP 0599769 B1 EP0599769 B1 EP 0599769B1 EP 93500154 A EP93500154 A EP 93500154A EP 93500154 A EP93500154 A EP 93500154A EP 0599769 B1 EP0599769 B1 EP 0599769B1
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Juan Menéndez de Luarca
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F3/00—Board games; Raffle games
    • A63F3/00003—Types of board games
    • A63F3/00157—Casino or betting games
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F5/00—Roulette games
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F5/00—Roulette games
    • A63F5/0005—Automatic roulette
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/32—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for games, toys, sports, or amusements
    • G07F17/326—Game play aspects of gaming systems
    • G07F17/3262—Player actions which determine the course of the game, e.g. selecting a prize to be won, outcome to be achieved, game to be played
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • A63F9/00—Games not otherwise provided for
    • A63F9/24—Electric games; Games using electronic circuits not otherwise provided for
    • A63F2009/2448—Output devices
    • A63F2009/247—Output devices audible, e.g. using a loudspeaker

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  • the invention refers to a system for the controlled play and prosecution of the game of roulette, which mainly uses electronic means, as well as the machine or roulette table usable with said system.
  • the roulette is a game of chance where players bet amounts of money against the organizing establishment (casino).
  • the obtention of prize depends on the final position of a ball capable of moving erratically on a revolving disc divided into, generally, thirty seven cells or recesses identified with numbers from 0 to 36 and coloured half red and half black.
  • the game is played on a big and long table on which, on a cloth cover, numbers from 0 to 36 are printed in a squared reticle, as well as other areas adjacent to said series of numbers, forming a graphic set called game cloth.
  • a roulette device is placed on one end of the table, if there is only one game cloth, or in the middle if there are two or more game clothes.
  • the bets are made by placing chips representing a determined economic value on the squared reticle, what also serves for identifying the type of bet made.
  • Usual bets are the straight (one number), split (two numbers), square (four numbers), dozen (twelve numbers), red and black, even and odd, "passe” and "manque”, and in some countries and under different regulations there are other types of bets like "sixaine", line, column, street, etc. Each bet has a prize depending on its own probability.
  • the objective of the present invention is to provide technical solutions for the drawbacks of the game of roulette. Therefore, objectives to achieve are: reduction of the staff of the casino dedicated to each table or game cloth, to increase the speed of the game and to remove the risk of mistake both for the player making bets and the casino paying the prizes.
  • the system of the invention keeps the traditional rules of the game of roulette, whereas it modifies and increases its physical or technical elements.
  • the roulette as mechanic device in which the thrust of turning and throwing the ball is done by an employee of the casino (croupier), might be changed by an electromechanic device which provokes the rotation of the disk, throws the ball and determines the final location (cell) of the ball, even though the latter operation could be also done by optical means.
  • the roulette device is substituted by an electronic random number generator.
  • the traditional game cloth or clothes are replaced by one or more CRT and/or LCD screens which display with the greatest fidelity the usual color and graphic distribution of said game clothes: reticle of numbers and areas of simple and multiple bets.
  • command means such as a directional keyboard or analogical simulators of movement (joystick), which displace chips displayed on the screen.
  • command means such as a directional keyboard or analogical simulators of movement (joystick).
  • the task of the employees of the casino to remove the losing bets and to pay the winning ones is done automatically at the end of each coup or by command means.
  • the coordination of the elements which make up the system of the invention is done by means of one or more CPU provided with its own microprocessors, controllers, interfaces and memory supports, which work in response to the commands of a logic programme of operation.
  • the system of the invention is advantageously applied to an electronic machine which makes up a roulette table, and also allows for the existence of game terminals located in other places of the casino, in order to avoid the eventual agglomeration of players and the need of the player of being close to the gambling table.
  • an electronic system for the game of roulette comprises:
  • the system comprises one or more game terminal machines each one provided at least with one or more CRT and/or LCD screens for the display of the game cloth and other data, images or messages relative to the game, a keyboard or command member individualised for each player, which allows for the selection and control of the bets and the movement of the chips displayed on the screen, acoustic means for the transmission of messages, a reader/recorder device of magnetic supports individualised for each player, and at least a command keyboard of the game terminal for the casino.
  • the system comprises a roulette device under electromechanic command associated to a number reading device for the cell finally occupied by the ball, or an automatic electronic random number generator as substitutes for the roulette device, a wave transmitter/receiver for the remote control of the system by the casino and for connecting and telecontrolling the game terminals, and means for connection to a public or private audiovisual communication system.
  • a machine or roulette table in particular usable with the system of the invention, comprises:
  • the gambling table comprises in addition means for connection to one or more game terminal machines, each one provided at least with one or more CRT and/or LCD screens for the display of the game cloth and other data, images or messages relative to the game, a keyboard or command member individualised for each player, which allows for the selection and control of the bets and the movement of the chips displayed on the screen, acoustic means for the transmission of messages, a reader/recorder device of magnetic supports individualised for each player, and at least a command keyboard of the game terminal for the casino.
  • a roulette table comprises a roulette device under electromechanic command associated to a number reading device for the cell finally occupied by the ball, or an automatic electronic random number generator, which is displayed on a CRT or LCD screen as substitutes for the roulette device, a wave transmitter/receiver for the remote control of the machine by the casino and for connecting and telecontrolling the game terminals, and means for connection to a public or private audiovisual communication system.
  • a terminal machine for the game of roulette in particular usable with the aforesaid system and/or dependent on the gambling table, comprises at least:
  • the terminal machine comprises the display of a roulette device, a wave transmitter/receiver for the remote control of the machine by the casino and for connection to the gambling table, and means for connection to a public or private audiovisual communication system.
  • the player is located in a game post at a table (in Figure 1 there are sixteen posts represented) or at a game terminal (in Figure 2 there are three posts represented).
  • the player inserts in a reader/recorder device (1) the magnetic card he had previously obtained, for example in the cashdesk of the casino, which is automatically checked as its authenticity and existence of credit.
  • a colour or another identification of chips is assigned to the player, which is displayed for example on an area or window (2) of the general screen CRT/LCD (3), and starting from that moment, if the player is at the proper time of betting, he can assign/cancel/repeat/consult/finish his bets with the keys (4), and with the joystick (5) put them in the desired places of the game cloth (6) displayed on the screen (3).
  • the roulette device or the number generator (7) is operated, either manually or automatically in response to a temporization of the logic programme of operation of the CPU or by punching a keyboard (8) dependent on the casino, and the settling of the number and colour winning is expected.
  • the winning number is identified and the winning bets are displayed on the screen (3), and on the area (2) of each player his eventual prize.
  • the prizes which also could be announced by voice, are paid and in the reader/recorder device (1) the corresponding notice of payment or credit is made on the magnetic card of the player, so that a new coup or cycle may be started.
  • the player by means of the keyboard (4), may then leave the game recovering his card, either to come back lately or going to another table or game terminal, or even exchange for money, for example in the cashdesk of the casino, the balance recorded on his card.
  • Figure 2 represents a game terminal which operation is substantially the same as aforesaid for the gambling table.
  • the main difference lies in its dispersed or eventual location into the casino, which allows to play from different places of the casino and avoids the crowd of people playing or waiting around the gambling tables.
  • These game terminals which may have a very variable size, or even they can be portable, are connected to the gambling table by cable or by a wave transmitter/receiver.
  • system of the invention is easily adaptable to different rules of the game of roulette, for example to the roulette of twenty-four numbers, and the types of bets could be varied. It is also understandable that all the messages between machine and player can be displayed on the screen or be transmitted by the voice synthetiser, both with the possibility of translation into several languages. Also it must be understood that part of the historical or statistical information of each table will be available to any player, and that the screens and particularly the screens of the gambling table and game terminals are capable of transmitting information or entertainment from a public or private audiovisual communication system.

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ES9202399 1992-11-27
ES09202399A ES2070050B1 (es) 1992-11-27 1992-11-27 Sistema electronico para el juego de ruleta y mesa de juego utilizable con dicho sistema.

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DE69326049T2 (de) 2000-05-25
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EP0599769A3 (en) 1995-05-24

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