NL8302735A - DISPLAY PLAYER MACHINE. - Google Patents

Description

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Display slot machine

The invention relates to a screen gaming machine, in which a game phase starts by inserting a coin, wherein the operating elements can be operated effectively.

Display slot machines of this kind show the game figures in their characteristic movements on the screen in the state in which no coin has been inserted, in the so-called "animation phase". After coin insertion, the player can operate the controls to control one of the game figures. After the game has ended and after the 10 coins have been used, the slot machine returns to the animation phase.

According to the invention, an additional imaging device for announcements or advertisements is provided for a display gaming machine of the above-mentioned type.

Embodiments of the video gaming machine 15 according to the invention are apparent from the subclaims.

The video gaming machine designed according to the invention allows the operator to address individual notices or advertisements to the player, thereby increasing the utility value of the video gaming machine.

An exemplary embodiment of the invention is shown in the drawing and explained in the following description with reference to the drawing with all the parts necessary for the understanding of the invention.

FIG. 1 shows a display gaming machine with an auxiliary device according to the invention in function groups.

Fig. 2 shows the imaging device in the auxiliary device shown in FIG. 1 in block diagram.

Fig. 1 shows a game board 1, which is controlled by a coin recognizer 2 and operating elements 3, forms RGB color signals and synchronization signals and for the image construction for a monitor 8 with a screen at its outputs 4, 5 and 6, respectively. 7. The outputs 4, 5 and 6 resp. 7 are designed as a plug strip 9 with pins for a plug strip 10 35 with sockets, which leads via a flat ribbon cable 11 to the monitor 8, 8302 735 2.

With suitable connector strips 9 'and 10' an auxiliary device indicated by 12 is included between the connector strips 9 and 10, so that the auxiliary device 12 is held by the game board 1.

The auxiliary device 12 also receives signals from the coin recognizer 2 and from the operating elements 3. These signals start a dubbing clock circuit 13, after which the output 14 thereof carries a zero signal, which after the last 10 coin insertion or operation of an operating element during the holding time of a monoflop in the clock circuit 13 is maintained. The output 14 of the clock circuit 13 is connected to the control input 15 of a change-over switch 16, which, in its rest position caused by the zero signal, switches the RGB and synchronization 15 signals from the game board 1 to the monitor 8.

After the game has ended and after the holding time has expired, an astable multivibrator 17 is started in the clock circuit 13, which periodically generates a one-signal, which sends the change-over switch 16 to the operating position, whereby the monitor 20 8 is separated from the game board 1. and coupled to an image generating member 18.

The image generator 18 shown in block diagram in FIG. 2 has a crystal oscillator 19 which cyclically cycles a pixel counter 20 with control capacity. After each cycle, the pixel counter 20 increments a control counter 21. A counter reading tap 22 and 23 of the relevant counters 20 and 21 is connected to a synchronizing pulse generator 24, the output 25 of which leads to the changeover switch 16, so that the monitor 8 synchronizes the receives pulses from the image generator 18.

The counters 20 and 21 simultaneously send an address generator 26 for a program memory 27 provided with an EPROM (erasable dead memory). With each new pixel, the address generator 26 calls with the aid of a control block counter 28, the blocks of which each comprise eight lines, new commands, which in turn serve as addresses for character memories 29, 30 and 31, to invoke R, G and B characters herein. The called R, G and B characters always parallel; 3302735 3 and are loaded in parallel into separate shift registers 32, 33, and 34, to be sent in series by the crystal oscillator 19 synchronously with the pixel in separate for each color, output lines 5 35, 36, and 37 leading to the inverter 16 slid so that the monitor 8 receives RGB signals from the image generator 18. The image build-up in the monitor 8 takes place in a known manner and with the aid of the synchronization pulses.

A still image can be formed with the auxiliary device 12 described here. To create more images, an address switch 38 acting on the program memory 27 is required. Image selection keys 39 are provided for the selection of desired still images, which are cyclically formed by a synchronizer 40 in the address switch 38.

Instead of the sync generator 40, the sync pulse generator 24 can also be used when it is desired to form moving images.

In addition, the program memory 27 may also issue commands 20 for a not shown character memory, thereby controlling the generation of tones which are sent over an unshown line via an additional switch contact in the switch 16 to a loudspeaker which is also not shown.

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Claims (11)

A screen-gaming machine, wherein a play phase can be started by coin insertion, wherein the operating elements can be operated in an operative manner, characterized in that an additional image-forming element (18) is provided for announcements or advertising, A display-gaming machine according to claim 1, with a game board and a monitor, characterized by an image signal switcher (16) which can be activated between playing phases, the monitor (8) in its rest position with the game board 10 (i) and in its connect the operating position to the imaging device (18). A screen-gaming machine according to claim 2, characterized in that a clock circuit (13) that can be started and restarted when a coin is inserted or when an operating element is operated, which controls the picture signal change-over switch (16) in the rest position in the started state. A display gaming machine according to claim 3, characterized in that the clock circuit (13) comprises a monoflop which controls the image signal changeover switch (16) via an astable multivibrator (17). 5. A video gaming machine according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the imaging device on (18) comprises a pixel counter (20), which can be switched through by an oscillator (19), with control capacity, which is transmitted by transferring a control counter ( 21) switches through that the counters (20, 21) on the one hand send a synchronization pulse generator (24) and on the other hand for addressing a program memory (27) an address generator (26), which outputs RGB signals from character memories (29 to 31) for the monitor (8). A video game machine according to claim 5, characterized in that an image changeover address switch (38) for the program memory (27). Screen-gaming machine according to claim 6, characterized by image-selection keys (39) acting on the address switch (38). 3302735 i i. · • 5 A display gaming machine according to claim 5 or 6, characterized in that the address switch (38) is activated by a synchronization transmitter (40). A display gaming machine according to claim 5, 5, characterized in that the address switch (38) is activated by the synchronization pulse. Display-gaming machine according to claim 9, with a loudspeaker comprising a loudspeaker, characterized in that 10 sign memories for audio signals can be called up by the program memory (27) and that a sound signal ora switch is controlled in parallel with the picture signal switcher (16). which connects the loudspeaker to the game board (1) in idle status and to the character memory for sound signals in the working position. Screen gaming machine according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by a compact auxiliary device (12), which comprises all members (13 to 40) participating in the visual and, if appropriate, sound formation and switching. 3302735