Gaming system including a gaming table and a plurality of user input devices

摘要

Intelligent gaming tables and methods of providing game play through the gaming tables are described herein. The gaming table includes a table having a table surface, a plurality of player stations, and a common display configured to display gaming content to a plurality of players. The gaming table further includes an interface configured to communicate with a plurality of user input devices. The gaming table includes a gaming controller. The gaming controller is configured to communicate with the plurality of user input devices through the interface, receive location information relating to touches or contacts detected on the table surface, analyze the information relating to the touches or contacts, identify a user performing each of the touches or contacts with the table surface, and implement player input instructions contained within the information relating to the touches or contacts.

主权项

1. An electronic table comprising:
a table surface; a plurality of user stations; a common display; an interface configured to communicate with a plurality of user input devices; and a controller configured to:
(a) communicate with the plurality of user input devices through the interface;(b) receive location information relating to a location of a detected contact between one of the plurality of user input devices and the table surface at one of the plurality of user stations;(c) analyze the location information relating to the location of the detected contact between the user input device and the table surface at said one of the plurality of user stations;(d) identify a user who caused the detected contact between the user input device and the table surface at said one of the plurality of user stations; and(e) implement user input instructions contained within the location information relating to the location of the detected contact between the user input device and the table surface at said one of the plurality of user stations, wherein the user input instructions are first user input instructions when the location of the detected contact between the user input device and the table surface at said one of the plurality of user stations is a first location and the user input instructions are second user input instructions different from the first user input instructions when the location of the detected contact between the user input device and the table surface at said one of the plurality of user stations is a second location different from the first location.