Patent ID: 9710997
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G07F,H05B

Claim:
1. A system comprising: a plurality of electronic gaming machines each having a control array and at least one electronic display operatively connected thereto; at least one lighting device operatively connected to each of the plurality of electronic gaming machines, the at least one lighting device having lighting elements to present a default lighting condition producing individual lighting effects at its associated electronic gaming machine and synchronized lighting effects across the plurality of electronic gaming machines; control circuitry, including a programmable processor operatively connected to the at least one lighting device, game inactivity for a predetermined period of time across the plurality of electronic gaming machines and an initiation of game activity at one or more of the plurality of gaming machines being registered by the control circuitry, a signal being transmitted from the control circuity to the at least one lighting device in response to registered game inactivity for the predetermined period of time and in response to registered initiation of game activity; the synchronized lighting effects at the plurality of electronic gaming machines being initiated from the default lighting condition in response to the registered game inactivity across the plurality of electronic gaming machines, a coordinated attract mode being initiated across the plurality of gaming machines in response thereto, the coordinated attract mode featuring enhanced lighting effects over the default lighting condition, the enhanced lighting effects of the attract mode being substantially the same at each gaming machine of the plurality of gaming machines; and the synchronized lighting effects across the plurality of gaming machines being modified in response to the initiation of game activity being registered at one or more gaming machines with the attract mode lighting effects being terminated and an emotive mode being initiated on at least some of the plurality of gaming machines in response to the initiation of game activity being registered at one or more of the plurality of game machines, the emotive mode having reduced lighting effects from the attract mode.