Patent ID: 9640021
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: A63F,G06T,G07F

Claim:
1. A gaming machine comprising: one or more processors and one or more memory devices operable to present a wagering game upon which monetary value may be wagered, the wagering game including one or more graphical objects; and a three-dimensional display device including a single two-dimensional display screen, the three-dimensional display device capable of presenting game images in a flat three-dimensional mode and in a real three-dimensional mode, wherein the real three-dimensional mode outputs an autostereoscopic three-dimensional display from the two-dimensional display screen, the three-dimensional display device being coupled to at least one of the one or more processors and operable to display graphical objects from the wagering game in the real three-dimensional mode that are adapted to be perceived in front or behind the two-dimensional display screen of the three-dimensional display device; wherein at least one of the one or more processors is further operable to present the wagering game in the flat three-dimensional mode on the two-dimensional display screen, to determine a transition event during the wagering game, and, in response to the transition event, to cause the one or more graphical objects to be rendered as real three-dimensional objects in the real three-dimensional mode of the three-dimensional display device by the autostereoscopic three-dimensional display from the two-dimensional display screen.