Patent SG-11201808722T-A (SG)
Title: Gaming apparatus
Inventor: FRENCH NICHOLAS RICHARD BAKER
IPC: G07F17/32
Filed: 2017-04-03
Abstract: II LA 14 14a y - 13 2 2 0 1cj 2ld 21dc 13b - N 21cc P4 21 bj P 21bc 21bb P2 21ac 10 2lec 2lej 21eb p5 21e 21fc P6 21f 13b iii lb 31 3221fj 21fb 13b 42 43 FIG. 1 y-14a 10c W O 20 1717 / 497 0 Al (12) INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property Organization International Bureau (10) International Publication Number (43) International Publication Date WO 2017/174970 Al 12 October 2017 (12.10.2017) WIPO I PCT 111111111111110111011111111111010111110111010111011111111011101111111111111110111111 (51) International Patent Classification: GO7F 17/32 (2006.01) (21) International Application Number: PCT/GB2017/050931 (22) International Filing Date: 3 April 2017 (03.04.2017) (25) Filing Language: English (26) Publication Language: English (30) Priority Data: 1605788.7 4 April 2016 (04.04.2016) GB (71) Applicant: TCS JOHN HUXLEY EUROPE LIMITED [GB/GB]; Unit 6, Festival Trade Park, Crown Road, Stoke- On-Trent Staffordshire ST1 5NJ (GB). (72) Inventors: FRENCH, Nicholas Richard Baker; c/o TCS John Huxley Europe Limited, Unit 6, Festival Trade Park, Crown Road, Stoke-On-Trent Staffordshire ST1 5NJ (GB). GREEN, Amanda; c/o 35/26-32 Pirrama Road, Jones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont, New South Wales 2009 (AU). (74) Agents: CHAPMAN & CO et al.; BONNER, Catherine, 18 Staple Gardens, Winchester Hampshire S023 8SR (GB). (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DJ, DK, DM, DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IR, IS, JP, KE, KG, KH, KN, KP, KR, KW, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LU, LY, MA, MD, ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, NO, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, ZM, ZW. (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, GW, KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). Published: — with international search report (Art. 21(3)) (54) Title: GAMING APPARATUS (57) : There is described a gaming apparatus for providing an auxiliary jackpot game to a live casino table in which players may place gaming chips anywhere in a betting zone (32) defined on the gaming table surface to signify entry in the auxiliary jackpot game. The gaming apparatus includes sensors to detect the positions of gaming chips placed in the betting zone, memory means to record the physical positions of the detected betting chips, random number generating apparatus, and processor means operable to select, on the basis of a generated random number, which of the detected positions is occupied by the winning bet. Optionally, the gaming apparatus further includes determining means for determining, on the basis of a generated random number, whether or not a jackpot payout is to be made, and the processor means is operated to select a winning bet position only when the determining means determines that a payout is to be made.