Patent ID: 7744460

Claim:
A method, comprising: causing at least one display device of a slot machine to rotate about an axis, wherein the at least one display device includes a plurality of surface locations, each surface location comprising a substantially rigid electronic display screen, each electronic display screen operable to display an image of a respective indicium of a plurality of available indicia; determining a particular indicium of the plurality of indicia to be displayed as an image of the indicium on the rigid electronic display screen along a payline of the slot machine when the at least one display device has stopped rotating; determining a velocity at which the at least one display device rotates; determining the surface location that will be displayed along the payline of the slot machine when the display device stops its rotation using the determined velocity; changing the image on the determined surface location to the image of the determined indicium when the determined surface location is not in view of a player using the slot machine; and causing the image of the determined indicium to be displayed on the rigid electronic display screen at the determined surface location.