A roulette wheel reading apparatus is provided for triangulating a roulette ball position in a pocket of a roulette wheel. The apparatus comprises: a triangulation sensor, a roulette wheel position sensor, and a processor; wherein the triangulation sensor comprises: a first signal emitter arranged to emit a first signal toward a location within a pocket of a roulette wheel comprising a plurality of roulette wheel pockets; and a second signal emitter arranged to emit a second signal toward the location; wherein the triangulation sensor further comprises: a signal receiver positioned to receive a first reflection of the first signal at a first receipt time and arranged to output the first receipt time, the signal receiver being further positioned to receive a second reflection of the second signal at a second receipt time and arranged to output the second receipt time; wherein the first reflection and the second reflection originate from said roulette ball; the roulette wheel position sensor being arranged to detect and output a position of one or more of the plurality of roulette wheel pockets relative to the location; the processor being arranged to: receive the first receipt time, the second receipt time and the position; calculate a time difference between the first receipt time and the second receipt time; identify that the time difference is within a predetermined time difference threshold; identify, using the position, the pocket of the roulette wheel; and output the pocket of the roulette wheel as a roulette result. The apparatus of the present invention aims to accurately and reliably identify cessation of a roulette ball in a roulette wheel pocket for the purpose of informing the reporting of a winning roulette result.

The present disclosure generally relates to an automated gaming arrangement, specifically provided with means for reducing the need of continuous human surveillance. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding method for operating such a gaming arrangement and a thereto related computer program product.

A method and system for selecting new interactive content titles for users is disclosed. A plurality of user profiles is stored in memory. Each user profile including one or more preferences and historic gameplay data associated with a user associated with the user profile. A request to select a new interactive content title for the user over a communication network from a client device associated with the user profile is received. At least one of a plurality of available interactive content titles that are not associated with the historic gameplay data is selected. The at least one interactive content titles is selected from a subset of the available interactive content titles that correspond to one or more of the preferences in the stored user profile of the user.

The present invention provides a reception device, which comprises an operation device which is used to perform a variety of operations, a camera device which is used to take dynamic images for the operation area of the operation device, and a control device determining whether there is an abnormal state in the operation area according to the dynamic images taken by the camera device, and if it is determined that there is an abnormal state, performing a control to cause the operation device to perform an operation corresponding to the abnormal state.

The present disclosure provides a gaming device. The gaming device may include a geared-wheel assembly having a first gear wheel and a second gear wheel. The first gear wheel and the second gear wheel may be capable of getting rotatably engaged with each other via its teeth and slots. The gaming device may include a gear turntable member that may be aligned behind the first gear wheel and the second gear wheel. The gear turntable member may be rotatingly coupled to the first gear wheel and the second gear wheel. The gaming device may include a first front supporting member and a second front supporting member to support its respective gear wheel from front. The gaming device further includes a method of playing the gaming device, which defines a winning position or a losing position.

The present inventions concerns method and a roulette apparatus (1) comprising at least one mechanical roulette wheel (2) with a number of pockets (3) to receive a ball (4) and a roulette-display-system (10) with at least one graphical electronic display (11) surrounding the roulette wheel (2), wherein the electronic display (11) comprising a number of display fields (12) to display single betting numbers (N) and wherein a sensor unit (20), a drive unit (30) and a control system (40) are provided and wherein the control system (40) is adapted to receive status information from the sensor unit (20) about the roulette wheel (2) and/or the ball (4) rested in one of the pockets (3) and the control system (40) may cause the roulette wheel (2) based on the received status information to be adjusted in a unambiguous final position in relation to the display (11), wherein the pocket (3) with the ball (4) lies completely in congruence with the directly adjacent respective display field (11).

A ball-launching system mounts to a top rim of a roulette wheel and positions a ball launcher configured to launch a roulette ball into the roulette wheel. The ball-launching system includes an outer jaw and an inner jaw which clamp to the top rim. At least a part of a ball launcher extends into a concave bowl of the roulette wheel and facilitates launching the roulette ball directly into a ball track underneath the top rim within the concave bowl.

The present disclosure relates to a roulette wheel apparatus, and in particular to a ball launcher for use in a gaming system such as a roulette wheel apparatus and roulette wheel apparatus comprising the ball launcher. According to a first aspect, the ball launcher comprises a pair of launch tubes adapted to be connected to the airflow generator and defining different launching directions, wherein the ball gate for gating the ball into one of the launch tubes includes a ball shuttle adapted to be moveable from a ball-receiving station to each one of said pair of launch tubes to transport the ball from the ball-receiving station to one of said launch tubes.

The present invention generally relates to a ball gaming system such as a roulette wheel apparatus, and in particular to a ball launcher for use in a gaming system such as a roulette wheel apparatus and to a gaming system such as a roulette wheel apparatus comprising the ball launcher, wherein the ball launcher includes a ball shuttle for transporting a ball from at least one ball-receiving station to at least one launch tube. According to the present invention, said ball shuttle is configured to move to a reject-ball station in response to a reject-ball signal to transport any old and/or defective ball to said reject-ball station instead of said at least one launch tube.

The present invention generally relates to a ball gaming system such as a roulette wheel apparatus, and in particular to a ball launcher for use in a gaming system such as a roulette wheel apparatus and to a gaming system such as a roulette wheel apparatus comprising the ball launcher, wherein the ball launcher includes a ball shuttle for transporting a ball from at least one ball-receiving station to at least one launch tube. According to the present invention, said ball shuttle is configured to move to a reject-ball station in response to a reject-ball signal to transport any old and/or defective ball to said reject-ball station instead of said at least one launch tube.