Bally Gaming, Inc.

Joseph Gordon Marcus

Timothy C Loose

Edward G Brunell

Steven J Zoloto

Michael V Dicillo

Nicholas Matthew Garoufalis

Michael P Connelly

A sound system presenting audio that supplements multi-player game-play in which multiple views of a 3D game object as seen from different viewpoints are simultaneously displayed. The audio includes audio characteristics responsive to behaviors of the 3D game object and depict a focus direction associated with respective behaviors.

Multi-player gaming sound system

Gapless looping playback of an audio sound seamlessly without any silence between loops. An uncompressed digital audio file is divided and encoded using an MP3 encoder to produce two encoded files, A and B. The MP3 encoder adds a padding delay at the beginning and end of each file. Two timers are defined: T1=A&#x2212;(a+b) and T2=B&#x2212;(d+c), where a is the padding delay at the end of A, b is the delay at the beginning of B, c is the delay at the beginning of A, and d is the delay at the end of B. Simultaneously, a decoder starts to decode A on Track 1 and T1 is started. Immediately after T1 expires, a decoder starts to decode B on Track 2 and T2 is started. Thanks to the timers, the respective end and beginning of the sound portions of A and B temporally align so that no silence is heard.

Wagering game having seamless looping of compressed audio

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Buffalo Grove, IL, United States of America

Joseph Gordon Marcus