Bingo Game Result Mapping to Common Display

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional paper bingo games are slow-paced, limiting player excitement and satisfaction due to time-consuming steps like card purchasing, ball drawing, manual daubing, and winner verification, while electronic bingo systems, though faster, still require individual result presentations that can be cumbersome.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for presenting multiple bingo game results on a common graphic display, allowing players to participate in multiple games simultaneously and receive results quickly, using a bingo game processor to identify results and a result display engine to create a cumulative graphic representation on a display device.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Speed

If traditional paper bingo games are used, then players can participate in bingo games, but the game pace is slow and player excitement is limited due to time-consuming steps

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegame paceVSAvoidtime for card purchasing, ball drawing, manual daubing, and winner verification

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual mechanical operations (paper card distribution, physical ball drawing, manual daubing) with electronic systems. Electronic player stations receive digital bingo cards, a computerized system conducts ball drawings and automatically daubs cards, eliminating the time-consuming manual steps while maintaining the bingo game experience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the state of bingo game components from physical to digital form. Paper cards become electronic displays, physical balls become digital representations, and manual marking becomes automated electronic daubing. This parameter change enables faster game progression while preserving the essential bingo mechanics.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If electronic bingo systems are used, then game speed is increased, but individual result presentations for multiple games are cumbersome and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of games played per periodVSAvoidtime to display individual results for multiple games

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple individual bingo game results into a single integrated display. Instead of presenting results for each game separately, the system merges all results and presents them together on the player station display, allowing players to see outcomes from multiple simultaneous games in one unified presentation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The player station display is designed to serve multiple functions: it displays bingo cards, shows ball drawings, presents individual game results, and aggregates multiple results into a comprehensive summary. This multi-functional display eliminates the need for separate presentation mechanisms for each game.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS7708633B2Apparatus and method for mapping multiple bingo game results to a common display

Publication Date: 2010.05.04 EVERI GAMES INC

AI summary

A bingo game player may participate in a number of bingo games and obtain results for each of those games. These bingo game results are combined to amount to a cumulative result and a common graphic display is produced that is representative of the cumulative result. The common graphic display is then shown to the player on the display device of a particular electronic player station.