Gaming Machine Button Deck Filler with Synchronized RGB Lighting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming machines with diverging front faces create gaps between button decks that lack continuity and aesthetic appeal, necessitating a solution to fill these spaces while providing enhanced visual effects.
Innovation Solution
A button deck filler assembly with a deck portion and base portion that connects adjacent gaming machines, featuring adjustable RGB lighting that can be controlled via a multimedia server connected to a local area network, ensuring seamless integration and synchronized lighting effects across multiple machines.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If gaming machines are placed with front faces at diverging angles to optimize space utilization, then space efficiency is improved, but gaps appear between button decks creating discontinuity and aesthetic issues
Solution Approach 1:
A button deck filler assembly serves as an intermediary component between adjacent gaming machines, filling the gap created by diverging front faces. The filler includes a deck portion that extends from one button deck to another and a base portion that fills the space between machine cabinets, maintaining continuous surface appearance while allowing diverging placement for space optimization.
2Shape
If traditional button deck fillers are used without lighting, then structural continuity is achieved, but aesthetic appeal and visual integration between machines is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The button deck filler assembly incorporates RGB adjustable light sources that can produce various colors and lighting effects. These lights are controlled by a multimedia server to synchronize with game presentations, enhancing aesthetic appeal and visual integration between machines while maintaining the structural continuity provided by the filler.
3Illumination intensity
If lighting effects are added to button deck fillers to enhance aesthetics, then visual appeal is improved, but device complexity and control system requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The multimedia server that controls game presentations across multiple gaming machines is also used to control the lighting effects in the button deck filler assemblies. This multi-functional approach allows centralized control of both game content and lighting effects without requiring separate control systems, reducing overall complexity despite the added lighting capabilities.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The solution provides continuous button deck surfaces and visually appealing lighting effects between gaming machines, enhancing the gaming environment's aesthetics and user experience by filling gaps and synchronizing lighting patterns.
Implementation Method 1
A light source is attached to the assembly and operable to produce a light effect visible as light emitting from the button deck filler assembly, the light source comprising an RGB adjustable light
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AI summary
Gaming machine button decks are connected with a button deck filler for connecting between two adjacent gaming machines to provide continuity between button decks. Light sources may be controlled by a multimedia server operating to control various presentation interfaces for a group of adjacent gaming machines.