Casino Lighting Audio Synchronization via Intermediary Controller
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wagering game systems face challenges in reliably timing and presenting synchronized sound effects across multiple machines, leading to unreliable sound quality and potential confusion among players, which discourages operators from using sound to enhance casino-wide gaming experiences.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method that receives lighting data from a network lighting controller, determines light and sound effects, and presents them contemporaneously across multiple casino content presentation devices using a dedicated lighting network, ensuring precise timing and coordination of light and sound shows.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If sound effects are presented across multiple wagering game machines, then the entertainment value and player attraction increase, but the reliability and synchronization of sound presentation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized audio controller as an intermediary device that receives lighting control data and generates corresponding audio output. This mediator coordinates audio presentation across multiple wagering game machines, ensuring synchronized sound effects while maintaining system reliability. The audio controller acts as the intermediary between the lighting control system and the audio output devices, resolving the contradiction between enhanced entertainment value and reliable sound synchronization.
2Manufacturing precision
If lighting data is used to control audio presentation, then the coordination between light and sound improves, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The audio controller is designed to perform multiple functions: it receives lighting control data, interprets lighting effect parameters, generates corresponding audio effects, and distributes synchronized audio output across multiple machines. By making the audio controller multi-functional, the system achieves precise light-sound coordination without proportionally increasing overall system complexity, as a single device handles multiple tasks.
Solution Approach 2:
The audio controller serves as an intermediary that translates lighting control data into audio commands. Rather than requiring direct integration between lighting and audio systems across all machines, the intermediary simplifies the architecture by centralizing the translation and coordination function, thereby reducing overall system complexity while maintaining precise coordination.
3Productivity
If synchronized casino-wide light shows are implemented, then the player attraction and profitability increase, but the timing precision and sound quality reliability decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The audio controller acts as a intermediary that receives timing information from the lighting control system and uses it to synchronize audio output precisely. By centralizing the timing coordination function in the audio controller, the system maintains high timing precision across the entire casino floor while supporting large-scale synchronized light shows that attract players and increase profitability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from the lighting control data to adjust and synchronize audio timing. The audio controller monitors lighting effect parameters and timing information, then adjusts audio output accordingly to maintain precise synchronization across all machines. This feedback mechanism ensures timing precision is maintained even during complex, large-scale synchronized shows.
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AI summary
A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In embodiments, the operations can include presenting coordinated wagering game light and sound effects across multiple presentation devices in a casino. In some embodiments, the operations can trigger wagering game audio effects from lighting commands produced by network lighting controllers. The triggered audio can match characteristics of the light effects. The operations can include receiving, at a casino content presentation device, lighting data from a network lighting controller. The casino content presentation device associates the lighting data with a light effect and determines a sound effect, coupled with, or tied to, to, the light effect. The operations can further include presenting the sound effect on speakers associated with the casino content presentation device, and across other casino content presentation devices in the casino, as part of a casino-wide, synchronized, multi-media show.