Content Determinative Game Systems for Lottery Entertainment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional lottery and keno games lack entertainment value and fail to effectively utilize existing audiovisual content, leading to underutilization of media and limited revenue generation for copyright holders.
Innovation Solution
Integration of previously produced entertainment content into lottery and keno games, where players wager based on specific events or cues within the content, such as phrases, character appearances, or scenes, to determine payouts, enhancing game entertainment and revenue opportunities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional lottery and keno games are played, then the games can be conducted with simple mechanics, but the entertainment value is low and media is underutilized
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges traditional lottery/keno number-drawing mechanics with audiovisual content playback. The system combines a random number generator with a content player (video, audio, or interactive media) to create a hybrid game where numbers are drawn during content playback, and players win based on whether the drawn numbers correspond to events or elements in the content. This integration significantly increases entertainment value while maintaining relatively simple game mechanics.
2Productivity
If audiovisual content is integrated into games, then revenue opportunities increase, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs a universal content determinative mechanism that can work with multiple types of audiovisual content (videos, audio tracks, interactive media) and various game modes (lottery, keno, custom games). The same core system architecture handles different content types and payout structures through software configuration rather than hardware complexity, enabling revenue generation from diverse media sources while keeping system implementation manageable.
3Ease of operation
If content determinative gameplay is implemented, then player engagement increases, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring game outcomes increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of the audiovisual content to identify and pre-determine all potential game outcomes before the actual gameplay occurs. The content is scanned and indexed to create a database of detectable elements (words, phrases, objects, actions, characters) and their corresponding payout values. This pre-processing step stores the detection criteria and outcome mappings, so that during actual play, the system can efficiently query the pre-analyzed content data rather than performing complex real-time analysis, thus maintaining high player engagement while simplifying outcome detection.
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AI summary
Methods, systems and apparatus are described for producing wagering products and conducting wagering games. In one embodiment, a method for producing a lottery product comprises producing a play slip that includes an indication of at least one event that potentially occurs in a corresponding content (e.g., audio/video content) component of the lottery product. In one embodiment, a unit of the corresponding content is provided to a player along with a play slip.