Curved Gaming Cabinet Displays With Integrated 3D Edge Lighting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming machines lack innovative design elements that enhance player engagement and immersion, particularly in terms of display technology and lighting effects, while maintaining regulatory compliance and operational efficiency.
Innovation Solution
Integration of curved screens, integrated candle lighting, and three-dimensional lighting diffusers within gaming cabinets to create immersive and engaging visual experiences without additional physical extensions, combined with regulatory-compliant hardware and software architectures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If curved display screens are integrated into the gaming cabinet, then player immersion and engagement are enhanced, but device complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies curved display screens with specific radii of curvature (e.g., 1.5m to 3m) to create an immersive gaming experience. The curvature is integrated into the cabinet structure, transforming the traditional flat display into a rounded format that envelops the player visually, thereby enhancing immersion while managing complexity through standardized curvature specifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The curved display is nested within the gaming cabinet structure, with the screen integrated into the cabinet's framework. This nesting approach allows the curved display to be housed within the existing cabinet boundaries, reducing overall device complexity by utilizing the cabinet's structural space efficiently rather than adding external components.
2Illumination intensity
If integrated candle lighting and three-dimensional lighting diffusers are added, then visual engagement is enhanced, but device complexity and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple lighting functions into integrated candle lighting assemblies that serve both decorative and signaling purposes. The three-dimensional lighting diffusers are merged with the cabinet structure, allowing a single lighting system to provide ambient illumination, game event signaling, and aesthetic enhancement, thereby reducing overall energy consumption compared to separate lighting systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The lighting system employs localized illumination zones with different intensities and colors tailored to specific cabinet areas. Candle lighting provides warm ambient light in certain zones while three-dimensional diffusers create focused lighting effects in others, optimizing energy usage by providing illumination only where needed rather than uniform lighting throughout the entire cabinet.
3Ease of operation
If integrated lighting systems are used without additional physical extensions, then ease of operation is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated lighting systems are designed as multi-functional components that serve multiple purposes: decorative candle lighting, game event indicators, and ambient illumination. This universality allows the same integrated structure to fulfill various functions without requiring additional physical extensions, simplifying operation while the standardized multi-functional design helps manage manufacturing precision requirements through repeatable assembly processes.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances player engagement and immersion through seamless display curvature and dynamic lighting effects, while maintaining regulatory compliance and operational efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
a lighting diffuser assembly including a plurality of lighting diffusers spaced apart from one another and extending along a lateral edge of the gaming cabinet. Each lighting diffuser may be configured to scatter light in different directions, creating three-dimensional lighting effects.
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AI summary
Disclosed are gaming systems, methods and machines for a gaming cabinet configuration. In particular, the gaming systems, methods and machines may incorporate gaming cabinets that include one or more curved or arcuate screens, one or more candles integrated into one or more lighting features arranged on one or more edges of the gaming cabinet, the one or more candles and the one or more lighting features connected to a game controller via one or more interfaces, and/or one or more diffuse lighting elements to provide lighting features or effects.