Electronic Table Game Platform Random Lighting Jackpot System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming technologies face challenges in creating high-value progressive jackpots for blackjack and baccarat games, as the limited number of unique playing cards leads to exhaustion issues, allowing players to estimate card distribution and adjust wagering strategies, thereby reducing jackpot frequencies and sizes.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system utilizing a processor, random number generator, and lights at card-receiving positions to randomly select and illuminate cards, eliminating the need for physically marked cards, ensuring that all cards remain in play and reducing the variation in card exhaustion and richness, thereby enabling jackpots to grow beyond one million dollars without extreme probability variations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If physically marked cards are used to indicate jackpot outcomes, then jackpot events can be triggered, but card exhaustion occurs leading to players estimating card distribution and adjusting wagering strategies
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses electronically generated virtual images of playing cards instead of physical marked cards. The electronic card generation system creates virtual cards with randomly assigned outcomes, eliminating the need for physical markings while maintaining the jackpot triggering mechanism. This copying approach preserves game integrity without card exhaustion issues.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical card dealing system with an electronic card generation system. Instead of relying on physical cards with predetermined markings that can be exhausted, the system uses a processor to generate virtual cards with randomly determined outcomes. This substitution eliminates card exhaustion and prevents players from gaining information about remaining card distributions.
2Stability of the object's composition
If all cards remain in play without physical markings, then card exhaustion variation is reduced, but a mechanism is needed to randomly indicate jackpot-triggering cards
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the card generation function and the outcome indication function into a single electronic card generation system. The processor that generates virtual cards also determines and displays the outcomes through the same interface, merging multiple functions into one integrated system rather than requiring separate physical marking and indication mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a processor as an intermediary between the card deck and the players. The processor generates virtual cards and controls the display of card images and outcomes, acting as a mediator that randomizes card distribution and indicates jackpot-triggering cards without requiring physical markings on the cards themselves.
3Productivity
If secondary random events are displayed at card-receiving positions, then player engagement is maintained, but the system requires lights and power sources at each position
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the game play surface multi-functional by integrating it with display capabilities. The surface not only receives physical cards but also displays virtual card images, outcomes, and secondary random events directly at card-receiving positions. This universal approach combines multiple functions (card reception, display, indication) into one integrated surface, reducing the need for separate lighting systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses color changes and visual displays on the game play surface to indicate secondary random events and outcomes. Instead of requiring separate lighting systems, the surface itself changes visual properties (colors, images) to communicate game information to players, maintaining engagement through visual feedback without adding complex external lighting components.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This system reduces the variation in card exhaustion by approximately 30% and richness by 10%, allowing for higher jackpot sizes and more stable wagering outcomes, as the random lighting system ensures that no card becomes excessively rare or common, maintaining player engagement and jackpot growth.
Implementation Method 1
a random number generator in communication with the processor... the processor, in response to random selections of the card-receiving positions
Implementation Method 2
The game play surface at the player position has lights that are at card-receiving positions... a power source in communication with the lights
Data Source
AI summary
A gaming system for enabling enhancement of wagering outcomes includes: a) multiple gaming sites having a game play surface with a light display element on the game play surface at a player position; b) a processor; c) a player input control at the player position, the player input control in communication with the processor; and d) a random number generator in communication with the processor. The light display on the game play surface at the player hand position has lights, and a power source in communication with the lights; the processor, in response to random selections for the light display element at the player position, is configured to direct that the lights at the player hand position are randomly lit. Lights may also be present at a dealer hand position. The lights indicate at least one of an immediate award, multiplier or bonus event, including a progressive jackpot.