Electronic Table Game System with Dealer Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic table gaming systems struggle to integrate human interaction and game data into electronic data formats, limiting their ability to offer progressive bonus jackpots and other electronic features, which disrupts gameplay and reduces player engagement and revenue for gaming establishments.
Innovation Solution
An electronic table game system with dealer and player interfaces that allow real-time data input, enabling the processing of game actions and wagers by a computer system, eliminating the need for physical chips and allowing for single/multi-tier progressive bonus jackpots with a cap, while maintaining human dealer interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If table games rely on human interaction for game actions (dealer rolling ball, dealing cards, player rolling dice), then human bonding and social interaction are enhanced, but it becomes difficult to convert game actions into electronic data format for electronic processing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces electronic interfaces and sensors as intermediaries between the physical table game elements and the electronic processing system. These intermediaries capture game actions (card deals, dice rolls, ball positions) and convert them into electronic data formats without eliminating the human dealer or physical game elements, thus bridging the gap between human interaction and electronic automation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual tracking and recording of game actions with electronic sensing and data capture systems. Sensors and electronic interfaces automatically detect and record game states, eliminating the need for manual data entry while preserving the physical game mechanics and human interaction
2Adaptability or versatility
If electronic gaming machines are networked together, then progressive bonus jackpots can be offered with large payouts, but table games cannot be electronically networked due to difficulty in electronic data format conversion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal electronic data interface that can handle multiple table game types (blackjack, roulette, craps, poker) through a common sensing and data capture system. This universal interface enables different table games to be networked together for progressive jackpots using the same electronic infrastructure, reducing overall system complexity
3Productivity
If traditional table games are used without electronic integration, then gameplay flow is smooth and uninterrupted, but player engagement and revenue potential are limited compared to electronic gaming machines
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements electronic interfaces and data capture capabilities in advance, before gameplay occurs. This preliminary electronic infrastructure is seamlessly integrated into the table game setup, allowing automatic tracking and networking without requiring interruptions or additional steps during actual gameplay, thus maintaining smooth game flow while enabling electronic features
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AI summary
One possible embodiment of the invention could be an electronic table game system, and a process for operating the system, generally comprising of an electronic gaming table whose playing surface supports one or more gaming elements of a table game generally played in a gaming establishment; with one or more dealer's electronic interfaces proximate to the playing surface to generally allow input of data substantially regarding gaming action of the table game; with one or more the player's electronic interfaces proximate to the playing surface to generally input data substantially regarding information on one or more wagers placed on the table game; and a computer system connected to the electronic interfaces to substantially process the inputted data to generally indentify a winner of the table game. The system could further provide two or more electronic table games with a progressive bonus jackpot with or without a cap.