Eye Gaze Tracking for Reel Animation in Gaming Machines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional gaming systems lack intuitive and engaging interaction methods beyond physical button presses or touchscreen selections, limiting player engagement and interaction.
Innovation Solution
Integration of an eye gaze tracking system that detects and responds to a user's gaze to control dynamic features such as reel animations, lighting effects, and interface interactions, enhancing engagement without requiring conscious physical actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional physical button presses or touchscreen selections are used for interaction, then the system structure remains simple, but player engagement and interaction intuitiveness deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical button presses and touchscreen selections with an optical eye gaze tracking system. Cameras capture eye movements and pupil positions, and image processing algorithms convert these visual data into control signals, substituting mechanical input methods with optical detection and computational processing to enhance player engagement
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an eye gaze tracking system as an intermediary between the player and the gaming system. The tracking system captures eye movements and translates them into control inputs, serving as a mediator that converts subtle physiological signals into meaningful game interactions without requiring direct physical contact
2Ease of operation
If eye gaze tracking system is integrated to detect and respond to user gaze, then player engagement is enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming system integrates multiple functions into a unified eye gaze tracking framework. The same tracking system controls reel animations, generates video content, adjusts lighting effects, and manages interface interactions, allowing a single complex subsystem to serve multiple entertainment and control functions simultaneously
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines eye gaze detection, image processing, and game control functions into an integrated system. The control system merges visual data from cameras, processed eye position information, and game state management into a coordinated response mechanism that simultaneously handles multiple dynamic features through unified gaze-based control
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
Enhances player engagement through subtle and responsive interactions, attracting new players and simplifying design, assembly, and retrofitting existing systems while maintaining user anonymity.
Implementation Method 1
An eye gaze tracking system 401 is integrated with and/or connected to a gaming machine 400... control circuitry is operable to receive one or more images of the user's eye; determine a position of the user's eye
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are gaming systems, methods and machines that include one or more eye gaze tracking systems. In particular, the eye gaze tracking system may be incorporated with a gaming system, or located with a gaming environment and otherwise connected to a gaming system. When the focus of the user's gaze is identified, the gaming system can activate a response in the feature associated with the user's gaze. This can include a virtual feature on a display screen or a feature, such as lighting or signage, on the gaming system or within the gaming environment.