Game Medium Identification via Sleeve-Mediated IC Association
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing game medium identification systems face challenges in accurately identifying game media due to varying illumination and shooting conditions, and require additional information such as barcodes or IC chips, which may not be present on older game media or cause inconvenience in affixing identification seals.
Innovation Solution
A game medium identification system that uses an additional element, like a sleeve with an IC chip, to hold identification information, where the system captures an image of the game medium, associates the image identification with the chip ID, and detects the ID to identify the game medium, eliminating the need for direct affixing of information media on the game medium.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If image recognition is used to identify game media, then identification can be performed on media without barcodes or IC chips, but identification accuracy deteriorates due to varying illumination and shooting conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a sleeve as an intermediary object that contains an IC chip with identification information. The sleeve is placed over the game media card, allowing the identification system to read the IC chip information through the transparent or translucent sleeve material without requiring direct contact with the card itself. This mediator approach enables reliable identification while maintaining compatibility with older game media that lack built-in identification components.
2Measurement precision
If barcodes or IC chips are provided on game media for identification, then identification accuracy improves, but manufacturing complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent separates the identification function from the game media card itself by placing an IC chip in a separate sleeve. This segmentation allows the IC chip to be manufactured and prepared independently, then simply inserted into the sleeve which is subsequently placed over the game media card. This approach reduces the manufacturing complexity of the game media cards themselves while maintaining accurate identification capability.
3Measurement precision
If seals with identification information are affixed to game media, then identification can be achieved, but user convenience deteriorates due to the need to affix additional components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a nested structure where the IC chip is placed inside the sleeve, and the sleeve is then placed over the game media card. This nested arrangement consolidates multiple components into a single integrated unit that users handle as one piece. The IC chip is protected within the sleeve, and the sleeve with the chip is simply placed over the card, eliminating the need for users to affix separate identification components to the card surface.
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AI summary
A game medium identification system applied to a game in which each of physical game media, that includes an appearance element characterizing appearance, is used in combination with an additional thing, and identifying the game media, the game medium identification system includes: an information medium provided on the additional thing and holding identification information; a medium image identification device identifying the game medium based on an image of the game medium; an association setting device associating an identification result by the medium image identification device with an identification information of the information medium in accordance with correspondence relationship between one game medium and the additional thing to be used in the game in combination with the one game medium; and a medium identification device detecting the identification information from the information medium and identifying the game medium based on the identification information and association set by the association setting device.