Gaming Machine Reel Mirror Layer for Simultaneous Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional gaming machines face challenges in simultaneously displaying symbols and visual information while maintaining a simple structure and reducing costs.
Innovation Solution
A gaming machine design featuring reels with a mirror layer that reflects visible light applied from a light application device positioned outside the display window, eliminating the need for a transparent liquid crystal panel or half mirror, allowing clear symbol visibility and simultaneous display of symbols and visual information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a transparent liquid crystal panel is arranged between the display window and reels to display visual information, then visual information can be displayed simultaneously with symbols, but the structure becomes complex and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the visual information display function from the transparent liquid crystal panel and relocates it to the light application device positioned outside the display window. This separates the symbol display function (reels through display window) from the visual information display function (light application device), eliminating the need for the transparent panel while maintaining simultaneous display capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a mirror layer on the reels as an intermediary element. The light application device applies visible light to the outer circumference of the reels, and the mirror layer reflects this light to display visual information. This intermediary mirror layer enables visual information display without requiring a transparent panel between the display window and reels.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a transparent liquid crystal panel is used to display visual information, then visual information can be displayed simultaneously with symbols, but symbol visibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the visual information display function from the transparent liquid crystal panel and relocates it to the light application device positioned outside the display window. This separation allows symbols to be displayed through the display window without obstruction, maintaining full symbol visibility while enabling simultaneous visual information display through the reflected light from the mirror layer.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a transparent liquid crystal panel is arranged to display visual information, then simultaneous display is achieved, but manufacturing costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the visual information display function from the expensive transparent liquid crystal panel and relocates it to a light application device with a mirror layer. This eliminates the need for the transparent panel, simplifying the structure and reducing manufacturing costs while maintaining the simultaneous display capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses a mirror layer to create a reflected light copy of the visual information. Instead of using a transparent panel to display visual information, the system applies light to the mirror layer which reflects the visual information, providing a cost-effective alternative that achieves the same display function.
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 solution enhances symbol visibility and allows for the simultaneous display of symbols and visual information with a simplified structure, reducing costs and complexity.
Implementation Method 1
the or each of the one or more reels has a mirror layer which reflects the visible light from the light application device
Data Source
AI summary
The gaming machine includes: a cabinet having a display window; one or more reels disposed in the cabinet so that the or each reel is visible from outside the cabinet through the display window, the or each of the one or more reels being provided with a reel band having symbols; and a light application device configured to apply visible light representing visual information which enables recognition of information related to games to the reel band. The or each of one or more reels has a mirror layer which reflects the visible light from the light application device. The light application device is disposed in an area outside the window frame of the display window so that the visible light is applied to the reel, on the side of the reel band.