Interactive Gaming Table Master-Slave Controller Architecture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming tables lack interconnectivity and player-friendly features, operating in isolation with limited functionality, failing to provide an engaging and comprehensive experience for both players and operators.
Innovation Solution
Interactive gaming tables equipped with automated peripheral devices, a master gaming table processor, slave controller devices, and network access interfaces for centralized coordination, enabling synchronized activities and communication between devices, and allowing player interaction through touchscreen interfaces and wireless connectivity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If automated gaming table devices are added to enhance functionality, then the gaming experience and operational efficiency are improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming table system is divided into multiple independent slave controller devices, each managing specific functions (card shuffling, chip tracking, display control, etc.). These slave controllers communicate with a central master processor, allowing the system to handle complex functionality through modular, manageable components rather than a single monolithic system.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming table integrates multiple automated devices and functions into a single unified system including card shufflers, chip trackers, displays, cameras, and player tracking devices. The master processor coordinates all these diverse functions, making the table capable of performing many different gaming operations simultaneously through a common control architecture.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple gaming table devices operate independently to provide specialized functions, then each device can be optimized for its specific task, but communication and coordination between devices becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The master processor serves as an intermediary communication hub that receives data from and sends commands to all slave controller devices. This central coordination mechanism ensures that specialized devices work together seamlessly, with the master processor managing the communication protocols and data exchange between diverse components.
3Device complexity
If traditional manual gaming tables are used to maintain simplicity, then the device complexity remains low, but the gaming experience and operational efficiency are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming table employs automated devices that perform tasks independently without requiring manual intervention. Card shufflers automatically shuffle decks, chip trackers automatically monitor wagers, and the system can detect player actions through cameras and sensors, reducing the need for manual operations while maintaining simplicity through automation.
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AI summary
Interactive gaming tables and systems adapted to facilitate the automated administration of gaming table events are provided. Tables can have a playing surface, an outer circumference with active player positions, a slave controller for each active player position adapted to facilitate automated gaming activities, a master gaming table controller to synchronize communications and activities between slave controllers, access interfaces for communications with networked devices located away from the table, cameras and other tracking devices adapted to track gaming events at the table, and a specialized gaming table bolster distributed about the outer circumference. Bolster devices can include player friendly peripherals, including visual displays, speakers, open jacks, player tracking devices, and lights or other display elements to indicate table game statuses or the presence or absence of players. Tables can communicate with each other, a remote host, and/or player controlled auxiliary or hand-held wireless devices, which may be adapted for backbetting.