Gaming Token With Context Sensors And Sensory Feedback
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Casino tokens lack dynamic interaction and personalized feedback, leading to a less engaging gaming experience for players, and do not effectively utilize advanced technologies to enhance player interaction and satisfaction.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of gaming tokens equipped with sensory feedback sources, context sensors, and processors that provide dynamic user feedback responses based on sensed contexts, allowing for customizable visual, auditory, and vibrational feedback, and enabling wireless communication and power management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional casino tokens are used, then manufacturing cost and simplicity are maintained, but player engagement and interaction are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functional components (processor, context sensors, sensory feedback sources, wireless communication modules) into a single integrated gaming token system. This merging enables the token to perform diverse functions including context detection, processing, feedback generation, and wireless communication, thereby improving player engagement while managing complexity through integration rather than separate components
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming token is designed as a multi-functional device that can detect various contexts (location, game state, player actions), process this information, generate multiple types of sensory feedback (visual, auditory, haptic), and communicate wirelessly. This universality allows a single token to replace multiple separate systems, improving engagement without proportionally increasing overall system complexity
2Adaptability or versatility
If gaming tokens with multiple features are introduced, then player satisfaction and interaction are enhanced, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs parameter changes by utilizing programmable processors and configurable sensors that can be adjusted through software rather than requiring different hardware for each feedback type. The token's behavior, feedback intensity, and response characteristics can be modified by changing operational parameters and software settings, allowing personalized feedback without manufacturing different token variants, thus controlling production costs
3Adaptability or versatility
If context sensors and processors are added to tokens, then dynamic feedback is achieved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming token implements periodic action by sampling context at intervals rather than continuously, activating sensors and processing only when triggered by specific events or at predetermined time intervals. This approach enables dynamic feedback responses to game events while significantly reducing average power consumption compared to continuous operation, as the processor and sensors remain in low-power states between activation cycles
Solution Approach 2:
The token incorporates power management capabilities that allow it to autonomously monitor its own energy levels, adjust its operational mode, and optimize sensor activation based on available power reserves. This self-service power management enables the token to maintain dynamic feedback functionality while adapting its energy consumption to available power sources, whether from internal batteries or external wireless charging
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming token representing a wager amount placed in a game that can provide different sensory feedback responses in response to different sensed contexts associated with the token. Illustratively, a method of facilitating player interaction in a game includes receiving, by a gaming system, a gaming token representing a wager amount placed in a game; receiving, by a processor of the gaming system from a context sensor, input that a context is associated with the gaming token; determining by the processor, from among a plurality of different possible sensory feedback responses, a selected sensory feedback response corresponding to a determined context; and causing, by the processor, the gaming token to produce the processor selected sensory feedback response.