Personalized Gesture Input for Electronic Gaming Machines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional gaming devices employ simple and uninteresting input methods, limiting player interaction and attraction in casino environments, necessitating enhanced human-machine interface solutions to increase engagement and immersion.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of gesture recognition technology, combined with personalized gesture libraries, allows for intuitive and customizable interactions, eliminating the need for traditional buttons and touchscreens, enabling complex multi-step and analog inputs, and integrating with voice recognition and biometric inputs to enhance player and technician interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional simple input devices are used, then device complexity is reduced, but player engagement and interaction quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical input devices (buttons, touchscreens) with gesture recognition technology that uses optical sensors and image processing to detect player gestures, thereby improving engagement without requiring complex mechanical components
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a gesture recognition system as an intermediary between the player and the gaming device, using computer vision algorithms to interpret hand gestures and convert them into control signals, enabling natural interaction without direct contact
2Ease of operation
If traditional buttons and touchscreens are used, then ease of operation is maintained, but interface clutter increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the input functionality from physical buttons and touchscreens, removing these components entirely and replacing them with gesture-based controls, thereby eliminating interface clutter while maintaining usability
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a virtual representation of control functions through gesture recognition, where hand gestures serve as proxies for traditional button presses, allowing full functionality without physical interfaces
3Object-affected harmful factors
If gesture recognition is implemented, then player hygiene is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces contact-based input mechanisms with non-contact gesture recognition using optical sensors and computer vision, eliminating the need for players to touch surfaces and thereby improving hygiene without requiring complex mechanical modifications
Solution Approach 2:
The gesture recognition system uses the player's own hand movements as the input mechanism, requiring no additional components beyond sensors that detect natural gestures, thus improving hygiene while keeping the system relatively simple
Data Source
AI summary
Devices, systems and methods are provided. A device may include a gesture input device to detect gesture inputs performed by a user, a processor circuit, and a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory includes machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to receive a first gesture input value from the first gesture input device and that corresponds to a user-specific gesture that the user performs, associate the first gesture input value with a first gaming device operation to be performed by the gaming device, receive the first gesture input value that is associated with the first gaming device operation, and responsive to receiving the first gesture input value that is associated with the first gaming device operation, cause the gaming device to perform the first gaming device operation.