Integrated Gaming Machine Streaming for Viewer Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming machines lack the capability to facilitate live streaming of gaming sessions, limiting user engagement and interaction, and do not provide mechanisms for users to earn awards or notoriety through live streaming.
Innovation Solution
The system integrates a streaming device, such as an electronic gaming machine, equipped with a video camera, microphone, display, and sound producing devices, enabling users to create live streams of their gaming sessions, which can be interacted with by viewers, and offers features like awards and notoriety through viewer interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If gaming machines are equipped with live streaming capabilities including video camera, microphone, and display devices, then user engagement and interaction are enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple streaming components (video camera, microphone, display devices, audio processing) into an integrated gaming machine system. The gaming machine itself becomes the streaming device, merging gaming functionality with live streaming capabilities into a single unified system, thereby enhancing user engagement without requiring separate external equipment for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The gaming machine is designed to perform multiple functions: traditional gaming operations, video capture and transmission, audio capture and transmission, and display of streaming content. This multi-functional design allows the same device to serve both as a game player and as a live streaming broadcast station, improving versatility while managing complexity through integrated design.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple display devices are used to show both game plays and streamer video, then user engagement is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is segmented into a main display device for showing game plays and an auxiliary display device for showing the streamer's video feed. This segmentation allows each display to be optimized for its specific purpose while working together to provide a comprehensive streaming experience, enhancing user engagement through multiple visual information channels.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods that enable a user at a streaming device to create, configure, and transmit a live stream via a live streaming platform. In various embodiments, the streaming device provides the ability to capture the relevant game play displays displayed by the display device of the streaming device being played by the streamer and the audio of such game plays, the ability to capture the video of at least parts of the streamer, the ability to capture the audio of the streamer, the ability to control, adjust, modify, and/or otherwise configure a stream mix, the ability to view the stream mix, the ability to encode the video and audio, and/or the ability to record the stream mix including the game play related video and audio and the streamer related video and audio.