Pressure Sensitive Gaming Input Detecting Object Patterns
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional gaming devices rely on simple input devices like buttons or keypads, limiting their interactive features and functionality.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a pressure sensor with multiple input locations and a processor circuit that detects pressure patterns to identify objects placed on the input device, enabling more complex interactions and functionalities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If simple buttons or keypads are used as input devices, then the device complexity is low, but the interactive features and functionality are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The input device surface is divided into multiple discrete sensor locations that can independently detect pressure. Each sensor location acts as an independent input point, allowing the system to recognize patterns formed by multiple contact points simultaneously. This segmentation enables complex object identification through simple binary detection at each location.
Solution Approach 2:
The pressure-sensitive input device serves multiple functions: it can detect single object placement, identify multiple simultaneous objects, recognize specific object patterns, and trigger different game events based on the detected configuration. This multi-functionality replaces what would traditionally require multiple separate input devices or complex mechanical switches.
2Measurement precision
If pressure sensors with multiple input locations are incorporated, then object detection capability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Traditional mechanical switches or buttons are replaced with pressure-sensitive sensor locations that detect object presence through pressure changes. This substitution eliminates complex mechanical linkages, springs, and moving parts while maintaining input detection capability. The electronic sensor array provides precise object detection without the wear and complexity of mechanical systems.
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
Enhances human-machine interaction by allowing players to use pressure-sensitive inputs for various actions, such as detecting objects and triggering game events, offering additional control and features beyond traditional discrete interfaces.
Implementation Method 1
a pressure sensor to detect, for each input location, an amount of pressure applied to the input device at the input location
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, devices and methods are provided. A gaming device includes an input device that includes multiple input locations and a pressure sensor to detect, for each input location, an amount of pressure applied to the input device at the input location by a player. The gaming device includes 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, from the input device, multiple pressure parameter values corresponding to a first amount of pressure being applied to a first portion of the input locations, determine a pressure pattern that corresponds to locations of the first portion of the input locations, and based on the pressure parameter values and the pressure pattern, determine an identification of an object that is on the input device.