Pressure-Sensitive Gaming Input with Time-Weighted UI Modification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional gaming devices employ simple input devices like buttons or keypads, limiting the features and functionality they can offer.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a pressure sensor and processor circuit in gaming devices to detect pressure and time parameters, allowing for the modification of user interface elements based on player input, enabling more complex and intuitive interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If simple input devices like buttons or keypads are used, then device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but the features and functionality that can be offered are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by detecting pressure magnitude and duration as variable parameters to differentiate input types. The system monitors pressure sensor output over time, using thresholds for pressure magnitude and time duration to distinguish between different user inputs (e.g., tap vs. press), thereby expanding functionality without adding physical components
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements universality by enabling a single input device to perform multiple functions through software-based differentiation. The same physical button or touchscreen element can trigger different game actions based on detected pressure and time parameters, allowing one component to serve multiple purposes and reduce the need for specialized input devices
2Measurement precision
If pressure and time parameters are detected and processed, then input precision and control are improved, but device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical input differentiation (multiple physical buttons or switches) with electronic sensing and software processing. Pressure sensors and timing circuits substitute for complex mechanical input devices, using digital signal processing to distinguish input types based on temporal and force parameters rather than physical structure
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies preliminary action by continuously monitoring pressure sensor output and maintaining a time stamp or counter that tracks how long pressure has been applied. This pre-processing of temporal data allows the system to quickly determine input type without complex real-time analysis, reducing processing complexity during critical decision moments
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
This solution provides a more accessible and intuitive input interface, enhancing the gaming experience by offering additional control and functionalities, such as pressure-sensitive inputs that simulate physical buttons or mechanical interactions.
Implementation Method 1
an input device including a pressure sensor to detect an amount of pressure applied to the input device by a player
Data Source
AI summary
Pressure and time sensitive inputs for gaming devices, and related devices, systems, and methods, are disclosed. An input device includes a pressure sensor to detect an amount of pressure applied to the input device by a player of the gaming device. A processor circuit receives, from the pressure sensor of the input device, a first pressure parameter value corresponding to a first amount of pressure being applied to the input device by the player at a first time. Based on the first pressure parameter value, a time value is determined corresponding to an amount of time that the player has continuously applied pressure to the input device in a first range of pressure amounts, wherein the first amount of pressure is within the first range of pressure amounts. Based on the first pressure parameter value and the time value, a user interface element of the gaming device is modified.