Pressure Sensor Array for Simultaneous Gaming Inputs
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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, necessitating a more advanced and intuitive input interface for enhanced player interaction.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a pressure sensor system with multiple input locations and a processor circuit that receives and processes pressure parameter values from these sensors to modify user interface elements dynamically, enabling complex and simultaneous pressure-sensitive inputs.
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, but functionality and player interaction are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The input device integrates multiple functions into a single surface that can detect various types of inputs (pressure, location, simultaneous inputs) rather than requiring separate buttons and controls for each function
Solution Approach 2:
The pressure sensor array creates a digital representation of the physical input surface, allowing complex input patterns to be detected and processed without requiring complex mechanical structures
2Ease of operation
If multiple simultaneous pressure inputs are detected, then player interaction is enhanced, but measurement and detection complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The input surface is divided into multiple discrete pressure sensor locations that can independently detect and report pressure inputs, enabling simultaneous detection of multiple inputs without interference
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces complex mechanical switch matrices with an electronic pressure sensor array that can detect input patterns through electrical signal processing rather than mechanical state reading
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This solution provides an accessible and intuitive input interface for gaming devices, enhancing player interaction and functionality by allowing for dynamic modifications of user interface elements based on multiple simultaneous pressure inputs.
Implementation Method 1
a pressure sensor to detect, for each input location of the plurality of input locations, an amount of pressure applied to the input device at the input location by a player of the gaming device
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AI summary
Devices, systems, and methods for providing multiple simultaneous pressure sensitive inputs for gaming devices include an input device including a plurality of input locations and a pressure sensor to detect, for each input location of the plurality of input locations, an amount of pressure applied to the input device at the input location by a player of the gaming device. A processor circuit receives, from the pressure sensor, a first pressure parameter value corresponding to a first amount of pressure being applied to a first input location of the plurality of input locations by the player, and a second pressure parameter value to a second amount of pressure being applied to a second input location of the plurality of input locations by the player. Based on the first pressure parameter value and the second pressure parameter value, the processor circuit modifies a user interface element of the gaming device.