Reflective Display Assembly for Multi-Player Gaming
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Solution Overview
Problem
The gaming industry faces challenges in creating a balance between yield and randomness in gaming apparatus to encourage prolonged player participation, while also improving processing speed and efficiency to support advanced graphics and multiple player interactions.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system utilizing an electronic display device and game logic circuitry to display multiple views of a 3D object from different viewpoints, combined with a reflective display assembly that directs these views to multiple positions around the device, enhancing the gaming experience through pseudo-holographic images and efficient game outcome determination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single electronic display device is used to display game views, then the device complexity is reduced, but the ability to provide multiple player perspectives simultaneously is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses optical reflection to redirect display content into multiple spatial dimensions. A single electronic display device presents game views that are reflected by positioning mirrors to multiple players seated around the device, creating a multi-perspective experience without requiring multiple display screens. This transforms a 2D display into a multi-directional viewing system.
Solution Approach 2:
The single electronic display device serves multiple functions by simultaneously providing game views to multiple players through optical reflection. The same display content is distributed to different players at different positions, making one display device function as multiple displays would, thereby reducing overall system complexity while maintaining multi-player capability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple reflectors are added to provide views to multiple players, then the multi-player experience is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The positioning mirrors create optical copies of the display content and redirect them to different player positions. Instead of requiring multiple independent display devices, the system uses reflective surfaces to generate multiple views from a single source, reducing hardware complexity while supporting multiple players simultaneously.
3Adaptability or versatility
If advanced graphics and special effects are implemented, then the entertainment value is improved, but the processing speed and efficiency decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The game display is segmented into multiple individual views, with each view showing the same game content from a different perspective. This segmentation allows the game logic circuitry to process and render each view independently, optimizing graphics rendering for multiple players simultaneously while maintaining high processing speed through efficient resource utilization.
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
The solution effectively engages players with immersive pseudo-holographic visuals and efficient game processing, improving player interaction and entertainment value while maintaining financial viability.
Implementation Method 1
Each reflector of the plurality is directed toward a respective one of a plurality of positions disposed around the electronic display device, and the reflectors are configured to reflect one of the individual views of the 3D object toward the respective position
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AI summary
A multi-player gaming system includes a reflective display assembly that presents multiple views of a 3D game object as seen from different viewpoints. The reflective display assembly includes a plurality of reflectors the each reflect an image of the 3D game object toward a respective position disposed around the gaming system.