Station Machine Display Mode Switching for Betting Status Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing game machine systems at casinos fail to effectively display the betting status of all stations, making it difficult for players to comprehend their own betting positions and amounts, especially in systems with multiple stations, leading to confusion and difficulty in predicting dividend amounts.
Innovation Solution
A game machine system that connects multiple station machines via a master machine, allowing for communication and display of both individual and collective betting statuses, enabling a switch between display modes to show either personal or combined betting information, facilitating easier monitoring and operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the betting status of all stations is displayed on each station's display panel, then players can comprehend the betting status of other stations and predict dividend amounts, but players cannot easily comprehend their own betting positions and amounts
Solution Approach 1:
The display panel is divided into two distinct display modes: a first display mode that shows only the player's own betting status, and a second display mode that shows the betting status of all stations. Players can switch between these modes to access different levels of information, allowing them to easily comprehend their own betting status when needed while also being able to view overall betting status when required.
2Ease of operation
If only the player's own betting status is displayed, then players can easily comprehend their own betting positions and amounts, but players cannot tell betting positions and betting amounts at other stations
Solution Approach 1:
The display system dynamically switches between two states: displaying only personal betting information or displaying both personal and collective betting information. This dynamic switching capability allows the display to adapt to different player needs, providing clear personal betting status when the player wants to monitor their own bets, and providing comprehensive betting status when the player wants to predict dividend amounts based on other stations' betting patterns.
3Loss of information
If the betting status of all stations is displayed in the same manner as conventional games, then the entire betting status is easy to comprehend, but it becomes difficult to comprehend the player's own betting status in huge game machines with many stations
Solution Approach 1:
The display is segmented into two distinct modes that serve different purposes. The first mode segments out only the player's own betting information for clear, focused comprehension. The second mode segments out the collective betting information from all stations for comprehensive understanding. This segmentation allows players to choose the appropriate level of information based on their current needs, avoiding the confusion that would arise from always displaying all information simultaneously in huge game machines with many stations.
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AI summary
A game environment where an operation status of a player's own station machine can be easily monitored and operated and an operation status of other station machines can be also easily monitored. A game machine capable of executing a specified game by connecting a plurality of station machines to enable communications between them, wherein each station machine includes a display panel that displays an image indicating progress of the game including a player's own operation status; and wherein the station machine is configured to be capable of: generating a first display image including the player's own operation status; generating a second display image including the player's own operation status and an operation status of other station machines; and switching between a first display mode to display the first display image on the display panel and a second display mode to display the second display image on the display panel.