Gaming Symbol Accumulation Sequence with Pattern Matching

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing gaming systems lack a feature that effectively displays and manages symbol accumulation sequences with a symbol display pattern matching feature, which is essential for enhancing player engagement and award determination in secondary games.

Innovation Solution

A gaming system that includes a processor and a memory device storing instructions to display symbol displays with enlarged symbol displays based on initial award symbols and a symbol display pattern matching feature, indicating active and non-active symbol display positions, and facilitating a symbol accumulation sequence with multiple activations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If symbol displays are enlarged based on pattern matching features, then player engagement and award determination are enhanced, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveplayer engagementVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The symbol display is divided into multiple symbol display positions within each symbol display. The pattern matching feature operates on these segmented positions, comparing symbol sequences across different displays. This segmentation allows the system to manage complexity by breaking down the pattern recognition into discrete, manageable units rather than treating the entire display as a single complex entity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary pattern matching analysis on symbol sequences before determining award outcomes. By pre-identifying matching patterns across enlarged symbol displays, the system prepares award determination data in advance, reducing real-time processing complexity while enhancing player engagement through dynamic visual feedback.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If multiple enlarged symbol displays with different active positions are displayed, then award determination accuracy is improved, but information processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaward determination accuracyVSAvoiddata processing volume

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

Different symbol display positions are assigned different qualities based on their activity status. Active symbol display positions are those that participate in pattern matching for award determination, while inactive positions are excluded. This local differentiation allows the system to focus processing resources on relevant positions, improving award determination accuracy without proportionally increasing data processing volume.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system displays more symbol display positions than strictly necessary for basic award determination. By showing both active and inactive positions simultaneously in the enlarged displays, the system provides excessive visual information that enhances player engagement and understanding of the pattern matching process, while the underlying processing remains efficient by only evaluating active positions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS20250148859A1Symbol accumulation sequence with symbol display pattern matching feature

Publication Date: 2025.05.08 INTERNATIONAL GAME TECHNOLOGY INC

AI summary

Gaming systems and methods providing symbol displays and a symbol accumulation sequence that includes a symbol display pattern matching feature that is employed to enlarge the symbol displays in specific manners for the symbol accumulation sequence.