Touch Screen Button Graphics for Game Feature Information
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Solution Overview
Problem
Gaming machines face challenges in effectively communicating game feature eligibility status to players, particularly for bonus games, leading to confusion and missed opportunities due to inadequate information presentation.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a touch screen video display system that modifies button graphics with text messages to inform players about game feature eligibility, requirements, and state changes, using a processing device to coordinate and control these modifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional display devices are used to show game information, then the display can show various graphic effects, but the player cannot easily interact with or understand game feature eligibility status
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the button graphic and text display into a single integrated touch screen element. The button graphic serves dual purposes: it remains an interactive control element while simultaneously displaying text information about game feature eligibility, requirements, and status. This merging eliminates the need for separate display areas and improves player understanding by presenting both interactive and informational functions in one unified interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch screen button graphic performs multiple functions: it acts as an interactive button for player input, a display medium for text information, and an indicator for game feature status. The same visual element conveys eligibility information, requirements, and operational state, making the interface more efficient and reducing information loss by ensuring players are always aware of relevant game feature status.
2Loss of information
If the button graphic is modified to display text information, then player awareness of game feature eligibility is enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The existing touch screen video display device is made multi-functional by enabling it to display both traditional button graphics and text information. Rather than adding separate display hardware, the system utilizes the touch screen's capability to render various types of visual information, thereby reducing overall device complexity while enhancing information delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The button graphic dynamically changes its appearance based on game state. The system modifies the visual display of the button graphic to include text information such as eligibility status, requirements, and other relevant details. This dynamic modification allows the same physical component to adapt its information content based on current game conditions without requiring additional hardware.
3Loss of information
If detailed text information is added to the button graphic, then player understanding of game features improves, but the visual clarity and engagement may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The button graphic is segmented into different visual elements that can be independently controlled. The system separates the button's interactive function from its informational display function, allowing text information to be overlaid or integrated in a way that maintains the button's visual prominence and engagement value while clearly conveying eligibility status and requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
Different portions of the button graphic area serve different purposes. The system uses local quality variations to distinguish between the interactive button region and the information display region. By strategically placing text information in specific areas of the button graphic and using varying visual weights, the system maintains visual engagement while providing clear, detailed information about game features.
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes displaying a button graphic on a touch screen video display device associated with a gaming machine. The button graphic defines a button display area on the touch screen video display device which may be touched to cause a touch screen controller associated with the touch screen video display device to generate a game feature input. In response to the game feature input, a game feature in a game offered through the gaming machine is modified in some fashion. In addition to displaying the button graphic, the button graphic is modified to add a first message regarding the game feature. This modification of the button graphic is performed in association with a modification of the game feature, and the first message includes text indicating that the game feature has been modified.