Touch Screen Controller Integration for Gaming Machine Services
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current player tracking units in gaming machines are not suited to provide increasingly complex and diverse gaming services customized to individual players' preferences, limiting their ability to offer personalized experiences.
Innovation Solution
A touch screen display with a touch screen controller integrated into the sensor assembly is used to provide game service interfaces, including buttons with alpha-numeric symbols and hand-writing recognition capabilities, allowing players to navigate and access harm minimization, jackpot, and directions interfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional player tracking units are used, then basic player tracking functionality is provided, but the system cannot provide increasingly complex and diverse gaming services customized to individual players' preferences
Solution Approach 1:
The player tracking unit is transformed into a multi-functional device that not only tracks player information but also provides diverse gaming services including harm minimization interfaces, jackpot interfaces, and directions interfaces. The touch screen display serves as a universal interface for all these functions, allowing a single device to perform multiple roles that previously would have required separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch screen display acts as an intermediary between the player and the gaming machine's various services. It provides a unified interface that mediates access to different functional modules (harm minimization, jackpots, directions), allowing the system to offer complex services without increasing the apparent complexity for the user.
2Ease of operation
If multiple gaming services are integrated into the player tracking unit, then personalized player experiences are enabled, but the interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gaming services are segmented into distinct functional interfaces (harm minimization interface, jackpot interface, directions interface), each with its own dedicated display area and control options. This segmentation allows players to access specific services without being overwhelmed by the entire system, reducing perceived complexity while maintaining comprehensive functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from a traditional linear interface to a two-dimensional touch screen interface where multiple services can be accessed simultaneously through graphical icons and menus. This dimensional change allows players to navigate services visually rather than through sequential steps, improving ease of operation despite the increased number of available functions.
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AI summary
A disclosed a player tracking unit provides a touch screen display with a touch screen controller integrated into the touch screen sensor assembly. Game service interfaces may be presented on the touch screen display that allow a user to obtain one or more game services. With the touch screen sensor, a user may navigate through the game service interface and supply information required to obtain a game service. Types of interfaces provided with the gaming machine include a jackpot interface for displaying one or more jackpots selected by the player or one or more jackpots that the player is eligible to win.