Variable Position Gaming Display for Cabinet Adaptability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming machines are limited by fixed cabinet configurations, which restrict the use of game content across different cabinet types due to hardware constraints, leading to a loss of aesthetic appeal, functionality, and game feel when transferred.
Innovation Solution
A gaming machine with a variable position display that can translate, rotate, tilt, or pan in relation to the main cabinet, allowing a single game build to be independent of the display's position, and an extendable display that can protrude from an auxiliary display device housing to form an enlarged display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed cabinet configuration is used, then the hardware constraints are simplified, but the adaptability of game content across different cabinet types is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display is made variable position, capable of translating, rotating, tilting, or panning in relation to the main cabinet. This dynamic configuration allows the same physical hardware to accommodate different cabinet types and game content orientations, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity by making the display adaptable through movement rather than through multiple fixed configurations
2Adaptability or versatility
If the display position is fixed, then the device complexity is reduced, but the aesthetic appeal and game feel when transferred to different cabinets is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The display can dynamically adjust its position through translation, rotation, tilting, or panning to achieve optimal viewing angles and orientations for different cabinet configurations. This dynamic adjustment capability maintains aesthetic appeal and game feel across different cabinet types without requiring multiple specialized displays, resolving the contradiction between maintaining quality and reducing complexity
3Adaptability or versatility
If a variable position display is implemented, then the adaptability across cabinet configurations is improved, but the ease of manufacture is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
A single variable position display mechanism serves multiple functions by accommodating different cabinet configurations and game content orientations through translation, rotation, tilting, or panning. This universal display replaces the need for multiple specialized displays for different cabinet types, improving adaptability while managing manufacturing complexity through a single multi-functional design
4Ease of operation
If the display is extended to form an enlarged display, then the player engagement is enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display can dynamically extend from the auxiliary display device housing to form an enlarged display when needed, and retract when not needed. This dynamic extension capability enhances player engagement during relevant game moments without permanently increasing device complexity, as the extended display structure is collapsed into a compact form during normal operation
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AI summary
A gaming machine, system and method providing variable position display capable of display movement and an extendable screen responsive to gaming conditions. The gaming machine includes a cabinet, a variable position display, an extendable display screen, and a controller. The variable position display rotates, tilts, pans, or some combination of translation, rotation, tilting and panning, in relation to the cabinet and in response to at least one or more predefined gaming conditions. The controller initiates a movement sequence movement of the variable position display, from a first position to a second position, and initiates the game program tailored to retractably extend the extendable display screen with respect to the cabinet relatively to the movement of the variable position display, and present the game and game outcomes of the game on the variable position display in the second position.