Augmented Reality Overlay for Gaming Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming systems lack features that provide enhanced excitement and increased opportunities for players to win, particularly in maintaining player interest and offering augmented experiences.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing augmented reality technology on mobile devices to overlay virtual graphics and information onto gaming machine displays, leveraging image tags, object recognition, and spatial mapping to create immersive 3D effects, and providing language translation and interactive elements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If augmented reality features are added to gaming machines, then player engagement and excitement are improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a mobile device as an intermediary between the gaming machine and the augmented reality experience. The mobile device captures images of the gaming machine display, processes them through image tags, and renders the augmented reality overlay, thereby avoiding the need to modify the gaming machine itself while still delivering enhanced player engagement
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a virtual copy of the gaming machine cabinet and display elements in 3D space. By rendering a digital replica that can be overlaid with augmented reality graphics, the system achieves versatility enhancement without physical modification to the original device
2Manufacturing precision
If complex augmented reality processing is performed, then immersive experience quality is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining image tags on the gaming machine display and pre-rendering the virtual cabinet model. When capturing an image, the system only needs to detect the pre-placed image tags and overlay pre-prepared augmented reality elements, significantly reducing real-time processing requirements while maintaining high rendering quality
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the augmented reality processing into distinct components: image capture, image tag detection, virtual cabinet rendering, and overlay composition. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, reducing overall processing time while maintaining quality
3Measurement precision
If image tags are placed on gaming machine display, then augmented reality positioning accuracy is improved, but display visibility and aesthetics are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by placing image tags in specific localized areas of the gaming machine display that are less visually prominent. The image tags are positioned strategically so they do not interfere with the main game display aesthetics while still providing sufficient precision for augmented reality positioning and alignment
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AI summary
Disclosed is a complex augmented reality system implementing a mobile device to display complex augmented reality on a display device. A user captures one or more live images from the display device via a camera on the mobile device, which sends the images to a server. The server determines if there are one or more image tags on the display device that are viewable in the live camera images and, if so, uses the one or more image tags to access information used by the augmented reality system to overlay virtual graphics in a position within 3D space on a display of the mobile device to augment the image of the display device with 3D effects to create complex augmented reality.