Augmented Reality Gaming Overlay for Mobile Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming machines lack features that provide enhanced excitement and increased opportunities for players to win, and there is a need for innovative systems to manage and enhance player interaction and engagement.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an augmented reality interaction system using a mobile device to overlay virtual 3D components over physical 3D gaming machine components, enabling features like biometrically-controlled door locks, augmented reality gaming assistance, and language translation, which utilizes image recognition, object recognition, and augmented reality technology to enhance the gaming experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional gaming machines are used, then the system is simple and reliable, but player engagement and winning opportunities are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a mobile device as an intermediary between the player and the gaming machine. The mobile device runs an application that provides augmented reality features, biometric authentication, and communication interfaces, thereby enhancing player engagement without modifying the gaming machine itself. This mediator approach allows complex features to be added to the system while keeping the gaming machine simple and reliable.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent overlays virtual 3D components onto the physical gaming machine display, adding a digital dimension to the traditional 2D gaming interface. This creates immersive augmented reality experiences with multiple layers of information and interaction possibilities, significantly enhancing player engagement and winning opportunities without adding physical complexity to the gaming machine.
2Adaptability or versatility
If augmented reality features are added to enhance gaming experience, then player engagement increases, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile device application serves as an intermediary that handles all augmented reality processing, virtual component rendering, and augmented image generation. This keeps the gaming machine software simple while providing sophisticated AR features through the mobile device's processing capabilities and display resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates virtual copies of gaming machine components and overlays them as augmented reality elements. These virtual 3D components are rendered on the mobile device and combined with the actual gaming machine display, providing enhanced gaming experiences without modifying the original gaming machine software or hardware.
3Reliability
If biometric authentication is implemented, then security is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile device acts as an intermediary for biometric authentication, using its built-in camera and processing capabilities to capture and verify biometric data. The mobile device communicates authentication results to the gaming machine, providing enhanced security without adding biometric hardware to the gaming machine itself.
4Adaptability or versatility
If language translation features are added, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile device application serves as an intermediary for language translation, capturing text from the gaming machine display and providing translated versions through the mobile device's translation capabilities. This adds multilingual support to the gaming system without modifying the gaming machine's software or adding translation hardware.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a method for enabling an augmented reality interaction system and a mobile device to overlay a virtual 3D component over a physical 3D component with which the virtual 3D component interacts. The method includes: enabling a user to capture a live camera image of a gaming machine cabinet via a camera on the mobile device; determining if there are image tags on the gaming machine cabinet in the live camera image; producing a virtual rendering of the gaming machine cabinet; determining virtual 3D components to be displayed over an image of a virtual gaming machine cabinet; comparing a virtual depth rendering of the virtual 3D components to a virtual depth rendering of the virtual gaming machine cabinet; and overlaying virtual 3D components without the subtracted elements onto a live camera image of the virtual gaming machine cabinet on a display of the mobile device.