System and method for augmenting content

• US 10,204,471 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2017
• Issued: 02/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LNW Gaming Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Bally Gaming Incorporated (Scientific Games Corporation)
• Inventors: Lyons, Martin S., Kelly, Bryan M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuff, Michael
• Application Number:
  US15/847,704
• Publication Number:
  US 20180122179A1
• Time in Patent Office: 420 Days
• Field of Search: 463 25, 345 8
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3206 Player sensing means, e.g. presence detection, biometrics
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3225 Data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3237 about the players, e.g. profiling, responsible gaming, strategy/behavior of players, location of players
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3239 Tracking of individual players
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3244 Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes

Abstract

Disclosed is a method and system involving augmenting content. The system augments content for an active event subject to a focus of a user, in an environment including a presentation of two or more active events. The system includes: a user focus determination unit including a camera that captures video data associated with the focus of the user; a memory and a buffer that store digital fingerprints from the events; an active content determination component that compares one or more digital fingerprints from an active event with the captured video for determination of the event being focused on by the user; and a display that displays content and augments the determined active event being focused upon by the user that was identified by the active content determination component.

Claims

1. A system for augmenting content for an active event subject to a focus of a user, in an environment including a presentation of two or more active events, the system comprising:

a user focus determination unit including a camera that captures video data associated with the focus of the user;

a memory and a buffer that store digital fingerprints from the events;

an active content determination component that compares one or more digital fingerprints from an active event with the captured video data for determination of the event being focused on by the user; and

a display that displays content and augments the determined active event being focused upon by the user that was identified by the active content determination component.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the buffer is a circular buffer.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the buffer is a time-stamped circular buffer.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the user focus determination unit includes an apparatus for generating data indicative of the geographical location of the user focus determination unit.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the user focus determination unit includes a microphone that captures fingerprint data associated with the events, and an active content determination component configured to store audio fingerprints of active events, the active content determination component further configured to compare a stored audio fingerprint from an active event with the captured fingerprint data for determination of the event being focused on by the user.

6. A system for providing augmenting content to an event, from a group of presented events, focused upon by a user using a mobile device including a video camera and microphone, the system comprising:

a server;

a memory storing one or both of contemporaneous digital video and audio fingerprints for the events;

a video display;

a communication network that connects the video display, the server, and the memory;

the mobile device configured by an application to provide one or more of video and audio data associated with a selected event focused upon by the user for one or more of the server and mobile device to compare with the stored one or both of contemporaneous digital video and audio fingerprints and determine the event focused upon by the user for display at the video display; and

one or more of the server and the mobile device providing video content that augments the display of the event at the video display.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the mobile device includes a component that determines the geographic location of the mobile device, wherein one or more of the mobile device and the server are configured to receive data from the component and determine the event focused upon by the user.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the component is a GPS sensory component.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the mobile device includes one or more sensors selected from a group consisting of:

a gyroscope, accelerometer, and compass, wherein one or more of the mobile device and the server configured to receive data from the sensors and determine the event focused upon by the user.