Patent ID: 9679437
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: A63F,G06K,G06T,G07F,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of operating a gaming system, said method comprising: capturing, via an image capture device of a mobile device, an image of media content of a wagering game machine at a wagering game establishment; determining, via a geographic location tracking device of the mobile device, a geographic location of the mobile device when the image of the media content is captured; determining, via a compass of the mobile device, a direction that a lens of the image capture device is facing when the image of the media content is captured; identifying, via one or more electronic processing units of the gaming system, the wagering game machine based on the geographic location and based on the direction that the lens of the image capture device is facing; in response to the identifying the wagering game machine, determining that a player account is associated with the mobile device based on evaluation of data from the mobile device against contact information in the player account; determining past wagering game activity of the player account that occurred at the wagering game machine prior to the capturing of the image of the media content; determining, by at least one of the one or more electronic processing units, overlay imagery derived from analysis of the past wagering game activity; in response to the determining the overlay imagery, compositing, by at least one of the one or more electronic processing units, the overlay imagery onto the image of the media content to create a composited media content; and providing, by at least one of the one or more electronic processing units, the composited media content for presentation on a display of the mobile device.