Patent Document ID: 9848106
Application ID: 12975166
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of processing photographs of a player obtained during play of an electronic game via an optical interface, the method comprising: capturing, via the optical interface, a plurality of photographs of the player in a capture volume during play of the electronic game; for each captured photograph of the plurality of captured photographs, programmatically assessing, via instructions executable by a computing device, a photographic characteristic value of one or more photographic characteristics for each of a plurality of different photographic regions of that captured photograph including a body region of the player and a background region of the capture volume, the one or more photographic characteristics including one or more of blur, sharpness, exposure, brightness, contrast, hue, temperature, and saturation; for each captured photograph of the plurality of captured photographs, assigning, via the instructions executable by the computing device, a score based on comparing the assessed photographic characteristic value of that captured photograph with a photographic characteristic baseline of the one or more photographic characteristics, and wherein the photographic characteristic value of the body region is weighted more heavily in the score than the photographic characteristic values of other photographic regions including the background region of the captured photograph; and visually presenting, via a display, one or more of the captured photographs based on the score of the one or more captured photographs.