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Granted Patent B2
US 12,330,051 · App. 18/476,796 · Granted Jun 17, 2025

Systems and methods for augmented reality role playing entertainment

Inventors: Katherine Lynn Sparks (Moore, OK); Gavin Joseph Bacon (Norman, OK); Mason Dent (Norman, OK); Harrison Jack Gilman (Oklahoma City, OK); Dakota Mayo (Norman, OK); Arya Ramineedi (Norman, OK); William Bradford Sparks, II (Moore, OK); Aidan Jaymes Strother (Norman, OK); Emma Wheelbarger (Moore, OK); Brent Wheelbarger (Moore, OK)
Assignee: Real Tech, LLC
A63F13/25G06T13/40G06T19/006A63F2300/8082
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Patent No.
US 12,330,051
App. No.
18/476,796
Granted
Jun 17, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by a processor cause the processor to obtain at least one image of a trigger accessory within a video stream, the at least one processor executing an augmented reality game requiring visual input from the trigger accessory to enable a user to play the augmented reality game, identify a trigger icon positioned on the trigger accessory having a configuration selected from a group of configurations dependent upon at least one of a shape and orientation of the trigger icon, apply image analysis to the trigger icon within the image to determine the orientation of the trigger accessory, and execute at least one software module of the augmented reality game dependent upon the configuration of the trigger accessory.

Claims (14)

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable code that when executed by at least one processor causes the at least one processor to:

obtain at least one first image of a first trigger accessory within a field of view of a video stream during a period in which the video stream is being obtained by a camera having a field of view directed at the first trigger accessory and the at least one processor is executing an augmented reality game requiring visual input of the first trigger accessory to enable a user to play the augmented reality game, the augmented reality game having a first augmented reality environment associated with the first trigger accessory, and a second augmented reality environment associated with a second trigger accessory;

collect and non-transitorily store a first data associated with the user playing the augmented reality game within the first augmented reality environment;

obtain at least one second image of the second trigger accessory within the field of view of the video stream during a period in which the video stream is being obtained by the camera having the field of view directed at the second trigger accessory and the at least one processor is executing the augmented reality game requiring visual input of the second trigger accessory to enable the user to play the augmented reality game having the second augmented reality environment;

access the first data when the user is playing the augmented reality game within the second augmented reality environment; and

modify the augmented reality game within the second augmented reality environment based upon the first data.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , further storing computer executable code that when executed by the at least one processor further causes the at least one processor to:

collect and non-transitorily store a second data associated with the user playing the augmented reality game within the second augmented reality environment;

access the second data when the user is playing the augmented reality game within the first augmented reality environment; and

modify the augmented reality game within the first augmented reality environment based upon the second data.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the at least one image is at least one first image, and further storing computer executable code that when executed by the at least one processor further causes the at least one processor to:

obtain at least one second image of the first trigger accessory within the field of view of the video stream;

determine a difference in orientation between the first trigger accessory in the at least one first image and the first trigger accessory in the at least one second image; and

modify the first augmented reality environment associated with the first trigger accessory based on the different in orientation.

Continuity (3)
Continuation 17175230 · Feb 12, 2021
Provisional Application 62976593 · Feb 14, 2020
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