Mobile control for electronic gaming machine and tables
View Patent ↗Disclosed is a system and method for enhanced mobile control of electronic gaming machines and tables. In one aspect, statistical information is provided to a player in convenient and useful formats. Also disclosed are approaches to providing convenient transactions that a player can employ to fund game play.
1. A method for providing play of a game on an apparatus via a mobile device connected to the apparatus by a network, the method comprising:
transmitting from the apparatus to a stream redirector interposed between the apparatus and the mobile device, two or more streams of video and graphical data related to the game, wherein the graphical data includes playing statistics;
resealing and repositioning, by the stream director, the content of the two or more streams of video and graphical data to suit display characteristics of a single touch screen video display incorporated into the mobile device;
assembling, by the screen redirector, the two or more streams of video and graphical data into a single video stream for display on the single touch screen video display;
receiving, at the screen redirector, inputs from the mobile device related to play of the game, the inputs including coordinate data corresponding to touches at the touch screen video display; and
remapping, by the screen director for use by the apparatus, the coordinate data from the mobile device to a coordinate system of the apparatus.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the apparatus comprises a table game.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the table game is Roulette.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising enabling a player to set bet strategy across gaming sessions via the inputs.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising adjusting, by the stream redirector, screen resolution and bitrate of the single video stream to match capabilities of the mobile device and the network.
6. A system for providing play of a game on an apparatus via a mobile device connected to the apparatus by a network, the system comprising:
the apparatus, configured to transmit two or more streams of video and graphical data related to the game, wherein the graphical data includes playing statistics;
the mobile device, the mobile device comprising a single touch screen video display; and
a stream redirector interposed between the apparatus and the mobile device, the stream redirector configured to:
receive the two or more streams of video and graphical data;
rescale and reposition the content of the two or more streams of video and graphical data to match display characteristics of the single touch screen video display;
assemble the two or more streams of video and graphical data into a single video stream for display on the single touch screen video display;
receive inputs from the mobile device related to play of the game, the inputs including coordinate data corresponding to touches at the touch screen video display; and
remap the coordinate data from the mobile device to a coordinate system of the apparatus.
7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the apparatus comprises a table game.
8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the table game is Roulette.
9. The system of claim 6 , further comprising enabling a player to set bet strategy across gaming sessions via the inputs.
10. The system of claim 6 , wherein the stream redirector adjusts screen resolution and bitrate of the single video stream to match capabilities of the mobile device and network.