ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,783, issued on July 15, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).
"Gaming machine and method for evaluating player reactions" was invented by Gregory Paul Schwartz (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming machine includes a display, a digital camera device, a credit input mechanism, and a processor programmed to perform operations comprising: (i) receiving, from the digital camera device, a digital image of the player; (ii) determining an emotional state of the player by performing facial expression analysis on the digital image; (iii) determining an emotion level of the...