Method of modifying locations

• US 10,434,415 B1
• Filed: 05/11/2017
• Issued: 10/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yaacov Barki
• Original Assignee: Yaacov Barki
• Inventors: Barki, Yaacov
• Primary Examiner(s): Liddle, Jay Trent
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rada, II, Alex F. R. P.
• Application Number:
  US15/592,943
• Time in Patent Office: 880 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/63 by the player, e.g. authoring using a level editor
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/65 automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/822 Strategy games; Role-playing games A63F13/825, A63F13/828 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/847 Cooperative playing, e.g. requiring coordinated actions from several players to achieve a common goal
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8082 Virtual reality

Abstract

The subject matter discloses a method performed by a computerized server communicating with multiple computerized devices, at least some devices are wearable devices associated with users, for planning a real world location. The method comprises receiving information concerning a real world location, modeling the real world location into a virtual location, receiving a plurality of requests for modifying said virtual location from the users via wearable devices, the requests comprise operations,

• • selecting an operation for modifying the virtual location, processing said selected operation for modifying said virtual location and transmitting the selected operation to a computerized device of a person, thereby instructing the person to modify said real world location according to the selected operation.

Claims

1. A method performed by a computerized server communicating with multiple computerized devices associated with users, for planning a virtual model based on a real world location, the method comprises:

receiving information concerning a real world location in a computerized server;

modeling the real world location into a virtual location, said virtual location is implemented by a computerized image;

transmitting the modeled real world location to wearable devices of a plurality of users;

receiving a plurality of requests for modifying said virtual location from the plurality of users via wearable devices of the plurality of users;

wherein said requests comprising operations;

wherein said operations being selected from a list provided by said computerized server;

selecting a selected operation from said operations according to said plurality of requests;

wherein selecting the selected operation is performed according to a rule;

wherein said rule is stored in a memory of said computerized server;

processing said selected operation for modifying said virtual location;

wherein said virtual location comprises an at least one virtual element and wherein said selected operation comprises one member of a group consisting of;

adding said virtual element, removing said virtual element and modifying a characteristic of said virtual element.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the wearable devices comprise augmented reality devices.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the wearable devices comprise virtual reality devices.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said rule comprises one member of a group consisting of:

selecting from a majority of requests comprising the same operation, selecting a result of an interpolation on the requests, and selecting a selecting operation being compatible with previous selected operations.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said characteristic of said virtual element being one member of a group consisting of size, name, design characteristic, designation of the element, utilization of the element, location and color.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprises receiving characteristics of the real world location and wherein said rule comprises characteristics of the real world location.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said characteristics are at least one member of a group consisting of gravity, topography, locomotion, real-time operations, and communication.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprises embedding the virtual object in the virtual location according to constrains and rules of the real world.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprises sending the modified virtual location to the multiple computerized devices associated with the users.

10. A computer program product for managing an interactive game, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a computer to perform a method performed by a computerized server communicating with multiple computerized devices associated with users, for planning a virtual location, the method comprising:

receiving information concerning a real world location in a computerized server;

modeling the real world location into the virtual location, said virtual location is implemented by a computerized image displayed on a wearable device;

transmitting the modeled real world location to wearable devices of a plurality of users, each of the wearable devices comprises a display unit enabling a user of the wearable device to view the model of the real world location;

receiving a plurality of requests for modifying said virtual location from the plurality of users of the wearable device;

wherein said requests comprising operations;

wherein said operations being selected from a list provided by said server;

selecting a selected operation from said plurality of operations according to said plurality of requests;

where selecting the selected operation is performed according to a rule;

wherein said rule is stored in a memory of said server;

processing said selected operation for modifying said virtual location;

wherein said virtual location comprises an at least one virtual element and said modifying said virtual location comprises one member of a group consisting of adding said virtual element, removing said virtual element and modifying characteristic of said virtual element.

11. A method of modifying a virtual model of a real world location, comprising:

receiving information concerning a real world location modeled into a virtual location in a computerized server;

transmitting the modeled real world location to wearable devices of a plurality of users;

displaying the virtual location on a wearable device of the wearable devices;

receiving commands from a user of the wearable device to modify the virtual location;

transmitting the commands concerning modification of the virtual location from the wearable device to the computerized server;

receiving a modified virtual location from the computerized server according to commands received at the computerized server from multiple users.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprises determining an azimuth of the wearable device.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the wearable device is an augmented reality device, and further comprises identifying the real world location using an augmented reality device, wherein performing the method when the augmented reality device is located at the real world location.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein identifying the real world location according to a location of the augmented reality device.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein identifying the real world location according to an image captured by the augmented reality device.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein identifying the real world location comprises a user of the augmented reality device selecting the real world location from a plurality of optional locations.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprises displaying a predefined menu used by a user of the wearable device to modify the virtual location.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprises downloading content items to the wearable device, said content items are used by a user of the wearable device to modify the virtual location.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein modifying the virtual location according to constrains and rules of the real world.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the wearable device is a virtual reality device.