Method and apparatus to facilitate visual augmentation of perceived reality
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- capturing, substantially in real time, information regarding a given reality context within a given field of view;
processing, substantially in real time, the information regarding a given reality context to provide detected reality content for the given field of view;
using, substantially in real time, the detected reality content for the given field of view to provide visually perceivable reality content augmentation to a person viewing the given field of view wherein the visually perceivable reality content augmentation is positionally visually synchronized with respect to at least one element of the given reality context.
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Abstract
A visual reality augmentation apparatus (300) comprises one or more (substantially) real time reality context input stages (301, 302) that provide corresponding reality context information to a reality content detector (303). The latter provides detected object information to an augmented reality content display (304) that provides augmentation information (via, for example, projection display techniques) to augment the real world scene being viewed by a viewer. In a preferred approach a direction-of-gaze detector (305) detects the viewer'"'"'s gaze direction. That information then serves to facilitate positional synchronization of the augmentation information to the viewer'"'"'s point of view of the corresponding real world information.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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capturing, substantially in real time, information regarding a given reality context within a given field of view;
processing, substantially in real time, the information regarding a given reality context to provide detected reality content for the given field of view;
using, substantially in real time, the detected reality content for the given field of view to provide visually perceivable reality content augmentation to a person viewing the given field of view wherein the visually perceivable reality content augmentation is positionally visually synchronized with respect to at least one element of the given reality context. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A visual reality augmentation apparatus comprising:
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a substantially real time reality context input stage having a field of view input and a captured reality context information output;
a substantially real time reality content detector having an input operably coupled to the captured reality content information output of the substantially real time reality context input stage and having a detected content output;
a substantially real time and substantially transparent augmented reality content display responsive to the detected content output of the reality content detector wherein at least one real object within a field of view as corresponds to the field of view input appears visually augmented by a positionally synchronized augmentation element when view by a viewer. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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