GPS-Guided Visual Display

• US 20070136026A1
• Filed: 11/28/2006
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Farheap Solutions Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Farheap Solutions Incorporated
• Inventors: Heap, Brett
• Application Number:
  US11/563,813
• Publication Number:
  US 20070136026A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/150
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 15/00 Surveying instruments or accessories not provided for in groups G01C1/00 - G01C13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/01 Head-up displays

Abstract

An augmented reality building construction apparatus and system is provided. The apparatus and system has a transparent display, a positioning receiver operatively coupled to the display. Additionally, the apparatus and system has an electronically coupled ground-based positioning system, a microprocessor that displays an electronic content on the transparent display and allows for alignment of the electronic content with images in the real world to produce an augmented reality.

Claims

1. An augmented reality device comprising:

a see-through display;

a positioning receiver operatively coupled to the display and electronically coupled to a ground-based positioning system;

a microprocessor that displays an electronic content on the see-through display and aligns the electronic content with images in the real world to produce augmented reality.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is a goggle.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is a binocular.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is a face shield.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the positioning system offers accuracy at centimeter level.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the positioning system offers accuracy at millimeter level.

7. The device of claim 2, wherein the electronic content is a blueprint of a building.

8. The device of claim 2, wherein the electronic content is a graphical image of an item to be installed at a designated location.

9. A method of building construction, comprising:

a user wearing an augmented reality goggle that overlays a graphical indicator with real images of the construction site; and

the graphical indicator provides information on building construction.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the graphical indicator is a image of an item to be installed at a construction site, and the information is the actual location of where the item is to be installed.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the user is provided with a see-through goggle in order to display the overlaying image onto the real image at a construction site.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the information is provided by overlaying the image of the item with real image of the construction site such that when the user looks through the goggle, the image of the item appears at the desired location according to a construction blueprint.