DISTRIBUTED INTERACTIVE AUGMENTATION OF DISPLAY OUTPUT

• US 20070220412A1
• Filed: 03/14/2007
• Published: 09/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Technische Universitã¤T Darmstadt
• Original Assignee: Technische Universitã¤T Darmstadt
• Inventors: Trompler, Christoph, Turban, Georg, Muhlhauser, Eberhard
• Granted Patent: US 8,495,492 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F

Abstract

Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for distributed augmentation. In one implementation, a system is provided. The system includes one or more presentation applications, each presentation application operable to provide a presentation output and a plurality of augmentation and presentation control (iAPC) modules operable to provide user augmentations of the presentation output. The system also includes one or more distributed augmentation and presentation management (DAPm) modules operable to separately manage augmentations from the presentation output and to provide an augmented presentation output and one or more display devices for presenting the augmented presentation output.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more presentation applications, each presentation application operable to provide a presentation output;

a plurality of augmentation and presentation control (iAPC) modules operable to provide user augmentations of the presentation output;

one or more distributed augmentation and presentation management (DAPm) modules operable to separately manage augmentations from the presentation output and to provide an augmented presentation output; and

one or more display devices for presenting the augmented presentation output.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

one or more post-processing augmentation/presentation control (pAPC) modules operable to further process the augmented presentation output.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

one or more output devices operable to present the augmented presentation output received from the one or more pAPC modules.

4. The system of claim 1, where the DAPm further comprises one or more augmentation layers and providing an augmented presentation output includes overlaying the presentation output with the augmentation layers.

5. The system of claim 1, where each iAPC includes an augmentation user interface operable to receive augmentations to one or more presentation outputs.

6. A method comprising:

receiving one or more presentation outputs;

receiving a first augmentation to a first presentation output of the one or more of the presentation outputs;

generating a first augmented presentation output, the first augmented presentation output corresponding to a combination of the first augmentation and the first presentation output; and

displaying the augmented presentation output.

7. The method of claim 6, where the one or more presentation outputs comprise multiple threads.

8. The method of claim 6, where receiving the first augmentation to the first presentation output includes receiving an augmentation associated with particular content of the first presentation output.

9. The method of claim 8, where the first augmentation is an annotation to the first presentation output.

10. The method of claim 6, where generating the first augmented presentation output includes:

generating an augmentation layer corresponding to the received first augmentation;

synchronizing the augmentation layer to the first presentation output; and

overlaying the synchronized augmentation layer to the first presentation output.

11. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving additional augmentations from one or more users.

12. The method of claim 11, where each user is associated with a particular augmentation layer.

13. The method of claim 11, where each presentation output is associated with a particular augmentation layer.

14. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

displaying an output corresponding to each presentation output as separate tiles.