LOCAL SENSOR AUGMENTATION OF STORED CONTENT AND AR COMMUNICATION

• US 20130271491A1
• Filed: 12/20/2011
• Published: 10/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Anderson, Glen J.
• Application Number:
  US13/977,581
• Publication Number:
  US 20130271491A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/633
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6009 for importing or creating game content, e.g. authoring tools during game development, adapting content to different platforms, use of a scripting language to create content
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/66 for rendering three dimensional images
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2215/16 Using real world measurements to influence rendering

Abstract

The augmentation of stored content with local sensors and AR communication is described. In one example, the method includes gathering data from local sensors of a local device regarding a location, receiving an archival image at the local device from a remote image store, augmenting the archival image using the gathered data, and displaying the augmented archival image on the local device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

gathering data from local sensors of a local device regarding a location;

receiving an archival image at the local device from a remote image store;

augmenting the archival image using the gathered data; and

displaying the augmented archival image on the local device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein gathering data comprises determining position and present time and wherein augmenting comprises modifying the image to correspond to the present time.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the present time comprises a date and time of day and wherein modifying the image comprises modifying the lighting and seasonal effects of the image so that it appears to correspond to the present date and time of day.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein gathering data comprises capturing images of objects that are present at the location and wherein augmenting comprises adding images of the objects to the archival image.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein objects that are present comprise nearby people and wherein adding images comprises generating avatars representing aspects of the nearby people and adding the generated avatars to the archival image.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein generating avatars comprises identifying a person among the nearby people and generating an avatar based on avatar information received from the identified person.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein generating an avatar comprises representing a facial expression of a nearby person.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein gathering data comprises gathering present weather conditions data and wherein augmenting comprises modifying the archival image to correspond to current weather conditions.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the archival image is at least one of a satellite image, a street map image, a building plan image and a photograph.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a virtual object and wherein augmenting comprises adding the generated virtual object to the archival image.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving virtual object data from a remote user, and wherein generating comprises generating the virtual object using the received virtual object data.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the virtual object corresponds to a message sent from the remote user to the local device.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving user input at the local device to interact with the virtual object and displaying the interaction on the augmented archival image on the local device.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising modifying the behavior of the added virtual object in response to weather conditions.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the weather conditions are present weather conditions received from a remote server.

16. An apparatus comprising:

local sensors to gather data regarding a location of a local device;

a communications interface to receive an archival image at the local device from a remote image sensor;

a combine module to augment the archival image using the gathered data; and

a screen rendering module to display the augmented archival image on the local device.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, Wherein the combine module is further to construct environmental conditions to augment the archival image.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the environmental conditions include clouds, lighting conditions, time of day, and date.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising a representation module to construct avatars of people and provide the avatars to the combine module to augment the archival image.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the avatars are generated using data gathered by the local sensors regarding people observed by the local sensors.

21. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the local device is running a multiplayer game and wherein the avatars are generated based on information provided by other players of the multiplayer game.

22. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising a user input system to allow a user to interact with a virtual object presented on the display and wherein the screen rendering module displays the interaction on the augmented archival image on the local device.

23. An apparatus comprising:

a camera to gather data regarding a location of a local device;

a network radio to receive an archival image at the local device from a remote image sensor;

a processor having a combine module to augment the archival image using the gathered data and a screen rendering module to generate a display of the augmented archival image on the local device; and

a display to display the augmented archival image to a user.

24. The apparatus of claim 24, further comprising positioning radio signal receivers to determine position and present time and wherein the combine module modifies the image to correspond to the present time including lighting and seasonal effects of the image.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, further comprising a touch interface associated with the display to receive user commands with respect to virtual objects displayed on the display, the processor further comprising a virtual object behavior module to determine behavior of the virtual objects associated with the display in response to the user commands.