Enhanced augmented reality display for use by sales personnel
First Claim
1. A system for providing contextual information in a display to sales or service personnel in a retail or service location, wherein the contextual information is placed in juxtaposition to real-world image information, the system comprising:
- a) a store computer, the store computer operable to communicate with an image display device configured to display current location images and to provide the contextual information for display along with the current location images;
b) a program database that stores consumer preferences;
c) a rules/event engine in communication with the store computer, the rules/event engine operable to process the consumer preferences and to contextually associate the consumer preferences with the current location images;
d) consumer location processing circuitry for communicating with consumer location devices, whereby the store computer is operable to provide the contextual information in relation to the consumers'"'"' locations;
whereby the store computer receives the contextual information from the rules/event engine and receives the consumers'"'"' locations from the consumer location processing circuitry, and whereby the store computer is operable to provide the contextual information to the image display device in context with the consumers'"'"' locations.
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Abstract
Employees of the sales and service industry have to deal with a lot of information regarding their customers and clients. Keeping all the information available and accessible is difficult, especially when only certain information is relevant to the sales and service employees while trying to assist customers and clients. The augmented reality system disclosed herein allows employees in the sales and service industry to have contextually relevant information about their customers and clients presented quickly and accurately to them using an augmented reality display device.
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20 Claims
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1. A system for providing contextual information in a display to sales or service personnel in a retail or service location, wherein the contextual information is placed in juxtaposition to real-world image information, the system comprising:
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a) a store computer, the store computer operable to communicate with an image display device configured to display current location images and to provide the contextual information for display along with the current location images; b) a program database that stores consumer preferences; c) a rules/event engine in communication with the store computer, the rules/event engine operable to process the consumer preferences and to contextually associate the consumer preferences with the current location images; d) consumer location processing circuitry for communicating with consumer location devices, whereby the store computer is operable to provide the contextual information in relation to the consumers'"'"' locations; whereby the store computer receives the contextual information from the rules/event engine and receives the consumers'"'"' locations from the consumer location processing circuitry, and whereby the store computer is operable to provide the contextual information to the image display device in context with the consumers'"'"' locations. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system for providing contextual information in a display to sales or service personnel in a retail or service location, wherein the contextual information is placed in juxtaposition to real-world image information, the system comprising:
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a) a store computer, the store computer operable to communicate with an image display device configured to display current location images and to provide the contextual information for display along with the current location images; b) a rules/event engine in communication with the store computer, the rules/event engine operable to process consumer preferences stored in a consumer database and to contextually associate consumer preferences with the current location images; c) consumer location processing circuitry for communicating with consumer location devices, whereby the store computer is operable to provide the contextual information in relation to the consumers'"'"' locations; whereby the store computer receives the contextual information from the rules/event engine and receives the consumers'"'"' locations from the consumer location processing circuitry, and whereby the store computer is operable to provide the contextual information to the image display device in context with the consumers'"'"' locations.
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16. A method for providing contextual information to sales or service personnel in a retail or service location, the method comprising:
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a) providing a store map having a store layout including the placements of certain products or services in the store, the store map being stored in a computer accessible database; b) gathering through consumer location processing circuitry at least one consumer location relative to the placements of the certain products or services in the store; c) accessing from a database product or service preferences associated with the at least one located consumer; d) computing through a rules/event engine contextual information to be placed in juxtaposition to real-world image information and in accordance with the location of the at least one consumer relative to the placements of certain products or services in the store; and e) displaying the contextual information on image display devices used by the sales or service personnel in juxtaposition to the real-world image information. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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