APPARATUS, METHODS, COMPUTER PROGRAMS SUITABLE FOR ENABLING IN-SHOP DEMONSTRATIONS

• US 20150029221A1
• Filed: 07/24/2014
• Published: 01/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: THOMAS, James, LOU, Tyrone, WAN, Chun-Yip, WHARTON, Alistair
• Application Number:
  US14/339,824
• Publication Number:
  US 20150029221A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/633
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0281 Customer communication at a business location, e.g. providing product or service information, consulting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

A functionally limited apparatus configured to enable, at a remote apparatus, an augmented reality, the apparatus comprising: a body; and computer visible features configured to control augmented reality output at the remote apparatus.

Claims

1. An apparatus configured to enable, at a remote apparatus, an augmented reality, the apparatus comprising:

a body; and

computer visible features configured to control augmented reality output at the remote apparatus.

2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the body replicates a body of a functional apparatus in size and shape.

3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, comprising:

a display portion, wherein at least some of the computer visible features are display features positioned at predetermined locations relative to the display portion.

4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the display features are configured to position an augmented reality output at the remote apparatus such that it coincides with the display portion.

5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, comprising:

user input portions, wherein at least some of the computer visible features are user input features positioned at predetermined locations relative to the the user input portions.

6. An apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the user input features are configured to enable recognition of augmented reality input at the apparatus.

7. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the computer visible features are configured to automatically trigger simulation, at the remote apparatus, of an augmented reality in which the apparatus has functionality present in a functional apparatus but absent from the apparatus.

13. A system comprising:

a first apparatus as claimed in claim 1; and

a computer program download system configured to enable download to a second apparatus a computer program stored on a non-transitory computer medium as claimed in claim 8.

14. A system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the computer program download system comprises a near-field-communication tag.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium which stores a computer program that is configured to control augmented reality output at a remote apparatus to simulate, at the remote apparatus, an augmented reality,

wherein the computer program when loaded into a processor enables:

causing analysis of captured images to locate within the captured images an apparatus;

causing modification of the images to augment the apparent functionality of the apparatus in the modified images; and

causing display of the modified images to provide an augmented reality.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium which stores a computer program as claimed in claim 8, wherein the provided augmented reality simulates a user interface of a functional apparatus.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium which stores a computer program as claimed in claim 8, wherein the computer program is configured to cause identification of predetermined computer visible features positioned at predetermined locations relative to the apparatus.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium which stores a computer program as claimed in claim 8, wherein the computer program is configured to cause modification of the captured images to simulate a display output of a functional apparatus that coincides with a display portion of the apparatus in the modified images.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium which stores a computer program as claimed in claim 8, wherein the computer program is configured to cause recognition of augmented reality user input at the apparatus and to cause provision of an augmented reality in which the apparatus provides a response to the user input that is the same as a response of a functional apparatus to the user input.