ADAPTING CONTENT TO AUGMENTED REALITY VIRTUAL OBJECTS

• US 20150130836A1
• Filed: 11/12/2013
• Published: 05/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Glen J. Anderson
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Anderson, Glen J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,524,587 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/633
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• 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

Abstract

Technologies for adapting content to augmented reality virtual objects include a content consumption device to render selected content and a mobile computing device to render a virtual object within the physical environment of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may transfer the virtual object to the content consumption device. The content consumption device may adapt the content based on the transferred virtual object, and render the adapted content. The adapted content may be selected from a number of pre-defined scenes, or may be generated to include the virtual object. The adapted content may include other characters or objects that react to the transferred virtual object. The virtual object may be transferred back to the mobile computing device with updated attributes. The content may be streamed from a content source over a network. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1-25. -25. (canceled)

26. A content consumption device for adapting content to virtual objects, the content consumption device comprising:

a content rendering module to render content to be presented to a user of the content consumption device;

an augmented reality controller to (i) transfer a virtual object to or from a mobile computing device and (ii) update a content state associated with the content based on the transferred virtual object; and

a content determination module to adapt the content based on the updated content state;

wherein the content rendering module is further to render the adapted content.

27. The content consumption device of claim 26, wherein:

to render the content comprises to receive the content from a content source; and

to render the adapted content comprises to receive the adapted content from the content source.

28. The content consumption device of claim 26, wherein to transfer the virtual object comprises to:

determine a position of the virtual object in the physical environment of the content consumption device;

determine whether the virtual position of the virtual object has a predefined relationship to a threshold distance from the content consumption device in the physical environment; and

transfer the virtual object in response to a determination that the virtual position has the predefined relationship to the threshold distance.

29. The content consumption device of claim 26, wherein to adapt the content comprises to select a content scene from a plurality of pre-defined content scenes based on the content state.

30. The content consumption device of claim 26, wherein to adapt the content comprises to generate a new content scene that includes the virtual object.

31. The content consumption device of claim 26, wherein:

to adapt the content comprises to add the virtual object to the content; and

to render the adapted content comprises to render the virtual object in association with the content.

32. The content consumption device of claim 26, wherein:

to render the content comprises to render a content character having character attributes; and

to adapt the content comprises to change the character attributes of the content character based on the updated content state.

33. The content consumption device of claim 32, wherein to change the character attributes comprises to adapt a behavior of the content character in response to the updated content state.

34. The content consumption device of claim 26, wherein:

to render the content comprises rendering a content character; and

to adapt the content comprises to determine an action of the content character based on the updated content state.

35. The content consumption device of claim 26, further comprising a user account module to authenticate a user account with a content source;

wherein to adapt the content comprises to adapt the content based on the authenticated user account.

36. A method for adapting content to virtual objects, the method comprising:

rendering, by a content consumption device, content to be presented to a user of the content consumption device;

transferring, by the content consumption device, a virtual object to or from a mobile computing device;

updating, by the content consumption device, a content state associated with the content based on the transferred virtual object;

adapting, by the content consumption device, the content based on the updated content state; and

rendering, by the content consumption device, the adapted content.

37. The method of claim 36, wherein:

rendering the content comprises receiving the content from a content source; and

rendering the adapted content comprises receiving the adapted content from the content source.

38. The method of claim 36, wherein transferring the virtual object comprises:

determining a position of the virtual object in the physical environment of the content consumption device;

determining whether the virtual position of the virtual object has a predefined relationship to a threshold distance from the content consumption device in the physical environment; and

transferring the virtual object in response to determining the virtual position has the predefined relationship to the threshold distance.

39. The method of claim 36, wherein adapting the content comprises selecting a content scene from a plurality of pre-defined content scenes based on the content state.

40. The method of claim 36, wherein:

rendering the content comprises rendering a content character having character attributes; and

adapting the adapted comprises changing the character attributes of the content character based on the updated content state, wherein changing the character attributes comprises adapting a behavior of the content character in response to the updated content state.

41. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions that in response to being executed cause a content consumption device to:

render content to be presented to a user of the content consumption device;

transfer a virtual object to or from a mobile computing device;

update a content state associated with the content based on the transferred virtual object;

adapt the content based on the updated content state; and

render the adapted content.

42. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 41, wherein:

to render the content comprises to receive the content from a content source; and

to render the adapted content comprises to receive the adapted content from the content source.

43. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 41, wherein to transfer the virtual object comprises to:

determine a position of the virtual object in the physical environment of the content consumption device;

determine whether the virtual position of the virtual object has a predefined relationship to a threshold distance from the content consumption device in the physical environment; and

transfer the virtual object in response to determining the virtual position has the predefined relationship to the threshold distance.

44. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 41, wherein to adapt the content comprises to select a content scene from a plurality of pre-defined content scenes based on the content state.

45. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 41, wherein:

to render the content comprises to render a content character having character attributes; and

to adapt the content comprises to change the character attributes of the content character based on the updated content state, wherein to change the character attributes comprises to adapt a behavior of the content character in response to the updated content state.

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