SCHEMES FOR RETRIEVING AND ASSOCIATING CONTENT ITEMS WITH REAL-WORLD OBJECTS USING AUGMENTED REALITY AND OBJECT RECOGNITION

• US 20160093106A1
• Filed: 12/09/2014
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Black, Glenn
• Granted Patent: US 10,216,996 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/22 Matching criteria, e.g. proximity measures
• 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 2219/004 Annotating, labelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/10 Terrestrial scenes scenes under surveillance with static cameras G06V20/52; scenes perceived from the exterior of a vehicle G06V20/56; scenes perceived from the interior of a vehicle G06V20/59
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/20 in augmented reality scenes
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/653 by matching three-dimensional models, e.g. conformal mapping of Riemann surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/70 Labelling scene content, e.g. deriving syntactic or semantic representations

Abstract

A method includes identifying a real-world object in a scene viewed by a camera of a user device, matching the real-world object with a tagged object based at least in part on image recognition and a sharing setting of the tagged object, the tagged object having been tagged with a content item, providing a notification to a user of the user device that the content item is associated with the real-world object, receiving a request from the user for the content item, and providing the content item to the user. A computer readable storage medium stores one or more computer programs, and an apparatus includes a processor-based device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying a real-world object in a scene viewed by a camera of a user device;

matching the real-world object with a tagged object based at least in part on image recognition and a sharing setting of the tagged object, the tagged object having been tagged with a content item;

providing a notification to a user of the user device that the content item is associated with the real-world object;

receiving a request from the user for the content item; and

providing the content item to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the sharing setting comprises whether the tagged object will be matched with only with an image of the tagged object or with an image of any object sharing one or more common attributes with the tagged object.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the matching of the real-world object with the tagged object is further based on one or more of a location of the user device and a social network connection between the user and an author of the content item.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification comprises one or more of a sound notification, a pop-up notification, a vibration, and a icon in a display of the scene viewed by the camera of the user device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the content item comprises one or more of a text comment, an image, an audio clip, and a video clip.

6. An apparatus comprising:

a processor-based device; and

a non-transitory storage medium storing a set of computer readable instructions configured to cause the processor-based device to perform steps comprising;

identifying a real-world object in a scene viewed by a camera of a user device;

matching the real-world object with a tagged object based at least in part on image recognition and a sharing setting of the tagged object, the tagged object having been tagged with a content item;

providing a notification to a user of the user device that the content item is associated with the real-world object;

receiving a request from the user for the content item; and

providing the content item to the user.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the sharing setting comprises whether the tagged object will be matched with only with an image of the tagged object or with an image of any object sharing one or more common attributes with the tagged object.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the matching of the identified real-world object with the tagged object is further based on one or more of a location of the user device and a social network connection between the user and an author of the content item.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the notification comprises one or more of a sound notification, a pop-up notification, a vibration, and a icon in a display of the scene viewed by the camera of the user device.

10. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the content item comprises one or more of a text comment, an image, an audio clip, and a video clip.

11. A method comprising:

receiving a selection of a real-world object as viewed by a camera of a first user device from a user;

receiving a content item to tag to the real-world object;

capturing one or more images of the real-world object with the camera;

receiving a sharing setting from the user, wherein the sharing setting comprises whether the real-world object will be matched only with an image of the real-world object or with an image of any object sharing one or more common attributes with the real-world object; and

storing the content item, the one or more images of the real-world object, and the sharing setting on a server, wherein the content item is configured to be retrieved by a second user device viewing an object matching the real-world object.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the content item comprises one or more of a text comment, an image, an audio clip, and a video clip.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the sharing setting further comprises restrictions on who can view the content item.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the sharing setting is entered by the user selecting from a list of attributes corresponding to the real-world object.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the list of attributes is generated through object recognition performed on the one or more images of the real-world object.

16. An apparatus comprising:

a processor-based device; and

a non-transitory storage medium storing a set of computer readable instructions configured to cause the processor-based device to perform steps comprising;

receiving a selection of a real-world object as viewed by a camera of a first user device from a user;

receiving a content item to tag to the real-world object;

capturing one or more images of the real-world object with the camera;

receiving a sharing setting from the user, wherein the sharing setting comprises whether the real-world object will be matched only with an image of the real-world object or with an image of any object sharing one or more common attributes with the real-world object; and

storing the content item, the one or more images of the real-world object, and the sharing setting on a server, wherein the content item is configured to be retrieved by a second user device viewing an object matching the real-world object.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the content item comprises one or more of a text comment, an image, an audio clip, and a video clip.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the sharing setting further comprises restrictions on who can view the content item.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the sharing setting is entered by the user selecting from a list of attributes corresponding to the real-world object.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the list of attributes is generated through automatic object recognition performed on the one or more images of the real-world object.