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Augmented-reality system for situation-related support of the interaction between a user and an engineering apparatus

  • US 8,373,618 B2
  • Filed: 09/19/2007
  • Issued: 02/12/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/02/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A situation-related support system for the interaction between a user and an apparatus comprising:

  • mobile equipment comprising;

    a video camera for providing images of a current field of view of the user, including at least parts of the apparatus and a display, andvoice recording means for receiving voice data from the user,a device for wireless communication coupled with said mobile equipment,an augmented reality system comprising;

    means for an analysis of video images which have been recorded by the video camera and have been wirelessly transmitted by the device for wireless communication to the augmented reality system,means for automatically identifying one or more objects based on the analysis of the recorded video images;

    means for automatically determining a particular situational context based on voice data received from the user via the voice recording means;

    means for (a) automatically accessing documentation data related to the automatically identified one or more objects, wherein said documentation data related to the automatically identified one or more objects includes different data associated with different situational contexts, and (b) identifying from said documentation data the data associated with the particular situational context determined based on the voice data from the user, andmeans for transmitting the context-relevant data to the device for wireless communication, wherein the display in the mobile equipment displays the context-relevant data.

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