Augmented reality and location determination methods and apparatus
First Claim
1. An augmented reality method comprising:
- accessing first location information regarding a location of a user interaction device in a physical world, wherein the user interaction device is configured to generate an augmented reality representation with respect to the physical world;
using the first location information, generating second location information which has increased accuracy regarding the location of the user interaction device in the physical world;
communicating augmented data to the user interaction device, and wherein the augmented data comprises the augmented reality representation;
receiving information regarding wireless communications of the user interaction device with a plurality of wireless communications devices, and wherein the generating comprises generating the second location information using the information regarding the wireless communications; and
wherein the accessing, the generating and the communicating comprise acts implemented by a management device, and further comprising managing the wireless communications of the user interaction device with the wireless communications devices using the management device.
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Abstract
Augmented reality and location determination methods and apparatus are disclosed according to some aspects of the description. In one aspect, an augmented reality method includes accessing first location information regarding a location of a user interaction device in a physical world, wherein the user interaction device is configured to generate an augmented reality representation with respect to the physical world, using the first location information, generating second location information which has increased accuracy regarding the location of the user interaction device in the physical world, and communicating augmented data to the user interaction device, and wherein the augmented data comprises the augmented reality representation.
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30 Claims
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1. An augmented reality method comprising:
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accessing first location information regarding a location of a user interaction device in a physical world, wherein the user interaction device is configured to generate an augmented reality representation with respect to the physical world; using the first location information, generating second location information which has increased accuracy regarding the location of the user interaction device in the physical world; communicating augmented data to the user interaction device, and wherein the augmented data comprises the augmented reality representation; receiving information regarding wireless communications of the user interaction device with a plurality of wireless communications devices, and wherein the generating comprises generating the second location information using the information regarding the wireless communications; and wherein the accessing, the generating and the communicating comprise acts implemented by a management device, and further comprising managing the wireless communications of the user interaction device with the wireless communications devices using the management device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A computing system comprising:
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communications circuitry configured to implement communications externally of the computing system; processing circuitry coupled with the communications circuitry, and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to access first location information received by the communications circuitry regarding a location of a user interaction device in a physical world, to generate second location information which has increased accuracy regarding the location of the user interaction device in the physical world, and to control the communications circuitry to communicate augmented data comprising an augmented reality representation to the user interaction device; and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to use the first location information to identify an image of a marker which is proximately located to the user interaction device, and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to generate the second location information using the image of the marker. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An augmented reality user interaction device comprising:
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a camera; a display system; communications circuitry configured to implement wireless communications externally of the user interaction device; and processing circuitry coupled with the camera, the display system, and the communications circuitry, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to control the display system to generate a plurality of images which comprise image data generated by the camera and augmented data which augments the image data with an augmented reality representation, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to control the communications circuitry to communicate first location information regarding a location of the user interaction device in a physical world externally of the user interaction device, and wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to access second location information regarding the location of the user interaction device after the outputting of the first location information and wherein the second location information has increased accuracy regarding the location of the user interaction device in the physical world compared with the first location information. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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