Coherent presentation of multiple reality and interaction models

• US 9,274,595 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2012
• Issued: 03/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ReinCloud Corp.
• Original Assignee: ReinCloud Corp.
• Inventors: Reitan, Dan
• Primary Examiner(s): Koziol, Stephen R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vu, Khoa
• Application Number:
  US13/594,477
• Publication Number:
  US 20130050260A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,285 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/315 Object-oriented languages
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/40 of characters, e.g. humans, animals or virtual beings
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/377 for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns G09G5/02, G09G5/397 take precedence

Abstract

A method for navigating concurrently and from point-to-point through multiple reality models is described. The method includes: generating, at a processor, a first navigatable virtual view of a first location of interest, wherein the first location of interest is one of a first virtual location and a first non-virtual location; and concurrently with the generating the first navigatable virtual view of the first location of interest, generating, at the processor, a second navigatable virtual view corresponding to a current physical position of an object, such that real-time sight at the current physical position is enabled within the second navigatable virtual view.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions embodied therein that when executed cause a computer system to perform a method for navigating concurrently and from point-to-point through multiple reality models, said method comprising:

receiving, at a processor of a device, a first virtual position information request associated with a first location of interest, wherein said first location of interest is one of a first virtual location and a first non-virtual location and is out of a line of sight of a user of said device;

comparing, at said processor, said first virtual position information request with a store of location position information;

based on said comparing, generating, at said processor, a response to said first virtual position information request, wherein said generating a response comprises;

generating, at said processor and for display at said device, a first navigable virtual view from a first virtual viewing position of a first location of interest, wherein said generating said first navigable virtual view comprises;

creating a first virtual viewing position from within said first navigable virtual view and from which said first location of interest may be viewed, wherein said creating comprises;

receiving at least one of;

an advancement instruction to virtually advance towards said first location of interest until virtual position information of said first virtual position information request matches said first location of interest; and

advancement information signifying that a physical advancement towards said first location of interest has occurred, wherein said virtual position information matches said first location of interest and said advancement information includes a first virtual viewing position of said first location of interest; and

in response to a received advancement instruction advancing towards said first location of interest, thereby achieving said first virtual viewing position;

concurrently with said generating said first navigable virtual view of said first location of interest, generating said first navigable view of a first virtual set of documents as said first location of interest, at said processor and for display at said device, a second navigable virtual view corresponding to a current physical position of an object, wherein said object comprises an item to which said processor is attached such that real-time sight at said current physical position, from a second virtual viewing position is enabled within said second navigable virtual view, wherein said current physical position comprises a real-time location of said object as it finds itself on Earth, and wherein said real-time sight comprises an ability to view what is happening at said current physical position as it is occurring, wherein said first location of interest and said current physical position are different; and

wherein said providing a second navigable virtual view comprises;

providing a virtual vehicle within said second navigable virtual view, wherein said virtual vehicle remains separate from and within a predetermined distance from said object as said object moves;

concurrently with said generating said first navigable virtual view of said first location of interest, generating, at said processor and for display at said device, a third navigable virtual view of a second location of interest, wherein said second location of interest is one of a second virtual location and a second non-virtual location, wherein said generating said third navigable virtual view comprises;

after one of said second virtual location and said second non-virtual location shown on said display screen of said device matches said second location of interest, creating a second virtual viewing position from within said third navigable view and from which said second location of interest may be viewed wherein said first location of interest and said second location of interest are different.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising:

using non-real-time stored imaging associated with said current physical position.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein enabling said real-time sight at said current physical position comprises:

enabling real-time virtual sight.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second virtual position information request associated with said second navigable virtual view;

comparing said second virtual position information request with a store of location position information; and

based on said comparing, generating a response to said second virtual position information request.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a second navigable view of a second virtual set of documents at said second location of interest.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, further comprising:

locating a search request object within said first virtual set of documents.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein said generating a first navigable virtual view of a first location of interest comprises:

generating said first navigable virtual view of a video.

8. A system for navigating concurrently and from point-to-point through multiple reality models, said system comprising:

a first virtual position information request receiver coupled with a processor of a device, said first virtual position information request receiver configured for receiving a first virtual position information request associated with a first location of interest, wherein said first location of interest is one of a first virtual location and a first non-virtual location and is out of a line of sight of a user of said device and wherein said first location of interest comprise a first virtual set of documents;

a first virtual position information request comparor coupled with said processor, said first virtual position information request comparor configured for comparing said first virtual position information request with a store of location position information;

a response generator coupled with said processor, said response generator configured for, based on said comparing, generating, at said processor, a response to said first virtual position information request;

a first navigable virtual view generator coupled with said processor, said first navigable virtual view generator for generating for display at said device a first navigable virtual view of a first location of interest, wherein said first location of interest is one of a first virtual location and a first non-virtual location, wherein said first navigable virtual view generator further, creates a first virtual viewing position from within said first navigable virtual view and from which said first location of interest may be viewed, wherein said first navigable virtual view generator comprises;

an advancement instruction receiver configured for receiving an advancement instruction to virtually advance towards said first location of interest until virtual position information of said first virtual position information request matches said first location of interest;

an advancer configured for virtually advancing towards said first location of interest, thereby achieving a first virtual viewing position; and

an advancement information receiver configured for receiving advancement information signifying that a physical advancement towards said first location of interest has occurred wherein said virtual position information matches said first location of interest and said advancement information includes said first virtual viewing position of said first location of interest;

a second navigable virtual view generator coupled with said processor, said second navigable virtual view generator for, concurrently with said generating said first navigable virtual view, generating for display at said device a second navigable virtual view corresponding to a current physical position of an object coupled with said system wherein said object comprises an item to which said system is attached, such that real-time sight at said current physical position, from a second virtual viewing position, is enabled within said second navigable virtual view, wherein said current physical position comprises a real-time location of said object as it finds itself on Earth, and wherein said real-time sight comprises an ability to view what is happening at said current physical position as it is occurring, wherein said first location of interest and said current physical position are different; and

wherein said second navigable virtual view comprises;

a virtual vehicle that remains separate from and within a predetermined distance from said object as said object moves;

a third navigable virtual view generator coupled with said processor said third navigable virtual view generator for, concurrently with said generating said first navigable virtual view of said first location of interest, generating for display at said device a third navigable virtual view of a second location of interest, wherein said second location of interest is one of a second virtual location and a second non-virtual location, wherein said first location of interest and said second location of interest are different.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein non-real-time stored imaging associated with said current physical position is further enabled.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein said real-time sight comprises:

real-time virtual sight.