Virtual and augmented reality

• US 9,280,853 B2
• Filed: 05/19/2015
• Issued: 03/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: Ur, Shmuel
• Primary Examiner(s): Coburn, Corbett B
• Application Number:
  US14/716,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20150254904A1
• Time in Patent Office: 294 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/00 Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions gaming systems which provide a financial reward G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/34 using peer-to-peer connections
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/65 automatically by game devices or servers from real world data, e.g. measurement in live racing competition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8082 Virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00347 with another still picture apparatus, e.g. hybrid still picture apparatus circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between image input and image output device H04N1/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q

Abstract

Technologies are generally described for systems, devices and methods effective to implement virtual and augmented reality. In an example, a first device may send data to a second device. The first device may include a processor and a memory. The processor may receive first image data based on a first real image from a third device. The first real image may include a fourth device image that relates to a fourth device. The processor may receive second image based on a second real image from the fourth device. The processor may send the first image data to the second device. The processor may receive a first request from the second device to receive the second image data. The processor may send a second request to the fourth device for the second image data, receive the second image data, and send the second image data to the second device.

Claims

1. A first device effective to send data to a second device, the first device comprising:

a processor; and

a memory configured to be in communication with the processor;

wherein the processor is effective to;

receive first image data from a third device, the first image data being based on a first real image, wherein the first real image includes a fourth device image that relates to a fourth device;

send the first image data to the second device;

send a request to the fourth device to receive second image data;

receive the second image data from the fourth device, the second image data being based on a second real image; and

send the second image data to the second device.

2. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is effective to augment the second image data to change an appearance of the second real image.

3. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is effective to augment the first image data to change an appearance of the first real image.

4. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is further effective to:

receive audio data from the second device; and

forward the audio data to the fourth device.

5. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is further effective to:

receive audio data from the fourth device; and

forward the audio data to the second device.

6. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is effective to augment the second image data based on instructions stored in the memory.

7. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is effective to augment the fourth device image in the first real image based on instructions stored in the memory.

8. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the fourth device image is a first fourth device image, the second real image includes a second fourth device image that relates to the fourth device, and the processor is effective to augment the second fourth device image to change an appearance of the second fourth device image.

9. The device as recited in claim 1, wherein the processor is effective to augment the first image data based on instructions stored in the memory.

10. A method for sending data from a first device to a second device, the method comprising:

receiving, by the first device, first image data from a third device, the first image data being based on a first real image, wherein first real image includes a fourth device image that relates to a fourth device;

sending, by the first device, the first image data to the second device;

sending, by the first device, a request to the fourth device to receive second image data;

receiving, by the first device, the second image data from the fourth device, the second image data being based on a second real image; and

sending, by the first device, the second image data to the second device.

11. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising, by the first device, augmenting the second image data to change an appearance of the second real image.

12. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising, by the first device, augmenting the first image data to change an appearance of the first real image.

13. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising, by the first device:

receiving first audio data from the second device;

sending the first audio data to the fourth device;

receiving second audio data from the fourth device, where the second audio data relates to the first audio data; and

sending the second audio data to the second device.

14. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising, by the first device, augmenting the second image data based on instructions stored in a memory of the first device.

15. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising, by the first device, augmenting the first image data based on instructions stored in a memory of the first device.

16. The method as recited in claim 10, wherein the fourth device image is a first fourth device image, the second real image includes a second fourth device image that relates to the fourth device, and the first device is effective to augment the second fourth device image to change an appearance of the second fourth device image.

17. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising, by the first device, sending the second image data to the second device base on receipt of a request from the second device to receive the second image data from the third device.

18. A first device effective to send data to a second device, the first device comprising:

a processor; and

a memory in communication with the processor;

wherein the processor is effective to;

receive first image data from a third device, the first image data being based on a first real image, wherein first real image includes a fourth device image that relates to a fourth device;

send a request to the fourth device to receive second image data;

receive second image data from the fourth device, the second image data being based on a second real image;

receive first audio data from the second device;

send the first image data to the second device;

send the first audio data to the fourth device;

receive second audio data from the fourth device, where the second audio data relates to the first audio data;

send the second audio data to the second device; and

send the second image data to the second device.

19. The device as recited in claim 18, wherein the processor is effective to augment the second image data to change an appearance of the second real image.

20. The device as recited in claim 18, wherein the processor is effective to augment the first image data to change an appearance of the first real image.