Enhanced information delivery using a transparent display
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1. A method comprising:
- determining a position of a mobile transparent display;
determining an orientation of the display;
determining information using the determined position and orientation about a particular celestial object in a user'"'"'s view of the sky through the display;
receiving a gesture toward the particular object using a camera associated with the mobile transparent display;
retrieving a first stored image of the particular object from an astronomy database and projecting the first image as an overlay on the display;
retrieving a second stored image of the particular object from the database, the second stored image being a zoomed in image with respect to the first image, and projecting the second image as an overlay on the display instead of the first image in response to the zoom gesture; and
observing user hand gestures using the camera and interpreting the observed gestures as commands to control the presentation of information on the transparent display to present different images of the articular object.
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Abstract
Information is delivered about a particular external environment using a transparent display. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a position of a mobile transparent display, determining an orientation of the display, retrieving information about the environment of the display using the determined position and orientation, and overlaying the retrieved information over a view on the transparent display.
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1. A method comprising:
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determining a position of a mobile transparent display; determining an orientation of the display; determining information using the determined position and orientation about a particular celestial object in a user'"'"'s view of the sky through the display; receiving a gesture toward the particular object using a camera associated with the mobile transparent display; retrieving a first stored image of the particular object from an astronomy database and projecting the first image as an overlay on the display; retrieving a second stored image of the particular object from the database, the second stored image being a zoomed in image with respect to the first image, and projecting the second image as an overlay on the display instead of the first image in response to the zoom gesture; and observing user hand gestures using the camera and interpreting the observed gestures as commands to control the presentation of information on the transparent display to present different images of the articular object. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 18, 19)
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8. A machine-readable non-transitory medium having instructions stored thereon, that when operated on by the machine cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
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determining a position of a mobile transparent display; determining an orientation of the display; determining information using the determined position and orientation about a particular celestial object in a user'"'"'s view of the sky through the display; receiving a gesture toward the particular object using a camera associated with the mobile transparent display; retrieving a first stored image of the particular object from an astronomy database and projecting the first image as an overlay on the display; and retrieving a second stored image of the particular object from the database, the second stored image being a zoomed in image with respect to the first image, and projecting the second image as an overlay on the display instead of the first image in response to the zoom gesture; and observing user hand gestures using the camera and interpreting the observed gestures as commands to control the presentation of information on the transparent display to present different images of the particular object. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11)
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12. An apparatus comprising:
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a transparent display; a positioning system to determine a position of the display; an orientation system to determine an orientation of the display; a computing system to receive the determined position and orientation, to determine information about celestial objects in view of a user of the sky viewing through the transparent display, to receive a gesture toward a particular object in a user'"'"'s view through the display using a camera associated with the mobile transparent display, to retrieve a first stored image of the particular object from an astronomy database and project the first image as an overlay on the display in response to the received gesture, to receive a gesture to zoom in on the particular object using the camera associated with the mobile transparent display, to retrieve a second stored image of the particular object from the database in response to the received zoom gesture, the second stored image being a zoomed in image with respect to the first image, and to project the second image as an overlay on the display instead of the first image, to observe user hand gestures using the camera and interpreting the observed gestures as commands to control the presentation of information on the transparent display to resent different images of the particular object; and a wireless communications interface coupled to the computing system to send the position and orientation information to a remote server and to receive the information from the database about objects from the remote server. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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