Providing augmented reality based on third party information

• US 9,721,489 B2
• Filed: 05/15/2014
• Issued: 08/01/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jolly Seven, Series 70 of Allied Security Trust I (Allied Security Trust)
• Original Assignee: HJ Laboratories, LLC
• Inventors: Vartanian, Harry, Jurikson-Rhodes, Jaron
• Primary Examiner(s): CUTLER, ALBERT H
• Application Number:
  US14/278,905
• Publication Number:
  US 20140247199A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,174 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/00 Specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/002 to project the image of a two-dimensional display, such as an array of light emitting or modulating elements or a CRT
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/003 to produce spatial visual effects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/272 Means for inserting a foreground image in a background image, i.e. inlay, outlay

Abstract

A profile set by a particular user from a social network application may be used to determine a view provided by the mobile electronic device to a user of the mobile electronic device. The particular user in a captured video of the current view is detected and augmented in real time to mimic a virtual character in an augmented video.

Claims

1. A mobile electronic device comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive, via a network, a profile and custom music set by a particular user, wherein the received profile is from a social network application and used to determine a current view with the custom music provided by the mobile electronic device to a user of the mobile electronic device;

a camera is configured to capture video of the current view, wherein the particular user in the video of the current view is detected and augmented substantially in real time by a processor by overlaying images associated with a virtual character specified in the received profile to mimic the virtual character in an augmented video mixed with the custom music;

a multi-touch display device is configured to display the augmented video and an audio device configured to play the mixed in custom music set by a particular user to the user; and

wherein the multi-touch display device comprises a transparent display area and wherein a depth level and shape of the transparent display area relative to a substantially top portion of the multi-touch display device is adaptively made see-through in the augmented video to produce a reality view by a multi-touch input.

2. A method comprising:

receiving, by a mobile electronic device via a network, a profile and custom music set by a particular user, wherein the received profile is from a social network application and used to determine a current view with the custom music provided by the mobile electronic device to a user of the mobile electronic device;

capturing, by a camera of the mobile electronic device, video of the current view, wherein the particular user in the video of the current view is detected and augmented substantially in real time by a processor by overlaying images associated with a virtual character specified in the received profile to mimic the virtual character in an augmented video mixed with the custom music;

displaying, by a multi-touch display device, the augmented video and playing the mixed in custom music set by a particular user to the user; and

wherein the multi-touch display device comprises a transparent display area and wherein a depth level and shape of the transparent display area relative to a substantially top portion of the multi-touch display device is adaptively made see-through in the augmented video to produce a reality view by a multi-touch input.