Vision-based augmented reality system using invisible marker
First Claim
1. A vision-based augmented reality system using an invisible marker, comprising:
- a target object (TO) including an infrared marker (IM) drawn by an invisible infrared light-emitting material;
a visible-ray camera for capturing an image of the TO;
an infrared-ray camera for capturing an image of the IM included in the TO image;
an optical axis converter for transmitting a visible ray received from the TO to the visible-ray camera, transmitting an infrared ray received from the TO to the infrared-ray camera, and allowing the infrared-ray camera and the visible-ray camera to have the same viewing point;
an image processing system for receiving the infrared marker image from the infrared-ray camera, receiving the TO image from the visible-ray camera, separating the infrared marker image and the TO image from each other, real-time monitoring a position and pose of the IM associated with the infrared-ray camera, real-time tracking a position and pose of the TO, and rendering a prepared virtual image to the TO image based on the tracked position and pose of the TO to generate a new image; and
an output unit for displaying the image received from the image processing system on a screen.
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Abstract
A vision-based augmented reality system using an invisible marker indicates an invisible marker on a target object to be tracked, such that it can rapidly and correctly track the target object by detecting the invisible marker. The augmented reality system includes a target object including an infrared marker drawn by an invisible infrared light-emitting material; a visible-ray camera for capturing an image of the TO; an infrared-ray camera for capturing an image of the IM included in the TO image; an optical axis converter for allowing the infrared-ray camera and the visible-ray camera to have the same viewing point; an image processing system for rendering a prepared virtual image to the TO image to generate a new image.
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18 Claims
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1. A vision-based augmented reality system using an invisible marker, comprising:
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a target object (TO) including an infrared marker (IM) drawn by an invisible infrared light-emitting material; a visible-ray camera for capturing an image of the TO; an infrared-ray camera for capturing an image of the IM included in the TO image; an optical axis converter for transmitting a visible ray received from the TO to the visible-ray camera, transmitting an infrared ray received from the TO to the infrared-ray camera, and allowing the infrared-ray camera and the visible-ray camera to have the same viewing point; an image processing system for receiving the infrared marker image from the infrared-ray camera, receiving the TO image from the visible-ray camera, separating the infrared marker image and the TO image from each other, real-time monitoring a position and pose of the IM associated with the infrared-ray camera, real-time tracking a position and pose of the TO, and rendering a prepared virtual image to the TO image based on the tracked position and pose of the TO to generate a new image; and an output unit for displaying the image received from the image processing system on a screen. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A vision-based augmented reality system using an invisible marker, comprising:
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a visible-ray camera for capturing target object (TO) including an infrared marker (IM) drawn by an invisible infrared light-emitting material; an infrared-ray camera for capturing the IM included in the TO; and an image processing system for receiving an image of the infrared marker from the infrared-ray camera, receiving an image of the TO from the visible-ray camera, separating the image of the infrared marker and the image of the TO from each other, monitoring position and pose of the IM associated with the infrared-ray camera, tracking position and pose of the TO based on position and pose of the IM, and rendering a virtual image to the TO image. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9)
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12. A vision-based augmented reality system using an invisible marker, comprising:
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an infrared-ray camera for capturing a target object (TO) having an infrared marker drawn by an invisible infrared light-emitting material; a visible-ray camera for capturing the TO; and an image processing system for monitoring position and pose of the IM from an image of the infrared-ray camera, tracking position and pose of the TO based on the position and the pose of the IM, rendering a virtual image based on the tracked position and pose, wherein the image processing system separates an image of the visible-ray camera and an image of the infrared-ray camera from each other in receiving the image of the visible-ray camera and the image of the infrared-ray camera, and renders the virtual image on an image captured by the visible-ray camera. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 13, 14)
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17. A vision-based augmented reality system using an invisible marker, comprising:
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a visible-ray camera for capturing a target object (TO) including an infrared marker (IM) drawn by an invisible infrared light-emitting material; an infrared-ray camera for capturing the IM included in the TO; an optical axis converter for changing viewing point of at least one of the visible-ray camera and the infrared-ray camera; and an image processing system for rendering a virtual image using an image captured by the infrared-ray camera, an image captured by the visible-ray camera and IM; wherein the image processing system receives an image of the infrared marker from the infrared-ray camera, receives an image of the TO from the visible-ray camera, separates the image of the infrared marker and the image of the TO from each other, monitors position and pose of the IM associated with the infrared-ray camera, tracks position and pose of the TO based on position and pose of the IM, and renders the virtual image to the TO image. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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18. A display device, comprising:
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an infrared-ray camera for capturing a target object (TO) having an infrared marker drawn by an invisible infrared light-emitting material; a visible-ray camera for capturing the TO; an image processing system for monitoring position and pose of the IM from an image of the infrared-ray camera, tracking position and pose of the TO based on the position and the pose of the IM, rendering a virtual image based on the tracked position and pose, and an output unit for displaying the rendered virtual image; wherein the image processing system separates an image of the visible-ray camera and an image of the infrared-ray camera from each other in receiving the image of the visible-ray camera and the image of the infrared-ray camera, and renders the virtual image on an image captured by the visible-ray camera.
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