SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUGMENTED REALITY SERVICE

• US 20120166578A1
• Filed: 09/28/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: HONG, Jae Man
• Application Number:
  US13/247,743
• Publication Number:
  US 20120166578A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

A terminal to provide augmented reality (AR) service using AR history information stored in a server includes a communication unit to receive AR history information from the server; and a control unit to receive AR history information from the communication unit, to generate a friend recommendation list based on the AR history information, and to output the friend recommendation list to the terminal. A method for providing AR includes requesting AR history information from a server; receiving the AR history information; generating a friend recommendation list based on the AR history information; and displaying the generated friend recommendation list.

Claims

1. A first terminal to provide augmented reality (AR) service using AR history information stored in a server, the first terminal comprising:

a communication unit to receive first AR history information from the server; and

a control unit to receive the first AR history information from the communication unit, to generate a friend recommendation list based on the first AR history information, and to output the friend recommendation list.

2. The first terminal of claim 1, wherein the first AR history information comprises at least one of personal information, AR use object information, use time information, use location information, search keyword information, search time information, and search location information.

3. The first terminal of claim 1, wherein the friend recommendation list comprises at least one of a name, sex, age, telephone number, and social network service (SNS) ID of a user of a second terminal.

4. The first terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit generates the friend recommendation list based on a similarity of the first AR history information of the first terminal and second AR history information of a second terminal, wherein the similarity is determined by computing a degree of similarity between the first AR history information of the first terminal and the second AR history information of the second terminal.

5. The first terminal of claim 1, further comprising a memory to store the first AR history information of the first terminal,

wherein the control unit uses the first AR history information of the first terminal stored in the memory to generate the friend recommendation list.

6. The first terminal of claim 5, wherein the first AR history information further comprises additional user information received through an input unit of the first terminal.

7. A server, comprising:

a memory to store augmented reality (AR) history information, the AR history information comprising first AR history information of a first terminal and second AR history information of a second terminal;

a communication unit to receive a request for a friend recommendation list from the first terminal and to transmit a friend recommendation list to the first terminal; and

a processor to generate the friend recommendation list based on the stored AR history information.

8. The server of claim 7, wherein the AR history information comprises at least one of personal information, AR use object information, use time information, use location information, search keyword information, search time information and search location information.

9. The server of claim 7, wherein the friend recommendation list includes at least one of a name, sex, age, telephone number and social network service (SNS) ID of a user of the second terminal.

10. The server of claim 7, wherein the friend recommendation list is generated based on a similarity of the first AR history information and the second AR history information, wherein the similarity is determined by computing a degree of similarity between the first AR history information and the second AR history information.

11. The server of claim 7, wherein the server also stores additional user information, the additional user information comprising first additional user information of the first terminal and second additional user information of the second terminal,

wherein the server uses the additional user information to generate the friend recommendation list.

12. The server of claim 7, wherein the server receives additional user information from the first terminal, wherein the server uses the additional user information to generate the friend recommendation list.

13. An augmented reality (AR) providing system, comprising:

a server to store AR history information, the AR history information comprising first AR history information of a first terminal and second AR history information of a second terminal; and

the first terminal to provide an AR service using the AR history information,

wherein the first terminal generates a friend recommendation list based on the AR history information stored in the server and outputs the friend recommendation list.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the AR history information comprises at least one of personal information, AR use object information, use time information, use location information, search keyword information, search time information and search location information.

15. The system according to claim 13, wherein the friend recommendation list includes at least one of a name, sex, age, telephone number and social network service (SNS) ID of a user of the second terminal.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the friend recommendation list is generated based on a similarity of the first AR history information and the second AR history information, wherein the similarity is determined by computing a degree of similarity between the first AR history information and the second AR history information.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the first terminal retrieves additional user information from a memory of the first terminal and uses the additional user information in the generation of the friend recommendation list.

18. A method for providing augmented reality (AR), comprising:

requesting AR history information from a server, the AR history information comprising first AR history information of a first terminal and a second AR history information of a second terminal;

receiving the AR history information;

generating a friend recommendation list based on the AR history information; and

displaying the generated friend recommendation list.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the AR history information comprises at least one of personal information, AR use object information, use time information, use location information, search keyword information, search time information, and search location information.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the friend recommendation list comprises at least one of a name, sex, age, telephone number and social network service (SNS) ID of a user of the second terminal.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein generating the friend recommendation list comprises computing a degree of similarity between the first AR history information and the second AR history information.

22. A method for providing augmented reality (AR), comprising:

receiving a request for a friend recommendation list from a first terminal;

identifying first AR history information of the first terminal and second AR history information of a second terminal;

generating a friend recommendation list based on the identified AR history information; and

transmitting the friend recommendation list to the first terminal.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the AR history information comprises additional user information of the first terminal.