Controlling interactivity of digital content overlaid onto displayed data via graphics processing circuitry using a frame buffer
US11694371B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 2, 2022 |
| Grant date | Jul 4, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 2, 2042 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG09G2370/20
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium that access a frame buffer of a graphics processing unit (GPU), analyze, in the frame buffer, a frame representing displayed data, based on the analyzed frame, identify a reference patch that includes an instruction to retrieve content, generate an overlay including an augmentation layer which includes the content, superimpose the overlay onto the displayed data such that the content is viewable while a portion of the base layer is obscured, detect a user input, determine a location of the user input in the augmentation layer, associate the location in the augmentation layer with a target location in the base layer, and associate, within memory, the target location with an operation such that the user input in the augmentation layer activates an input in the base layer.
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