Augmented reality method and system for designing environments and buying/selling goods
US8606657B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 21, 2010 |
| Grant date | Dec 10, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 27, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T19/006
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Described is a method and a corresponding system for designing interior and exterior environments and for selling real world goods that appear as virtual objects within an augmented reality-generated design. The method includes the steps of generating a digitized still or moving image of a real world environment; providing in a programmable computer a database of virtual objects; parsing the image with a programmable computer to determine if the image contains any real world markers corresponding to the virtual objects in the database; retrieving corresponding virtual objects from the database and superimposing the images contained in the virtual objects in registration upon their corresponding real world markers in the image; and enabling users to retrieve the attributes of the real world objects depicted in the augmented reality image.
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