US 10,255,725 B2Granted

Augmented reality interactive experience

AssigneeDisney Enterprises, Inc.

InventorsNathan Nocon, Katherine M. Bassett

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Abstract

An augmented reality (AR) system for providing an AR experience to a user of an AR venue includes a hardware processor, a memory, a light detector, a display, and an AR application stored in the memory. The hardware processor can execute the AR application to provide a virtual environment corresponding to the AR venue on the display, and to detect a light event resulting from interaction of an infrared (IR) light produced by an AR accessory utilized by the user with a surface within the AR venue. The hardware processor can further execute the AR application to identify a location of the light event within the AR venue, determine whether the location of the light event is within an activation zone of the AR venue, and render a visual effect corresponding to the light event on the display if the location is within the activation zone.

Claims18

Dependent claims

An augmented reality (AR) system for providing an AR experience to a user utilizing an AR accessory within an AR venue, the AR system comprising:

a hardware processor;
a memory;
a light detector;
a display;
and
an AR application stored in the memory and executed by the hardware processor to:
provide a virtual environment corresponding to the AR venue on the display;
detect, using the light detector, a light event resulting from interaction of a light produced by the AR accessory with a surface within the AR venue, wherein the surface corresponds to another user within the AR venue;
identify a location of the light event within the AR venue;
determine whether the identified location of the detected light event is within a volumetric region surrounding the AR accessory;
when the determining determines that the identified location of the detected light event is not within the volumetric region surrounding the AR accessory, not render any visual effect in response to the detected light event;
and
when the determining determines that the identified location of the detected light event is within the volumetric region surrounding the AR accessory, render a visual effect corresponding to the light event on the display, in response to the detected light event.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/353,688Filed 16 Nov 2016
Published: US 2018/0137680 A117 May 2018
Granted: 9 Apr 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

A63F 13/00
Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or
A63F 13/213
Characterised by their sensors, purposes or types: comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells
A63F 13/426
By mapping the input signals into game commands, e.g. mapping the displacement of a stylus on a touch screen to the steering angle of a virtual…:…
G02B 27/017
Head-up displays: head mounted