System and method for providing augmented virtual reality content in autonomous vehicles

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations of content delivery to autonomous vehicles, the operations comprising:

• receiving a request from a first autonomous vehicle for content delivery over a network, the request including an image that was captured by a camera of the first autonomous vehicle while the first autonomous vehicle was driving on a road, the image capturing an object external to the first autonomous vehicle;
• in response to the request, performing a vision analysis on an image obtained from the request to determine three-dimensional (3D) positioning information of the image, including determining a position of the object within the image and a viewing angle of the object with respect to a location of the camera;
• identifying a list of a plurality of content items to augment based on current vehicle information of the first autonomous vehicle in view of one or more user profiles of a one or more users to be entertained while riding the first autonomous vehicle;
• augmenting a first content item selected based on user preferences from the list of content items onto the image by superimposing the first content item onto the image based on the position and viewing angle of the object to generate an augmented image, wherein the first content item includes a content item previously cached by a content database maintained by the autonomous vehicle;
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• transmitting the augmented image to the first autonomous vehicle over the network, wherein the augmented image is to be displayed on a display device within the autonomous vehicle in a virtual reality manner.

A data processing system operating as a server, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations including
• receiving a request from a first autonomous vehicle for content delivery over a network, the request including an image that was captured by a camera of the first autonomous vehicle while the first autonomous vehicle was driving on a road, the image capturing an object external to the first autonomous vehicle;
• in response to the request, performing a vision analysis on an image obtained from the request to determine three-dimensional (3D) positioning information of the image, including determining a position of the object within the image and a viewing angle of the object with respect to a location of the camera,
• identifying a list of a plurality of content items to augment based on current vehicle information of the first autonomous vehicle in view of one or Wore user profiles of one or more users to be entertained while riding the first autonomous vehicle,
• augmenting a first content item selected based on user preferences from the list of content items onto the image by superimposing the first content item onto the image based on the position and viewing angle of the object to generate an augmented image, wherein the first content item includes a content item previously cached by a content database maintained by the autonomous vehicle, and
• transmitting the augmented image to the first autonomous vehicle over the network, wherein the augmented image is to be displayed on a display device within the autonomous vehicle in a virtual reality manner.