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US 12,472,425 B2Granted
Location-based games and augmented reality systems
AssigneeMullen Industries LLC
InventorJeffrey David Mullen
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Abstract
Handheld location based games are provided in which a user's physical location correlates to the virtual location of a virtual character on a virtual playfield. Augmented Reality (AR) systems are provided in which video game indicia are overlaid onto a user's physical environment. A landscape detector is provided that may obtain information about the user's landscape, in addition to the user's location, in order to provide overlaying information to an AR head-mounted display and control information to non-user controlled video game characters.
Claims34
A wearable apparatus comprising:
- a camera;
- a head-mounted display operable to display virtual indicia overlaid onto a physical space;
- a processor coupled to said head-mounted display, the processor operable to provide said virtual indicia to said head-mounted display;
- a detector operable to determine landscape characteristics of said physical space;
- memory operable to store said landscape characteristics;
- and
- at least one locating device operable to determine a physical location of said head-mounted display in said physical space and an orientation of said head-mounted display in said physical space.
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A wearable apparatus comprising:
- a camera;
- a head-mounted display operable to display virtual indicia overlaid onto a physical space;
- a processor coupled to said head-mounted display, the processor operable to provide said virtual indicia to said head-mounted display;
- a device operable to determine information of said physical space;
- memory operable to store said information;
- and
- at least one system operable to determine a physical location of said head-mounted display in said physical space and an orientation of said head-mounted display in said physical space, wherein additional information is operable to be communicated to a remote system.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.