Method and apparatus for providing interactive augmented reality information corresponding to television programs
AssigneedaTangle, Inc.
InventorTaizo Yasutake
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Abstract
Techniques related to displaying augmented reality (AR) based multi-media content are described. The AR content is corresponding to a television (TV) program being displayed on a TV screen. One embodiment of the techniques does not need to scan any AR markers or related images to retrieve the specific AR contents. An AR system for TV broadcasting programs comprises a mobile device, a digital TV or an Internet TV set and a cloud computing based TV-AR management server. The TV-AR management server is configured to provide correct AR contents for the TV program that is being broadcasted and received in a TV set being used by a user at the time.
Claims23
A method for providing augmented reality (AR) content, the method comprising:
- receiving a request in a server from a mobile device to download the AR content in accordance with an image being displayed on a display screen of a TV device, wherein the mobile device is communicating wirelessly with the TV device to receive detailed information about the image being displayed on the TV device;
- searching the AR content from a database in accordance with the detailed information about the image, wherein the AR content is in synchronized in time with the image being shown on the TV device;
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- releasing the AR content to the mobile device for displaying the AR content on top of the image in the mobile device.
A method for providing augmented reality (AR) content, the method comprising:
- sending a request from a mobile device to a server to obtain the AR content for overlaying the AR content onto an image being displayed on a display screen of a TV device, wherein the mobile device is communicating wirelessly with the TV device to receive detailed information about the image being displayed on the TV device;
- retrieving the AR content from the server, wherein the server is configured to search the AR content from a database in synchronization with a time included in the request;
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- displaying the AR content on top of the image in the mobile device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.