Marker-based augmented reality authoring tools
AssigneeNant Holdings IP, LLC
InventorsJeremi M. Sudol, John Wiacek
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Abstract
An augmented reality-based content authoring tool is presented. A content author arranges machine-recognizable markers in a physical environment. A computing device operating as the authoring tool recognizes the markers and their arrangement based on a captured digital representation of the physical environment. Once recognized, augmented reality primitives corresponding to the markers can be bound together via their primitive interfaces to give rise to a content set. The individual primitives and content set are instantiated based on the nature of the marker's arrangement.
Claims27
An augmented reality-based content authoring tool:
- a recognition engine configured to:
- receive a digital representation of an arrangement of a marker set in a physical environment;
- identify each marker's identity in the marker set from the digital representation;
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- identify at least one inter-connectable AR object primitive for each marker in the marker set from each marker's identity;
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- a content creation engine coupled with the recognition engine and configured to:
- obtain a content creation rules set;
- obtain a set of AR content primitives comprising the at least one inter-connectable AR object primitive for each marker in the marker set, each AR object primitive including a primitive interface;
- generate an AR content set by coupling at least two primitives in the set of AR content primitives via their primitive interfaces according to the content creation rules set as a function of the arrangement in the physical environment of the markers corresponding to the at least two primitives;
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- cause a device to present the AR content set on a display where the AR content is superimposed on an image of the physical environment based on the arrangement.
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