US 2016/0104235 A1Published application

Virtual display device for an interactive merchant sales environment

AssigneeeBay Inc.

InventorsRohan Benkar, Jaya Kumar Murari, Leo Hsieh, Yu Jiang

Life of this patent

Estimating the term…

Loading patent…

Abstract

There is provided systems and method for a virtual display device for an interactive merchant sales environment. A device, such as a communication device, may allow a user to view virtual images of items in a user environment so that a user may view what their potential purchase may look like when placed into the user environment. The user environment may include a residential room, an office, a car interior, or other location where a user may place purchased items. The user may submit a request to view an item in the user environment to the device, which may communicate the request to a merchant or a service provider. The virtual image may correspond to digital image(s) of an item used to present a three dimensional virtual image of the item in the user environment. The device may receive the virtual image(s) and display them to the user.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

an input device for receiving a request to display an object in a merchant environment to a first user;
a virtual display output device for projecting a first virtual image of the object for display to the first user in a user environment;
an input/output (i/o) interface in communication with the at least one device and the virtual display output device;
a non-transitory memory storing a virtual projection module, the first virtual image of the at least one object in the merchant environment, and the request to display the object;
at least one hardware processor in communication with the non-transitory memory for executing the virtual projection module to access the first virtual image of the object and utilize the virtual display output device to project the first virtual image for display in the user environment;
and
a communication module in connection with the i/o interface and the non-transitory memory that communicates the request to a service provider, receives the first virtual image of the object, and stores the first virtual image to the non-transitory memory.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/513,178Filed 13 Oct 2014
Published: 14 Apr 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06Q 30/0643
Utilising user interfaces specially adapted for shopping: graphically representing goods, e.g. 3D product representation
G06F 3/14
Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for…: digital…
H04N 9/3185
Video signal processing therefor: geometric adjustment, e.g. keystone or convergence
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial