Electronic Device Displays an Image of an Obstructed Target

A method executed in a computer system in which two handheld portable electronic devices (HPEDs) capture information while at a geographical location to display a three-dimensional (3D) image of a first object that is obstructed from view to one of the two HPEDs, the method comprising:

• capturing, with a first HPED at the geographical location, an image of the first object;
• capturing, with a second HPED at the geographical location, a second object that blocks the first object from being visible with the second HPED;
• determining, based on the image of the first object captured with the first HPED and the second object captured with the second HPED, a location where the first object would be visible to the second HPED if the first object were not blocked by the second object;
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• displaying, with a display of the second HPED at the geographical location, the 3D image of the first object with the second object at the location where the first object would be visible to the second HPED if the first object were not blocked by the second object.

An electronic system, comprising:

• a first handheld electronic device (HPED) that includes a processor in communication with a wireless network, a display, and a camera that captures an image of a first object and a second object in a field of view of a first user with the first HPED;
• a second HPED that includes a processor in communication with the wireless network, a display, and a camera that captures an image of the first object without the second object since the second object is obstructed by the first object and not within a field of view of a second user with the second HPED;
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• a computer that communicates over the wireless network with the first HPED and the second HPED and that includes a processor and a memory with instructions that the processor of the computer executes to receive the image of the first object and the second object from the first HPED, receive the image of the first object without the second object from the second HPED, build a three dimensional (3D) image of the second object, determine a location of where the second object would appear in the field of view of the second user if the second object were not obstructed by the first object in the field of view of the second user, and transmit the 3D image of the second object to the second HPED;
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• wherein the display of the second HPED displays the 3D image of the second object at the location in the field of view of the second user as if the second object were not obstructed by the first object in the field of view of the second user.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that cause one or more processors to execute a method in which two handheld electronic devices (HPEDs) capture information while at a geographical location to display a three-dimensional (3D) image of an object that is obstructed from view to one of the two HPEDs, the method comprising:

• capture, with a first HPED at the geographical location, an image of the object and an obstructing object where the object is located;
• capture, with a second HPED at the geographical location and while being pointed in a direction of the object and the obstructing object, an image of the obstructing object that obstructs the object from being viewable with the second HPED;
• determine, based on the image of the object and the obstructing object captured with the first HPED and the obstructing object captured with the second HPED, a location where the object would be visible to the second HPED if the object were not blocked by the obstructing object;
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• display, with a display of the second HPED at the geographical location, the 3D image of the object at the obstructing object at the location where the object would be visible to the second HPED if the object were not blocked by the obstructing object.