Display an Image During a Communication
AssigneeFour Mile Bay, LLC
InventorPhilip Scott Lyren
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Abstract
An electronic device displays an image during a communication between two people. The image represents one of the people to the communication. The electronic device determines a location where to place the image and displays the image such that the image appears to exist at the location.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A method that displays a suggested location where to place three dimensional (3D) images representing people to telephone calls, the method comprising:
- displaying, with a wearable electronic device worn by a first person and before the first person answers a telephone call from a second person, one or more suggested locations where a 3D image that represents the second person can be displayed during the telephone call to the first person with the wearable electronic device;
- receiving, at the wearable electronic device and from the first person, a selection of one of the one or more suggested locations;
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- displaying, with the wearable electronic device worn by the first person during the telephone call, the 3D image that represents the second person at the one of the one or more suggested locations selected by the first person.
A non-transitory computer readable storage media storing instructions that are executed by a one or more electronic devices in a computer system to perform a method that assists users in placing an image that represents a person during a telephone call, the method comprising:
- determining, with the one or more electronic devices, locations that are suitable to include a virtual image that represents a second person in a telephone call between a first person and the second person;
- displaying, with a display of a wearable electronic device being worn by the first person, one or more of the locations that are suitable to include the virtual image that represents the second person in the telephone call between the first person and the second person;
- receiving, from the first person, a selection of one of the one or more locations that is suitable to include the virtual image that represents the second person in the telephone call between the first person and the second person;
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- displaying, with the display of the wearable electronic device and in response to receiving the selection, the virtual image that represents the second person in the telephone call at the one of the one or more locations selected by the first person.
A method executed by a one or more electronic devices in a computer system to display with a wearable electronic device that shows locations where to place virtual images that represent people during telephone calls, the method comprising:
- displaying, with a display of a wearable electronic device worn by a first person, a virtual location that includes the first person;
- determining, with the one or more electronic devices, at least one location at the virtual location to display a virtual image that represents a second person in a telephone call between the first person and the second person;
- displaying, with the display of the wearable electronic device being worn by the first person, the at least one location to display the virtual image that represents the second person in the telephone call between the first person and the second person;
- receiving, from the first person, a selection of the at least one location to display the virtual image that represents the second person in the telephone call between the first person and the second person;
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- displaying, with the display of the wearable electronic device being worn by the first person and in response to receiving the selection, the virtual image at the at least one location selected by the first person during the telephone call.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.