Techniques for recommending and presenting products in an augmented reality scene
AssigneeHouzz, Inc.
InventorsKhurram Zia, Sanjay Raman, Aaron Yip
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention, as presented herein, relate to an augmented reality application-based service, which facilitates techniques for aiding a first end-user (e.g., a room designer) with the selection and placement of objects (e.g., images of home furnishing and related products) in an augmented reality scene that is being, or has been, generated via a mobile computing device that is remote from the first end-user, such that a second end-user (e.g., a potential consumer) operating the mobile computing device can view objects, in the augmented reality scene, as placed by the first, remote end-user.
Claims10
A computer-implemented method performed by one or more server computers, the method comprising:
- receiving and storing information from a mobile computing device executing an augmented reality application, the information including an image of a real-world physical space captured by an image sensor of the mobile computing, and a data representation of a virtual space corresponding to the real-world physical space;
- causing the image of the real-world space to be presented in a user interface at a client computing device, the user interface having controls to facilitate overlaying a rendered 3D model of a product on top of the image of the real-world physical space, wherein positioning of the rendered 3D model of the product overlaid on the image of the real-world physical space generates information indicating the position of the product relative within the virtual space;
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- communicating to the mobile computing device executing the augmented reality application information for rendering images of the product along with the information indicating the position of the product relative to the model of virtual space, thereby enabling a 3D representation of the product to be rendered as part of a live augmented reality view of the real-world physical space.
A computer-implemented method performed by one or more server computers, the method comprising:
- receiving from a mobile computing device an image of a physical space along with a data representation of a virtual space that corresponds with the physical space;
- spring the image of the physical space along with the data representation of the virtual space that corresponds with the physical space;
- using the image of the physical space as input to an object recognition analysis to generate output information identifying attributes of objects present in the image of the physical space;
- with a query formulated based at least in part on the attributes of the objects present in the image of the physical space, querying a database of products to identify a set of candidate products;
- causing information relating to a subset of the set of candidate products to be presented in a user interface at a client computing device, the user interface to facilitate the placement of a representation of one or more candidate products within the virtual space that corresponds with the physical space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.