# US 2025/0209751 A1 · Guide image management apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2025/0209751 A1 - Document ID: US20250209751A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 18/848,782 - Filed: 2023-02-28 - Published: 2025-06-26 - Earliest claimed: 2022-04-12 - Assignees: Ntt Docomo, Inc. - Applicants: Ntt Docomo, Inc. - Inventors: Shinji KIMURA; Hironobu FUJINO; Taishi YAMAMOTO; Osamu GOTO; Yuichi ICHIKAWA; Takurou KURIBARA; Kengo MATSUMOTO - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250209751A1 ## CPC - G06T 19/006: {Mixed reality (object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00)} - G06T 19/00: Manipulating three-dimensional [3D] models or images for computer graphics - G06T 19/003: {Navigation within 3D models or images} - G06V 10/761: {Proximity, similarity or dissimilarity measures} - G06V 20/20: in augmented reality scenes - G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING ## Abstract A guide image management apparatus includes a manager configured to manage one or more guide images in association with a virtual object virtually placed in a real space, the one or more guide images being each obtained by capturing an area of the real space including a location of the virtual object, and a communication controller configured to: cause a communication apparatus to transmit a first guide image of the one or more guide images to a user apparatus; and cause the communication apparatus to receive, from the user apparatus, a captured image generated by the user apparatus executing image capture, in which the manager is configured to manage the captured image as a new guide image when the captured image satisfies a registration condition. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A guide image management apparatus comprising: a manager configured to manage one or more guide images in association with a virtual object virtually placed in a real space, the one or more guide images being each obtained by capturing an area of the real space including a location of the virtual object; and a communication controller configured to: cause a communication apparatus to transmit a first guide image of the one or more guide images to a user apparatus; and cause the communication apparatus to receive, from the user apparatus, a captured image generated by the user apparatus executing image capture, wherein the manager is configured to manage the captured image as a new guide image when the captured image satisfies a registration condition. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The guide image management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication controller is configured to cause the communication apparatus to receive, from the user apparatus, the captured image and a capture parameter related to a condition of capture of the captured image, and wherein in a state in which the manager manages the captured image as the new guide image, the manager is configured to manage the new guide image and the capture parameter in association with each other. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The guide image management apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a selector configured, in a state in which the manager manages two or more guide images in association with the virtual object, based on the capture parameter received from the user apparatus and on capture parameters in association with the two or more guide images, to select a guide image captured on a capture condition closest to a capture condition indicated by the capture parameter of the captured image, as the first guide image, from among the two or more guide images. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The guide image management apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a determiner configured to determine whether the user apparatus is within a predetermined area including the area of the real space in which the virtual object is virtually placed, and wherein the communication controller is configured to: in response to a determination by the determiner being affirmative, cause the communication apparatus to transmit the first guide image to the user apparatus, and in response to the determination by the determiner being negative, prohibit the communication apparatus from transmitting the first guide image to the user apparatus. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The guide image management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the registration condition includes a condition in which the captured image does not include a portion that infringes a portrait right. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The guide image management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the registration condition includes a condition in which a degree of similarity between the captured image and a guide image to be compared among the one or more guide images is less than or equal to a threshold. ### Claim 7 (depends on 3) The guide image management apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising a determiner configured to determine whether the user apparatus is within a predetermined area including the area of the real space in which the virtual object is virtually placed, and wherein the communication controller is configured to: in response to a determination by the determiner being affirmative, cause the communication apparatus to transmit the first guide image to the user apparatus, and in response to the determination by the determiner being negative, prohibit the communication apparatus from transmitting the first guide image to the user apparatus. ### Claim 8 (depends on 2) The guide image management apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the registration condition includes a condition in which the captured image does not include a portion that infringes a portrait right. ### Claim 9 (depends on 3) The guide image management apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the registration condition includes a condition in which the captured image does not include a portion that infringes a portrait right. ### Claim 10 (depends on 2) The guide image management apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the registration condition includes a condition in which a degree of similarity between the captured image and a guide image to be compared among the one or more guide images is less than or equal to a threshold. ### Claim 11 (depends on 3) The guide image management apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the registration condition includes a condition in which a degree of similarity between the captured image and a guide image to be compared among the one or more guide images is less than or equal to a threshold.