Stereoscopic camera with haptic feedback for object and location detection
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsDaniel Mark Crichton, Frances Haugen
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Abstract
A mobile device includes a stereoscopic camera that generates 3D image data of a surrounding environment of the mobile device, a GPS module that determines a GPS location of the surrounding environment, a communication module that receives from a remote server a map of the surrounding environment based on the GPS location of the surrounding environment, and a processor. The processor determines a location of at least one object in the surrounding environment based on the 3D image data, compares the map of the surrounding environment with the location of the at least one object in the surrounding environment, and determines a current location of the mobile device on the map within the surrounding environment based on the comparison.
Claims19
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- generating, at a mobile device, three-dimensional (3D) image data of a surrounding environment with a stereoscopic camera of the mobile device;
- determining, at the mobile device, a global positioning system (GPS) location of the mobile device;
- receiving, at the mobile device, a map of the surrounding environment from a remote server based on the GPS location of the mobile device;
- determining, at the mobile device, a location of at least one object in the surrounding environment based on the 3D image data;
- determining, at the mobile device, a distance to the at least one object;
- generating, at the mobile device, haptic feedback including a vibration intensity corresponding to the determined distance from the mobile device to the at least one object;
- comparing, at the mobile device, the map of the surrounding environment with the location of the at least one object in the surrounding environment;
- determining, at the mobile device, a current location of the mobile device on the map of the surrounding environment based on the comparing;
- receiving, at the mobile device, a voice recording annotation from a user, the voice recording annotation corresponding to the current location within the surrounding environment;
- storing, at a memory of the mobile device, the voice recording annotation;
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- generating, at the mobile device, output based on the current location of the mobile device.
A mobile device comprising:
- a stereoscopic camera that generates three-dimensional (3D) image data of a surrounding environment of the mobile device;
- a global positioning system (GPS) module that determines a GPS location of the surrounding environment;
- a communication module that receives from a remote server a map of the surrounding environment based on the GPS location of the surrounding environment;
- a processor that determines a location of at least one object in the surrounding environment based on the 3D image data, that determines a distance to the at least one object, that generates haptic feedback including a vibration intensity corresponding to the determined distance from the mobile device to the at least one object, that compares the map of the surrounding environment with the location of the at least one object in the surrounding environment, and that determines a current location of the mobile device on the map within the surrounding environment based on the comparison;
- a microphone that receives a voice recording annotation from a user, the voice recording annotation corresponding to the current location within the surrounding environment;
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- a memory that stores the voice recording annotation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.