Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120200743 | SYSTEM TO AUGMENT A VISUAL DATA STREAM BASED ON A COMBINATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL AND VISUAL INFORMATION - An mobile computing device includes a video capturing module to capture a video stream, a global positioning system (GPS) module to generate geographical information associated with frames of the video stream to be captured by the video capturing device, and a video processing module to analyze the frames of the video stream and extract features of points of interest included in the frames. The video processing is configured to transmit the features of the points of interest and the geographical information to a server and to receive augment information from the server computer using wireless communication. The video processing module uses the augment information to overlay the frames of the video stream to generate an augmented video stream. | 08-09-2012 |
20120201472 | SYSTEM FOR THE TAGGING AND AUGMENTATION OF GEOGRAPHICALLY-SPECIFIC LOCATIONS USING A VISUAL DATA STREAM - A system to provide augment information includes an object database configured to store characteristics and geographical information associated with known objects, and an object recognition engine configured to compare characteristics and geographical information of objects associated with a frame in a first set of frames of a video stream with the characteristics and geographical information stored in the object database to recognize a first known object. The system may include two or more server computers in a site. The two or more servers are configured with identical compositions of hardware and content with server computers at another geographically different site. The video stream is captured by a mobile computing device connected to a network using wireless communication. The system further includes an augment information database coupled with the object database and configured to store augment information associated with the known objects including the first known object, and an augment engine coupled with the augment information database and configured to select augment information associated with the first known object from the augment information database. The selected augment information is to be transmitted to the mobile computing device and to overlay the frame in the first set of frames before the video stream is viewable. | 08-09-2012 |
20120202514 | METHOD FOR SPATIALLY-ACCURATE LOCATION OF A DEVICE USING AUDIO-VISUAL INFORMATION - A system to determine positions of mobile computing devices and provide direction information includes a first mobile computing device configured to broadcast a first chirp signal, a second mobile computing device configured to broadcast a second chirp signal indicating receipt of the first chirp signal and a first time information about when the first chirp signal is received, and a third mobile computing device configured broadcast a third chirp signal indicating (a) receipt of the first and second chirp signals and (b) a second time information about when the first and second chirp signals are received. The first mobile computing device is configured to use the first and second time information to determine a position of the second mobile computing device. The first mobile computing device is also configured to transmit text messages to the second mobile computing device to direct a user of the second mobile computing device to a position of a user of the first mobile computing device. | 08-09-2012 |
20120203799 | SYSTEM TO AUGMENT A VISUAL DATA STREAM WITH USER-SPECIFIC CONTENT - User profile information for many users may be stored in a user profile database associated with a server computer connected to a network. Based on information received from a mobile computing device, the server computer selects augment information from an augment information database coupled with the user profile database. The information received from the mobile computing device is related to frames of a video stream being captured by the mobile computing device and geographical information associated with these frames. The augment information is also selected based on the user profile associated with the mobile computing device. The augment information is to be transmitted from the server computer to the mobile computing device using wireless communication and is used by the mobile computing device to overlay the frames of the video stream being captured by the mobile computing device. | 08-09-2012 |
20120263154 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AND JOINING SHARED EXPERIENCE - A method for implementing shared experiences using mobile computing devices comprises capturing an image of a trigger along with background information associated with the trigger in a video frame using a video camera built into a first mobile computing device equipped with a display screen and a wireless communication module; identifying characteristics information of the trigger and the associated background information; transmitting the characteristics information of the trigger and the associated background information to a server computing device connected to a network using wireless communication; receiving an augmented reality corresponding to the characteristics information of the trigger and the associated background information from the server computing device; and presenting the augmented reality on the display screen of the first mobile computing device, wherein the augmented reality associated with the first mobile computing device is shared and time synchronized with an augmented reality previously transmitted by the server computing device to a second mobile computing device. | 10-18-2012 |
20120265806 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING CONCEPT-BASED HASH TAGS - Methods for automatically recommending hash tags for use with comments generated by the comment authors comprise analyzing existing comments to determine reach and influence of authors of the existing comment, and hash tags and keywords that are included in the existing comments. The methods further comprise using the comment and linked content of links included in the existing comment to determine concept information associated with the existing comments, where the concept information is determined using a server computing system configured with an Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) application, and where the concept information, the reach and influence information, the keywords and the hash tags are stored in a hash tag database. The methods further comprise analyzing new comments as they are being generated by authors of the new comments where the new comments and any linked content associated with the new comments are analyzed by the server computing system configured with the IDOL application to determine related concept information, and recommending possible hash tags to the authors of the new comments using the concept information of the new comments and the information stored in the hash tag database. | 10-18-2012 |
20130088337 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A REMINDER SERVICER USING VISUAL RECOGNITION - A downloadable reminder application uses object recognition technology to recognize one or more objects appearing on a display screen of the mobile computing device and matches them to a set of known target objects. The downloadable reminder application process any associated trigger conditions for the target object. The downloadable reminder application then sets the future reminder for the target object to activate. The downloadable reminder application when it detects that a mobile computing device is satisfying the trigger condition for a target object for which it has set a future reminder on, then the downloadable reminder application in the mobile computing device fires the future reminder that was set for that target object and provides the alert to the user along with any triggerable contributions associated with that target object. | 04-11-2013 |
20130159545 | SYSTEM TO AUGMENT A VISUAL DATA STREAM WITH USER-SPECIFIC CONTENT - User profile information for many users may be stored in a user profile database associated with a server computer connected to a network. Based on information received from a mobile computing device, the server computer selects augment information from an augment information database coupled with the user profile database. The information received from the mobile computing device is related to frames of a video stream being captured by the mobile computing device and geographical information associated with these frames. The augment information is also selected based on the user profile associated with the mobile computing device. The augment information is to be transmitted from the server computer to the mobile computing device using wireless communication and is used by the mobile computing device to overlay the frames of the video stream being captured by the mobile computing device. | 06-20-2013 |
20130307873 | SYSTEM TO AUGMENT A VISUAL DATA STREAM BASED ON A COMBINATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL AND VISUAL INFORMATION - According to an example, a computing device includes a memory on which is stored machine readable instructions that may cause a processor to access a video stream, generate geographical information associated with frames of the video stream, extract features of points of interest in the frames, transmit the extracted features of the points of interest and the geographical information to a server computer that is to use the extracted features of the points of interest and the geographical information to identify augment information, receive the augment information from the server computer, and augment the video stream with the augment information to generate an augmented video stream. | 11-21-2013 |
20140095505 | PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY IN AN INTELLIGENT DATA OPERATING LAYER SYSTEM - Systems and methods that allow for an intelligence platform for distributed processing of big data sets including both structured and unstructured data types across two or more intelligent data operation engine servers. The intelligent data operation engine servers can form a conceptual understanding of content in each electronic file and then cooperates with a distributed index handler to index the conceptual understanding of the electronic file. A query pipeline and the distributed index handler in the intelligence platform cooperate with the two or more intelligent data operation engine servers to improve scalability and performance on the big data sets containing both structured and un-structured electronic files represented in the common index. | 04-03-2014 |
20140253743 | USER-GENERATED CONTENT IN A VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT - The systems and methods allow users of mobile computing devices to generate augmented reality scenarios. Augmented reality content is paired with a real world trigger item to generate the augmented reality scenario. The augmented reality content is overlaid onto frames on a video when a trigger item is detected. Each mobile computing device may have an augmented reality application resident on the mobile computing device to allow a user to generate the augmented reality scenarios. | 09-11-2014 |