Qualcomm Incorporated

Ptc Inc.

Per Nielsen

Michael Gervautz

Virginia Walker Keating

Amy McGaraghan

Jason Borthwick Kenagy

Qi Pan

Sean Scott Rogers

Julian A Durand

Andre Gosselin

Stephen Prideaux-Ghee

Susan McGarry

Bryan Campbell

Eunjoo Kim

Diego A Wilson

Vincent Del Castillo

Gerald V Wright, Jr

Allen L Smith

Christophe Bernard

Erick Mendez Mendez

Christophe G Bernard

Roy Lawrence Ashok Inigo

Irene Reisner-Kollmann

Istvan Siklossy

Daniel M Rivas

Scott Alan Leazenby

Julian Durand

Amy Mcgaraghan

Bryan L Campbell

An example method includes: obtaining, from computer memory, information from a three-dimensional (3D) graphical model that represents an object; identifying, based on the information, a first part of the object having an attribute; performing a recognition process on the object based on features of the object, where the recognition process attaches more importance to a second part of the object than to the first part, with the second part either not having the attribute or having less of the attribute than the first part; and providing data for rendering content on a graphical user interface based, at least in part, on recognition of the object performed by the recognition process.

Processing uncertain content in a computer graphics system

Methods, devices, apparatus, computer-readable media and processors are provided that protect the distribution of media content. Media content is encrypted and the associated cryptographic mechanisms are stored and accessible either remotely at a networked database or internally within a data storage device memory. Access to the cryptographic mechanisms is granted by associating the cryptographic mechanisms with a data storage device identification and, optionally, a computing device identification.

Methods and apparatus for protected distribution of applications and media content

Techniques are presented for expanding a digital representation of a physical plane from a physical scene. In some aspects, a method may include determining an orientation and an initial portion of a physical plane in the scene, and subdividing a rectified image for the scene into a plurality of grid cells. For the grid cells, an image signature may be generated. A grid cell contiguous to the obtained initial portion of the plane is determined to include part of the plane. An iterative process may be performed for each neighboring grid cell from the grid cell contiguous to at least part of the obtained initial portion, determining whether the neighboring grid cell is to be included as part of the plane if the image signature of said neighboring grid cell is similar to the image signature of a grid cell already determined to be included as part of the plane.

Expanding a digital representation of a physical plane

Method, computer program product, and apparatus for providing interactions of tangible and augmented reality objects are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of controlling a real object using a device having a camera comprises receiving a selection of at least one object, tracking the at least one object in a plurality of images captured by the camera, and causing control signals to be transmitted from the device to the real object via a machine interface based at least in part on the tracking.

Augmentation of tangible objects as user interface controller

Method, computer program product, and apparatus for providing interactions of tangible and augmented reality objects are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for use with an augmented reality enabled device (ARD) comprises performing 3-dimensional tracking of one or more objects based at least in part on captured images of the one or more objects, detecting a state change of at least one object of the one or more objects based at least in part on the captured images, and causing an augmentation to be rendered in response to the state change of the at least one object, where a type of the augmentation is based at least in part on the state change of the at least one object.

Interactions of tangible and augmented reality objects

Method and apparatus for controlling an augmented reality interface are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for use with an augmented reality enabled device (ARD) comprises receiving image data for tracking a plurality of objects, identifying an object to be selected from the plurality of objects, determining whether the object has been selected based at least in part on a set of selection criteria, and causing an augmentation to be rendered with the object if it is determined that the object has been selected.

Method and apparatus for controlling augmented reality

Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for presenting a representation of an augmented real-world setting are presented. In some embodiments, a method includes presenting a representation of an augmented real-world setting. The method includes capturing a plurality of images of a real-world setting. The method also includes analyzing one or more real-world objects within the plurality of images of the real-world setting. The method further includes receiving information pertaining to a real-world product, wherein the information is indicative of first physical dimensions of the real-world product during a first mode of operation and second physical dimensions of the real-world product during a second mode of operation and overlaying an augmented reality object depicting the real-world product during the first mode of operation, and having the first physical dimensions, within at least one of the plurality of images of the real-world setting, based at least in part on the analyzing step.

System and method for presenting true product dimensions within an augmented real-world setting

Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided to transition 3D space information detected in an Augmented Reality (AR) view of a mobile device to screen aligned information on the mobile device. In at least one implementation, a method includes determining augmentation information associated with an object of interest, including a Modelview (M1) matrix and a Projection (P1) matrix, displaying the augmentation information on top of a video image of the object of interest using the M1 and P1 matrices, generating a second Modelview (M2) matrix and a second Projection (P2) matrix, such that the matrices M2 and P2 represent the screen aligned final position of the augmentation information, and displaying the augmentation information using the M2 and P2 matrices.

Transitioning 3D space information to screen aligned information for video see through augmented reality

Methods and apparatuses for maintaining continuity of augmentations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for use with an augmented reality enabled device (ARD) comprises tracking a plurality of objects and a background based at least in part on visual information derived from an image, maintaining states of the plurality of objects based at least in part on information other than the visual information, and providing data for rendering augmentation in response to the states of the plurality of objects.

Maintaining continuity of augmentations

Aspects include methods, systems, and apparatuses for increasing a likelihood of advertisement display. The method may include receiving advertisement information comprising a presentation schedule and indicia indicating the first advertisement; determining, based upon the advertisement information, whether the first advertisement is located on a mobile device; retrieving the first advertisement from a remote device and storing it on a storage module on the mobile device if the first advertisement is determined to not be located on the mobile device; and rendering the first advertisement on the mobile device. The method may also include receiving advertisement information comprising a retrieval schedule and retrieving the first advertisement from a remote device by reference to the retrieval schedule. Other methods and apparatuses include determining and broadcasting advertisement information.

System, method, and apparatus for increasing a likelihood of advertisement display

Apparatus and methods for providing content by presenting multimedia content on a mobile device; receiving, on the mobile device, indicia of at least one insertion point in the multimedia content; receiving, on the mobile device, at least one identifier associated with the at least one insertion point, the identifier identifying one or more executable content; and presenting the executable content to a user of the mobile device proximate to the at least one insertion point.

System and method of providing interactive advertisements

Methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products are presented for providing episodic secondary content to a mobile device. The present aspects provide for: receiving at least one of the plurality of episodic secondary content items an episodic secondary content set and an episodic manifest, the episodic manifest including indexes coupling at least two episodic secondary content items from the episodic secondary content set, presenting an initial episodic secondary content item during a predetermined break in presentation of a primary content item, prompting a user to select an additional episodic secondary content item from the set, the plurality of episodic secondary content items coupled to the initial episodic secondary content item and determined by the episodic manifest, and receiving a user selection of the additional episodic secondary content item to be presented during a subsequent predetermined break in presentation of the primary content item.

Method and apparatus for serving episodic secondary content

Methods and devices provide a user interface that provides visual cues when a document pan or scroll has reached an end or boundary by distorting the document image in response to further user inputs. The image distortion functionality may include shrinking, stretching, accordion expansion, or bouncing of a document image. The degree of image distortion may be proportional to the distance that a user input would have the document move beyond the encountered boundary. When a boundary of a document image is reached during a rapid pan or scroll, a bouncing image distortion may be applied to the document image to inform the user that the document reached a boundary during the movement.

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