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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2013
Nintendo of American Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
Joseph Gregory Vasquez, II, Redmond, WA (US);
Steve Rabin, Redmond, WA (US);
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
The disclosure provide for improved depiction of interactions between virtual objects and physical objects in augmented reality (AR) images, and may include operations for: receiving a captured image of the real world physical structure, the captured image provided by a camera disposed in a housing; identifying, by image processing performed on the captured image using at least one processor arrangement, the at least one marker disposed at a location of the real world physical structure; determining aspects of user viewpoint of the housing relative to the physical structure at least in part in response to the identified at least one marker; using an at least partial three dimensional model of the real world physical structure to determine a view of interaction between the real world physical structure and the provided virtual object from the determined user viewpoint; and displaying, on a display, an augmented reality view of the captured image including the determined view of the interaction.