Using object recognizers in an augmented or virtual reality system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9761055-B2
Application number	US-201514706993-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 8, 2015
Priority date	Apr 18, 2014
Publication date	Sep 12, 2017
Grant date	Sep 12, 2017

Abstract

An augmented reality display system comprises a passable world model data comprises a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world. The augmented reality system also comprises a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a portion of the passable world model data to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model data is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An augmented reality system, comprising:
a passable world model comprising a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world;
a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a piece of the passable world model to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems and wherein communication between the processor and the one or more individual augmented reality display systems includes asynchronous communication; and
a set of object recognizers to recognize a set of objects of the passable world model, the set of object recognizers arranged as a ring of object recognizers that run on the passable world model data, wherein the ring of object recognizers comprises at least two object recognizers, and wherein a first object recognizer of the at least two object recognizers recognizes a first object, and a second object recognizer of the at least two object recognizers recognizes a subset of the first object.

2. The augmented reality system of claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the passable world model resides in the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.

3. The augmented reality system of claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the passable world model resides in a cloud-based server.

4. The augmented reality system of claim 1 , wherein the passable world model is constantly updated based at least in part on information received from the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.

5. The augmented reality system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more individual augmented reality display systems comprises a plurality of individual augmented reality display systems; and
wherein communication regarding the passable world model between the processor and the plurality of individual augmented reality display systems is asynchronous.

6. The augmented reality system of claim 1 , wherein a first piece of the passable world model corresponding to a first augmented reality display system is passed to a second augmented reality display system.

7. The augmented reality system of claim 6 , wherein a location of the second augmented reality display system is different from a location of the first augmented reality display system.

8. The augmented reality system of claim 6 , wherein a first user of the first augmented reality display system is rendered as an avatar at the second augmented reality display system.

9. The augmented reality system as in any one of claims 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 and 8 , implemented as a method.

10. The augmented reality system of claim 6 , wherein the processor receives data pertaining to a first location captured by the first augmented reality display system and data pertaining to a second location captured by the second augmented reality display system.

11. The augmented reality system of claim 6 , wherein the first piece of the passable world model corresponding to the first augmented reality display system is received from the first augmented reality display system by the processor and the processor passes the first piece of the passable world model to the second augmented reality display system.

12. The augmented reality system of claim 1 , further comprising a topological map layered on the passable world model by the augmented reality system.

13. The augmented reality system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more individual augmented reality display systems comprises a plurality of individual augmented reality display systems and the piece of the passable world model is passed simultaneously to the plurality of individual augmented reality display systems.

14. An augmented reality system comprising:
a passable world model comprising a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world;
a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a piece of the passable world model to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems; and
a set of object recognizers to recognize a set of objects of the passable world model, the set of object recognizers arranged as a ring of object recognizers that run on the passable world model data, the ring of object recognizers comprising at least two object recognizers, wherein a first object recognizer of the at least two object recognizers recognizes a first object, and a second object recognizer of the at least two object recognizers a subset of the first object.

15. The augmented reality system of claim 14 , further comprising a topological map layered on the passable world model by the augmented reality system.

Assignees

• Magic Leap Inc

Inventors

• Miller Samuel A

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