US 11,861,802 B2
Augmented reality system
Robert Reynolds Hill, II, Toronto (CA); Hitesh Shah, Brampton (CA); and Amir Haddadi, Richmond Hill (CA)
Assigned to SPIN MASTER LTD., Toronto (CA)
Appl. No. 17/776,171
Filed by SPIN MASTER LTD., Toronto (CA)
PCT Filed Nov. 11, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CA2020/051523
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 11, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/092679, PCT Pub. Date May 20, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/933,967, filed on Nov. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0383597 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01)
CPC G06T 19/006 (2013.01) [G02B 27/0179 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An augmented reality system, comprising:
a physical apparatus having a plurality of light-emitting elements to selectively illuminate locations on a surface, and a signal receiver for receiving a signal; and
an augmented reality application in the form of computer-readable instructions stored on a computer readable medium, the augmented reality application, when executed by at least one processor of a computing device, the computing device having at least one camera and a display, cause the computing device to capture at least one image of the physical apparatus via the at least one camera, generate a virtual reality object that is presented in the at least one image of the physical apparatus on the display, and transmit the signal to the signal receiver of the physical apparatus to cause the light-emitting elements of the physical apparatus to be energized and deenergized so as to selectively illuminate selected ones of the locations on the surface which are indicative of a location of the virtual reality object on the display wherein the selective illumination of the light-emitting elements to generate the appearance of travel of the virtual object on the surface.