US 11,657,366 B2
System and method for augmented reality loading
Daniel J. Lesieur, Rogers, AR (US); and Steven Lewis, Bentonville, AR (US)
Assigned to Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed by Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed on Aug. 3, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/54,434.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/541,351, filed on Aug. 4, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0043004 A1, Feb. 7, 2019
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/08 (2023.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) [G02B 27/0176 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01); G02B 27/017 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0134 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An augmented reality device comprising:
at least one transparent display having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the inner surface is configured to display graphics to a user;
a processor;
a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a server, physical package dimensions associated with a physical package;
receiving, from the server, a storage location where the physical package should be placed within a storage area;
identifying a current location of the augmented reality device;
identifying a current view of the user of the augmented reality device;
generating augmented view data based on the current location and the current view, wherein the augmented view data defines dimensions of a virtual package in the storage location, the virtual package illustrating how the physical package should be placed within the storage location based on the physical package dimensions and based on package placement rules;
displaying, using the augmented view data and on the inner surface of the at least one transparent display, an augmented view of the storage area such that the user, while storing the physical package, can see the storage area with the virtual package displayed graphically in the storage location;
searching the storage area for a previously stored physical package; and
highlighting, in the augmented view and on the inner surface of the at least one transparent display, the previously stored physical package based on identifying the previously stored physical package in the storage area,
wherein the physical package was unknown to the augmented reality device when another package was previously placed in the storage area,
wherein the augmented reality device generates a confirmation when the physical package is placed in the storage location, and
wherein the augmented view of the storage area is updated based on the confirmation.