US 12,141,363 B2
Physical action-based augmented reality communication exchanges
Tianying Chen, Pittsburgh, PA (US); Timothy Chong, Kirkland, WA (US); Sven Kratz, Mercer Island, WA (US); Fannie Liu, New York, NY (US); Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Seattle, WA (US); Olivia Seow, Cambridge, MA (US); Yu Jiang Tham, Seattle, WA (US); Rajan Vaish, Beverly Hills, CA (US); and Lei Zhang, Ann Arbor, MI (US)
Assigned to Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/887,891.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/239,869, filed on Sep. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0060150 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/017 (2013.01) [G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G06T 11/00 (2013.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01); G06V 40/28 (2022.01)] 18 Claims
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11. A method for communicating augmented reality (AR) objects, the method comprising:
capturing images of a scene within a field of view with a camera system;
selecting, responsive to input received via a user input system of an AR device, a virtual delivery route for sending an AR object to a receiver, each virtual delivery route having a corresponding delivery mode and an associated physical world send action;
detecting an exit location within the scene in the captured images with a processor coupled to the camera system;
generating AR virtual delivery route overlays responsive to at least the selected virtual delivery route including the AR object and the delivery mode corresponding to the virtual delivery route, wherein generating the AR virtual delivery route overlays includes generating AR sending overlays responsive to the received physical world action including the AR object moving in accordance with the delivery mode and the detected exit location within the scene;
presenting, via a display system, the AR virtual delivery route overlays;
receiving, via the user input system, the physical world action associated with the delivery mode during presentation of the AR virtual delivery route overlays;
sending a communication corresponding to the AR object for delivery to the receiver responsive to the received physical world action;
generating AR sending overlays responsive to the received physical world action including the AR object moving in accordance with the delivery mode; and
presenting, via the display system, the AR sending overlays.