| 摘要 |
Display content is processed as “digital graffiti” for augmented reality viewing. A portable device acquires and displays full motion video representative of the environment externally visible, in real time, to the device bearer. An augmented representation corresponds to that portion of the environment captured by an image acquisition module, which environment encompasses geo-location coordinates. A site of potential interest to the user is situated near a set of coordinates (or along a rectilinear path extending from the location of the device and through the set of coordinates). In a first mode, content (e.g., a video, still photo or graphic image) is geo-location tagged and uploaded to a remote repository. In a second mode, content that another user has associated with respective geo-locations is downloaded and rendered to the display together with the captured external environment in accordance with the orientation of the device and its proximity to those locations. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method of operating a portable communication system including a display, a transceiver, a memory containing executable instructions, an image acquisition module, a location acquisition module, and a processor operatively associated with the memory, display, transceiver and image acquisition system, the method comprising:
acquiring, using the image acquisition module, a digital representation of an external environment visible to a user of the portable communication system, the external environment encompassing respective sets of coordinates in three dimensional space; acquiring, using the location acquisition module, a first location estimate for the portable communication system; retrieving a first media file having geo-location information corresponding to a first set of coordinates encompassed by the external environment; rendering, on the display, the external environment visible to the user from a first distance and bearing from a locus associated with the first media file together with an image derived from the first media file, wherein the image derived from the first media file is rendered so as to appear in substantial linear alignment between an acquired location of the portable communication device and the first set of coordinates. |
