Patent ID: 11869155
Assignee: APP IN THE AIR, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An augmented-reality comparator comprising:
a processor-controlled device that includes
one or more processors,
a memory,
a camera,
an electronic display that displays images of a real-world scene captured by a camera,
stored information representing a graphic,
stored information representing a semi-transparent virtual volume, and
stored processor instructions that, when executed by one or more processors within the processor-controlled device, control the processor-controlled device to
display, on the electronic display, images of the graphic at an apparent location in the real-world scene within the displayed images of the real-world scene captured by the camera by mapping the graphic at the apparent location in the real-world scene to an image plane of the camera,
when the processor-controlled device is translated and/or oriented to superimpose the displayed images of the graphic onto images of a flat surface in the real-world scene captured by the camera,
display, on the electronic display, images of the semi-transparent virtual volume positioned on the flat surface in the real-world scene by mapping the semi-transparent virtual volume positioned at the apparent location in the real-world scene to the image plane of the camera, and
display images of the real-world scene including a real three-dimensional object positioned on the flat surface along with the displayed images of the semi-transparent virtual volume positioned on the flat surface.