Patent ID: 9535496
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06T

Claim:
1. A device comprising: a display; a camera configured to generate an image that depicts a physical object; and a virtual gesture application implemented by a hardware processor of the device and configured to perform operations comprising: identify a visual reference on the physical object, generate a virtual object corresponding to the visual reference, rendering the virtual object in the display based a position of the display relative to the visual reference, identifying a first and a second trigger area in the display, the first trigger area including a first predefined static area of the display, the second trigger area including a second predefined static area of the display, the first predefined static area being distinct from the second predefined static area, determining that an interactive feature of the virtual object is located inside the first or second trigger area, performing a first action on the interactive feature in response to the interactive feature being located inside the first trigger area and a second action on the interactive feature in response to the interactive feature being located inside the second trigger area, the first action being distinct from the second action.