Patent ID: 9613448
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06T

Claim:
1. A method comprising: detecting visual output of a physical display screen appearing in a field of view of an augmenting device, the visual output depicting two or more objects; detecting a visual information pattern in the visual output; extracting descriptive information embedded in the visual information pattern, wherein the descriptive information is associated with respective ones of the two or more objects depicted in the visual output; wherein the descriptive information includes two or more sets of descriptors, wherein each set of the two or more sets of descriptors is associated with at least one respective object of two or more objects depicted on the physical display screen; extracting screen position information from the visual information pattern, wherein the screen position information is associated with the descriptive information and indicates one or more screen positions on the physical display screen, the one or more screen positions based, at least in part, on positions of the respective ones of the two or more objects, and each of the one or more screen positions being associated with a different set of two or more sets of descriptors; and causing a display of the descriptive information overlaid in the field of view of the augmenting device, wherein the display is based on the position of the display screen in the field of view and is based on the screen position information, wherein the displayed descriptive information is visually associated with the respective ones of the two or more objects.