Patent ID: 8797353

Claim:
A method for generating and viewing on a handheld device a 3-D augmented reality feature that is linked to a physical object, comprising the steps of: (a) capturing a reference image of a physical object having a high frequency region with a handheld device having a plurality of inertial sensors and an image processor; (b) capturing, with said handheld device, a sequence of additional images of said object; and (c) for each of said captured additional images, performing the following steps by said image processor: i) identifying said high frequency region; ii) calculating a correlation in terms of relative distance and orientation in six degrees of freedom between said high frequency region in said additional image to said high frequency region in said reference image by integrating rotational data derived from said plurality of inertial sensors with translational data derived from features extracted from said captured object; iii) determining a relative transformation from said reference image to said additional image based on said calculated correlation; and iv) attaching a selected augmented reality feature to said captured object in response to said determined relative transformation, to generate an augmented object of said feature appearing on said captured object.