Patent ID: 6903707

Claim:
A method for using a motorized camera mount as a tracking system for Augmented Reality (AR) comprising: capturing an image or view of the real world with a camera on a motorized camera mount; determining the orientation of the camera being carried by the camera mount by using a computer to obtain information from the motorized camera mount; in response to the camera orientation received by the computer from the camera mount, using the computer to control the aim of the camera by sending control signals to the camera motor mount to move the camera to a specified orientation, wherein the control signals cause the motor mount to move the camera to the specified orientation, to thus accomplish a feedback-based camera position control system; in response to the camera orientation received by the computer from the camera mount, using the computer to generate a graphical image representing unseen information that corresponds to the known orientation of the viewpoint of the camera; augmenting a view of the real world with the computer generated image; and presenting the augmented view to the user.