Patent Document ID: 20130187952
Application ID: 13822652
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of operating a mobile device to provide a display of supplementary information aligned with a view of a scene, the mobile device including a camera, a display and at least one position sensor, the mobile device being in networked communication to a remote server, the method comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining a first image from the camera; (b) uploading at least said first image to the remote server together with corresponding data from the at least one position sensor; (c) performing image processing to track image motion between said first image and subsequent images obtained from the camera, and hence determining a mapping between features of a reference image and features of a current image obtained from the camera, said reference image being selected from the group consisting of: said first image; and a second image for which transformation parameters were uploaded to the server corresponding to a mapping between said first image and said second image; (d) receiving via the network data indicative of a pixel location for display of supplementary information within said reference image; (e) employing said mapping to determine a corresponding pixel location for display of the supplementary information within the current image; and (f) displaying the supplementary information on the display correctly aligned with the view of the scene.