Patent Document ID: 20100134516
Application ID: 12569514
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of processing video signals captured by a camera, the video signals representing a scene as viewed by the camera, and the scene including a first object, the method comprising: combining a computer generated object with the video signals with the effect that the computer generated object appears within the scene when the video signals are displayed; mapping a virtual model of the first object to a position of the first object within the scene so that the virtual model substantially corresponds with the first object within the scene, the virtual model having a degree of transparency such that the virtual model can be rendered as a substantially transparent virtual object within the scene; detecting occluded regions of the virtual model, the occluded regions corresponding to regions of the virtual model which are hidden from a virtual light source by the computer generated object; modifying the degree of transparency of the virtual model at the occluded regions so as to generate modified transparency regions; and rendering the scene in combination with the computer generated object and the virtual model such that the modified transparency regions of the virtual model appear as shadows on the first object.