Patent Document ID: 9922437
Application ID: 14214687
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. Method for creating an augmented image utilizing a preexisting object image of an object including: (a) gathering data about one or more preexisting object images and one or more of the objects pictured in each of said preexisting object images; (b) deducing for each of said objects as captured within each of said preexisting object images a set of object image photographic parameters which include a set of object centric viewpoint parameters; (c) providing to a first user, who is associated with one or more locales, a positioning guide to position a camera based on each of said set of object centric viewpoint parameters for each of said preexisting object images; (d) gathering at least one locale image of one or more of the locales associated with said first user, wherein at least one said locale image contains at least one fiducial mark image to calibrate the locale image at one or more locations within the locale, wherein each of the locations within the locale are photographed with a camera substantially positioned at a position specified by at least one said set of object centric viewpoint parameters provided to said first user; (e) deducing, at one or more of said locations within each of said locale images, a set of locale image photographic parameters, utilizing the fiducial mark image corresponding to each location; (f) pairing each of said preexisting object images with one or more of the locale images based on said set of object centric viewpoint parameters associated with each of said preexisting object images and one or more of said locale images to provide at least one set of object centric viewpoint paired images; (g) processing each object image and each locale image in said set of object centric viewpoint paired images to produce one or more matched processed object images and one or more matched processed locale images; and (h) merging at least one of said matched processed object images with at least one of said matched processed locale images to generate at least one augmented image; whereby at least one said object can be visualized within at least one locale in a photorealistic fashion.