In today's report Patently Mobile presents you with two of Samsung's latest inventions. While Samsung be heavily on an AV headset, a patent of theirs reveals a headset focused on Augmented Reality with a few twists. The second patent could actually be a hit if Samsung can actually deliver it. The invention covers a T-Shirt or Jersey using smart fabrics. The user can customize the garment on their smartphone and with a click on an app. If a user is going to a concert, they could digitally print a logo of the band and send it to their smart garment. The next day or week, the user could change the design on their garment in a snap to support any cause, present lyrics or images to their little heart's content all by using a Samsung app and Smart Clothing accessory. It's a rather cool idea.
Augmented Reality
Samsung filed a patent application regarding a headset with a focus on "Augmented Reality." This patent covers a lot of ground from creating 360-degree images / camera shots of a particular scene of interest; be able to interpret in-air gestures (also covered in another Samsung patent we covered earlier this morning here); assign an annotation to a photo or have one automatically generated from a database.
Samsung emphasizes that the system will use AI and Machine Learning. The AR Engine may combine images or videos captured by the headset's cameras with some annotations in order to generate augmented media content (e.g., images with annotations).
In particular embodiments, the annotations may include, for example, text, information overlays, graphics, sounds, touch feedback, links to additional layers of information, video/audio content, recommendations, lyrics, musical instruments, screens (e.g., TV screen shown on display), holograms, user comments, search boxes, social media-related items (e.g., tweets, post, likes), etc.
In particular embodiments, annotations may be automatically added to an image based on metadata associated with that image. In particular embodiments, the annotations may include, for example, but not limited to, an event (e.g., a sports event) associated with the image, a location of the event, a time of the event, a recommendation to the user (e.g., recommendation for a place to go), etc. In particular embodiments, annotations may be manually added to images by users. As an example and not by way of limitation, the manually added annotations may include user-generated comments.
Samsung's patent FIG. 2 noted above illustrates an example AR system; FIG. 3A illustrates an example scene of an office space with annotations; and FIG. 6B illustrates an example implementation for object detection and refinement.
The AR system will also act as form of multimedia search engine with queries coming in the form of "annotations." Samsung notes that "annotations may be based on user interests and/or event highlights. For example, if the AR system determines that the user is interested in shoes, then an annotation may provide information on shoes in the AR content being displayed to that user.
Annotations to content may be based on user interactions with the content and/or on social highlights in the content made by other people. As an example and not by way of limitation, for user interactions, when the user interacts with an audience to see who is in the audience, one or more annotations may include the names of people in the audience. As another example and not by way of limitation, for social highlights, when multiple users or friends want to share a view of the earth, an annotation corresponding to each user's view of the earth may be added to the content.
There's a lot to learn from Samsung's patent application 20180341811 and you could check it out here for details.
Smart Fabric T-Shirts Could Change Design like a Chameleon with your Smartphone
Samsung filed for a smart fabric's patent recently covering a "Method of Changing Design of Smart Garment." A Future smartphone will be able to communicate with a smart jersey and allow the garment to change design with a simple tap on a new design using a smartphone app. It's a pretty interesting concept. That's could be a hit for students and for small businesses looking for sales promotion T-Shirts.
You could learn more about Samsung's patent application 20180271180 that was filed for in April 2018 an published in late September here.
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