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(12) PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATION (21) Application No.1084/CHE/2012 A
(19) INDIA
(22) Date of filing of Application :23/03/2012 (43) Publication Date : 21/06/2013
(54) Title of the invention : A METHOD, APPARATUS AND HANDSET
(51) International classification :G06T
(31) Priority Document No :1105218.0
(32) Priority Date :29/03/2011
(33) Name of priority country :U.K.
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(71)Name of Applicant :
1)SONY CORPORATION
Address of Applicant :1-7-1 KONAN, MINATO-KU 108-
0075 TOKYO Japan
(72)Name of Inventor :
1)ROBERT MARK STEFAN PORTER
(57) Abstract :
A method of annotating, on a display, a plurality of objects in an image of a scene captured by a camera, the method comprising:
receiving i) metadata representing the different annotations to be applied to each of the objects, and ii) position information
identifying the real-world position of each object in the scene to which the annotations in the image are to be applied; determining
the focal length of the camera and the tilt applied to the camera; determining the position of the camera with respect to the scene
being captured; and applying the annotation to the image captured by the camera in accordance with the position information.
No. of Pages : 78 No. of Claims : 17
The Patent Office Journal 21/06/2013 13635