Abstract: A method for sorting and searching images is disclosed. The method is utilized in various augmented reality applications to retrieve information related to the objects which appear in a picture taken by a camera. The objects can be human faces, text, 3D models or the like. The method can be used with mobile phones, tablets, or optical head mounted displays to serve numerous educational, gaming and commercial purposes.

Abstract: A computer input method for recognizing the 3D direction of a single or multiple objects simultaneously touching a surface is disclosed. Detection of the 3D direction provides an immediate input to the computer system representing typing, triggering shortcuts, or activating predefined commands on the computer display. The object can be a finger, stylus, or pen. The surface can be touchscreen or case of a mobile phone, tablet, computer, GPS, or the like. The method enables the user to interact with electronic devices without having to maintain sight of the device display during interaction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a 3D force sensor that can detect its orientation and the magnitude and 3D direction of a force applied to its surface. The force can be non-parallel and non-orthogonal to the surface of the 3D force sensor. A plurality of the 3D force sensors are simultaneously used to detect the orientation of an object and the magnitude and 3D direction of the forces applied to the object. Also, a plurality of the 3D force sensor can be used to detect the tilting of a vertical or horizontal stacking of a plurality of objects relative to one another.

Abstract: A method is disclosed to create a 3D model using unrelated drawings. The unrelated drawing may represent the top view, front view, and side view of the 3D model. A user can draw on a computer display to automatically generate the 3D model in real time. The user can also draw on a piece of paper using a pencil, and capture the picture of the drawing using a mobile phone camera to display the 3D model on the mobile phone screen. The drawing can be outlines extracted form a picture of a building, object, natural element or creature using a computer vision program. various designers in designing innovative buildings, products, furniture, vehicles, machines, jewelry, cartoons, or the like.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining the user's position by analyzing a picture of buildings located in front of the user and comparing the picture content with a database that stores a 3D model of the buildings. The method is utilized in various indoors and outdoors augmented reality applications. For example, the method gives the user accurate directional instructions to move from a place to another. It enables the user to accurately tag parts of buildings or places with virtual digital data. Also, the method allows the user to augment parts of buildings or places with certain Internet content in a fast and simple manner.

Abstract: An apparatus to be attached to a user's hand to detect its movement and functions as a multiple computer input device replicating the output of real computer input devices such as the keyboard, mouse, touch-pad, pointing stick, or digital template. The apparatus can be attached to a human body, animal body, building, or machine to detect the movement of such objects. Said apparatus is comprised of a plurality of sensing joints where each one of said sensing joints is attached to each individual joint of an object to emulate and detect its movement providing data to a computer system representing the rotation of that object's joint.

Abstract: A 3D input method and system that enables the user to interact with various 3D applications on the hand-held device's display. The 3D input method is based on utilizing five positions that can be five spots on a touch screen such as that of the iPhone, or a 5-way button that is usually included on the hand-held device's keyboard, or any adjacent five buttons arranged in a symmetrical cross-configuration on a hand-held device's keyboard. Said five positions provide six degrees-of-freedom to manipulate a pointer to move in 3D on a hidden mesh grid that covers a 3D virtual environment on the hand-held device's display. Accordingly, the user is able to move or navigate in 3D using a single finger of a hand in an intuitive manner to operate 3D windows, 3D GPS, virtual reality, 3D games, or the like.

Abstract: A polymorphic component comprised of a plurality of telescopic beams 110, each telescopic beam connects between two ends, the first end is a controller end 120, and the second end is a free end 130, the controller ends are arranged in a circle around a central point 140. Said telescopic beams can be rotated horizontally and/or vertically about the controller ends, and can be protracted or retracted to move the free ends to get closer to/further from the central point. Each three of the free ends can be covered with a covering triangle to form an object's shape. When the telescopic beams are moved the free ends relocate their positions and the covering triangles change their shapes transforming the object's shape into other various shapes.