SYSTEM FOR THE TAGGING AND AUGMENTATION OF GEOGRAPHICALLY-SPECIFIC LOCATIONS USING A VISUAL DATA STREAM

A system to provide augment information includes an object database configured to store characteristics and geographical information associated with known objects, and an object recognition engine configured to compare characteristics and geographical information of objects associated with a frame in a first set of frames of a video stream with the characteristics and geographical information stored in the object database to recognize a first known object. The system may include two or more server computers in a site. The two or more servers are configured with identical compositions of hardware and content with server computers at another geographically different site. The video stream is captured by a mobile computing device connected to a network using wireless communication. The system further includes an augment information database coupled with the object database and configured to store augment information associated with the known objects including the first known object, and an augment engine coupled with the augment information database and configured to select augment information associated with the first known object from the augment information database. The selected augment information is to be transmitted to the mobile computing device and to overlay the frame in the first set of frames before the video stream is viewable.