System and Method for Capturing Augmented Reality Electronic Signatures

Abstract

A system and method for more accurately and easily recording signatures electronically/digitally. The preferred signing experience is generating a “wet” signature by putting a pen to paper as a pen and paper are ubiquitous and portable as well as familiar to most people. The present invention preserves this experience while combining it with a digital rendering of a document using conventional mobile communication devices having a camera feature in order to record a wet signature of a user and store a digital representation of the document that includes the recorded wet signature in the signature block of the document.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for associating a digital representation of a wet signature with a digital document, comprising the steps of:
 initiating a signature application on a mobile communication device having a camera and a display;   displaying the digital document on said display of said mobile communication device;   positioning said camera of said mobile communication device over the wet signature wherein a representation of the wet signature is positioned in a signature block of the digital document by said signature application;   capturing the wet signature by said camera;   capturing a signature video by the camera of the creation of the wet signature;   identifying authentication information at substantially the same time as said capturing of the wet signature, wherein said authentication information includes at least one of a location of the mobile communication device, a mobile communication device identifier,   a time of the capturing of the wet signature, or information provided in response to security requests of said signature application; and   storing, by said signature application, an executed version of the digital document with the wet signature digital representation in said signature block of the digital document and said signature video;   wherein said executed version of the electronic document is stored as a first file and said signature video is stored as a second file, wherein said first file is associated with said second file.