3D Display Authentication and Calibration System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display technologies face challenges in ensuring authorized access and maintaining accurate calibration parameters for three-dimensional image display, leading to potential distortion and unauthorized usage.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that includes a display and computing system for authenticating devices and users, determining and storing calibration parameters, and formatting content as three-dimensional images, ensuring only authorized users can access and view correct three-dimensional images without distortion.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If authentication mechanisms are implemented to ensure authorized access, then security is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesecurityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an authentication module as an intermediary component that mediates between users and the display system. This module verifies user credentials and device authorization status, providing security without requiring complex changes to the core display functionality. The authentication module acts as a dedicated intermediary layer that handles security protocols independently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system is segmented into distinct functional modules: authentication module, calibration module, and display module. The authentication module is separated as an independent component that performs verification tasks, while the calibration parameters are stored in dedicated memory structures. This segmentation allows security functionality to be added without increasing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Measurement precision

If calibration parameters are stored and verified, then image accuracy is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage accuracyVSAvoidmanufacturing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

Calibration parameters are determined and stored in memory during the manufacturing process before the display reaches the user. This preliminary calibration action ensures that accurate calibration data is already available when the display is deployed, eliminating the need for complex user-side calibration procedures and simplifying the manufacturing-to-deployment workflow.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The display system automatically retrieves and applies calibration parameters from stored memory without requiring external calibration equipment or complex manual adjustment procedures. The system serves itself by internally managing the calibration data, reducing manufacturing complexity while maintaining high image accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If authentication and calibration verification are performed, then reliability is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccess control accuracyVSAvoidauthentication time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

User credentials and device authorization status are verified in advance during system initialization or login sequences. Calibration parameters are retrieved from stored memory before image rendering begins. These preliminary verification actions ensure that authentication and calibration checks are completed before critical display operations, minimizing their impact on user-perceived processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11736680B2System and method for displaying a three-dimensional image
Publication Date: 2023.08.22 LOOKING GLASS FACTORY INC
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AI summary

A method or system can be configured to receive content associated with a scene; optionally, format the content as a three-dimensional image; render the content or three-dimensional image in a display-readable format; optionally, authenticate the display; and display the formatted content such that the formatted content is perceivable as three-dimensional for one or more viewers.