3D Virtual Map Sensor Visualization for Hazardous Space Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies lack an effective way to integrate and display real-time sensor data from various instruments within a three-dimensional virtual map, making it difficult to navigate and manage environments with hazardous conditions or obstacles.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that acquires a three-dimensional virtual map and integrates sensor data, allowing for the display of instrument positions, abnormality detection, and navigation to specific sensors, using a virtual map to visualize and manage sensor information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If sensor data from various instruments is integrated and displayed on a three-dimensional virtual map, then monitoring capability and situational awareness are improved, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy (three-dimensional virtual map) of the physical environment and instruments. This virtual map replicates the spatial relationships and instrument positions, allowing operators to monitor sensor data in a simplified virtual representation rather than dealing with complex raw data from multiple physical instruments directly.
Solution Approach 2:
The three-dimensional virtual map serves as an intermediary between the physical instruments and the operator. It consolidates and visualizes sensor data from multiple instruments in a unified spatial context, reducing the cognitive load and complexity of interpreting data from numerous separate instruments.
2Ease of operation
If real-time sensor data is displayed on a three-dimensional virtual map, then navigation and abnormality detection are improved, but information processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional two-dimensional displays to a three-dimensional virtual map, adding spatial depth and perspective. This dimensional enhancement allows for more intuitive navigation and spatial understanding, enabling operators to quickly comprehend environmental layouts and instrument positions without sacrificing processing efficiency.
3Loss of information
If positions of instruments and candidates are displayed on the virtual map, then situational awareness and decision-making are improved, but data visualization complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different visual characteristics to different elements on the virtual map based on their specific functions and states. Instruments, candidate positions, and abnormal conditions are displayed with distinct visual properties, allowing operators to quickly identify and differentiate between various types of information without requiring complex visualization techniques.
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AI summary
There is provided an information processing apparatus including: a virtual map acquisition unit which acquires a three-dimensional virtual map corresponding to a real space in which a moving object moves; a sense information acquisition unit which acquires sense information acquired by the moving object in the real space; and a display unit which displays the sense information on the virtual map. The sense information is information sensed by instruments included in the real space. The display unit may display a position of at least one instrument among the instruments on the virtual map, and may display, when one instrument among the instruments is specified, the sense information sensed by the specified instrument. The display unit may display, on the virtual map, positions of candidates for at least one instrument among the instruments from which the moving object is to acquire the sense information. The information processing apparatus may further include a destination setting unit which sets, when one candidate among the candidates is specified, a position of the specified candidate as a destination of the moving object.