3D Painting Controls for Complex Eyewear Menu Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Smart glasses with limited user input interfaces restrict navigation through complex menu structures, limiting interaction with virtual content.
Innovation Solution
A system that utilizes multiple types of user inputs, including touch and gesture controls, to navigate through a complex augmented reality painting menu on eyewear devices, allowing seamless selection and manipulation of painting options without releasing a finger from the touch interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a single touch input interface is used in smart glasses, then the device structure remains simple, but the user cannot navigate through complex menu structures efficiently
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extends the touch interface from a two-dimensional screen to a three-dimensional spatial interface by allowing finger gestures in multiple directions (horizontal, vertical, and radial movements) on the touch sensor. This dimensional expansion enables complex menu navigation without adding physical buttons or controls, resolving the contradiction between operational capability and device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically interprets different finger movement patterns (tap, slide, pinch, palm-up gestures) as different navigation commands. By making the interface adaptive and context-aware rather than static, the single touch interface can handle complex menu structures through varied interaction modes, improving ease of operation without increasing hardware complexity.
2Ease of operation
If multiple finger gestures are supported for menu navigation, then interaction with virtual content improves, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring user inputs increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary gesture recognition system that translates complex finger movements into standardized navigation commands. By using the touch sensor as an intermediary device that can detect multiple gesture types through software processing, the system achieves improved interaction without requiring complex hardware sensors, thus managing the detection complexity challenge.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides visual feedback through the display showing the current menu level and selected options in real-time. This feedback mechanism helps users understand the state of navigation and reduces the cognitive load for interpreting gestures, making the interaction more intuitive while the touch sensor continues to handle gesture detection through processed signals.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a comprehensive painting menu with multiple options is displayed, then the functionality and versatility of the system improves, but the number of pages and inputs needed to access options increases
Solution Approach 1:
The painting menu is segmented into hierarchical levels with frequently used options accessible at higher levels and less frequent options at lower levels. The palm-up gesture enables users to jump between these hierarchical levels, effectively segmenting the menu structure to reduce navigation time while maintaining comprehensive functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system displays the most relevant painting options (such as brush color and style) at the top level of the menu hierarchy by default, performing preliminary organization of information based on usage frequency. This preliminary action reduces the time needed to access commonly used painting features without limiting the overall versatility of the system.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for performing operations comprising: displaying a plurality of augmented reality painting options; detecting, by a touch input interface of the eyewear device, a first touch input comprising a single finger touching the touch input interface; selecting a first augmented reality painting option of the plurality of augmented reality painting options in response to the first touch input; while continuing to detect continuous touch between the single finger and the touch input interface following selection of the first augmented reality painting option, displaying a second augmented reality painting option related to the first augmented reality painting option; and performing a selection associated with the second augmented reality painting option in response to detecting, by the touch input interface, movement of the single finger along the touch input interface while continuing to detect the continuous touch.