3D Route Visualization for Context and Obstacle Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional two-dimensional representations of routes often result in the loss of important location and route information, making it difficult to visualize and understand the context and potential risks or obstacles within the environment.
Innovation Solution
A computing system that obtains tridimensional location and route information to generate a three-dimensional view of the route, incorporating geographic, risk, and environmental characteristics, enabling a first-person or third-person perspective, and allowing for route modifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a two-dimensional representation of the route is used, then the representation is simple and easy to display, but important location and route information is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the route representation from two-dimensional to three-dimensional by incorporating vertical elevation data and spatial depth information. This allows the route to be displayed with accurate geographic context, building orientations, and elevation changes, thereby preventing loss of location and route information while maintaining visual clarity through structured spatial organization.
2Reliability
If a two-dimensional representation of the route is used, then the display is straightforward, but the context and potential risks or obstacles within the environment are difficult to visualize
Solution Approach 1:
By adding the vertical dimension and spatial depth, the system enables users to visualize risks and obstacles such as building proximity, elevation changes, and environmental hazards in their proper three-dimensional context. This improves route context understanding and safety analysis capabilities while maintaining user-friendly interaction through standardized viewing controls.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs color coding and visual differentiation to represent various route characteristics, risk levels, and environmental factors. Different colors indicate varying elevations, building types, risk zones, and obstacle locations, enabling users to quickly identify potential hazards and understand route context without complex interfaces.
3Loss of information
If three-dimensional view with transparency is provided, then comprehensive understanding of route and location is achieved, but computational resources and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the three-dimensional route representation into manageable segments, rendering only the necessary portions of the environment along the route path. This segmented approach maintains comprehensive route and location information while reducing computational load by avoiding rendering of the entire surrounding environment at full resolution.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements transparency effects selectively on specific structures and elements along the route rather than applying it universally. This partial transparency approach provides sufficient context for comprehensive understanding while minimizing the computational resources required compared to full transparency rendering of all environmental elements.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to provide three-dimensional representations of routes. Locations for a planned movement may be obtained. The location information may include tridimensional information of a location. Route information for the planned movement may be obtained. The route information may define a route of one or more entities within the location. A three-dimensional view of the route within the location may be determined based on the location information and the route information. An interface through which the three-dimensional view of the route within the location is accessible may be provided.