Augmented Reality Guide Overlay for Context-Aware User Actions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing augmented reality devices struggle to provide effective contextual guides that consider the real-world environment, leading to suboptimal user experiences in mixed reality scenarios.
Innovation Solution
An augmented reality device that identifies user actions, generates real-time augmented reality videos based on real-world scenes, and provides guides using a camera, display unit, and AI models to enhance user interaction with the environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional guide methods are used without considering real-world environment, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to different contexts deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system comprising image capture devices, processors, and display devices that mediates between the user and the real-world environment. This intermediary processes real-world images, generates contextual guides, and presents them through AR displays, enabling adaptive guidance without requiring direct complex interaction between the user and environment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the real-world environment by capturing images through cameras, processing them to identify objects and actions, and generating guide content that overlays on the captured images. This copying approach allows the system to analyze and provide guidance based on virtual representations rather than directly interacting with the complex physical environment.
2Measurement precision
If real-time augmented reality video is generated based on real-world images, then guide accuracy is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by pre-processing captured images to identify objects, actions, and contextual elements before generating the guide content. The system analyzes the real-world scene in advance, prepares guide information based on identified elements, and then rapidly presents the pre-prepared guide, reducing actual processing time while maintaining accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements real-time processing by skipping intermediate steps and directly generating guide content from captured images. The system rushes through the processing pipeline by efficiently identifying key elements in images and immediately generating corresponding guide overlays, minimizing processing time while maintaining guide accuracy through focused analysis of critical scene elements.
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AI summary
Provided is a method, performed by an augmented reality device, of providing a guide to a user. A method of operating an augmented reality device may include identifying an action for which a guide is to be provided to a user, obtaining, via a camera, a real-world scene image, generating an augmented reality video corresponding to the action, based on the real-world scene image, and providing the guide to the user by using the augmented reality video.