AR Content Reproduction Control Using Avoidance Regions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing AR technologies struggle to provide a high-quality AR experience due to interference between users and virtual objects, affecting the user's immersion in the augmented reality space.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that acquires and controls virtual content reproduction based on avoidance region information, generated from the positions of other objects or virtual objects, to prevent interference and maintain a high-quality AR experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If virtual content is reproduced freely in the AR space, then the quantity and variety of virtual content increases, but interference with real-world users and objects occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by creating avoidance regions around specific real-world objects and users. Instead of uniformly restricting virtual content placement throughout the entire AR space, the system selectively defines restricted zones only where necessary (around detected users and objects). This allows virtual content to be freely placed in most areas while preventing interference only in specific local regions, thus resolving the contradiction between quantity of virtual content and interference prevention.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary anti-action by proactively generating avoidance region information before virtual content is placed. The system detects real-world users and objects, pre-defines avoidance regions around them, and incorporates this information into the virtual content placement process beforehand. This prevents interference in advance rather than reacting to conflicts after they occur, allowing maximum virtual content placement while maintaining user safety and experience quality.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If avoidance region information is generated and processed, then interference with real-world users is reduced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by designing the information processing apparatus to perform multiple functions using integrated components. The same processing unit that detects real-world objects also generates avoidance region information and controls virtual content placement. This multi-functional approach reduces the need for separate dedicated hardware for each function, thereby managing device complexity while achieving interference prevention through comprehensive information processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements self-service by enabling the information processing apparatus to automatically detect real-world users and objects, generate avoidance region information, and adjust virtual content placement without requiring manual intervention. The system autonomously manages the complexity of processing avoidance region information by integrating detection, processing, and control functions into a self-regulating process, reducing the operational burden despite increased technical complexity.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an acquisition unit and a reproduction control unit. The acquisition unit acquires avoidance region information about an avoidance region where at least one of entrance of a target person who is a target to whom virtual content is reproduced or entrance of a virtual object for the target person that is displayed to the target person is a target to be avoided, the avoidance region information being generated on the basis of at least one of a position of another object different from the target person or a position of a virtual object for the other object displayed to the other object. The reproduction control unit controls reproduction of the virtual content to the target person on the basis of the acquired avoidance region information.