AR Charge Location Guidance for Wireless Power Sharing Wearables
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wearable electronic devices lack efficient methods to guide users in locating chargeable areas for wireless power sharing, which can lead to inefficient charging processes.
Innovation Solution
A wearable electronic device equipped with a camera, communication circuit, and display, which establishes a communication connection with an external device capable of wireless power sharing, obtains information about the chargeable location, and displays a virtual guide object in the user's field of view to indicate the chargeable area.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a wearable electronic device provides wireless power sharing functionality, then power transfer capability is improved, but user ability to locate chargeable area is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies visual indication methods where the chargeable area is displayed with distinct visual characteristics (such as highlighted regions or color-coded zones) on the wearable device's display. This allows users to easily identify the correct placement area for wireless charging by visual cues, resolving the contradiction between providing advanced power sharing functionality and maintaining ease of operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If wireless power sharing function is added to wearable device, then functionality is improved, but complexity of locating chargeable area increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary visual display layer that mediates between the wireless power sharing function and the user. The display acts as an intermediary by showing graphical indicators, icons, or visual cues that guide users to the chargeable area, thereby simplifying the user interface complexity while maintaining the advanced wireless power sharing functionality.
3Ease of operation
If virtual guide object is displayed to indicate chargeable location, then ease of locating chargeable area is improved, but use of display resources increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements partial visual indication by displaying virtual guide objects only when needed (such as when the device is first activated or when charging status changes) rather than continuously. This approach provides sufficient visual guidance to users while minimizing unnecessary display resource consumption, thereby resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and energy usage.
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AI summary
There is provided a wearable electronic device including memory, including one or more storage media, storing instructions, and at least one processor including processing circuitry. The instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, may cause the wearable electronic device to establish a communication connection with a first external electronic device, obtain first information about a chargeable location of the first external electronic device capable performing a wireless power sharing function identify a second external electronic device to be wirelessly charged through the first external electronic device obtain, through a camera, a video image of a physical surrounding environment identify the chargeable location of the first external electronic device, based on the first information, from the video image, and display, through a display, a first virtual guide object corresponding to the chargeable location of the first external electronic device with the video image.