AR Clockface Arc Layout for Multi-Day Event Duration Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electrically powered time measuring devices (ETMDs) face challenges in efficiently displaying the duration of events due to heavy reliance on alphanumeric information, which leads to confusion, especially when events span across multiple days, and require substantial processor cycles and memory resources.
Innovation Solution
The use of regioned concentric arciforms on a clockface to indicate event durations, with distinct regions for ante meridiem and post meridiem events, and transition indicators for events spanning days, reducing the need for multiple displays and processor cycles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If alphanumeric information is used to indicate event duration, then information completeness is improved, but display clarity and user understanding deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses different colors to represent different time periods (ante meridiem and post meridiem events). This allows the display to convey event duration information visually without relying on alphanumeric text, thereby improving both information completeness and display clarity simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs concentric circular arcs to represent time intervals. The curved arciforms provide an intuitive visual representation of duration, where the arc length corresponds to time elapsed. This graphical approach eliminates the need for cluttered alphanumeric displays while maintaining complete information about event durations.
2Loss of information
If multiple displays are used to show events across different days, then information completeness is improved, but device complexity and processor requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the display of multiple days' events into a single integrated clockface by using concentric circular arcs that can span across day boundaries. This allows one display to convey information that would traditionally require multiple separate displays, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a traditional linear time representation to a two-dimensional concentric circular arc representation. This dimensional change allows the display to wrap around and show events across day boundaries within a single visual field, eliminating the need for multiple displays and reducing processor requirements.
3Device complexity
If traditional clockface representation is used, then simplicity is maintained, but ability to display multi-day events deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the traditional clockface into multiple concentric circular arcs, each representing different time periods. This segmentation allows the single clockface to independently represent and display events from different days and time periods, thereby maintaining simplicity while gaining multi-day event display capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the clockface universal by enabling it to display both ante meridiem and post meridiem events, as well as events spanning multiple days, all within a single integrated interface. This multi-functionality allows one device to handle diverse time display requirements without increasing complexity.
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AI summary
An apparatus, intended for use in indicating time interval durations of particular events in an augmented reality display, includes a computer system with a processing system having a hardware processor and a memory accessible to the processing system, a user interface controller under control of the processing system, a display controllable by the user interface controller to show a user interface, and logic, under control of the processing system. The logic has modules that control the user interface controller to cause the display to show a first clockface that indicates a time interval duration for at least a first event and an augmented reality background appearing behind the first clockface.