AR Content Creation via Handheld-AR Pairing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current augmented reality technologies lack the ability to effectively create and share content in three-dimensional space, with existing solutions experiencing delays and physical fatigue due to cumbersome hand gesture recognition and limited communication between gesture generators and AR displays.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that pairs a handheld device with an augmented reality (AR) device to generate and transmit commands and data, allowing for context-based content creation and sharing in 3D space, with active communication and authentication mechanisms to ensure secure and efficient delivery.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If hand gesture recognition is used for content creation in AR, then content creation in 3D space is enabled, but physical fatigue increases and gesture accuracy decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent creation capabilityVSAvoidphysical fatigue

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a handheld device as an intermediary tool between the user and the AR display. Instead of directly manipulating content through hand gestures, users operate the handheld device which communicates with the AR display to create and manipulate content in 3D space. This mediator approach reduces physical fatigue while maintaining content creation capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If hand gesture recognition is used for content creation in AR, then content creation in 3D space is enabled, but gesture recognition accuracy decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent creation capabilityVSAvoidgesture accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The handheld device serves as an intermediary that captures user input more reliably than direct hand gestures. It processes commands and transmits them to the AR display, ensuring more accurate and consistent control for content creation while eliminating the variability inherent in gesture recognition.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If gesture generator and AR display communicate separately, then device flexibility is improved, but communication delays increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice flexibilityVSAvoidcommunication delay

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the communication functions by having the handheld device transmit commands directly to the AR display through an integrated communication pathway. This unified approach eliminates delays that would occur with separate communication channels while maintaining the flexibility of the handheld device interface.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS12118683B2Content creation in augmented reality environment

Publication Date: 2024.10.15 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

Systems and methods for creating content in augmented reality (AR) environment. The content is created by a combination of at least a handheld device and an AR device, and involves initiation and establishment of a session between the handheld device and the AR device, command and data generation at the handheld device, transmission of the command and data from the handheld device to the AR device, processing of the command and data at the AR device to build context from the command and/or data and to create content from the context, saving and sharing of the created content, retrieval of the created content, and optionally modification of the retrieved content.