AR Content Adjustment via Context-Aware Sensor Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
AR-enabled devices, especially headsets, face challenges in displaying content that can interfere with users' perception of their surroundings, as existing methods require manual adjustments that are time-consuming and burdensome, especially in rapidly changing contexts.
Innovation Solution
The system automatically adjusts characteristics of displayed AR content, such as size, position, and opacity, based on determined user contexts like location, speed, and proximity to others, without additional user input, using sensors and contextual data from connected devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If AR content is displayed with fixed characteristics, then the display is simple and stable, but the content may interfere with user perception of surroundings in various contexts
Solution Approach 1:
The AR content characteristics (size, position, opacity) are made dynamic rather than fixed. The system automatically adjusts these characteristics based on detected user context such as location, speed, and proximity to others, allowing the display to adapt to different situations without manual intervention
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-adjustment of AR content characteristics based on sensor data and contextual information. The device monitors user context through sensors and automatically modifies content display parameters without requiring user input, making the system serve itself in optimizing the display
2Ease of operation
If manual adjustment of AR content characteristics is required, then user control is precise, but the adjustment process is time-consuming and burdensome
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects user context through sensors and adjusts AR content characteristics without requiring manual user input. This eliminates the time-consuming manual adjustment process while maintaining appropriate content display for different situations
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors user context through sensors (location, speed, proximity) and uses this feedback to automatically adjust content characteristics. This closed-loop approach ensures content remains appropriate for current conditions without user intervention
3Reliability
If AR content characteristics are automatically adjusted based on context, then user safety and efficiency are enhanced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a multi-functional approach where sensors serve multiple purposes (detecting location, speed, proximity) and a single control system manages multiple content characteristics (size, position, opacity). This consolidates complexity rather than distributing it across separate systems
Solution Approach 2:
The system adjusts display parameters (size, position, opacity) based on contextual parameters (location, speed, proximity). By linking content characteristics to contextual factors, the system manages complexity through parameter relationships rather than complex decision logic
Data Source
AI summary
One embodiment provides a method, including: displaying, using at least one processor, augmented reality content; determining, using a processor, a context associated with a user; and adjusting, based on the context and without additional user input, at least one characteristic of the augmented reality content. Other aspects are described and claimed.