Augmented Reality Device Segmentation for Safety
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing virtual reality devices often fail to safely integrate virtual displays with real-life surroundings, leading to user safety issues due to immersion in virtual worlds and lack of customization based on the user's environment.
Innovation Solution
An augmented reality device that couples with existing eyewear, featuring a camera, display arrangement, and processor to provide virtual displays while allowing users to see real-life environments, with customizable adjustments and recording capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If users are immersed in virtual reality displays, then virtual display quality is improved, but user safety deteriorates due to inability to perceive real life surroundings
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the visual field into multiple zones: a central virtual display area and peripheral real-life viewing areas. The display arrangement provides virtual content in a controlled zone while the transparent housing allows users to see real surroundings in other zones, enabling simultaneous virtual immersion and real-world awareness without compromising safety
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from traditional immersive VR that blocks all real-world vision to a multi-dimensional visual experience where users can view virtual content in one dimension while simultaneously perceiving real-life environments in other dimensions through peripheral vision and transparent displays
2Stability of the object's composition
If virtual reality devices block real life environment view, then virtual immersion is improved, but integration between virtual and real items deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges virtual display content with real-life environmental views by combining them in the user's visual field. The transparent housing and display arrangement allow virtual items and real items to coexist in the same visual space, enabling seamless integration and interaction between virtual and real elements
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal viewing system where the same visual field can display both virtual content and real-world views depending on the user's attention and the display arrangement's configuration, allowing a single device to serve multiple functions: virtual immersion, real-world awareness, and integrated interaction
3Device complexity
If existing VR devices provide no environment adjustment, then device simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to user environment deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service environment adaptation where the device automatically adjusts virtual display parameters based on captured real-life environmental data. The camera and processor work together to analyze the user's surroundings and automatically modify display content, lighting, and positioning without requiring manual user input, maintaining simplicity while achieving adaptability
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances user experience by safely integrating virtual and real-life interactions, enabling users to perceive and interact with both environments without impairment, while allowing for customized virtual display adjustments based on the user's surroundings.
Implementation Method 1
The camera can be disposed within the outer housing and can be configured to capture images through the outer housing front
Implementation Method 2
The display arrangement can include an image emitting component
Implementation Method 3
The display arrangement can include a projecting optic component
Implementation Method 4
The display arrangement can include a combining optic component
Implementation Method 5
The outer housing can have a front and a back that define parallel planes, are transparent, and are arranged to allow a user to see therethrough
Data Source
AI summary
Computer-implemented methods of operating an augmented reality device can involve capturing camera images, processing the camera images, and displaying virtual display images. The camera images can be captured automatically using a camera disposed within an augmented reality device worn by a user. The camera images can be processed automatically using a processor located within the augmented reality device. The virtual display images can be displayed automatically to the user within the augmented reality device while the user is looking through the augmented reality device and simultaneously viewing real objects through the augmented reality device. The virtual display images can be based on the processed camera images. Additional steps can include accepting a first user input, storing camera image(s) on a memory located within the augmented reality device based on the first input, accepting a second user input, and displaying stored image(s) to the user based on the second input.