Augmented Reality Document Annotation System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often find it difficult to comprehend lengthy documents, such as insurance policy documents, due to their complexity, leading to inadequate review and understanding.
Innovation Solution
A processor-implemented method is provided to automatically annotate documents displayed on augmented reality devices by performing optical character recognition, analyzing text using classification data, comparing parameters, and overlaying annotation data on a viewport for real-time image display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If documents are made detailed and comprehensive to ensure complete information, then information completeness is improved, but document complexity and difficulty to comprehend increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments complex legal documents into individual clauses or sections, allowing the system to process and annotate each segment separately. The augmented reality interface divides the document view into manageable portions with annotations overlaid on specific segments, making comprehensive information accessible without overwhelming the user with the entire document's complexity at once.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary annotation layer that mediates between the complex original document and the user's understanding. Virtual annotations serve as intermediate explanations, translating complex legal language into simpler terms while maintaining the complete information content of the original document.
2Reliability
If users review documents thoroughly to ensure understanding, then comprehension quality is improved, but time required for review increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by automatically generating virtual annotations before the user reviews the document. The system pre-processes the document content, identifies key information, and creates explanatory annotations in advance, so that when the user reviews the document, comprehensive understanding assistance is already prepared and immediately available through the augmented reality interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical process of manual document analysis with automated optical character recognition and natural language processing systems. The computing device automatically extracts, analyzes, and generates annotations, substituting human analytical effort with automated processing that occurs in the background while the user views the augmented reality display.
3Measurement precision
If documents use complex legal language to maintain precision, then information accuracy is improved, but ease of understanding deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing different levels of information presentation in different locations or contexts within the augmented reality interface. The original precise legal text is preserved in its authentic form, while localized virtual annotations provide simplified explanations specifically at points where complexity arises, allowing users to access both precision and simplicity as needed.
Solution Approach 2:
Virtual annotations serve as an intermediary layer that bridges complex legal language and user comprehension. The annotations translate and explain specific terms, clauses, or concepts without altering the original document's precise wording, maintaining information accuracy while enhancing understandability through the intermediary explanatory layer.
Data Source
AI summary
In an aspect, a method includes: receiving, via a communications module and from a computing device, a signal comprising image data representing a first document; automatically analyzing text in the first document based on stored classification data to identify a first parameter from the text in the first document; comparing the first parameter to a second parameter, the second parameter being obtained from a data store and being associated with a second document; determining annotation data based on the comparison, the annotation data determined based on the first parameter and the second parameter; and providing a signal that includes an instruction to cause the annotation data to be overlaid on a display of the computing device, the instruction including marker data identifying a location associated with the first document and influencing a location of the annotation in the display.