AR Headset Gaze-Based Private Messaging During Meetings

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing online meeting technologies hinder private real-time communications during meetings, as attendees must access laptops or mobile devices, distracting themselves and others, and risk exposing private messages due to error-prone selection and visibility issues.

Innovation Solution

Augmented reality headsets monitor the attendee's gaze to automatically detect and send private messages to selected recipients, eliminating the need for device access and reducing distractions, while ensuring privacy through gaze-based selection and display within the attendee's view.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If attendees use laptops or mobile devices to send private messages during meetings, then communication capability is improved, but distraction and privacy exposure risks increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication capabilityVSAvoiddistraction and privacy exposure

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an online meeting application as an intermediary system that enables private messaging between attendees without requiring them to access separate devices. The application integrates messaging functionality directly into the meeting interface, allowing attendees to send private messages through the meeting platform itself, thereby eliminating the need to switch to laptops or mobile devices and reducing distraction and privacy exposure risks

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The online meeting application serves multiple functions: it conducts the meeting itself and simultaneously provides private messaging capability between attendees. This multi-functionality allows the same system to handle both meeting conduct and private communication needs, eliminating the requirement for separate communication devices and reducing the harmful effects of device switching

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Measurement precision

If attendees manually search through meeting attendee lists to identify recipients, then message targeting capability is improved, but time consumption and error risk increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemessage targeting accuracyVSAvoidtime to identify recipient

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical process of manually scrolling through and selecting attendee names with an automatic recognition system. The online meeting application automatically identifies and presents attendee avatars based on the speaker's direction of regard, eliminating the need for manual searching and reducing both time consumption and selection errors

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs automatic attendee identification and presentation based on the speaker's gaze direction. The meeting application itself services the recipient identification function by monitoring the speaker's direction of regard and automatically displaying relevant attendee avatars, eliminating the need for the speaker to manually search through attendee lists

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Ease of operation

If private messages are displayed in virtual desktops during meetings, then message visibility to recipient is improved, but accidental exposure to other attendees increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemessage visibilityVSAvoidaccidental message exposure

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements localized message display where private messages are shown in the specific region of the virtual desktop corresponding to the recipient's location in the meeting view. Messages are displayed locally near the recipient's video feed or avatar rather than in a centralized popup, ensuring that only the intended recipient can see the message while maintaining visibility for that specific user

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses semi-transparent or context-dependent display layers that allow messages to be visible to the recipient while remaining hidden from other attendees. The message display acts as a flexible interface layer that adapts its visibility based on the viewer's identity and position, ensuring privacy while maintaining usability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Data Source

PatentUS10466777B2Private real-time communication between meeting attendees during a meeting using one or more augmented reality headsets

Publication Date: 2019.11.05 GOTO GRP INC

AI summary

Private real-time communications are provided between meeting attendees during a meeting using one or more augmented reality headsets. An augmented reality headset worn by a sending meeting attendee continuously monitors a current direction of the sending meeting attendee's gaze during the meeting, and detects that the sending meeting attendee has selected a receiving meeting attendee when the current direction of the sending attendee's gaze intersects with a location of the receiving meeting attendee. The augmented reality headset worn by the sending meeting attendee also receives a messaging command issued by the sending meeting attendee, also based on monitoring the sending meeting attendee's gaze during the meeting. In response to the messaging command, the augmented reality headset worn by the sending meeting attendee automatically transmits the private message to a device associated with the receiving meeting attendee, such as an augmented reality headset worn by the receiving meeting attendee.