AR Glasses with Transparent Display for Mirror Reflection Overlay
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current smart mirror systems with advanced display technologies are costly due to their sophisticated components, limiting accessibility for augmented reality functionality.
Innovation Solution
The integration of AR glasses with a traditional mirror using a transparent OLED display and image capture devices, allowing for augmented reality augmentation by tracking user gestures and objects through synchronization of data from multiple cameras, enabling the use of any reflective surface without the need for embedded sensors or complex display technologies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If smart mirror systems use sophisticated display technologies with sensors, then augmented reality functionality is achieved, but cost increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the smart mirror functionality into separate components: a traditional mirror for reflection and a wearable device with display and sensors for augmented reality overlay. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, reducing overall system cost while maintaining AR functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The wearable device acts as an intermediary between the user and the mirror reflection. It captures the reflection via camera and overlays augmented reality content on the display, mediating the interaction without requiring the mirror itself to be technologically complex.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a transparent OLED display with high reflectance is used, then virtual fitting room functionality is provided, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces expensive transparent OLED displays with a wearable device that uses a standard display screen. The wearable device captures and processes images separately, allowing the use of more economical display technology while achieving the same virtual fitting room effect.
Solution Approach 2:
The wearable device creates a digital copy of the mirror reflection through its camera and processes this copy to overlay virtual try-on content. This copying approach eliminates the need for expensive transparent displays, as the augmentation is applied to a captured image rather than requiring optical transparency.
3Reliability
If conventional smart mirror technologies are used, then augmented reality is achieved, but accessibility is limited due to high expense
Solution Approach 1:
The wearable device serves multiple functions: it acts as a camera to capture the mirror reflection, a display to show augmented reality content, and a processing unit to overlay virtual objects. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require separate expensive components into a single accessible device.
Solution Approach 2:
The wearable device independently captures the reflection, processes the images, and generates augmented reality content without requiring integration with complex mirror-based sensor systems. This self-service capability makes the technology more accessible by eliminating dependence on expensive infrastructure.
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
This approach provides cost-effective smart mirror functionality by leveraging traditional mirrors and AR glasses, enabling realistic augmented reality experiences without the expense of conventional smart mirror technologies, allowing for accurate tracking and rendering of virtual objects relative to the user's reflection.
Implementation Method 1
a transparent organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display
Implementation Method 2
a reflective surface (14) of a traditional mirror (16)
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, apparatuses, and/or methods to augment reality. An object identifier may identify an object in a field of view of a user that includes a reflection of the user from a reflective surface, such as a surface of a traditional mirror. In addition, a reality augmenter may generate an augmented reality object based on the identification of the object. In one example, eyeglasses including a relatively transparent display screen may be coupled with an image capture device on the user and the augmented reality object may be observable by the user on the transparent display screen when the user wears the eyeglasses. A localizer may position the augmented reality object on the transparent display screen relative to the reflection of the user that passes though the transparent display screen during natural visual perception of the reflection by the user.