Redirecting Event Notifications to AR Glasses

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Solution Overview

Problem

Portable electronic devices face challenges in managing event notifications when multiple people are present, as existing solutions either disrupt the content being viewed or compromise privacy by displaying notifications on a shared display, and there is a lack of efficient methods to deliver personalized content, such as subtitles, to users with different language preferences.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of an augmented reality companion device that redirects event notifications and delivers subtitles to users based on their language preferences, allowing private notifications to be routed to augmented reality glasses while maintaining uninterrupted content viewing on a shared display.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If event notifications are displayed on the shared display device, then group members can see notifications, but privacy is compromised and content viewing is disrupted

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenotification deliveryVSAvoidprivacy loss and content disruption

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The notification delivery system is segmented into multiple channels: shared display for public content and AR device for private notifications. This segmentation allows different types of information to be delivered through appropriate channels, resolving the contradiction between group visibility and privacy protection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The AR device acts as an intermediary between the notification system and the user, intercepting private notifications and delivering them through the AR display instead of the shared display. This intermediary approach prevents privacy loss and content disruption while maintaining notification delivery.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Area of stationary object

If content is redirected to a larger display for group viewing, then content visibility is improved, but notification delivery to the original user is affected

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent display areaVSAvoidnotification delivery

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of stationary objectVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The solution adds a new dimension to notification delivery by introducing AR spatial display. Instead of competing for the same 2D shared display space, notifications are delivered through the third dimension via AR glasses, allowing both large content display and effective notification delivery to coexist.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

Different display qualities are assigned to different functions: the shared display provides large-area content viewing for the group, while the AR device provides personalized notification delivery for the individual user. This local quality differentiation resolves the contradiction between content visibility and notification delivery.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Loss of information

If notifications are delivered to the primary display, then the user receives all notifications, but other users are distracted from content viewing

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenotification delivery completenessVSAvoiddistraction to other users

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

Private notifications are extracted from the shared display notification stream and redirected to the AR device. This extraction removes the harmful distraction effect on other users while maintaining complete notification delivery to the intended user through the AR interface.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS11836543B2Electronic devices and corresponding methods for redirecting event notifications in multi-person content presentation environments

Publication Date: 2023.12.05 MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC

AI summary

An electronic device includes a communication device electronically communicating with a content presentation companion device operating as a primary display for the electronic device and at least one augmented reality companion device. One or more sensors detect multiple persons within an environment while the content presentation companion device operates as the primary display. One or more processors redirect an event notification intended for presentation on the primary display to the augmented reality companion device while both the content presentation companion device operates as the primary display for the electronic device and the multiple persons are within the environment of the electronic device. When communicating with two augmented reality companion devices, the one or more processors can direct subtitles associated with a content offering, sometimes in different languages, to at least a first augmented reality companion device and a second augmented reality companion device.