Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Display With Wireless Image Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
User interface devices fail to effectively overlay digital information onto real-world images, limiting the ability to interact with virtual interfaces in augmented reality environments.
Innovation Solution
A head-mounted display system with a wireless data interface and camera that overlays user interface data onto real-world images, allowing users to interact with virtual interfaces while viewing real-world environments through a dynamic mobile server that generates and transmits modified user interface data based on image data from the camera.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If user interface data is overlaid on real-world images through a head-mounted display system, then the ability to interact with virtual interfaces in augmented reality is improved, but the device complexity increases due to the need for camera integration, wireless data interfaces, and image processing capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The head-mounted display system integrates multiple functions into a single device: it serves as both a display device for presenting augmented reality interfaces and a camera system for capturing real-world images. The wireless data interface enables the device to function as a mobile server, providing image processing and user interface generation capabilities without requiring separate dedicated hardware for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The wireless data interface acts as an intermediary between the head-mounted display and external networks or devices. It enables the head-mounted display to transmit image data and receive user interface data remotely, reducing the need for complex local processing hardware while maintaining augmented reality interaction capabilities.
2Ease of operation
If a head-mounted display with camera and wireless interface is used to provide augmented reality functionality, then the ease of operation is improved by allowing users to interact with virtual interfaces while viewing real-world environments, but the weight of the moving object increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts critical processing functions from the head-mounted display itself and relocates them to external wireless devices or networks. By transmitting image data and receiving processed user interface data wirelessly, the head-mounted display reduces its local processing requirements, which can be achieved through lighter hardware configurations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If image data is transmitted over a wireless network to a mobile server for processing, then the adaptability of the system is improved by enabling dynamic modification of user interface data based on real-time image analysis, but the loss of information may increase due to wireless transmission limitations
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of transmitting the complete original image data for processing, the system transmits only the necessary image data to the mobile server, which then generates and transmits back only the required user interface data. This selective data transmission approach reduces information loss during wireless transmission while maintaining the adaptability to modify user interfaces based on real-time image analysis.
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AI summary
A system for providing an augmented reality interface comprising a head mounted display having a wireless data interface, a camera and a display, the head mounted display configured to receive user interface data and to generate a user interface using the display and to receive image data from the camera and to transmit the image data over the wireless data interface to a wireless network. A wireless device configured to generate the wireless network, to transmit the user interface data to the head mounted display, to receive the image data from the head mounted display and to generate modified user interface data as a function of the image data.