AR Infrastructure Interface for Persistent Location-Based Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems fail to automatically provide relevant information to users about designated areas, especially when users are unsure of what information is available, and struggle to support location and orientation-based retrieval and display of information for infrastructure such as bridges and dams.
Innovation Solution
The solution involves an Agent interface that links digital content to physical locations using geospatial positions, enabling an augmented reality experience by combining real-world and virtual content. This is achieved through wireless communication with reference point transceivers, which determine positional coordinates and generate user interfaces that display location-specific information, using tags associated with positional coordinates that remain persistent even if the visual aspects of the location change.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional information systems are used, then information can be stored centrally, but users cannot automatically receive information pertinent to their current location and orientation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system consisting of location sensors, reference point transceivers, and a processing platform that mediates between users and information sources. This intermediary automatically determines user location and orientation, queries relevant information from databases, and delivers it to users without requiring manual search or input, thereby resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and information availability
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by allowing users to automatically receive location-specific information without active participation. The automated system independently performs location determination, information querying, and content delivery based on user position and orientation, eliminating the need for users to manually search or request information
2Loss of information
If digital content is linked to physical locations using geospatial positions, then location-specific information can be provided, but the system complexity increases with wireless communication infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by making reference point transceivers multi-functional devices that simultaneously serve as wireless communication nodes, location reference points, and information anchors. This consolidates multiple functions into single infrastructure elements, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining the capability to provide location-specific information
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates virtual copies of physical locations through digital content associated with geospatial coordinates. Instead of requiring complex physical infrastructure changes, the patent uses digital representations and virtual tagging of locations, which simplifies the physical infrastructure while enabling rich location-specific information delivery
3Stability of the object's composition
If tags are associated with positional coordinates for persistent content, then information remains accessible despite visual changes, but the difficulty of detecting and measuring location increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the location determination process into multiple independent reference points distributed throughout the environment. By using multiple discrete reference point transceivers rather than a single complex system, the patent improves detectability and measurement accuracy while maintaining content persistence through coordinated data from all reference points
Data Source
AI summary
Augmented reality apparatus and methods of use are provided with persistent digital content linked to a location coordinates. More specifically, the present invention links a physical location with digital content to enable a user interface with augmented reality that combines aspects of the physical area with location specific digital content. According to the present invention, digital content remains persistent with a location even if visual aspects of the location change.