AR Installation Guidance for Packaged Products
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Solution Overview
Problem
The complexity and difficulty of initial installation work for electronic devices, particularly due to their packaging, make it cumbersome for ordinary users, and existing augmented reality (AR) techniques require network connectivity, limiting their applicability to products in a packaged state.
Innovation Solution
An information processing method that captures images of the product, obtains product information, determines the installation state, and combines this data with instruction images using augmented reality (AR) to guide users through the installation process without network connectivity, utilizing a smartphone or similar device with image recognition and AR capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If AR guidance technique is used for initial installation work, then user assistance is improved, but network connectivity requirement limits applicability to packaged products
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-storing installation guidance information and product information in the information processing apparatus before the actual installation process. The system captures images of packaged products, pre-processes them through image recognition, and stores both the captured images and corresponding installation guidance in advance. This allows the system to provide AR guidance offline without requiring network connectivity during the actual installation, thereby resolving the contradiction between providing user assistance and maintaining adaptability to packaged products.
2Reliability
If complex installation work is performed without guidance, then installation completeness is improved, but user burden and difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by continuously monitoring the installation process through image capture and recognition. The system compares the current installation state against the stored guidance information, identifies completed and pending installation steps, and provides real-time AR feedback to the user. This feedback mechanism ensures that all installation steps are completed reliably while guiding the user through each step, thereby reducing user burden and preventing omission of critical installation actions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies self-service by enabling the installation guidance to adapt automatically to the user's progress. The image recognition system autonomously detects the installation state and updates the guidance display without requiring manual user input or external intervention. The AR display automatically adjusts to show only the relevant next steps based on the detected installation state, allowing the system to serve itself in managing the installation process while reducing the cognitive load on the user.
3Measurement precision
If image recognition is used to determine installation state, then accuracy is improved, but processing time and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent reduces processing complexity through preliminary action by pre-processing images during the capture phase and pre-organizing both captured images and guidance information in storage before the actual installation process begins. The system performs initial image recognition and state determination in advance, storing the processed data for quick retrieval during installation. This preliminary processing reduces the computational burden during real-time installation guidance, maintaining high accuracy while reducing device complexity and processing time.
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AI summary
A display control unit causes a display unit to display a captured image of a product captured by an image capturing unit. A first obtaining unit obtains product information relating to initial setting of the product based on the captured image data. A second obtaining unit obtains a determination result of an installation state of the product based on the captured image data and the product information of the product. A third obtaining unit obtains combined image data expressing a combined image obtained by combining the captured image captured by the image capturing unit and an instruction image of installation work to be performed on the product by a user, depending on the installation state obtained by the second obtaining unit. The display control unit causes the display unit to display the combined image based on the combined image data.