Augmented Reality Navigation via Image Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current navigation technologies, such as augmented reality and car navigation systems, face challenges in providing intuitive and real-time information about changing environments, like product availability and parking lot statuses, without requiring frequent updates to map information or relying on specific devices.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that combines augmented reality with imaging units and managing devices to display inventory and sales information of products, and vacant space information in parking lots, allowing for real-time guidance without updating map data, using imaging units to capture product images and transmit data for analysis and display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If augmented reality navigation is used to display product information, then product information accessibility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an image processing apparatus as an intermediary that receives images from mobile terminals, processes them to extract product information, and displays the information. This mediator handles the complex processing tasks separately, allowing mobile terminals to remain simple while still providing augmented reality navigation functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system captures images of products using the mobile terminal's camera and processes these image copies to extract product information. Instead of requiring direct connection to product databases or complex scanning equipment, the system uses simple image copying and recognition to achieve product information accessibility.
2Measurement precision
If sensors are provided in each parking space to detect parking status, then parking status detection precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes mobile terminals serve multiple functions: they act as both imaging devices for product information and as detection devices for parking status. The same camera and processing capabilities are used for both purposes, eliminating the need for dedicated sensors in each parking space while maintaining detection precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses the mobile terminal's own imaging capabilities to detect parking status by capturing images of parking spaces. Instead of requiring external sensors to be installed in the parking lot infrastructure, the mobile terminal performs self-service detection using its built-in camera and image processing capabilities.
3Loss of information
If electric signs are used to display vacant space information, then information display capability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from two-dimensional electric sign displays to three-dimensional augmented reality overlays in the driver's field of view. By projecting virtual images of parking space information directly onto the real-world view through the windshield or display, the system provides spatially-aware information that maintains natural driving posture and eye position, improving ease of operation while enhancing information display capability.
Data Source
AI summary
A mobile terminal obtains image data related to a product posted on a flier by imaging and sends the image data related to the product to a shopping management server. Upon reception of the image data related to the product from the mobile terminal, the shopping management server determines the product by analyzing the image data related to the product, obtains at least one of inventory information and sales information of the product, and sends at least one of the inventory information and the sales information of the product to the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal combines computer-graphics image data indicating at least one of the inventory information and the sales information of the product sent from the shopping management server with an image of the flier in real space and presents the combined image, thereby solving the problem.