Augmented Reality Object Registration via Image Authentication

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing augmented reality services lack user interaction and customization, as users cannot generate and experience augmented reality objects directly using their mobile devices, leading to standardized information delivery without processing or deletion capabilities.

Innovation Solution

An augmented reality object providing method and server using image authentication, where users can capture real-world images, select and register augmented reality objects, and transmit notification messages to designated recipients, allowing them to experience augmented reality by matching specific location and image conditions, ensuring only authorized users receive the augmented reality objects.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If augmented reality information is stored in the server and transmitted based on location and real-world image matching, then standardized information delivery is achieved, but user interaction and customization capabilities are lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interaction and customizationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables users to autonomously capture real-world images, select target objects, input messages, and generate augmented reality objects themselves. The server provides the platform and processing capabilities, but users perform the creative work of selecting images, writing messages, and customizing their AR experiences, thereby achieving adaptability without proportionally increasing system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Users pre-select and upload real-world images along with their messages before the AR experience is activated. The server stores these pre-prepared AR objects and only performs matching and transmission when triggered by location and image recognition, separating the creative preparation phase from the execution phase to reduce real-time system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If augmented reality objects are transmitted to all users based on location matching, then information accessibility is improved, but data security and authorization control are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata securityVSAvoidinformation accessibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a notification mechanism where the server sends notifications to specific recipient devices when an AR object matching their location and captured image is available. This feedback loop ensures that only authorized recipients receive notifications and can subsequently access the AR objects, maintaining security while enabling controlled accessibility

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The server acts as an intermediary that receives AR objects from senders, stores them with associated location and image data, and then distributes them only to authorized recipients based on matching criteria. This intermediary role enables the system to balance security (by controlling distribution) with accessibility (by automatically matching and delivering to authorized users)

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Productivity

If real-world images and location information are used for AR object transmission, then personalized AR experience is achieved, but processing time and system resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocessing efficiencyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Users upload and process real-world images in advance, and the server stores these images along with their metadata and associated AR objects. When a user triggers an AR experience, the system only needs to perform matching against pre-processed images rather than processing raw images in real-time, significantly reducing processing time while maintaining personalized AR delivery

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts and stores key features and metadata from real-world images during the upload phase, such as image hashes, location coordinates, and object descriptors. During AR transmission, only this extracted data needs to be compared and matched, rather than processing entire high-resolution images, thereby improving processing efficiency while enabling personalized AR experiences

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS11023572B2Augmented reality object providing method and server using image authentication
Publication Date: 2021.06.01 CHUN JONG YOON
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AI summary

The present invention relates to an augmented reality object providing method and server using image authentication and, more specifically, to an augmented reality object providing method and server using image authentication, wherein an augmented reality object is registered using a first real-world image captured by a first mobile terminal and an input message, and according to the registration of the augmented reality object, a notification message is transmitted to a second mobile terminal corresponding to recipient information, so as to allow a second user of the second mobile terminal to experience augmented reality by outputting the registered augmented reality object in a second real-world image captured by the second mobile terminal.