AR Overlay Management via Anchor Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for managing overlays in augmented reality environments are cumbersome, inefficient, and create a cognitive burden on users, often requiring complex and error-prone interactions that waste energy, particularly in battery-operated devices.
Innovation Solution
The development of improved computer systems with advanced methods and interfaces that detect requests to display user interface overlays based on anchor elements, adjusting visual characteristics according to the location and size of these elements within the user interface region, thereby reducing the number and nature of user inputs and enhancing interaction efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional methods are used to manage overlays in augmented reality environments, then users can interact with virtual objects, but the interaction becomes cumbersome and creates cognitive burden
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects requests to display overlays and intelligently manages their positioning and visual characteristics based on anchor elements, eliminating the need for users to manually configure complex parameters. The computer system performs self-service by autonomously optimizing overlay display based on detected user intent and environmental context.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes anchor elements in the environment before overlay interaction is needed. These anchor elements serve as predetermined reference points that simplify subsequent overlay management, allowing the system to quickly determine optimal overlay positions and characteristics without requiring complex real-time calculations during user interaction.
2Reliability
If manual management of overlay display is implemented, then users can control virtual objects, but the process becomes time-consuming and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors and detects user requests for overlay display, using this feedback to automatically adjust overlay positioning and visual characteristics. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures accurate overlay management by constantly adapting to user intent and environmental conditions, eliminating time-consuming manual trial-and-error adjustments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical interaction (dragging, dropping, manually positioning overlays) with an automated detection and display system that uses computer vision and pattern recognition. This substitution eliminates the time-consuming and error-prone manual manipulation of overlay elements while maintaining full control functionality.
3Adaptability or versatility
If complex interface methods are used to manage overlays, then comprehensive control is achieved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of continuously processing complex overlay management operations, the system employs periodic detection of user requests and environmental changes. The overlay display is updated only when necessary based on detected events, rather than maintaining constant complex processing, thereby reducing overall energy consumption while preserving full adaptability when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different levels of processing intensity to different aspects of overlay management based on local conditions. For example, anchor element detection may use simpler methods in stable environments while employing more sophisticated analysis when changes are detected. This localized adaptation maintains versatility while minimizing unnecessary energy expenditure across the entire system.
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AI summary
The present disclosure generally relates to managing the display of an overlay.