Augmented Reality Overlay for Remote Device Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
In industrial settings, measuring devices are often positioned in hard-to-reach locations, making it difficult to read and manipulate their operating states, measured values, and settings effectively.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing a mobile terminal with an optical detection unit, a display, and a processor that combines detected images of devices with virtual graphics components to create an augmented reality image, allowing for remote monitoring and control of devices through a mobile interface, eliminating the need for additional displays and enhancing accessibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If measuring devices are positioned in hard-to-reach locations to save space or optimize process layout, then device compactness and process efficiency are improved, but accessibility for reading and manipulating operating states deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the measuring device's display and controls through augmented reality. The mobile terminal captures an image of the physical device and overlays a virtual graphics component that replicates the display elements, allowing operators to interact with a virtual representation of the device from a distance without needing physical proximity.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile terminal serves as an intermediary between the operator and the hard-to-reach measuring device. It captures images via camera, processes them through the processor, and presents the augmented reality view on its display, mediating the interaction so operators can access device information without physically approaching the device.
2Ease of operation
If additional displays and interfaces are added to measuring devices to improve readability and control, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile terminal serves multiple functions: it acts as a camera to capture device images, a processor to generate augmented reality overlays, a display to show the virtual graphics component, and an input device for manipulating device parameters. This multi-functional approach eliminates the need for each measuring device to have its own dedicated display and control interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The display and control interface functions are extracted from the physical measuring device and relocated to the mobile terminal. The measuring device itself retains only the essential measurement and control electronics, while the graphical user interface is provided externally by the mobile device's screen.
3Ease of operation
If physical displays are added to measuring devices to enable local reading, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability under environmental influences deteriorates due to additional exposed components
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of adding physical displays that would be exposed to harsh environmental conditions, the patent creates a virtual copy of the display on the mobile terminal's protected screen. The augmented reality overlay presents all necessary information without requiring any additional physical components on the measuring device itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile terminal acts as a protected intermediary that shields the operator from environmental hazards. All display and interaction functions occur on the mobile device, which can be kept outside the harsh environment or protected within it, while still providing full access to measuring device information and controls.
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AI summary
A system for detecting, analyzing and manipulating devices, wherein a virtual graphics component displays an operating state of the device and is integrated in a moving image of the device as a complete image, and wherein the complete image is updated at regular time intervals.