AR Overlay for Video Feed Display Content Clarity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Video conferencing often results in distorted, degraded, or irregularly lit camera feeds due to glare and poor lighting, leading to a lack of virtual immersion and clarity, especially when remotely located participants try to view content from another display.
Innovation Solution
The use of augmented reality (AR) software to overlay a separate video feed on a camera feed, matching the content's appearance and orientation as if presented on the original display, thereby enhancing image fidelity and immersion by bypassing camera capture distortions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If camera feed is used to present display content to remote participants, then the solution is simple and uses existing hardware, but the image quality becomes distorted and degraded due to glare and poor lighting
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a digital copy of the display content through screen capture and overlays it on the camera feed. This copy is then processed to remove glare and improve image quality, allowing remote participants to view the content clearly without the physical limitations of camera-based capture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces software processing as an intermediary between the display content and the remote participant's view. The software captures the screen, processes the image to eliminate glare and improve quality, and overlays it on the camera feed, thereby mediating the transmission of high-quality content.
2Manufacturing precision
If separate headshot and content streams are presented to remote participants, then the content can be viewed clearly, but virtual immersion in the meeting is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the separate content stream with the camera feed by overlaying the processed display content directly onto the video feed from the meeting room camera. This combination allows remote participants to see both the physical meeting environment and the digital content simultaneously, maintaining virtual immersion while ensuring content clarity.
3Device complexity
If camera feed is used to show display content, then no additional processing is needed, but the feed becomes subject to glare and lighting irregularities that make it impossible or near impossible to read
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the display content from the camera feed by using screen capture technology. This separates the content acquisition process from the visual presentation, allowing the content to be processed independently to remove glare and improve readability while maintaining the original camera feed for context.
Data Source
AI summary
In one aspect, a first device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to receive, from a second device different from the first device, a camera feed of a meeting. The instructions may also be executable to determine that the camera feed shows a first display presenting a particular piece of electronic content. Based on the determination, the instructions may then be executable to overlay, on the camera feed as presented on a second display, a separate video feed of the particular piece of electronic content.