AR Product Overlays Triggered by User Interest and Location
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to effectively integrate virtual elements with physical environments to enhance user interaction and information management for products, particularly when detecting user interest and location to provide relevant information or actions.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device detects user interest and location to present virtual elements associated with products, such as goods, by using sensors and displays, and performs actions like adding products to a shopping list or displaying purchase locations, utilizing orientation-locked objects in three-dimensional environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If virtual elements are presented in response to detecting user interest and location, then user interaction is enhanced and relevant information is provided, but system complexity increases due to multiple sensors and processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the enhancement of user interaction into distinct functional modules: detection module for capturing user interest and location, processing module for determining relevance, and presentation module for displaying virtual elements. This modular segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall system adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The electronic device integrates multiple functions into a single system: it detects user interest through various input devices, determines location using sensors, processes this information to identify relevant products, and presents virtual elements through displays. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate specialized devices while enhancing user interaction.
2Loss of information
If the system detects user interest and location to provide relevant virtual elements, then information relevance improves, but detection accuracy requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs multiple input devices and sensors to detect user interest and location, using more detection capabilities than strictly necessary. This excessive detection approach ensures that even if some sensors have limited precision, the cumulative data from multiple sources maintains high information relevance through redundant verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors user responses to presented virtual elements and uses this feedback to refine its detection algorithms. By analyzing whether users interact with presented elements or dismiss them, the system adjusts its detection parameters to improve both information relevance and detection accuracy over time.
3Ease of operation
If the electronic device automatically adds products to shopping lists based on detected interest, then user convenience increases, but error potential increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary verification before automatically adding products to shopping lists. It cross-checks detected user interest against multiple criteria including product availability, user preferences, and purchase history, and provides a preview to the user before finalizing the addition. This preliminary action reduces errors while maintaining convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables users to easily review and self-correct automatically generated shopping list entries. Users can access the shopping list, review automatically added items, and make modifications or deletions as needed. This self-service capability maintains the convenience of automatic addition while allowing users to correct any errors.
Data Source
AI summary
Some examples of the disclosure are directed to systems and methods for performing one or more actions in response to detecting a product in a physical environment. For example, performing the one or more actions include presenting one or more virtual elements in an environment. For example, performing the one or more actions include storing information associated with the product. In some examples, the one or more actions are performed in accordance with one or more criteria being satisfied. For example, the one or more criteria include a criterion that is satisfied when one or more indications of user interest in the product are detected. In some examples, one or more virtual elements are presented in an environment indicating a location of a product within a region of the physical environment. The methods of the disclosure are optionally performed at an electronic device including a head-mounted display.