AR Experience Resumption via Recognition Indicia and Server Mediation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional augmented reality (AR) devices can cause user fatigue and loss of interest due to the need for continuous active use, as they only provide the AR experience to the user wearing the device, leading to interruptions when the user removes or pauses the AR experience.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses a content presentation device and an output device to resume or supplement the AR experience by generating and recognizing a recognition indicium, allowing the AR experience to continue on a separate output device, such as a television, even after the AR device is paused or removed, using sensors and a server to manage the content resumption and supplementation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the AR experience is provided only to the user actively using the AR device, then the AR experience is delivered directly to the user, but user fatigue and loss of interest occur over extended periods
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary between the AR device and the output device. The server receives content from the AR device, processes it, and delivers it to the output device, enabling the AR experience to continue without the user actively wearing the AR device. This mediator allows the experience to transition between devices seamlessly.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a copy of the AR content and delivers it to a separate output device. The content is replicated from the AR device through the server to the output device, allowing the user to view the same experience on different devices without losing engagement or requiring continuous active use of the AR device.
2Ease of operation
If the AR device is removed or paused, then the user can take a break from active use, but the AR experience is interrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent ensures continuous delivery of the AR experience by implementing a system where content is continuously streamed from the AR device through the server to the output device. Even when the user removes or pauses the AR device, the experience continues uninterrupted on the output device, maintaining both user comfort and experience reliability.
3Duration of action of moving object
If multiple devices are used to present AR content, then user fatigue is reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal server architecture that can handle multiple AR devices and multiple output devices through a single platform. The server provides multi-functional capabilities including content reception, processing, recognition indicium generation, and distribution to various devices, reducing overall system complexity despite supporting multiple devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as a central intermediary that simplifies the complexity of multi-device communication. Rather than requiring direct peer-to-peer connections between multiple AR devices and output devices, the server mediates all communications, centralizing the complexity management and making the multi-device system more manageable.
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AI summary
A process determines, with a content presentation device, a recognition indicium that corresponds to an identifier of the content presentation device. Further, the process provides, with the content presentation device, the recognition indicium to an output device so that the output device emits the recognition indicium. In addition, the process receives, at the content presentation device from the server, remaining content of an augmented reality experience that was paused by a processor in operable communication with an augmented reality device. The augmented reality device is distinct from the output device. Further, the processor sends the identifier and a position of the remaining content to the server. In addition, the process sends, with the content presentation device, the remaining content to the output device so that the output device emits the remaining content.