Augmented Reality Server for Multi-Angle Building View Guidance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing augmented reality systems for displaying planned building constructions only allow viewing from the direction the camera faces, making it difficult to see building features like back doors or interior landscapes, and cannot display exterior views from inside the building.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a photographer terminal and an augmented reality server that detects location and direction data, transmits it to the server, receives and displays three-dimensional building data, and provides instructions for desired viewing angles, allowing users to view buildings from various angles and orientations, including interior perspectives.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If augmented reality displays three-dimensional building data only from the camera's facing direction, then the system complexity is reduced, but the user cannot view building features from multiple angles or locations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary between the user terminal and the three-dimensional building data. The server receives imaging location and direction information, calculates optimal viewing directions for desired locations, and returns direction data to guide the user. This intermediary handles the complex calculations of multiple viewing angles, allowing the user terminal to remain relatively simple while achieving multi-angle viewing capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a single-dimension viewing approach (camera's current facing direction only) to a multi-dimensional viewing approach by calculating and providing direction data for multiple locations and angles. The system enables users to view buildings from various perspectives including front, back, sides, and interior spaces by adding directional dimensions to the viewing experience.
2Loss of information
If the system calculates and provides direction data for multiple viewing locations, then users can see building features from desired angles, but the information processing requirement increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary calculations by pre-determining the direction data for multiple desired viewing locations before the user actually captures images. The server calculates optimal imaging directions for various building features (back doors, rest rooms, specific angles) in advance and stores this direction data, so when users want to view these features, the direction information is already prepared and can be quickly retrieved and displayed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where the server receives the user's desired viewing location information, calculates the corresponding direction data, and returns it to guide the user's camera orientation. This feedback loop allows users to iteratively adjust their viewing direction based on the provided direction data until they achieve the desired view, reducing the need for multiple trial-and-error image captures.
3Adaptability or versatility
If augmented reality displays only exterior building views, then the system is simpler to implement, but users cannot view interior landscapes or exterior views from inside the building
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the augmented reality system universal by enabling it to handle multiple types of viewing perspectives - both exterior building views and interior landscape views. The server calculates direction data for various perspectives including views from inside rooms looking out through windows, views of interior spaces, and exterior building facades. This multi-functional capability allows users to explore the building both from the outside and from imagined interior positions.
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AI summary
Not only to display augmented reality from an imaging location but also to specify the location desired to be checked for the displayed three-dimensional data and present the location from which an image should be taken. The system and a method for augmented reality includes a photographer terminal that displays augmented reality when taking an image and an augmented reality server that includes a location matching database, in which the photographer terminal detects and transmits location information and a direction when taking an image to the augmented reality server; receives and displays three-dimensional data on a building from the augmented reality server and then receives instruction as to a predetermined location desired to display augmented reality integrating the displayed data; and outputs direction data on the location and the direction of a camera that are calculated by the augmented reality server under the instruction to the photographer terminal.