Composite AR Markers for Toy Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing toys that utilize augmented reality struggle with marker recognition in poor lighting conditions and authentication of toy arrangements, especially when children play with multiple components that can be swapped, leading to complexity and processing power issues.
Innovation Solution
The use of physically independent augmented reality image markers on multiple components of a toy, which combine to form a unique composite marker, allowing for enhanced marker recognition and authentication with reduced processing power, and the incorporation of internal lighting to improve marker visibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If multiple augmented reality markers are used on toy components to enable authentication and tracking, then the ability to identify and authenticate toy arrangements is improved, but the processing power required and system complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the authentication process into two stages: first detecting individual component markers independently, then combining their identities and spatial relationships to authenticate the complete toy arrangement. This segmentation allows each marker to be processed separately using simple detection algorithms, while the combinatorial authentication logic handles the complexity of verifying correct arrangements, thereby reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high recognition accuracy.
2Measurement precision
If multiple augmented reality markers are used on toy components to enable authentication, then the ability to identify toy arrangements is improved, but the processing power required increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of individual component markers and their identities before attempting to authenticate the complete toy arrangement. By pre-processing and storing marker identities separately, the system avoids the computationally expensive task of analyzing all markers simultaneously, thereby reducing real-time processing power requirements while maintaining high authentication accuracy through the subsequent combination step.
3Adaptability or versatility
If toys are played with in places with poor or artificial lighting, then play flexibility is improved, but marker recognition capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The augmented reality markers use distinctive color patterns and high-contrast designs that remain visually distinguishable under various lighting conditions. The marker detection algorithm is specifically tuned to recognize these color patterns regardless of ambient light intensity or color temperature, allowing the system to maintain high recognition accuracy whether the toy is played with in natural light, artificial lighting, or poor lighting conditions, thereby enabling play location flexibility without sacrificing marker detection reliability.
Data Source
AI summary
A toy, for use with a viewing device, may include a plurality of component parts at least two of which include at least one augmented reality marker of a plurality of augmented reality markers enabling digital content associated with the at least one augmented reality marker to be unlocked and influencing at least one of an appearance and function of the toy on the viewing device. The plurality of augmented reality markers, each of which may be a physically independent augmented reality image marker, may be combined and converted into a composite augmented reality marker to produce a single, unique physical item and a composite digital representation.