AR Treasure Hunt Navigation via Image Recognition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current augmented reality technologies lack effective methods for providing immersive and interactive virtual treasure hunts that allow users to navigate through environments and obtain virtual rewards in real-time, with limited integration of image recognition and navigation guidance.
Innovation Solution
A mobile computer system equipped with a processor, image capture module, and display module, capable of capturing environment images, detecting locations using image recognition models, and providing navigation indications, allowing users to follow a virtual path and receive virtual rewards upon reaching the endpoint, with features like augmented reality displays and virtual gift card integration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If augmented reality technologies are used to provide virtual treasure hunts, then user immersion and interactivity are improved, but integration of image recognition and navigation guidance is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions (image capture, image recognition, navigation guidance, and augmented reality display) into a single integrated mobile computer system. The system merges the camera module, processor for image recognition, GPS for location tracking, and display module into one cohesive device that performs treasure hunt operations without requiring separate external equipment.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile computer system is designed to perform multiple functions: capturing images of the environment, recognizing locations through image processing, determining navigation directions, and displaying augmented reality overlays. This multi-functional approach allows a single device to replace what would traditionally require multiple separate systems.
2Measurement precision
If real-time image recognition is implemented for location detection, then navigation accuracy is improved, but processing time and computational load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system captures images continuously as the user moves through the environment, preparing image data in advance for recognition. The mobile computer system processes images in real-time as they are captured, rather than waiting to collect a batch of images before analysis, thereby reducing processing delays while maintaining accurate location detection.
3Ease of operation
If augmented reality displays are used to show navigation indications, then user guidance is improved, but device complexity and power consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The augmented reality display shows navigation indications selectively based on the user's current location and progress through the treasure hunt path. The system activates AR overlays primarily when the user is near decision points or turning locations along the route, rather than continuously displaying all navigation information, thereby reducing power consumption while maintaining effective guidance.
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AI summary
A method for providing a treasure hunt in augmented reality includes presenting an indication of a starting point of a path through an environment that, when followed, allows a virtual gift card to be obtained. Then, as a mobile computer system travels through the environment from a location proximate the starting point, navigation indications to allow the path to be followed are presented. Presenting the navigation indications may include capturing images of portions of the environment, detecting locations corresponding to the path, modifying a captured image based on a detected location by compositing it with a navigation indication corresponding to a direction of the path; and displaying the modified captured image. That the mobile computer system has been moved to a location proximate an ending point of the path can be detected and may trigger an update to an account to associate the virtual gift card therewith.