AR Vehicle Overlay for Occluded Location Visibility
Solution Overview
Problem
Current augmented reality systems lack the ability to effectively display the location of a vehicle in real-time within a user's physical environment, especially when the vehicle is obstructed by buildings or other obstacles, making it difficult for users to visualize the vehicle's approach.
Innovation Solution
The system generates and displays virtual vehicle content overlaid on a real-world view using augmented reality, with the vehicle's representation scaled and positioned to appear behind buildings, and displays a virtual path indicating its planned route, allowing users to see the vehicle's location and movement within the physical environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional map-based location display is used, then the vehicle location can be shown, but the user cannot visualize the vehicle's approach when obstructed by buildings
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a virtual copy of the vehicle and overlays it on the real-world view through augmented reality. This virtual vehicle representation allows users to see where the actual vehicle is located even when physically obstructed by buildings, effectively copying the vehicle's presence into the user's visual field without requiring the user to interpret map data abstractly
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from two-dimensional map display to three-dimensional augmented reality overlay. By rendering the virtual vehicle in the same spatial dimension as the real-world environment and positioning it behind buildings using depth information, the system enables users to visualize vehicle approach in the third dimension (depth), providing spatial understanding that flat maps cannot convey
2Ease of operation
If augmented reality vehicle display is implemented, then user visualization of vehicle approach is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The augmented reality display system serves multiple functions simultaneously: it shows vehicle location, provides navigation guidance, displays real-time vehicle status, and offers spatial orientation cues. By consolidating these functions into a single AR interface, the system reduces the need for multiple separate applications or displays, thereby managing complexity through functional integration
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses an intermediary processing layer that receives raw data from multiple sensors (GPS, camera, processor) and transforms it into a simplified virtual vehicle representation. This intermediary layer abstracts the complexity of data fusion and rendering from the user interface, presenting a clean and intuitive visual result while handling the computational complexity in the background
Data Source
AI summary
A first augmented-reality (AR) device comprises an optical sensor, a geographic location sensor, an orientation sensor, and a display. The first AR device accesses a first geographic location of the first AR device and an orientation of the first AR device and generates a picture taken at the first geographic location of the first AR device and associated with the orientation of the first AR device. The first AR device retrieves, from a server, transportation information from a second AR device in a vehicle. The server assigns the second AR device to the first AR device. The first AR device forms transportation AR content based on the transportation information and displays the transportation AR content in the display based on the first geographic location and orientation of the first AR device, the transportation information, and the picture generated at the first geographic location of the first AR device.