AR View Toggling for Mobile Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Augmented reality experiences on mobile devices are disrupted when the marker is lost, requiring users to restart from the beginning and making it difficult to interact with the device, especially when invisible markers are used, leading to awkward device positioning and inability to seamlessly return to the augmented reality mode after redirection.
Innovation Solution
A method that toggles between augmented reality image viewing mode and rendered image viewing mode based on the visibility of an augmented reality target, allowing continuous engagement by presenting augmented reality appliance images when the target is visible and rendered appliance images when it is not, enabling users to interact and adjust experience parameters without losing the immersive experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If augmented reality marker recognition is used to initiate and maintain the experience, then the experience can be triggered and sustained, but the user must continuously hold the device at specific angles to maintain marker recognition
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a digital copy of the marker data and stores it locally on the mobile device. Once the marker is initially recognized and its data extracted, the device continues to use this stored copy for the augmented reality experience, eliminating the need for continuous visual tracking of the physical marker. This allows users to freely position and move the device without worrying about maintaining marker recognition.
2Measurement precision
If the augmented reality experience stops when the marker is lost, then the system maintains accuracy and prevents false experiences, but the user must restart from the beginning each time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs the marker recognition and data extraction action in advance, storing the marker data locally before it is needed. This preliminary action ensures that when the physical marker is no longer visible, the system already has the necessary data to continue the augmented reality experience without interruption or restart, thus eliminating time loss while maintaining experience integrity.
3Shape
If invisible markers are used, then the aesthetic appearance is improved, but the device must be positioned at awkward angles to maintain recognition
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and stores digital data from the invisible marker during the initial recognition phase. This copied data contains all necessary information to sustain the augmented reality experience, allowing the physical marker to remain aesthetically pleasing and invisible while the device can be freely positioned and handled without awkward angle constraints.
4Loss of information
If the augmented reality experience is redirected to a webpage, then additional information can be provided, but the user cannot return to the augmented reality mode
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses the locally stored marker data as an intermediary that bridges between augmented reality mode and web page redirection. When redirected to a webpage, the system retains access to the stored marker data, enabling seamless return to augmented reality mode. This intermediary data structure allows flexible navigation between different experience modes while maintaining continuity of the augmented reality context.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a camera enabled mobile device and method of toggling between an augmented reality image viewing mode and a rendered image viewing mode based, in part, on viewability of an augmented reality target (visible or invisible—markerless) proximate the camera enabled mobile device. The method comprising steps of positioning at least one of an augmented reality target in a physical location, aiming the camera at the augmented reality target, initiating, once, an immersive user software experience, determining which of the augmented reality appliance images and the rendered appliance images are associated with the augmented reality target, then toggling between the augmented reality image viewing mode when the augmented reality target is viewable by the camera else entering the rendered image viewing mode.