Augmented Reality Viewing Zone Segmentation to Reduce Visual Overlap
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional augmented reality methods often lead to visual confusion due to excessive virtual content overlap, which negatively impacts the user experience as devices become capable of processing and displaying more complex and larger virtual content.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for determining and modifying viewing zones of virtual content on an augmented reality device to reduce overlap, ensuring that each portion of virtual content is rendered in a distinct physical region, thereby minimizing visual clutter and enhancing user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the system processes and visualizes greater virtual content in augmented reality, then the information richness and complexity increase, but visual confusion and user experience degradation occur due to overlapping content
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the augmented reality display area into multiple non-overlapping viewing zones, each assigned to specific virtual content. This spatial segmentation prevents visual confusion by ensuring that different portions of virtual content are rendered in distinct, separated regions of the display, allowing users to process multiple pieces of information simultaneously without overlap-induced confusion.
2Area of moving object
If virtual content is rendered with larger size and complexity, then the information visualization capability improves, but the overlap between different virtual content portions increases causing confusion
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from two-dimensional content placement to three-dimensional spatial zone management. By defining viewing zones with depth, width, and height parameters in three-dimensional space, the system can render larger and more complex virtual content portions while maintaining separation through spatial boundaries, thus avoiding overlap without sacrificing information visualization quality.
3Quantity of substance
If multiple portions of virtual content are rendered simultaneously, then the information density increases, but the viewing zones overlap reducing clarity
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary determination of viewing zones for each portion of virtual content before rendering. By pre-calculating and establishing non-overlapping spatial boundaries for each content portion based on their respective positions and sizes, the system ensures that multiple virtual content portions can be rendered simultaneously with precise boundary definition, eliminating the need for complex real-time overlap detection and adjustment.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of rendering virtual content is disclosed. A position to render each of a first and a second portion of virtual content on an augmented reality device is determined. Each of the first and second portion of virtual content is linked to a corresponding physical document. The position for rendering each of the first and second portions of virtual content is determined according to a position of the corresponding physical documents with the position of the first portion of virtual content being adjacent to the position of the second portion of virtual content. Viewing zones for each of the first and second portions of virtual content are determined, based on the determined positions. Each of the viewing zones is defined as a physical region where an augmentation of the corresponding portion of virtual content is visible on the augmented reality device. The viewing zone of the second portion of virtual content is modified to reduce any overlap with the viewing zone of the first portion of virtual content. The first and the second portions of virtual content are rendered on the augmented reality device according to the determined viewing zones.