Augmented Reality Wireless Signal Simulation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users without professional knowledge face difficulties in arranging wireless devices to achieve optimal wireless signal coverage and avoid interference, requiring expert assistance or complex tools that are hard to use correctly.

Innovation Solution

An augmented reality method using virtual wireless devices and markers to simulate wireless signal coverage, employing three-dimensional environmental representations and machine learning to facilitate intuitive adjustment of wireless signal parameters.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users without professional knowledge attempt to arrange wireless devices independently, then they can avoid expert assistance costs, but they cannot achieve optimal wireless signal coverage and arrangement

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveIndependent device arrangement capabilityVSAvoidWireless signal coverage quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an augmented reality system as an intermediary tool between users and wireless device arrangement. The system includes a capturing apparatus that captures real environment images, a processor that generates three-dimensional virtual representations and simulates wireless signal coverage, and a display apparatus that shows the augmented reality results. This intermediary system provides non-expert users with expert-level visualization and guidance capabilities, allowing them to independently arrange wireless devices while achieving optimal signal coverage through the visual feedback provided by the augmented reality display.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If complex wireless signal survey tools and simulation application programs are used, then simulation capability is improved, but the tools become difficult for general users to use correctly

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveWireless signal simulation accuracyVSAvoidUser operation simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces complex mechanical survey tools and simulation software operations with an augmented reality system that uses optical capturing, computational processing, and visual display. Instead of requiring users to operate complex survey equipment or configure simulation parameters, the system captures the environment through a capturing apparatus, processes the data to generate three-dimensional virtual representations with simulated wireless signal coverage, and displays the results through a display apparatus. This substitution maintains high simulation accuracy while dramatically simplifying user interaction to basic capture and view operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a virtual copy of the real wireless environment through three-dimensional virtual representations. The processor generates these virtual representations by capturing real environment images and simulating wireless signal coverage based on device positions and environmental characteristics. Users can visualize and adjust device arrangements in this virtual copy before implementing changes in the real world, maintaining measurement precision while simplifying operation through intuitive visual interaction rather than complex tool manipulation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Measurement precision

If users spend extensive time determining wireless system behavior at each position, then accurate assessment is achieved, but time consumption increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveWireless system behavior assessment accuracyVSAvoidTime for determining wireless system behavior
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary simulation of wireless signal coverage by generating three-dimensional virtual representations that predict wireless system behavior at different positions before actual device deployment or movement. The processor simulates the wireless signal coverage based on virtual device positions and environmental characteristics, allowing users to assess wireless system behavior in advance. This preliminary action provides accurate assessment information without requiring users to physically test each position, significantly reducing time consumption while maintaining measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates virtual copies of wireless system behavior through three-dimensional virtual representations. Instead of requiring users to physically measure or test wireless signal behavior at each position in the real environment, the system generates virtual representations that replicate and predict wireless system behavior. Users can assess signal coverage, identify interference areas, and determine optimal device positions by examining these virtual copies, achieving accurate assessment instantly without time-consuming physical measurements at each location.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentEP3796649B1Augmented reality method for simulating wireless signal, and apparatus
Publication Date: 2025.04.02 SIEMENS AG
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AI summary

Disclosed are an augmented reality method and device for simulating a wireless signal. The method includes: capturing an environment, and forming a three-dimensional virtual representation of the environment; determining a parameter related to a virtual wireless device, where the virtual wireless device is a virtual wireless signal source or a reflector; positioning the virtual wireless device in the environment, and simulating virtual wireless signal coverage in the three-dimensional virtual representation of the environment according to the positioning, the parameter, and the three-dimensional virtual representation of the environment; and adding, to the environment, a marker representing the virtual wireless signal coverage to serve as an augmented reality image for display. According to the present invention, wireless signal emission is simulated in combination with an augmented reality technology, so that a user having no professional knowledge of a wireless technology can accurately and quickly estimate behaviors of a wireless system at each position of a desired space, thereby making adjustments easily to provide good and even excellent wireless signal quality in the desired space.