Article Recognition and Rights Verification for AR Content Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems lack a reliable strategy for validating and accessing content related to real articles and virtual goods, particularly in transactions involving user-owned or licensed items, without a convenient manner for tracking transactions and granting user access.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that uses a manipulated user device with a camera and pose estimation, image recognition, and rights verification modules to validate the presentation and ownership of an article by the user, leveraging blockchain for token-based ownership verification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If recommendation systems use multiple user devices and contexts to infer preferences and match content, then user experience personalization is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the core verification function from complex recommendation systems by using blockchain-based token verification. Instead of relying on multiple devices and contexts to infer preferences, the system extracts ownership verification to a separate, trusted blockchain layer. This allows content access decisions to be made based on verified token ownership rather than complex user profiling, reducing system complexity while maintaining personalization capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces blockchain as an intermediary layer between content providers and users. The blockchain network mediates the verification of token ownership and content access rights, eliminating the need for complex centralized recommendation systems. This intermediary trust layer simplifies the overall system architecture by replacing multi-device inference mechanisms with cryptographic proof verification.
2Adaptability or versatility
If AR capabilities are added to user devices to present targeted content, then user experience immersion is improved, but device resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables user devices to self-verify content access rights through local blockchain token verification. Instead of requiring continuous communication with centralized servers to determine content eligibility, the device independently verifies its own token ownership and content access rights. This self-service approach reduces network traffic and server resource requirements, allowing AR content delivery with lower overall system resource consumption.
3Reliability
If a system tracks transactions and verifies article ownership for content access, then content security is improved, but transaction processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical transaction tracking systems with cryptographic blockchain verification. Instead of maintaining complex databases and transaction ledgers, the system uses immutable blockchain records to verify token ownership and content access rights. This substitution of cryptographic mechanisms for mechanical tracking systems dramatically simplifies the transaction verification process while enhancing security through cryptographic proof.
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AI summary
A system and method for presenting assigned content to a user on a user's device after validating an association of the user with a recognized article based on a valid spatial relationship between the user and the recognized article and also after verifying rights to access the assigned content by the user. The user device equipped with at least one camera used to determine if the article is properly presented. The device captures images and the system has the ability to determine from the images and any additional spatial information the orientation and/or position parameters of the article to confirm whether the valid spatial relationship exists between the recognized article and the user device. The assigned content presented to the user can be contextual and can range from items such as images, music, videos, games, virtual content, augmented content, coupons (virtual or physical), promotions, special offers and the like.