Augmented Virtuality System for Asset Situational Awareness
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional augmented virtuality systems lack the ability to provide operators with a comprehensive situational awareness of an operating environment, as they display assets and information in separate windows, making it difficult to relate and control multiple assets effectively within a real-world context.
Innovation Solution
An augmented virtuality system that displays real-world imagery with virtual icons representing assets and sensed data in a common operating picture, allowing for multi-perspective three-dimensional visualization and remote control of assets through interaction with virtual icons, thereby enhancing situational awareness and mission planning capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If assets and information are displayed in separate windows or screens, then each asset can be displayed with its own details, but the operator cannot understand how the information relates to one another and lacks sufficient situational awareness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple asset displays and information panels into a single integrated three-dimensional virtual environment. Assets are represented as virtual objects positioned in 3D space corresponding to their real-world locations, and all information is presented within this unified spatial context rather than in separate windows, enabling operators to understand relationships between assets and their environment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from traditional two-dimensional flat displays to a three-dimensional virtual environment. This dimensional change allows assets to be positioned spatially according to their real-world coordinates, creating a holistic operating picture that preserves spatial relationships and enables intuitive understanding of asset distributions and environmental context.
2Ease of operation
If conventional augmented virtuality systems display multiple assets in separate windows, then each asset information can be viewed, but the operator cannot control multiple assets effectively within a real-world context
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines asset viewing and control functions into a single integrated 3D interface. Operators can select virtual asset representations in the three-dimensional environment and control them directly from that contextualized view, eliminating the need to switch between separate display windows and maintaining continuous awareness of spatial relationships during control operations.
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AI summary
Systems and methods relating to an augmented virtuality system are disclosed. A method of operating an augmented virtuality system may comprise displaying imagery of a real-world environment in an operating picture. The method may further include displaying a plurality of virtual icons in the operating picture representing at least some assets of a plurality of assets positioned in the real-world environment. Additionally, the method may include displaying at least one virtual item in the operating picture representing data sensed by one or more of the assets of the plurality of assets and remotely controlling at least one asset of the plurality of assets by interacting with a virtual icon associated with the at least one asset.