Clickable AR Content Tagging With Frictionless Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems lack efficient methods for recording, sharing, and accessing augmented reality content in a seamless and user-defined manner, particularly in relation to specific locations and orientations, without requiring frictional access controls.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for creating and distributing curated tagged content using moment files associated with physical or virtual objects, incorporating recorder-side filtering, which allows eligible users to access media content through enrolled devices when proximate to these objects, utilizing inertial measurement units for location and orientation determination, and employing frictionless access methodologies like key exchange or blockchain.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If frictionless access methodologies are implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but security and access control may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary authentication mechanism using key exchange protocols and blockchain technology. These intermediaries mediate between the user and the AR content, providing automated verification that maintains security while preserving frictionless access. The intermediary system handles access control decisions without requiring manual intervention, thus maintaining ease of operation while ensuring reliability.
2Loss of information
If recorder-side filtering is implemented, then information accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary filtering actions at the content creation stage. Recorders pre-define filters, tags, and metadata for AR content before publishing. This preliminary organization enables automated matching and retrieval processes, reducing the need for complex real-time filtering algorithms and lowering overall system complexity while maintaining high information accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses metadata copying and tagging mechanisms where structured information about AR content is replicated across multiple indices and databases. This copying approach allows efficient querying and filtering without requiring complex analysis of the actual AR content, thereby maintaining accuracy while managing system complexity through information abstraction.
3Measurement precision
If location and orientation determination using inertial measurement units is implemented, then measurement precision is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic sampling of location and orientation data from inertial measurement units rather than continuous monitoring. The system determines when updates are necessary based on movement thresholds or time intervals, reducing the frequency of high-energy measurements while maintaining sufficient precision for AR content delivery. This periodic approach significantly reduces energy consumption while preserving measurement accuracy when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses partial measurement approaches where full-precision location and orientation determination is only performed when necessary for content delivery. The system uses coarse-grained positioning for general area identification and only activates high-precision inertial measurement when the user approaches specific AR content zones, thereby reducing overall energy consumption while maintaining required precision at critical moments.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for collection and distribution of curated tagged content includes a server or collection of servers in communication with one or more networks. The servers receive moment files generated by recording users via recording devices; each moment file is associated with a tagged object (e.g., physical or virtual) and includes associated media content. Each moment file is associated with recorder-side filtering via which a potential reader may be defined as an eligible or ineligible reader of the moment file. The server stores the received moment files to memory and receives indications of an eligible reading device near an associated tagged object and displays eligible interactive AR/VR content to a reading user having a reader-side filter indicating an interest in the content.