Coded Vision Recognition for Account-Linked Augmented Reality
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users cannot currently interact with their social media content through client device displays, limiting social engagement and interaction.
Innovation Solution
A coded vision system that recognizes scannable codes linked to user accounts, integrating social media content as augmented reality elements, allowing avatars to interact and enabling actions such as adding friends or installing linked apps.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If social media content is integrated into client device displays through coded vision system, then user interaction and engagement are enhanced, but device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
A coded vision system acts as an intermediary between physical objects and digital content. The system uses machine learning models to detect codes in images, which then serve as intermediaries to retrieve and display associated social media content. This mediator approach enables interaction without requiring direct integration between all system components, thus managing complexity while enhancing versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the interaction process into distinct modules: image capture, code detection using machine learning, content retrieval from social media platforms, and display rendering. Each module operates independently with defined interfaces, allowing the system to handle complex interactions through simplified, modular components that can be developed and maintained separately.
2Measurement precision
If machine learning models are used to detect codes in images, then code recognition accuracy is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
Machine learning models are pre-trained on extensive datasets of codes and image patterns before deployment. This preliminary training action enables the models to perform rapid, accurate detection during actual use without requiring complex real-time computations. The heavy computational lifting occurs beforehand, allowing fast inference during the actual code detection process.
Solution Approach 2:
Traditional manual or rule-based code detection methods are replaced with machine learning-based automated detection. The mechanical process of manually analyzing image patterns is substituted with neural network-based recognition, which processes images more efficiently and accurately, reducing both processing time and computational resources required for accurate code recognition.
3Adaptability or versatility
If augmented reality elements are anchored to image features, then user engagement is enhanced, but processing complexity and memory requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses universal image feature detection that can identify multiple types of anchor points (codes, landmarks, objects) using the same underlying technology. This multi-functional approach allows the system to handle various types of augmented reality content with a single, versatile detection mechanism, reducing the need for separate processing systems and associated memory requirements for each content type.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for presentation of computer vision (e.g., augmented reality, virtual reality) using user data and a user code is disclosed. A client device can detect an image feature (e.g., scannable code) in one or more images. The image feature is determined to be linked to a user account. User data from the user account can then be used to generate one or more augmented reality display elements that can be anchored to the image feature in the one or more images.


