Collaborative Product Selection Display With Real-Time Model Sync
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mixed reality systems lack efficient collaboration tools for customers and salespersons to jointly select and visualize products, limiting the effectiveness of product selection and display processes.
Innovation Solution
A product selection and display system comprising a product display system (PDS) and a companion device, connected via a persistent bidirectional communication channel, enables collaborative product selection and visualization through eye tracking, product indication, and real-time data exchange, allowing independent configuration of a product collection model by both devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a single display device is used for product selection, then the system structure is simple, but the collaboration efficiency between customer and salesperson is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple display devices (companion device and PDS display device) into a unified collaborative system. Both devices can independently configure the product collection model and share selection results through bidirectional communication, enabling simultaneous interaction between customer and salesperson without requiring a single complex device.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows both the companion device and PDS display device to perform multiple functions: displaying product collection models, receiving user selections, and configuring products. This multi-functionality across multiple devices enables flexible collaboration where either device can be operated by either user independently.
2Speed
If real-time data exchange is implemented between devices, then the collaboration responsiveness is improved, but the communication overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements bidirectional communication with real-time feedback loops where selections made on one device immediately reflect on the other device. This feedback mechanism ensures collaborative responsiveness by continuously synchronizing product collection model configurations between both devices without requiring excessive communication bandwidth.
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AI summary
Product selection and display system and methods of facilitating product selection are disclosed. A product selection and display system includes a product display system (PDS) and a companion device. The companion device is configured to display product selection options via the companion device, receive companion device input designating one or more product selections, and generate and transmit one or more companion device product collection model control commands in response to the companion device input. The PDS is configured to display a PDS display device view of a product collection model, receive PDS input designating one or more PDS user product selections, and configure the product collection model from selected product models.