Successive Color Field Alignment for World-Locked AR Objects

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing artificial reality systems face misalignment issues due to user movement, such as head and eye movement, causing visual artifacts when displaying virtual objects through successive color fields.

Innovation Solution

Implement a color field manager that adjusts the display location of successive color fields based on detected user movement, ensuring alignment from the user's perspective to mitigate misalignment and improve clarity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If successive color fields are displayed to render a virtual object, then color information is improved, but misalignment occurs due to user movement

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor informationVSAvoidalignment precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts the display location of successive color fields based on detected user movement. The color field manager modifies the position of each color field in real-time to compensate for head and eye movements, transforming a static display system into a dynamic one that adapts to user motion.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses sensor data providing feedback about user movement to adjust the display location of color fields. The color field manager continuously receives movement information and uses this feedback to reposition color fields, creating a closed-loop control system that maintains alignment despite user motion.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Manufacturing precision

If display location is adjusted based on user movement, then alignment precision is improved, but computational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvealignment precisionVSAvoidcomputational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by detecting user movement and calculating adjusted display locations before rendering each successive color field. The color field manager prepares the corrected positions in advance, ensuring alignment is maintained without requiring complex real-time adjustments during the actual display process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Loss of information

If multiple color fields are displayed successively, then color fidelity is improved, but visual artifacts increase due to misalignment

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor fidelityVSAvoidvisual artifacts
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies preliminary anti-action by pre-calculating and applying compensatory position adjustments to counteract the expected misalignment caused by user movement. The color field manager proactively positions each color field to prevent misalignment artifacts before they occur, rather than attempting to correct them after they appear.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #9Preliminary anti-action

Data Source

PatentUS20260051109A1Successive color fields that display a virtual object in artificial reality
Publication Date: 2026.02.19 META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES LLC
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AI summary

Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to displaying color fields over time by an artificial reality system. A method includes causing a head-wearable device worn by a user to present a virtual object by successively displaying a plurality of color fields including presenting a first color field and a second color field at a first display position so that the virtual object is at a world-locked location as viewed by the user from a first perspective. The method includes, in accordance with a determination, based on user motion data, that misalignment criteria are satisfied causing the head-wearable device to present the virtual object by successively displaying the plurality of color fields including presenting the first and/or second color fields of the virtual object at a second display position so that the virtual object is at the world-locked location as viewed by the user from a second perspective.