Context-Triggered AR Content Overlay for Personalized Communication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing augmented reality systems lack the ability to facilitate context-based communications between users, limiting the dynamic and personalized interaction of virtual content with real-world environments.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that enables users to establish criteria for applying virtual content items to each other's view of real-world environments based on contextual information such as location, time, and objects, using wearable devices with transparent displays and communication systems to trigger the application of virtual content items when predefined conditions are met.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If augmented reality systems present virtual content to users, then user engagement and personalization are improved, but the system lacks context-based communication capabilities between users
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments communication functionality into separate virtual content items that can be independently created, configured, and transmitted. Each virtual content item represents a discrete communication unit that can be applied to specific real-world objects or environments, allowing complex communication scenarios to be built from simpler modular components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces contextual parameters (location, time, objects) as intermediaries that mediate between users and virtual content delivery. These contextual conditions act as triggers that automatically initiate communication when satisfied, reducing the need for direct user intervention while enabling sophisticated context-based communication scenarios.
2Loss of information
If the system monitors contextual information to trigger virtual content application, then communication personalization is improved, but information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows users to pre-configure virtual content items with associated contextual triggers and delivery conditions in advance. This preliminary configuration stores the decision logic locally, enabling the system to automatically evaluate contextual conditions and trigger content delivery without requiring continuous complex processing or cloud communication, thereby reducing real-time energy consumption.
3Adaptability or versatility
If virtual content items are applied to real-world environments based on criteria, then communication relevance is improved, but system configuration complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables users to assign specific properties and triggers to individual virtual content items based on local requirements. Each content item can have customized contextual conditions (specific locations, times, objects) rather than requiring global system-wide configuration, allowing personalized communication scenarios to be created independently and applied locally without affecting other users or content.
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AI summary
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, method, and user interface to facilitate context based augmented reality communication between multiple users over a network. Virtual content item configuration data indicative of a selection by a first user of virtual content item to apply to a real-world environment that is visible to a second user via a second device is received from a first device. The virtual content item configuration data also includes one or more criteria to trigger application of the virtual content item to the real-world environment. A triggering event is detected based on satisfaction of the one or more criteria determined from context data generated at the second device. The second device presents the virtual content item overlaid on the real-world environment that is visible to the second user based on the triggering event.