Cooperative Head-Mountable Devices for Unified Sensory Perception
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Solution Overview
Problem
Head-mountable devices with different features and sensing capabilities struggle to provide users with a unified experience in shared environments, leading to inconsistencies and reduced accuracy in sensory perception and object recognition due to varying input and output capabilities.
Innovation Solution
The system enables communication between head-mountable devices to share sensory data and outputs, allowing them to complement each other's sensing capabilities, such as object recognition, avatar generation, and environment mapping, by transmitting view data and detection information between devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If head-mountable devices have different features and sensing capabilities, then device versatility and adaptability are improved, but measurement precision and consistency of sensory perception deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple head-mountable devices with different sensing capabilities are merged into a cooperative system where each device shares its sensory data (images, depth information, sensor readings) with others. This combining approach allows devices to complement each other's weaknesses, achieving unified and consistent sensory perception across the network while maintaining the versatility of individual devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal communication protocol and processing framework that enables different types of head-mountable devices (with varying sensors and capabilities) to work together seamlessly. The system provides multi-functional support by allowing any device to benefit from the enhanced capabilities of others, regardless of their individual hardware specifications.
2Device complexity
If head-mountable devices operate independently, then device complexity is reduced, but object recognition accuracy and environment mapping quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
Devices merge their object detection results and environment mapping data through communication. By combining the outputs from multiple independent devices, the system achieves higher accuracy in object recognition and environment mapping while each device maintains its operational independence and simpler individual architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where devices receive and process sensory data from other devices, allowing them to correct and enhance their own perceptions. This feedback loop improves object recognition accuracy and environment mapping quality by incorporating multiple perspectives and validating findings across devices.
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AI summary
Systems of the present disclosure can provide head-mountable devices with different input and output capabilities. Such differences can lead the head-mountable devices to provide the corresponding users with somewhat different experiences despite operating in a shared environment. However, the outputs provided by one head-mountable device can be indicated on another head-mountable device so that the users are aware of the characteristics of each other's experience. Where different head-mountable devices provide different sensing capabilities, the sensors of one head-mountable device can contribute to the detections of the other to provide more accurate and detailed outputs, such as object recognition, avatar generation, hand and body tracking, and the like.