Multi-View Digital Twin Synchronization Across Disparate Viewers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing software packages for digital twins operate independently, requiring users to switch between applications to view different levels of detail in digital models, lacking a unified interface for concurrent display and interaction.
Innovation Solution
A multi-view framework (MVF) provides a single user experience and application programming interface (API) that integrates disparate display content generators, allowing concurrent viewing and interaction with multiple digital twins through a common API, leveraging bridge components to synchronize location updates across views.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple independent software packages are used to view digital twins at different levels of detail, then each software package can provide specialized functionality for its specific view type, but users must switch between applications and cannot concurrently view multiple views
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple independent display content generators into a single unified framework that can concurrently present multiple views of digital twins. The framework integrates GIS software, BIM software, and other specialized viewers, allowing users to view city-level, building-level, and room-level digital twins simultaneously within one application interface, eliminating the need to switch between separate software packages.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified framework is designed to be multi-functional, supporting various types of digital twin views (GIS, BIM, immersive 3D) through a common interface and synchronization mechanism. This universal platform can handle different view types and levels of detail while maintaining specialized functionality through modular integration of different content generators.
2Reliability
If separate software packages are used for different digital twin views, then each package can maintain its own independent operation and data model, but users experience fragmented interaction and must manually switch between applications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a central synchronization mechanism that acts as an intermediary between multiple independent display content generators. This mediator receives location and view updates from any generator and distributes synchronized updates to all other generators, maintaining their independent operation while ensuring coherent concurrent display across all views.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the overall digital twin viewing functionality into independent modular components (GIS viewer, BIM viewer, immersive 3D viewer), each maintaining its own data model and operation. These segmented components are then integrated through the synchronization framework, allowing independent operation while achieving unified coordination.
3Ease of operation
If multiple independent display content generators are integrated into a unified framework, then concurrent viewing of multiple digital twins is enabled, but synchronization of location updates across views becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The synchronization mechanism implements feedback loops where location updates from any display content generator are detected and automatically propagated to all other generators. This feedback system ensures that when a user navigates to a new location in one view (e.g., moving to a specific building in GIS view), the corresponding views (e.g., BIM view, immersive 3D view) automatically update to show the same location, maintaining synchronization without manual intervention.
4Adaptability or versatility
If a unified framework integrates third-party display content generators, then a single API provides access to multiple view types, but the framework must manage compatibility with unrelated external services
Solution Approach 1:
The unified framework provides a universal API that can interface with multiple third-party display content generators (GIS software, BIM software, immersive 3D viewers) through standardized communication protocols. This universal interface abstracts the complexities of individual third-party systems, allowing the framework to manage compatibility and integration while maintaining ease of use through a consistent programming interface.
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AI summary
According to aspects of the disclosed subject matter, a multi-view framework (MVF) is presented. Advantageously and according to aspects of the disclosed subject matter, an MVF operates as an executable service and provides a single user experience (UX) and application programming interface (API) for concurrent viewing and interaction with two or more digital twins, each digital twin being generated by a third-party content display generator unrelated to the MVF and other content display generators providing display content to the MVF for concurrent display. Still further, an MVF may be advantageously incorporated into a consumer software package and/or packaged as a consumer software package or provided as an online service.