Dockable Data Displays for 3D Environment Labeling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing computer systems are limited in conveying large amounts of data in a digestible and understandable manner, making it difficult for users to extract useful insights from the vast information generated by information systems.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allows users to view objects in a three-dimensional environment with dockable data displays, which move and arrange based on the user's location and perspective, providing real-time streaming data about objects when within a predetermined distance, enhancing user experience by keeping relevant information easily accessible.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If data displays are continuously floating around objects in three-dimensional space, then data accessibility is improved, but device complexity and user cognitive load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The billboard display dynamically changes its state between floating and docked positions based on user interaction and proximity. When the user approaches within a threshold distance, the billboard automatically docks to a predetermined location on the display device, reducing complexity while maintaining accessibility. This dynamic behavior allows the system to adapt between two operational modes rather than maintaining a single complex floating display state.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the data display content from its original floating position around the three-dimensional object and relocates it to a predetermined docked location on the display device. This separation allows the data to remain accessible while removing the complexity of continuous spatial tracking and rendering around objects, simplifying the overall display system.
2Device complexity
If billboards are docked to a predetermined location, then device complexity is reduced, but data accessibility may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The billboard implementation is dynamic, automatically transitioning between docked and floating states based on user proximity and interaction. When the user is within threshold distance, the billboard docks to reduce complexity; when the user moves away or interacts with the object, the billboard returns to floating mode, ensuring data accessibility is maintained when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors user position and interaction state to determine when to dock or undock billboards. This feedback mechanism ensures that billboards are docked only when appropriate (reducing complexity) while automatically becoming accessible again when users need the information (maintaining accessibility).
3Ease of operation
If data displays are moved to predetermined locations based on user proximity, then ease of operation is improved, but loss of information may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The billboard dynamically maintains its data content during the docking and undocking transitions. The display content is preserved and simply relocated rather than being discarded or obscured, ensuring no information is lost during the state change. The predetermined location serves as a temporary resting place that maintains full data visibility.
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AI summary
A system and method that allows a user to view objects in a three-dimensional environment, where one or more of the objects have a data display (e.g., a data billboard, etc.) that shows data about the object. To enhance user experience and to provide relevant contextual data as the user navigates through the three-dimensional environment, the system calculates a location for the user and a location for each object and determines if a relationship between the user frame of reference and each object location satisfies a first criterion. If the first criterion is satisfied, the system is configured to move the data display to the bottom of a viewing area of the three-dimensional environment (e.g. docking the data display to the bottom of the viewing area, etc.). The system may also arrange the data displays in the same order as the objects are perceived by the user in the three-dimensional environment.