Dynamic Non-Visual Markers for Augmented Reality Anchoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional augmented reality (AR) techniques rely heavily on visual fiducial markers, limiting their applications and user experiences due to the requirement for visual data detection, which restricts the potential of AR in various environments and scenarios.
Innovation Solution
The use of dynamic non-visual markers such as audio streams, radio waves, and chemical changes to anchor and enhance AR experiences, allowing for immersive and comfortable AR interactions without the need for visual data capturing devices, and combining these with visual markers for more accurate anchoring.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If visual fiducial markers are used for AR anchoring, then AR experiences can be achieved with conventional techniques, but the applications are significantly limited and require visual data detection
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces visual data capture mechanisms with audio data capture mechanisms. Instead of using cameras to detect visual fiducial markers, the system uses microphones to detect audio fiducial markers (sound waves with specific characteristics). This substitution allows AR anchoring without requiring visual data capturing devices, thereby expanding AR application versatility while reducing device complexity requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables AR experiences to work with multiple types of fiducial markers (visual, audio, and other non-visual types) through a unified processing framework. The system can detect and process different modalities of fiducial markers using appropriate sensors, making the AR system universally applicable across diverse scenarios and environments without being restricted to visual-only approaches
2Ease of operation
If visual markers are required for AR anchoring, then conventional AR techniques can be implemented, but the user experiences are restricted and potential benefits are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent substitutes visual marker-based interaction with audio marker-based interaction. Users can trigger and anchor AR experiences through audio fiducial markers detected by microphones, eliminating the need for users to visually search for and align visual markers. This improves ease of operation by making AR interactions more natural and comfortable while expanding adaptability to environments where visual markers are impractical or invisible
3Adaptability or versatility
If only visual data capturing devices are used, then conventional AR can function, but the potential of AR in various environments and scenarios is restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces specialized visual data capturing devices with more common audio data capturing devices (microphones). Audio fiducial markers can be detected using standard microphone arrays already present in many devices, reducing the need for additional specialized hardware while dramatically expanding environmental applicability. AR experiences can now be anchored in environments where visual markers are ineffective, such as dark rooms, outdoor scenes with moving backgrounds, or scenarios where hands-free operation is required
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AI summary
A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic rendering of non-visual marker-based augmented reality experiences on computing devices according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting non-visual data. The non-visual data may be captured via one or more capturing/sensing components of a computing device. The method may further include mapping the non-visual data with one or more augmented reality items to generate a first augmented reality experience, wherein the non-visual data is converted into one or more non-visual markers based on the one or more augmented reality items and one or more contexts, and rendering the first augmented reality experience based on the one or more non-visual markers.