HMD Virtual Billboard Proximity Detection

The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that manages the complexity of virtual object integration and information sharing. The server handles tasks such as receiving image data from mobile devices, generating appropriate virtual objects, and coordinating their display in the augmented reality environment. This mediator approach allows the HMD and mobile devices to share information effectively without each device needing to handle all the complex processing independently, thus improving information sharing capability while managing system complexity through centralized coordination.

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and categorizing information on the server before it needs to be shared in real-time. The server receives and processes information from multiple users in advance, organizing it into relevant virtual objects and categories. When users interact in the augmented reality environment, the personalized information is already prepared and can be quickly displayed based on proximity and relevance, thus improving communication effectiveness while reducing the real-time data processing burden on individual devices.

The patent segments the computational tasks across multiple components: mobile devices capture and send image data, the server processes the data and generates virtual object definitions, and the HMD displays the final virtual billboards. This segmentation allows each component to handle only its specific portion of the workload, reducing the computational load on any single device. The server handles the heavy processing of analyzing images and determining information relevance, while the HMD focuses on rendering and displaying the pre-processed virtual objects, thus maintaining information relevance while managing computational load efficiently.