Generating a holographic image to visualize contaminants
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods fail to effectively visualize and manage contaminants in enclosed physical spaces, such as dust, allergens, and pathogens, which can pose health risks due to their microscopic nature, making it difficult for individuals to avoid them and for authorities to take appropriate cleaning measures.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented system that uses sensor arrays and holographic image projectors to generate three-dimensional holographic images of contaminants within enclosed spaces, providing visualization of the contaminant type, concentration, and movement, along with virtual safe and risk zones, and automatically performs mitigation actions to reduce exposure and contamination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If traditional sensor arrays are used to detect contaminants, then contaminant detection capability is improved, but visualization capability deteriorates because microscopic contaminants remain invisible
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a digital twin (virtual copy) of the physical space that replicates contaminant data from sensors. This digital representation makes invisible contaminants visible through holographic projection, solving the contradiction between detection precision and visualization capability by copying sensor data into a visual format.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces holographic image projectors as an intermediary between sensor detection and human visualization. The holographic display translates sensor data about microscopic contaminants into visible three-dimensional images, bridging the gap between detection capability and visual perception.
2Loss of information
If holographic image projectors are added to visualize contaminants, then visualization capability is improved, but device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges sensor arrays, computers for data processing, and holographic image projectors into an integrated contaminant visualization system. By combining these components that work together synergistically, the system achieves effective contamination visualization while managing overall complexity through functional integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The computer system performs multiple functions: it processes sensor data, identifies contaminants by comparing against a knowledge base, determines concentration levels, and controls holographic projection. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated components, managing system complexity while achieving comprehensive visualization.
3Reliability
If real-time contaminant visualization is implemented, then health safety is improved, but energy consumption deteriorates due to continuous sensor operation and holographic projection
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors contaminant levels through sensors and provides real-time feedback via holographic visualization. This feedback loop enables immediate detection and response to contamination events, maintaining high health safety reliability while allowing the system to activate mitigation measures that can reduce the need for continuous high-energy operation at maximum capacity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables individuals to avoid contaminated areas and allows authorities to take effective measures to reduce contaminants to safe levels, improving health safety and environmental cleanliness by providing real-time visualization and management of contaminants.
Implementation Method 1
A hologram is a three-dimensional image formed by the interference of light beams from a laser or other coherent light source. The hologram is a recording or a photograph of an interference pattern which, when suitably illuminated, produces the three-dimensional image.
Implementation Method 2
The hologram is a real world recording of the interference pattern that uses diffraction to reproduce the three-dimensional light field, resulting in an image which has the depth, parallax, and other properties of the original scene.
Data Source
AI summary
Visualizing a contaminant is provided. A contaminant of a plurality of different contaminants included in a contaminant knowledgebase is identified based on analysis of contaminant-relevant data received from one or more sensors of a plurality of different sensor arrays regarding an enclosed physical space. A concentration and a type of the contaminant is identified based on the contaminant-relevant data and information included in the contaminant knowledgebase. A location of the contaminant is identified within the enclosed physical space based on location of the one or more sensors that obtained the contaminant-relevant data and a digital twin of the enclosed physical space. A visualization of the contaminant is projected at an area proximate to the location of the contaminant using a holographic image indicating the concentration and the type of the contaminant within the enclosed physical space.