Holographic Object Placement Avoiding User Sight Zones
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Solution Overview
Problem
Holographic objects created in shared environments often obstruct the views of other users engaged in different activities, such as watching TV or browsing, due to their placement and movement, which can disrupt the user experience.
Innovation Solution
A system using multiple holographic projectors and cameras to identify user focus, attentiveness, and viewing angles, allowing for the creation and movement of holographic objects within defined zones that avoid obstructing active user views, dynamically adjusting their size, shape, and path to ensure they do not interfere with other users' activities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If holographic objects are created and moved freely in the specified area, then the interaction freedom and versatility are improved, but the obstruction to other users' views increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-calculates and defines sight zones for all users before holographic object placement. By determining where users will look and establishing restricted zones in advance, the system can guide holographic object placement to avoid obstructions before they occur, maintaining interaction freedom while preventing view blocking.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts holographic object placement based on real-time user positions and sight zones. As users move or change their viewing directions, the allowed placement zones are recalculated and updated, enabling holographic objects to be repositioned dynamically to avoid obstructing changing user views while maintaining interaction versatility.
2Ease of operation
If holographic objects are placed to avoid obstructing user views, then the user experience is improved, but the available placement area is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different placement constraints to different spatial zones within the environment. Areas that are frequently in user sight lines have stricter placement restrictions, while peripheral areas have more flexibility. This localized quality approach maximizes the usable placement area while ensuring user experience is protected in critical viewing zones.
Solution Approach 2:
When placement space is constrained in the horizontal plane, the system utilizes the vertical dimension by positioning holographic objects at different heights. This dimensional transition expands the effective placement area beyond the limited horizontal space, allowing more placement options while avoiding view obstructions.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the system monitors user focus and attentiveness to control holographic object placement, then the view obstruction is reduced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary computational layer that processes user position and sight zone data to generate placement constraints. This intermediary module acts as a mediator between raw sensor data and holographic object control, simplifying the overall system architecture by centralizing the complex decision-making logic in a dedicated component rather than distributing it across multiple subsystems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous feedback loops where user positions and sight zones are monitored in real-time, and holographic object placements are adjusted based on this feedback. This feedback mechanism automates the complexity of monitoring and adjustment, reducing the need for manual intervention while maintaining effective view obstruction prevention.
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AI summary
A method, system and computer readable program storage device for controlling placement of a holographic object in a specified area. In an embodiment, the method comprises identifying, by one or more processors, at least one person in a specified area; determining by the one or more processors, a sight zone in the specified area for the identified at least one person; creating, by a holographic projector, a holographic object in the specified area; and controlling, by the one or more processors, a location of the holographic object to keep the holographic object out of said determined sight zone. In an embodiment, a group of persons are identified in the specified area as having no interest or a low interest in the holographic object, and an aggregate sight zone is determined for this group of persons. An allow zone, outside this aggregate sight zone, is determined for the holographic object, and the controlling a location of the holographic object includes keeping the holographic object in the allow zone.