Immersive Media Capture Interface Simplification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for capturing and viewing immersive media in augmented and virtual reality environments are cumbersome, inefficient, and error-prone, requiring multiple inputs and leading to user interface clutter, which increases cognitive burden and energy consumption in battery-operated devices.
Innovation Solution
A computer system with a display generation component, multiple sensors, and a hardware input device that detects user inputs to capture and combine data for generating three-dimensional immersive media, providing intuitive controls that reduce the number of user inputs needed and offer improved feedback, such as displaying controls only when necessary to enhance interaction efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional methods are used for capturing and viewing immersive media, then comprehensive control functionality is available, but user interface clutter increases and cognitive burden increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes unnecessary control elements from the user interface, displaying only essential controls during immersive media capture and viewing. Non-essential controls are omitted to reduce interface clutter and cognitive burden, while maintaining access to full functionality when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The user interface dynamically adapts its complexity based on the current operational state. During active immersive media capture or viewing, the interface simplifies to show only necessary controls. When not in use, additional controls and settings become accessible, allowing the interface to transition between simplified and comprehensive modes.
2Productivity
If multiple inputs are required for capturing immersive media, then comprehensive control is achieved, but interaction time increases and energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically configuring capture parameters and initiating media capture based on detected user intent, eliminating the need for users to manually set multiple parameters. The device proactively prepares the capture environment, reducing interaction steps while maintaining comprehensive control capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The immersive media capture system operates autonomously, automatically managing capture parameters, sensor coordination, and media processing without requiring multiple user inputs. The system serves itself by detecting user intent and executing capture sequences independently, significantly reducing interaction time while maintaining capture quality.
3Adaptability or versatility
If comprehensive controls are displayed continuously, then full functionality is accessible, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The comprehensive control interface is displayed periodically or on-demand rather than continuously. The system refreshes the full control set only when transitions occur between capture modes or when users explicitly request additional controls, reducing display refresh energy consumption while maintaining full functionality availability when needed.
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AI summary
The present disclosure generally relates to methods and interfaces for capturing and viewing immersive media. In some examples, in response to a hardware input, immersive media is captured and generated using multiple sensors of a head-mounted display device. In some examples, while displaying a media item, additional information related to the media item is displayed in response to detecting a viewer's attention departing from the media item.