Invisible Light Emitters for Dynamic AR Content Overlay
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional augmented reality devices are preloaded with target contents, and multiple users face challenges in seeing the same image at the same location, making it difficult for content producers to dynamically overlay data on specific physical areas without pre-loading information and ensuring visibility across different user perspectives.
Innovation Solution
The use of invisible light emitters to transmit encoded light-based data streams that describe physical dimensions and content information, allowing augmented reality devices to determine and display overlays on specific areas, without affecting human vision or requiring wireless signals, and accommodating dynamic movements of users and physical display areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional augmented reality devices are preloaded with target contents, then content can be displayed on devices, but multiple users face challenges in seeing the same image at the same location and content producers cannot dynamically overlay data on specific physical areas
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces invisible light emitters as intermediaries between content producers and augmented reality devices. These emitters transmit encoded light-based data streams that contain content information and physical dimension data, serving as a mediator that enables dynamic content delivery without requiring complex pre-loading or wireless signal infrastructure. The light emitters act as the intermediary carrier that bridges the gap between content source and display device.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional wireless signal transmission mechanisms with light-based data stream transmission. Instead of using radio waves or other electromagnetic signals for content delivery, the system uses encoded light from invisible light emitters to transmit content information to augmented reality devices. This substitution enables dynamic content overlay while avoiding the complexity of wireless signal management and interference.
2Ease of operation
If invisible light emitters are used to transmit encoded data streams, then dynamic content overlay is enabled without affecting human vision, but the system requires new transmission infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
The invisible light emitters serve as intermediaries that transmit content information without interfering with human vision. By using light wavelengths outside the visible spectrum, the system maintains ease of operation for users while the emitters handle the complex task of data transmission in the background.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses light-based data streams as a copy mechanism to transmit content information from the source to multiple augmented reality devices simultaneously. This copying approach through light transmission enables multiple users to see the same content at the same location without requiring each device to have pre-loaded content, simplifying the user experience while managing infrastructure through standardized light emission protocols.
3Reliability
If light-based data streams are used for content transmission, then wireless signals are not required, but invisible light emitters must be deployed at physical locations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent substitutes wireless signal transmission with light-based data stream transmission from invisible light emitters. This replacement improves reliability by using directed light transmission that is less susceptible to interference and signal loss compared to wireless signals. The deployment of emitters at physical locations is simplified by using standard light-emitting technologies that can be integrated into existing infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The invisible light emitters serve multiple functions: they provide illumination, transmit encoded content information, and define physical display areas. This multi-functionality reduces deployment complexity by combining several requirements into a single component, while maintaining reliable content transmission through the light-based data stream mechanism.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables dynamic and targeted content overlay on physical locations, ensuring that multiple users can see the same image at the same location without pre-loading data on their devices, and maintains visibility without distracting from existing physical content or requiring wireless signals.
Implementation Method 1
transmitting, by the one or more processors, information of a target content to an augmented reality device using light generated by one or more light emitters
Data Source
AI summary
A method of generating an augmented reality environment, the method comprising, transmitting information of a target content to an augmented reality device using light generated by one or more light emitters. Responsive to a reception of the information of the target content by the augmented reality device, determining a portion of the target content for displaying on the physical display area, and displaying the portion of the target content as an overlay on the physical display area using the augmented reality device.