Selective Content Streaming via Layered AR Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current recording and streaming systems for live events do not allow for selective recording or streaming of real scenes and supplemental contents, limiting user experience and event organizers' control over shared content, as they cannot exclude certain information from being displayed or shared.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that enables real-time recording and playback of real scenes with the option to superimpose supplemental contents, allowing users to selectively choose and share desired content based on user type and configuration, using augmented reality technology to provide customized and secure content sharing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If all supplemental contents are recorded and displayed in the video frames, then the information completeness is improved, but the user cannot selectively remove certain contents and the event organizers cannot control what information is shared with public audiences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidselective content control
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments supplemental contents into multiple layers with different access levels. Each layer can be independently controlled and selected for recording or display. This allows the system to maintain complete information availability while enabling selective presentation to different user groups, resolving the contradiction between information completeness and selective control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements dynamic content selection where the system can adaptively choose which supplemental contents to display or record based on user type, authentication status, and configured rules. This dynamic approach allows the system to maintain flexibility in content control while ensuring all contents remain available for appropriate users, balancing information completeness with selective accessibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If real-time special effects and interactive information are added in digital format, then the user experience is improved, but the system cannot selectively broadcast or display certain contents to different audiences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experience enhancementVSAvoidcontent management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by assigning different properties and access rights to different portions of supplemental contents. Each content element can have its own visibility rules, authentication requirements, and display parameters. This allows enhanced user experience through personalized content delivery while simplifying management through localized control rules rather than system-wide complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary content management layer that mediates between the supplemental contents and different user groups. This intermediary layer handles the complexity of selective broadcasting by implementing rule-based distribution, authentication, and content selection, thereby simplifying the overall system architecture while enabling sophisticated content control for enhanced user experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If supplemental contents are blended together with real scenes in video frames, then the augmented reality effect is improved, but the users cannot selectively remove certain contents during sharing or stored playback

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaugmented reality effectVSAvoidcontent selection flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the augmented reality display into separate controllable layers: real scene video frames and supplemental content layers. Each layer can be independently selected, manipulated, and controlled. This segmentation maintains the immersive AR effect while providing users with flexible control over which supplemental contents are displayed or shared, resolving the contradiction between AR effectiveness and content selection flexibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements dynamic layer control where users can adaptively select and manipulate different supplemental content layers during playback and sharing. The system dynamically adjusts content visibility based on user preferences, authentication status, and configured rules, maintaining the augmented reality effect while providing flexible content selection capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11812084B2Method and device for content recording and streaming
Publication Date: 2023.11.07 NORTHWEST INSTRUMENTATION INC
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AI summary

A content sharing method applied to a computing device includes: obtaining real-time image information of a target content for a content sharing event, obtaining user information of a plurality of user devices participating the content sharing event, presenting a virtual content sharing scene that includes the image information of the target content and the interaction information, obtaining authorized supplemental content corresponding to a target user type of the target user device, and presenting at least part of the authorized supplemental content in the content sharing scene. The user information of the plurality of user devices includes a plurality of user types of the plurality of user devices and/or interaction information of the plurality of user devices. The authorized supplemental content corresponding to a first user type is different from the authorized supplemental content corresponding to a second user type different from the first user type.