Location-Tethered AR Notifications for Spatial Awareness
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Solution Overview
Problem
Augmented reality (AR) technologies in user-worn devices, such as glasses, provide limited functionality and require users to constantly look at a display, making it difficult to use while performing other tasks or observing surroundings.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device that communicatively connects to an AR display device, identifies objects within the user's field of view, and visually tethers notification content to these objects, allowing for hands-free interaction and enhanced user experience by providing AR notification content for both active and passive objects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users constantly look at the display device to access functions and information, then information accessibility is improved, but user mobility and ability to observe surroundings deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent projects notification content from a traditional 2D display screen into the 3D spatial environment as floating augmented reality elements. Users can access information in three-dimensional space around them rather than being confined to a flat display surface, allowing simultaneous awareness of both information and physical surroundings.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces AR notification elements as intermediary objects between the user and the information source. These virtual elements float in the user's field of view and can be interacted with through gestures or voice commands, serving as a mediator that delivers information without requiring direct display viewing.
2Loss of information
If AR technology provides heads up display before user's eyes, then user experience and information delivery are improved, but functionality and user adoption remain limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system integrates multiple functions into the AR notification system: displaying notifications, providing navigation directions, enabling object identification, and facilitating interactions with remote devices. This multi-functional approach transforms AR from a simple display medium into a comprehensive interaction platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The AR notification elements are dynamic and adaptive, changing their behavior based on user context, location, and interaction patterns. The system continuously adjusts content delivery, positioning, and interaction methods to optimize usability across different scenarios and user needs.
3Loss of information
If notification content is displayed on traditional display device, then information is conveyed, but user attention is diverted from surrounding environment
Solution Approach 1:
Notifications are rendered as three-dimensional virtual elements that float in the user's perceptual space rather than on a two-dimensional screen. This allows information to be presented in the periphery of the user's vision without blocking their view of the physical environment, maintaining situational awareness while delivering information.
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AI summary
An electronic device, computer program product, and method enhance an augmented reality (AR) display by visually tethering notification content to an identified object. The electronic device includes at least one network interface that communicatively connects the electronic device to the AR display device. A controller of the electronic device is communicatively coupled to the at least one network interface. The controller receives an image stream from a field of view (FOV) of the AR display device. The controller identifies at least one object within the image stream. The controller generates notification content associated with a particular object of the at least one object. The controller presents, at the AR display device, the notification content visually tethered to the particular object.