Mobile Device AR Overlays for Live Event Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Viewers of live events, such as sporting events, face challenges in accessing additional information like statistics, scores, and location details in real-time, as existing technologies do not effectively provide overlays or enhanced content during live events.
Innovation Solution
Mobile devices equipped with software applications that capture images of events or locations, transmit geolocation and image data to a content engine, which processes and returns relevant information as graphical or text overlays, including statistics, scores, and location-specific details.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If television broadcasts use overlay graphics to display statistics and information, then viewers can access enhanced information during events, but live event attendees cannot access similar information in real-time at the location
Solution Approach 1:
The patent captures images or video frames from the live event location using a mobile device camera, then overlays graphical information (scores, statistics, first down lines) onto these captured images. This creates a local copy of the television broadcast enhancement experience, allowing attendees to see the same overlay information on their mobile devices that appears on TV screens.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses a mobile device as an intermediary between the live event and the viewer. The device captures visual information from the event, processes it through software applications, and delivers enhanced information through the device's display screen, acting as a portable bridge between the physical event and the informational overlay system.
2Speed
If mobile devices capture and process images in real-time to provide overlays, then information accessibility is improved, but device processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the processing task into segments: the mobile device captures images and performs basic overlay rendering, while a remote server handles more complex tasks like image recognition, object detection, and data retrieval. This segmentation allows real-time responsiveness at the device level while distributing heavier processing loads to the server.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-loading event data, statistics, and graphical elements before they are needed. The software application prepares overlay templates, retrieves relevant information in advance, and sets up processing pipelines so that when an image is captured, the enhancement can be applied immediately without delays.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, apparatus, means and computer program code for operating a mobile device are provided which includes program instructions for detecting a capture of an image, instructions for detecting a location and a time associated with said capture of said image, instructions for transmitting, to a processing system, a request for information associated with said image, said request including information identifying said location and said time, and instructions for receiving a response from said processing system, said response including information associated with said image.