Mobile Device Route Recording via Augmented Reality Markers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile navigation technologies cannot accurately record and display routes that include uncharted or small alleys and roads not contained in map information.
Innovation Solution
A mobile device system that uses augmented reality to superimpose virtual objects on real images, allowing users to record and display their movement routes by transmitting position information to a server, which then displays virtual markers on the device's display, enabling users to share specific routes with authorized individuals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If map information is used to create route history, then navigation accuracy on known roads is improved, but routes containing uncharted areas such as small alleys or newly opened roads cannot be recorded
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a visual copy of the actual route by capturing images at recorded positions and superimposing virtual objects (markers, arrows, icons) on these images. This allows the route to be reproduced visually without relying on pre-existing map data, enabling recording of uncharted areas while maintaining navigation accuracy through image-based visualization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that uses image recognition and processing as a bridge between the physical route and the digital representation. By capturing real-world images and overlaying navigational information, the system mediates between GPS coordinates and visual route guidance, allowing accurate route recording even in areas without map information.
2Ease of operation
If virtual objects are superimposed on captured images to display route information, then ease of understanding navigation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical navigation interfaces (physical maps, buttons, displays) with an optical-digital system that uses captured images and superimposed virtual objects. This substitution simplifies the user interface by presenting navigation information in a visually intuitive format while the complex processing is handled automatically by the device's software algorithms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs automatic image capture, processing, and virtual object superposition without requiring manual intervention from the user. The device automatically records position information, captures relevant images, processes them to identify route features, and overlays appropriate navigational markers, making the complex operations transparent to the user while maintaining simplicity in interaction.
Data Source
AI summary
According to an aspect, a mobile electronic device includes a communication unit, and a control unit. The communication unit communicates with a server that causes a terminal to display a virtual object associated with position information in such a way that the virtual object is superimposed on an image captured by the terminal. When a position of the mobile electronic device changes, the control unit generates mark information based on the changed position. The control unit causes the communication unit to transmit the generated mark information, as the position information, to the server.