Mobile-Generated XR Content for Synchronized Head-Mounted Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing extended reality (XR) technologies face challenges in efficiently generating and synchronizing content across different types of devices, leading to reduced battery life, increased computational load, heat generation, and security risks due to sensitive information transmission.
Innovation Solution
Generate first and second content on a mobile device rather than the head-mounted apparatus, ensuring synchronized and secure display across devices by transmitting content from the mobile device to the head-mounted display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Duration of action of moving object
If content is generated on the head-mounted apparatus, then display functionality is achieved, but battery life is reduced and computational load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the content generation function from the head-mounted apparatus and relocates it to a mobile device. The mobile device generates both first content (for its own display) and second content (for the head-mounted display), thereby removing the computational burden from the head-mounted apparatus and extending its battery life while maintaining full content generation capability
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device acts as an intermediary between the user and the head-mounted apparatus. It generates content locally and transmits the necessary content to the head-mounted apparatus, serving as a computational mediator that reduces the processing requirements of the head-mounted device while ensuring synchronized content delivery
2Temperature
If content is generated on the head-mounted apparatus, then display functionality is achieved, but heat generation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the heat-generating content generation process from the head-mounted apparatus and relocates it to the mobile device. This separation removes the thermal burden from the head-mounted apparatus, reducing heat generation while preserving the system's content generation capability through the mobile device
3Adaptability or versatility
If sensitive information is transmitted between devices, then device interoperability is achieved, but security risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile device generates both first content (for its own display) and second content (for the head-mounted display) locally, creating copies of the same content for different devices. This approach eliminates the need to transmit sensitive information between devices, as each device receives only the specific content it needs, thereby maintaining device interoperability while reducing security risks
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements local content generation where each device creates its own content locally rather than relying on centralized transmission. The mobile device generates content locally and sends only the necessary second content to the head-mounted apparatus, reducing the transmission of sensitive information while maintaining interoperability through localized content creation
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AI summary
Systems and techniques are described for device interoperability for extended reality (XR). An apparatus, such as a mobile handset, runs a software application and uses the software application to generate first content to be displayed using a first display of the apparatus. The apparatus causes the first content to be displayed using the first display of the apparatus. The apparatus uses the software application to generate second content that is based on the first content, that is distinct from the first content, and that is to be displayed using a second display of a head-mounted apparatus. The apparatus causes the second content to be displayed using the second display of the head-mounted apparatus at least in part by sending the second content to the head-mounted apparatus. In some cases, the apparatus and the head-mounted apparatus are both associated with the same user, and are of different device types.