Mobile Terminal AR Data Editing via Modular Interface

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current mobile terminals lack advanced functionality for editing and managing augmented reality (AR) preview images, particularly in terms of user interaction and data management, which limits their ability to provide enhanced user experiences and information overlay on real-world images.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for a mobile terminal that allows users to display, edit, and manage AR data within preview images, including editing tools for changing object appearances, adding memos, zooming, and integrating additional images, with the ability to store and transmit these edited images, enabling advanced AR experiences and information sharing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If mobile terminals are equipped with basic AR display functionality, then AR information can be overlaid on preview images, but the ability to edit and manage AR data is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveAR data editing capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The AR data editing system is divided into multiple independent editing modules, each responsible for specific editing operations (zooming, rotating, filtering, merging images). This segmentation allows the system to provide comprehensive editing capabilities while maintaining manageable complexity through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The mobile terminal integrates multiple editing functions into a single AR data management system. The same system handles zooming, rotating, filtering, image merging, and data storage operations, making the device versatile for various AR applications without requiring separate specialized tools for each function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of operation

If multiple editing functions are integrated into the AR system, then user interaction and data management capabilities are enhanced, but the interface and operation complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interaction capabilityVSAvoidinterface complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple editing functions (zooming, rotating, filtering, image merging) are merged into a single integrated AR data management interface. This consolidation allows users to perform various editing operations through a unified interface, improving ease of operation while managing interface complexity through coherent design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The interface provides dynamic adjustment capabilities for editing parameters such as zoom level, rotation angle, and filter effects. Users can interactively modify these parameters in real-time, making the system adaptable to different editing needs while maintaining an intuitive and flexible user experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Adaptability or versatility

If AR data can be stored and transmitted, then information sharing and persistence are enabled, but data management and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata management capabilityVSAvoiddata volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically stores edited AR data and prepares it for transmission before the user needs to share it. This preliminary action includes optimizing data formats, compressing images, and pre-processing files, reducing the data management burden during actual sharing operations and enabling seamless information exchange.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS9318151B2Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same
Publication Date: 2016.04.19 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

A method for controlling a mobile terminal includes displaying a preview image input by a camera in an augmented reality (AR) mode, displaying AR data corresponding to at least one object in the preview image, and providing a user interface for editing at least a portion of the preview image including the AR data in the AR mode in order to generate an edited preview image.