MR Virtual Object Display Permissions for Overlap Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing techniques for shared display of virtual objects in mixed reality (MR) require burdensome and troublesome tasks for users to manage display settings, particularly when overlapping or blocking issues arise, disrupting the MR experience.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that sets and controls display attributes for virtual objects based on user instructions, allowing users to easily permit or deny display settings for shared objects, and automatically handles overlapping or blocking scenarios.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manually manage display settings for shared virtual objects, then display permission control is achieved, but user effort and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically manages display permissions for virtual objects without requiring manual user intervention. When a user creates or moves a virtual object, the system autonomously determines and applies display permissions based on spatial relationships and user roles, eliminating the need for users to manually configure sharing settings.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-configures display permissions based on the creation context and spatial positioning of virtual objects. Before users need to manage display settings, the system has already established appropriate permissions through automated detection and classification of object relationships.
2Loss of time
If automatic display control is implemented, then user effort is reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors the MR space for changes in virtual object positions, user actions, and spatial relationships. Based on this feedback, the system dynamically adjusts display permissions in real-time, automatically responding to object creation, movement, or interaction events without requiring manual reconfiguration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an automated control layer that mediates between users and the display system. This intermediary layer handles the complexity of permission management by interpreting user intentions and spatial relationships, then translating them into appropriate display decisions, shielding users from the underlying system complexity.
3Stability of the object's composition
If shared display is enabled for all users, then MR experience smoothness is improved, but overlapping and blocking issues increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different display qualities to different regions and objects within the MR space. Instead of uniform shared display, it selectively controls visibility based on local spatial relationships, user roles, and object characteristics, allowing smooth MR experience in appropriate regions while preventing overlapping and blocking in conflicting areas.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing apparatus one or more memories storing instructions, and one or more processors executing the instructions to function as an attribute setting unit configured to set, for a first virtual object permitted for shared display by a first user in a space where virtual objects are arranged, a display attribute indicating permission or denial of display in the space which is experienced by a second user based on an instruction issued by the second user, and a display control unit configured to control display of the first virtual object in the space experienced by the second user based on the display attribute set for the first virtual object.