Synchronized Panoramic and 3D Model Display for Aircraft Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies for displaying complex objects like aircraft during design, assembly, or maintenance lack the ability to seamlessly integrate photorealistic panoramic images with 3-D models, failing to provide synchronized 'as-built' and 'as-designed' representations, which are essential for accurate visualization and data updates.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an interprocess communication system between panoramic image viewer and 3-D model visualization applications using an API, allowing for synchronized viewpoints and data sharing, enabling the side-by-side display of panoramic images and 3-D models, thereby addressing the limitations of existing methods.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If panoramic image viewer application and 3-D model visualization application are used separately, then each application can display its respective data (as-built or as-designed), but they cannot provide synchronized viewpoints and integrated visualization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines two separate applications (panoramic image viewer and 3-D model visualizer) into a single integrated system that displays both as-built photographic images and as-designed 3-D models simultaneously with synchronized viewpoints. This merging eliminates the need for users to switch between applications and ensures both data types are always aligned.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary communication interface that enables data exchange and viewpoint synchronization between the panoramic image viewer and 3-D model visualizer. This intermediary layer allows the two applications to share viewpoint information and coordinate their displays without requiring complete system restructuring.
2Productivity
If existing applications are used without integration, then implementation is simpler, but users cannot efficiently compare as-built and as-designed representations
Solution Approach 1:
By merging the panoramic viewer and 3-D visualizer into one synchronized system, users can directly compare as-built and as-designed representations side-by-side without switching applications or manually aligning viewpoints, significantly improving assembly efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary viewpoint synchronization automatically, so when users view either the panoramic image or 3-D model, the other view is already aligned to the same viewpoint, eliminating the need for manual adjustment during operation.
3Measurement precision
If separate applications are used for panoramic images and 3-D models, then each application maintains its own functionality, but synchronized viewpoint display is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs an intermediary communication interface that enables precise viewpoint synchronization between the panoramic image viewer and 3-D model visualizer. This mediator translates and shares viewpoint data between the two applications, ensuring accurate alignment while managing the complexity of inter-application communication.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods that enable the synchronized display of both “as-built” and “as-designed” representations and automated data updates of a target object of interest (e.g., specific line number aircraft). More specifically, the process allows users to display a panoramic image captured for a reference environment, and then display a visualization of the corresponding 3-D model at the same viewpoint. Interprocess communication between a panoramic image viewer application and a 3-D model visualization application provides the ability to synchronize viewpoints, fields-of-view and other display features.