Personal Augmented Reality Light Signal Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals using augmented reality (AR) technologies face challenges in controlling and accessing information independently, as they are often reliant on central databases that prioritize corporate advertisements, excluding smaller businesses and limiting personal preferences in receiving and emitting information.
Innovation Solution
The development of Personal Augmented Reality (PAR) systems and methods that allow individuals to use emitors to emit and receive data signals as light, enabling them to selectively view and filter communications, independent of central databases, using emitor devices and smart devices to process and display these signals, allowing for personalized control over AR experiences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If central databases are used to provide augmented reality information, then information accessibility is improved, but individual control and independence deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the centralized AR information system into distributed peer-to-peer nodes. Each user device becomes an independent node that can emit and receive AR information directly, eliminating reliance on a central database. This segmentation enables both information accessibility (through multiple distributed sources) and individual control (through direct peer-to-peer communication without intermediary filtering).
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements self-service mechanisms where user devices autonomously emit and receive AR information without requiring central database mediation. Devices independently manage their own AR data emission and reception, allowing individuals to control what information is shared and received, thus maintaining both accessibility and personal autonomy.
2Productivity
If corporate advertisements are prioritized in AR databases, then advertising effectiveness is improved, but visibility of smaller businesses deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts AR information emission from centralized corporate-controlled databases and distributes it to individual user devices and local businesses. This extraction removes the monopoly on information emission, allowing smaller businesses to directly emit their own AR advertisements without paying for centralized database placement, thereby restoring visibility while maintaining advertising effectiveness through direct peer-to-peer communication.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables multiple independent copies of AR information emission capability across distributed devices. Instead of a single centralized source controlling all AR advertisements, each device creates and emits its own information copies directly to peers. This democratizes advertising visibility, allowing smaller businesses to compete equally with corporations through direct emission rather than paid placement in centralized databases.
3Adaptability or versatility
If emitors are used to emit data signals as light, then communication independence is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes camera devices universal by enabling them to perform multiple functions: traditional photography plus AR information reception. The camera lens and image sensor are repurposed to detect and decode light signals emitted by emitors, allowing a single existing device to handle both visual capture and independent AR communication without requiring entirely new hardware systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces complex dedicated AR communication hardware with optical signal transmission through light. Instead of using radio frequency or other electronic communication mechanisms, the system uses visible or infrared light emitted by emitors and detected by camera sensors. This substitution leverages existing optical components to achieve independent communication while minimizing additional device complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables individuals to prioritize and filter AR communications based on personal preferences, promoting the visibility of smaller businesses and reducing clutter, while maintaining independence from central databases, thereby preserving individual rights to information and reducing obtrusive advertising.
Implementation Method 1
an emitor configured to emit data signals as light signals
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for enabling Personal Augmented Reality (PAR). PAR can include an emitor configured to receive data signals and emit the data signals as light signals. PAR can further include a smart device configured to receive the light signals emitted by the emitor. The smart device can process the light signals to yield a communication and display the communication on a screen.