Passthrough Headset Magnification for Reading Real-World Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of digital headsets in passthrough mode struggle to read and interact with real-world content without removing the headset and putting on traditional reading glasses, creating an inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
A digital headset system that automatically magnifies real-world content using a processor, memory, and applications to detect visual cues and enhance displayed content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users wear digital headsets in passthrough mode, then they can access digital content and passthrough viewing, but they cannot read real-world content without removing the headset
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the functionality of reading glasses with the digital headset by integrating a magnification system into the headset display. The system detects text or objects of interest in the passthrough view and automatically magnifies them on the headset display, merging the reading assistance function into the existing headset device rather than requiring separate reading glasses.
Solution Approach 2:
The headset display acts as an intermediary between the real-world content and the user's vision. Instead of directly viewing real-world content through reading glasses, the system captures the real-world view through cameras, processes it, and presents a magnified version on the digital display, using the display as a mediator to bridge the gap.
2Measurement precision
If users remove the digital headset to read real-world content, then they can read clearly with reading glasses, but they lose access to digital headset functionality
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary magnification of real-world content on the headset display before the user needs to read it. By detecting text or objects of interest in advance and pre-magnifying them on the display, the system prepares the content for reading while the user keeps the headset on, eliminating the need to remove the headset to read.
Solution Approach 2:
The magnification system allows the user to continuously view and read real-world content without interruption. Instead of discontinuing headset use to read, the system maintains continuous passthrough viewing while simultaneously providing magnified content on the display, ensuring the useful action of viewing real-world content continues uninterrupted.
3Adaptability or versatility
If digital headsets provide passthrough mode, then users can see real-world environment, but real-world content appears too small to read comfortably
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions the viewing experience from a two-dimensional passthrough camera view to a different dimensional presentation by magnifying specific regions on the digital display. Instead of trying to enlarge the entire passthrough view, it selectively expands specific areas of interest in a different visual dimension on the display, allowing detailed viewing while maintaining environmental awareness.
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AI summary
Apparatus, methods, and computer program products that automatically magnify real-world content by digital glasses operating in passthrough mode are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to detect one or more visual cues on a display of a digital headset operating in a passthrough mode and displaying real-world content of an environment surrounding the digital headset and automatically magnify at least a portion of the real-world content displayed on the display in response to detecting the one or more visual cues. Methods and computer program products that include and/or perform the operations and/or functions of the apparatus are also disclosed.