Remote Presentation Hybrid Frames for Real-Time AR Guidance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing remote presentation and interaction technologies face challenges in enhancing communication efficiency and understanding across distances, particularly in scenarios involving robotic systems, such as medical robotic systems, by failing to provide real-time updates and effective guidance to local users.
Innovation Solution
A facilitation system that includes a processing system to obtain and process image frames, register and update object models, and generate hybrid frames for augmented reality systems, allowing remote users to provide sub-images and directional indicators to local users for improved interaction and guidance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If real-time object model updates and hybrid frame generation are implemented, then communication efficiency and understanding are improved, but system complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-registering object models with their physical counterparts and maintaining spatial registrations before remote interaction begins. This allows the facilitation system to quickly generate updated object models and hybrid frames during remote sessions without performing complex registration operations in real-time, thus improving communication efficiency while managing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The facilitation system segments the remote presentation system into distinct functional components: image frame processing, object model management, spatial registration, and hybrid frame generation. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently and reduces overall system complexity by distributing processing tasks across modular units.
2Measurement precision
If object models are continuously updated with current state, then accuracy of remote representation is improved, but bandwidth requirements and data transmission increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates and maintains object models as digital copies of physical objects, which can be updated and transmitted efficiently. Instead of transmitting complete image data, the facilitation system updates object models with specific state changes and transmits only the necessary model updates, reducing bandwidth requirements while maintaining accuracy of remote representation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies local quality by updating only the specific portions of object models that have changed state, rather than transmitting complete model data. The facilitation system identifies and transmits only the relevant state changes at specific locations in the object model, reducing data transmission volume while maintaining overall accuracy.
3Quantity of substance
If hybrid frames replace physical object depictions with model depictions, then bandwidth requirements are reduced, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses object models as simplified digital copies of physical objects in hybrid frames. These model depictions require less bandwidth to transmit than complete image data while maintaining the essential visual information needed for remote interaction. The facilitation system manages the complexity of generating and maintaining these copies through automated model updating processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The hybrid frame system dynamically adjusts the level of model detail and replacement based on the interaction context. The facilitation system can switch between displaying full image frames, partial model replacements, or complete model depictions depending on bandwidth availability and interaction requirements, balancing processing complexity with communication effectiveness.
4Ease of operation
If augmented reality systems provide directional indicators to guide field of view, then interaction guidance is improved, but system complexity and rendering requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The facilitation system acts as an intermediary between the remote user and the local augmented reality system. It processes directional indicators and field of view information, then translates them into appropriate visual guidance for the local user. This intermediary role simplifies the overall system architecture by centralizing the complex rendering and guidance logic in the facilitation system rather than requiring complex local processing.
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AI summary
A facilitation system for facilitating remote presentation of a physical world includes a first object and an operating environment of the first object. The facilitation system includes a processing system configured to obtain an image frame depicting the physical world, identify a depiction of the first object in the image frame, and obtain a first spatial registration registering an object model with the first object in the physical world. The object model is of the first object. The processing system is further configured to obtain an updated object model corresponding to the object model updated with a current state of the first object, and generate a hybrid frame using the image frame, the first spatial registration, and the updated object model. The hybrid frame includes the image frame with the depiction of the first object replaced by a depiction of the updated object model.