Remote Surface Collaboration via Camera Capture and Projector Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users located remotely face challenges in sharing and collaborating on written information due to geographical separation, as existing technologies lack effective methods for real-time, remote collaboration on surfaces across different locations.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilize cameras and projectors to capture and display annotations made on collaboration regions on remote surfaces, allowing users to mark and project images in real-time across linked collaboration regions, enabling remote collaboration regardless of physical distance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users are located remotely in different geographical locations, then collaboration can occur across different locations, but real-time sharing and collaboration on written information becomes difficult or impossible
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a visual copy of the first collaboration region and displays it on the second surface at the remote location. Annotations made on the first surface are captured, transmitted, and reproduced on the remote surface, allowing remote users to see and interact with the same written information as if they were physically present at the original location.
2Productivity
If cameras and projectors are used to enable remote collaboration, then real-time collaboration across distances is achieved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple functions into an integrated collaboration platform that combines camera capture, image processing, network transmission, and projector display. By combining these components into a unified system with centralized control, the complexity is managed more effectively than if each component operated independently.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a control system as an intermediary that manages the complex interactions between cameras, projectors, and network communication. This mediator handles image capture, processing, transmission, and display coordination, simplifying the overall system architecture by centralizing control logic.
Data Source
AI summary
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a processor, a first annotation corresponding to one or more markings made by a first user within a first collaboration region of a first surface. The first surface is remote from a second surface. The method also includes identifying, by the processor, a second collaboration region on the second surface. The second surface is proximate a camera. The method also includes displaying, by the processor, the first annotation in the second collaboration region. The method also includes creating, by the processor, a second annotation corresponding to one or more markings made by a second user within the second collaboration region on the second surface. The method also includes transmitting, by the processor, the second annotation.