Room Capture and Projection for Meeting Context Preservation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional teleconferencing systems struggle to maintain and recreate the context of meetings across different physical locations, leading to information loss and reduced productivity due to the inability to accurately capture and project the state of physical spaces and interactions.
Innovation Solution
A device that calibrates a physical space to a virtual space, capturing artifacts and interactions as digital objects, and projects them back into the physical space, allowing for the preservation and review of meeting states across different locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If teleconferencing systems transmit video and audio to enable synchronous communication across locations, then communication capability is improved, but information loss occurs due to inability to capture physical space context
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a virtual copy of the physical meeting space by capturing images of artifacts and interactions, storing them as digital objects in a virtual space that replicates the physical environment's layout and context
Solution Approach 2:
A computing device acts as an intermediary between physical and virtual spaces, capturing physical artifacts through cameras, processing them into digital objects, and projecting them back into the physical space via displays or projectors
2Loss of information
If meetings are held in a single accessible space to maintain context, then information preservation is improved, but adaptability to different locations deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual space system enables any physical location to function as a meeting space with preserved context, making the system universally applicable across different locations while maintaining the benefits of a dedicated meeting environment
3Loss of information
If physical artifacts are captured as digital objects to preserve meeting state, then information preservation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple functions into an integrated setup: cameras capture physical artifacts, the computing device processes and stores them as digital objects in virtual space, and projectors or displays render them back into the physical space, all coordinated through a single system
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AI summary
Examples associated with room capture and projection are disclosed. One example includes an information management module that may maintain information regarding a virtual space and a first digital object within the virtual space. The first digital object may be associated with an artifact in a physical space. A room calibration module may map the virtual space to the physical space using sensors to detect attributes of the physical space. A capture module may record a modification to the artifact to be maintained by the information management module. A projection module may project a representation of a second digital object into the physical space. The representation may be projected based on a signal from the information management module.