Spatially Aligned Tag Icons in 3D Models
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies for interactive 3D models lack effective methods for enhancing digital 3D models with characteristics beyond structured visual aspects, such as semantic, historical, or incidental information.
Innovation Solution
The system facilitates defining, applying, viewing, and interacting with tags in a digital 3D model, where tags are rich data/metadata associated with features or locations, represented by icons spatially aligned within the 3D model.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If tags are integrated into 3D models to provide additional context and information, then user engagement and information richness are improved, but device complexity and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements nesting by placing tag icons within the 3D model structure at spatially aligned positions, and by organizing tag data in a hierarchical manner where tags contain multiple types of information (text, images, videos, links) nested within a single data structure. This allows rich information to be integrated without proportionally increasing visible complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments information into discrete tag objects that can be independently managed, displayed, and interacted with. Each tag is a separate entity with its own icon and data structure, allowing the complex information to be broken down into manageable units that don't overwhelm the user or system.
2Loss of information
If multiple types of data (text, images, videos, links) are associated with tags, then information completeness is improved, but data processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The tag data structure is designed as a universal container that can hold multiple types of data (text, images, videos, links) through a unified interface. This multi-functional approach allows the system to handle diverse information types without requiring separate processing mechanisms for each type, thereby reducing overall processing complexity despite the richness of the information.
3Ease of operation
If tags are spatially aligned within the 3D model, then user engagement and contextual relevance are improved, but rendering complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary computation to determine the spatial alignment of tag icons within the 3D model during the modeling phase, rather than calculating alignment in real-time during rendering or user interaction. This pre-computation of spatial relationships reduces the rendering complexity while maintaining the engaging spatially-aligned display.
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AI summary
This application generally relates to defining, displaying and interacting with tags in a 3D model. In an embodiment, a method includes generating, by a system including a processor, a three-dimensional model of an environment based on sets of aligned three-dimensional data captured from the environment, and associating tags with defined locations of the three-dimensional model, wherein the tags are respectively represented by tag icons that are spatially aligned with the defined locations of the three-dimensional model as included in different representations of the three-dimensional model rendered via an interface of a device, wherein the different representations correspond to different perspectives of the three-dimensional model, and wherein selection of the tag icons causes the tags respectively associated therewith to be rendered at the device.