Surface Markers for Automatic Image Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wearable computing devices, such as smart glasses, require users to actively initiate image capture, leading to missed opportunities for capturing valuable images, as they lack automatic image capture capabilities triggered by environmental cues.
Innovation Solution
Integration of surface markers that provide detectable signals to wearable devices, allowing for automatic image capture of specified areas without user intervention, using visual, acoustic, or RF signals to instruct the camera to capture images and apply machine-learning filters for privacy and content processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If automatic image capture is implemented using environmental cues, then the ability to capture valuable moments is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Surface markers serve as intermediary objects that mediate between the environment and the wearable device. These markers contain detectable signals (visual, acoustic, or RF) that automatically trigger image capture without requiring complex AI processing or user intervention. The marker acts as a simple, reliable trigger mechanism that resolves the contradiction by enabling automatic capture through an external cue rather than complex internal decision-making.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service image capture where the environment itself (through surface markers) initiates the capture process. The markers are passively detectable and automatically trigger the camera when detected by the wearable device, eliminating the need for active user initiation while maintaining system simplicity.
2Extent of automation
If surface markers with detectable signals are integrated, then automatic image capture is enabled, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The surface markers are designed with multi-functionality, serving as both visual indicators and automatic triggers for image capture. The same marker structure can incorporate different types of detectable signals (visual patterns, acoustic emissions, or RF signals), allowing a single manufacturing process to produce markers that work across multiple detection modalities, thereby reducing overall manufacturing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The surface markers are designed as simple, inexpensive objects that can be easily manufactured and deployed. Rather than integrating complex electronics into the wearable device, the system uses simple external markers that can be produced cost-effectively and replaced or repositioned as needed, reducing the manufacturing burden on the primary device.
Data Source
AI summary
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to systems, devices, and/or processes for processing signals relating to surfaces that may be viewable by subjects though one or more devices. In an embodiment, a surface may include one or more devices embedded therein to provide one or more signals to define a portion of the surface.