Tagged Media Interface for GPS-Indexed 3D Product Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic commerce systems lack the ability for consumers to efficiently visualize and interact with products in their intended environment before purchase, and do not facilitate seamless integration of product information from media transmissions for direct purchase or sharing.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing 3D indexed virtual reality images and GPS location sensing enables consumers to import and position digital product images within their intended environment, tag media transmissions with product information, and create a consumer product store, allowing for virtual product tryouts, sharing, and direct purchase transactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional electronic commerce systems are used, then product information can be accessed, but consumers cannot efficiently visualize and interact with products in their intended environment before purchase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of physical products and places them into images of the consumer's intended environment. This allows consumers to visualize products in their actual spatial context before purchase, resolving the contradiction by providing both product information access and spatial context visualization through digital copying techniques.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary layer between the consumer and product information - a virtual reality environment that mediates the interaction by overlaying virtual product representations onto real-world environment images. This intermediary provides the missing spatial context while maintaining access to product information.
2Productivity
If media transmissions contain product information, then product promotion is enhanced, but seamless integration for direct purchase or sharing is not facilitated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple functions into a unified system: media transmission, product information display, virtual environment placement, and purchase transaction processing. By combining these previously separate functions into one integrated flow, the system enhances purchase efficiency without proportionally increasing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a multi-functional platform that handles media reception, product visualization in virtual environments, user interaction, and transaction processing through a single interface. This universal system resolves the contradiction by making the complex system serve multiple purposes efficiently.
3Adaptability or versatility
If virtual reality product visualization is implemented, then consumer experience is enhanced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a new dimension to product visualization by placing virtual products into images of the consumer's actual environment rather than displaying them on traditional 2D screens. This dimensional change from flat display to immersive virtual environment enhancement provides adaptability while managing complexity through novel spatial representation.
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AI summary
A user interface operated via at least one consumer computing device, a database, and at least one host computer processor, provide an electronic commerce (eCommerce) environment for secured transactions between consumer and vendor members subscribed to the environment. Digital product images are scaled into digital images of environments of intended use for virtual reality observation. Tags to product representations or other features of media performance transmissions are scanned by consumer members for product purchasing, saving for later purchase, and/or sharing with other consumers (e.g. via social networks). Consumers create their own consumer product store with an inventory of items saved within the environment database for later purchasing or sharing. Original vendors initially providing items saved by consumers are rewarded commissions if later purchased from other vendors. Sharing saved items between consumers is also rewarded and provides an efficient B2C2C sCommerce environment and marketplace centered on products and driven by consumers.