User Representation Enrollment With Sensor Capture and Audio Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for generating and displaying user representations in augmented and mixed reality environments are cumbersome, inefficient, and create a significant cognitive burden on users, often requiring excessive inputs and energy consumption.

Innovation Solution

Implementing computer systems with improved methods and interfaces that utilize sensors, such as cameras and eye-tracking components, to capture user physical characteristics and provide intuitive feedback, allowing for efficient generation and display of user representations through reduced user inputs and enhanced ergonomics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional methods are used for generating user representations, then comprehensive user information can be captured, but the process becomes cumbersome and creates significant cognitive burden on users

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser information capture completenessVSAvoiduser input simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically captures user information using sensors (cameras, microphones, eye-tracking) without requiring active user participation. The enrollment process occurs passively as users naturally interact with the device, eliminating the need for deliberate input actions while still gathering comprehensive biometric data

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

User representation data is captured and processed in advance during an enrollment phase, so that when the user needs to interact with the system, the representation is already ready. This preliminary capture eliminates the need for repeated information gathering and reduces cognitive load during actual usage

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If detailed user inputs are required for generating user representations, then accuracy improves, but energy consumption increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser representation accuracyVSAvoiddevice energy consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces manual user input mechanisms with automatic sensor-based capture. Instead of requiring users to deliberately provide information through various input methods, the system uses cameras, microphones, and other sensors to automatically gather biometric data, thereby reducing energy consumption associated with prolonged user interaction and processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Measurement precision

If multiple sensors and processing steps are used to capture user physical characteristics, then representation quality improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvephysical characteristic capture accuracyVSAvoidsensor and processing system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses a single sensor array that serves multiple functions: capturing images for facial recognition, recording audio for voice analysis, tracking eye movements, and detecting other biometric characteristics. This multi-functional approach allows comprehensive user representation gathering without proportionally increasing device complexity, as the same hardware infrastructure supports multiple measurement modalities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20260099199A1Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for generating and displaying a representation of a user
Publication Date: 2026.04.09 APPLE INC
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AI summary

In some examples, a computer system adjusts dynamic audio output to indicate an amount of progress toward completing a step of an enrollment process.