Augmenting Vehicle Components with Virtual Overlays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle entertainment systems do not allow for the augmentation of actual vehicle components with virtual components, limiting the ability to enhance or modify the visual appearance of real vehicles with virtual elements.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes an image sensor, display, and processors to detect landmarks on a vehicle, determine their position and orientation, and overlay virtual vehicle components onto actual components, allowing users to select and display virtual elements that appear to cover parts of the real vehicle.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If virtual vehicle components are overlaid on actual components, then visual appearance enhancement is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates virtual copies of vehicle components that can be overlaid on the actual components. These virtual components are digital representations that replicate the appearance and characteristics of real components, allowing users to view alternative designs or modifications without physically altering the actual vehicle parts.
Solution Approach 2:
The processor acts as an intermediary that generates and manages the virtual vehicle components. It receives input about actual vehicle components, processes this information to create corresponding virtual representations, and coordinates their display through the display device. This intermediary layer simplifies the overall system architecture by centralizing the complex virtualization logic.
2Manufacturing precision
If landmark detection is used to determine component position and orientation, then augmentation accuracy is improved, but detection difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses self-service by utilizing existing features of the vehicle components themselves as landmarks. Rather than requiring external markers or complex detection infrastructure, the system identifies distinctive features inherent to the vehicle components (such as edges, corners, or unique geometric patterns) to establish reference points for accurate virtual component placement.
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AI summary
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for augmenting an appearance of an actual vehicle component of an actual vehicle with a virtual vehicle component. An actual vehicle component may be augmented with a virtual vehicle component by obtaining a vehicle type of the actual vehicle, detecting a landmark associated with the actual vehicle, determining a position and an orientation of the landmark, selecting a virtual vehicle component, placing the virtual vehicle component within an overlay image, where the position and the orientation of the virtual vehicle component is based on the position and the orientation of the landmark, and displaying the overlay image so that one or more portions of the virtual vehicle component appear to cover one or more portions of the actual vehicle component.