Virtual Screen Display Filtering by Schedule Context
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information processing devices display virtual screens associated with all potential addition targets, leading to the display of both useful and unnecessary information.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device that acquires a captured image of a real space and schedule information, determines a useful addition target based on the schedule information, and controls the display of a virtual screen only in association with that target.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a virtual screen is displayed in association with all potential addition targets, then the user can access comprehensive information, but unnecessary information is displayed causing clutter and reduced usability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and displays only the necessary virtual screen information based on the user's current activity context, rather than displaying all potential information. The system identifies and extracts relevant addition targets from the captured image based on schedule information, thereby eliminating unnecessary information clutter while maintaining completeness of useful information.
2Loss of information
If a virtual screen is displayed in association with all potential addition targets, then all possible information is provided to the user, but the display becomes cluttered with unnecessary information
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the relevant addition targets based on schedule information and current context, separating useful information from unnecessary information. This extraction process eliminates information clutter while preserving the completeness of relevant information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by making the display content context-dependent. Different regions or targets in the captured image receive different treatment based on their relevance to the user's current activity, as determined by schedule information. Relevant targets receive virtual screen overlays while irrelevant targets do not, creating a non-uniform but optimized information distribution.
3Ease of operation
If schedule information is used to determine addition targets, then only relevant information is displayed improving focus, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs the smartphone's existing camera and schedule management functions to determine addition targets, rather than requiring dedicated hardware. The camera captures images and the schedule application provides temporal context, combining these existing functionalities to achieve intelligent information filtering without significantly increasing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses the user's own schedule information, which they already maintain, to automatically determine relevant addition targets. The schedule data serves dual purposes: managing user activities and guiding the augmented reality display content, eliminating the need for separate control mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing device includes a processor configured to: acquire a captured image of a real space; acquire schedule information that is information regarding a schedule of a user; determine, on the basis of the schedule information, from the captured image of the real space, an addition target that is a target to which a virtual screen is to be added; and perform control for displaying the virtual screen in association with the addition target.