VR Display Surface Segmentation for Secure Content Rendering

Solution Overview

Problem

Current VR/AR technologies do not effectively protect encrypted content from being replicated, stored, or distributed from display devices.

Innovation Solution

A processing platform identifies encrypted content and maps it to protected surfaces on a display device, preventing replication while allowing unencrypted content to be displayed on unprotected surfaces.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If encrypted content is displayed on a VR/AR display device, then the user can view the protected content, but the content can be replicated, recorded, or distributed from the display device

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent securityVSAvoidcontent replication

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The display surface is segmented into protected and unprotected regions. Encrypted content is specifically mapped to protected surfaces where replication is prevented, while unencrypted content can be displayed on unprotected surfaces. This spatial segmentation allows simultaneous display of secure and non-secure content with different replication characteristics.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different regions of the display device have different security properties. The protected surface has anti-replication properties applied locally, while other regions maintain standard display capabilities. This allows the system to provide security only where needed without compromising the overall display functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Reliability

If all content is displayed on protected surfaces to prevent replication, then content security is improved, but the flexibility to allow sharing of unencrypted content is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent securityVSAvoidcontent sharing flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The display surface is segmented into protected and unprotected regions. Encrypted content is specifically mapped to protected surfaces where replication is prevented, while unencrypted content can be displayed on unprotected surfaces. This spatial segmentation allows simultaneous display of secure and non-secure content with different replication characteristics.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically determines which surfaces are protected based on the content being displayed. When encrypted content is detected, the corresponding display regions are automatically marked as protected surfaces. This dynamic adaptation allows the security characteristics to change based on the content requirements without requiring manual configuration.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS12518035B2Processing secure content on a virtual reality system

Publication Date: 2026.01.06 MAGIC LEAP INC

AI summary

Described herein are techniques and technologies to identify an encrypted content within a field of view of a user of a VR/AR system and process the encrypted content appropriately. The user of the VR/AR technology may have protected content in a field of view of the user. Encrypted content is mapped to one or more protected surfaces on a display device. Contents mapped to a protected surface may be rendered on the display device but prevented from being replicated from the display device.