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Publication Number
US-11762618-B2
Publication Date
2023-09-19
Expiration Date
Abstract
A system and method for visualizing multiple datasets in a virtual 3-dimensional interactive environment. Multiple datasets may be related and virtually cast as 3-dimensional type structures. User interfaces, such as game controllers or headsets, may be used to present the dataset from differing perspectives including the appearance of moving through the data. Certain embodiments provide for mirror image views that allow for presentation of higher order datasets. Other embodiments provide for animation or motion indicia to show how the data is changing and the results on the display. The datasets may represent physical areas or virtual areas as well as demographic, sensors and financial information.
Core Innovation
The invention relates to immersive 3D interactive data visualization in which a shared virtual environment renders multiple related datasets as three-dimensional structures. It graphically represents a first data source information and a second data source information as a first three-dimensional structure and a second three-dimensional structure, respectively, and displays both structures through a graphical user interface on an augmented reality display device at a first perspective. A user input associated with a positioning transducer alters the first perspective to present a second perspective on the display device.
The system supports selecting different types of data sources for the two three-dimensional structures, where the first data source is selected from physical location, demographic information, financial information, and sensor data, and the second data source is selected from geographic location, a radio measurement, and a processing facility. In this arrangement, user-controlled perspective change allows presentation of the overlaid three-dimensional structures in augmented reality while reflecting different combinations of physical/geographic and sensor/radio/processing facility information.
The document further describes a client-server architecture in which servers provide instructions and clients render display based on received dataset selections and parameters and user inputs, such as game controllers, AR headsets, and positioning controllers. It also describes representations including mirror-image views for higher-order datasets and animation or motion indicia to show data changes, with dataset domains including demographic, sensor, geographic, and financial data.
Embodiments include rendering person-centric “data stadium” representations for filtering and analyzing entities and overlaying real-time or near-real-time sensor information on physical locations such as datacenters and processing plants. The disclosed approach includes representing sensor and location context using geospatial/topography concepts and supporting additional visualization elements such as trajectory lines and network visualization within the immersive augmented reality experience.
Claims Coverage
The partial content includes two independent claims: a method and a processor-readable storage device encoded with instructions. Both independent claims share the same core inventive approach of rendering two different data sources as separate three-dimensional structures in augmented reality with user-controlled perspective change.
Server-received first and second data sources for 3D structures
Receiving at a server a first data source information and receiving at the server a second data source information.
Graphical representation as two three-dimensional structures
Graphically representing the first data source information as a first three-dimensional structure and graphically representing the second data source information as a second three-dimensional structure.
Augmented reality display of both structures at a first perspective
Displaying through a graphical user interface the first and second three-dimensional structure on an augmented reality display device at a first perspective.
Positioning-transducer user input to alter perspective
Receiving a user input associated with a positioning transducer, said positioning transducer associated with the display device, and altering the first perspective to present through the graphical user interface a second perspective on the display device.
Data source type selection for first and second structures
Wherein the first data source is selected from a group including a physical location, demographic information, financial information and sensor data, and the second data source selected from a group including a geographic location, a radio measurement, and a processing facility.
Processor-readable non-transitory instructions for network-based 3D AR visualization
Receiving over a network a first data source information and receiving a second data source information, graphically representing the first data source information as a first three-dimensional structure and graphically representing the second data source information as a second three-dimensional structure, displaying through a graphical user interface the first and second three-dimensional structure on an augmented reality display device at a first perspective, receiving a user input associated with a positioning transducer, and altering the first perspective to present through the graphical user interface a second perspective on the display device.
Instruction encoding further constrained by data source type selection
Wherein the first data source is selected from a group including a physical location, demographic information, financial information and sensor data, and the second data source selected from a group including a geographic location, a radio measurement, and a processing facility.
Across both independent claims, the inventive coverage centers on rendering two distinct data sources as separate three-dimensional structures and displaying them together in augmented reality through a graphical user interface, while user input associated with a positioning transducer changes the perspective; the claim scope is further constrained by specific selectable groups of data source types for the first and second three-dimensional structures.
Stated Advantages
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Documented Applications
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