US 12,354,501 B2
Using augmented reality for interacting with radiation data
M. Scott Greenwood, Oak Ridge, TN (US); Michael B. R. Smith, Oak Ridge, TN (US); Nick Thompson, Oak Ridge, TN (US); Noel B. Nelson, Oak Ridge, TN (US); and Douglas E. Peplow, Oak Ridge, TN (US)
Assigned to UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US)
Filed by UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/134,649.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/438,888, filed on Jan. 13, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0029579 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. G09B 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01)
CPC G09B 9/00 (2013.01) [G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01)] 33 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
an augmented-reality device that comprises controlling means, tracking means, and viewing means, wherein the augmented-reality device is configured to perform operations comprising:
obtaining, by the controlling means, radiation voxels associated with a simulated radiation field caused as if a radioactive source of a particular type was emitting radiation from a predetermined location of a physical scene, each radiation voxel indicative of a respective level of the simulated radiation field at the radiation voxel's scene location;
monitoring, by the tracking means, a path taken by a user that carries the augmented-reality device through the scene;
determining, by the tracking means, whether the user has moved along the path, and if so, identifying a user's location on the path; and
determining, by the controlling means, simulated radiation experienced by the user at the identified path location as a metric of levels of a subset of the radiation voxels that overlap the identified path location.