Adaptive User Avatars and Audio for Collocation Transitions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to dynamically adjust visual representations and audio experiences in multi-user communication sessions based on users transitioning between collocated and non-collocated states, leading to suboptimal user interaction and experience.
Innovation Solution
Systems and methods that change the visual appearance and audio properties of users in response to detecting transitions between collocated and non-collocated states, utilizing sensors to capture and analyze environmental overlap and metadata, and adjust audio levels based on distance changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If visual representations and audio experiences remain static in multi-user communication sessions, then system complexity is reduced, but user interaction quality and immersion deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic visual representations where avatars and environmental elements automatically adjust their appearance, size, and audio properties based on real-time detection of user collocation states. The system transitions from static representations to dynamic ones that respond to spatial relationships, implementing the dynamics principle by making visual and audio characteristics changeable based on detected conditions
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs feedback mechanisms by continuously detecting user collocation states through sensors and using this information to adjust visual and audio representations. The detection of spatial relationships feeds back into the rendering system, which modifies avatar sizes, positions, and audio levels accordingly, creating a closed-loop adaptive system
2Ease of operation
If the system dynamically adjusts visual and audio representations based on user collocation, then user interaction quality improves, but computational resources and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by adjusting visual and audio properties specifically for users in collocated proximity rather than uniformly for all users. The system modifies avatar sizes, positions, and audio levels locally based on spatial relationships, applying changes only where needed rather than globally across all representations
3Measurement precision
If the system uses sensors to detect environmental overlap and collocation, then accuracy of user state detection improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements multi-functionality by using sensor data for multiple purposes: detecting user collocation states, determining spatial relationships, and triggering visual-audio adjustments. The same sensor infrastructure serves multiple detection functions, reducing the need for specialized sensors while maintaining detection precision
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AI summary
This includes example systems and methods for changing a visual appearance of a user in a multi-user communication session in response to detecting that the user transitions from being a non-collocated user (e.g., a remote user) within the multi-user communication session to being a collocated user within the multi-user communication session and/or vice versa. This also includes example systems and methods for determining a mode of visual representation of a user of an electronic device that is joined into a multi-user communication session that is already active between users of other electronic devices. This also includes example systems and methods for enhancing audio experiences of collocated users of electronic devices in a multi-user communication session.